🌎 North America Apr 13, 2026 · Doug Bock Clark

Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections

ProPublica Investigations
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In mid-December 2020, federal officials responsible for protecting American elections from fraud converged in a windowless, dim, fortified room at the Justice Department’s downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters.



They had been summoned by Attorney General William Barr.



Over the preceding weeks, Donald Trump’s claims that the presidential election had been stolen from him had reached a crescendo. He’d become obsessed with a conspiracy theory that voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan,

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