{"id":70363,"date":"2026-07-18T15:10:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70363"},"modified":"2026-07-18T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:10:50","slug":"trumps-homeland-security-honcho-threatens-to-arrest-and-imprison-disobedient-election-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70363","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Homeland Security Honcho Threatens to Arrest and Imprison Disobedient Election Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"

The authoritarian aspirations of Donald Trump have been well documented. He began by inciting a violent insurrection on January 6, 2021, to retain power after losing the election. Followed by his pardoning of the seditious traitors who stormed the Capitol and assaulted police officers.<\/p>\n

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In the intervening years Trump has repeatedly demonstrated his ravenous hunger for power and his disrespect for the laws, including the Constitution, that was designed deliberately to limit it. He has assembled a Washington politburo that acquiesces to his every fascistic whim. Recently Trump lashed out at the media that he refers to in Stalinist terms as “the enemy of the people,”<\/em> threatening to prohibit them from reporting honestly about him.<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: Herr Trump Threatens to Muzzle the Free Press in His Unhinged Infomercial for Voter Suppression<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stridently continuing to goosestep down this path, Trump’s newly installed secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, held a press conference wherein he delivered some of the most disturbingly fascist remarks of the Trump era. Mullin was reiterating Trump’s message from his televised infomercial for his “Save America Act”<\/em> (aka Voter Suppression Act) when he responded to a question about how he would react if states declined to go along with Trump’s unconstitutional decrees. Mullin ranted that…<\/p>\n

“If the states choose not to participate in securing the elections, we will make sure that we make those states a priority, to look at who voted in their states, and hold them – the election officials – accountable. If the election officials, once we gave them the information they need to secure their elections, and they chose not to, then those individuals can also be held accountable. By fines, by penalties, and even depending on how far it goes, prison time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Trump's Homeland Security Thug, Markwayne Mullin, threatens to arrest & imprison election officials who don't comply with Trump's illegal mandates.<\/p>\n

Neither Mullin nor Trump have any legal authority to do that. It's pure, unadulterated, FASCISM, aimed at rigging future elections. https:\/\/t.co\/sbrleLk8Nf<\/a><\/p>\n

— News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) July 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n