During a Florida rally to promote U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, former President Donald Trump made a series of false or misleading claims about drop boxes, mail ballots, and his own record on the economy.
told Trump that he did not agree with calling the election "stolen" and that Trump’s statements were "bull----." , including GOP appointees, rejected Trump’s claims of widespread fraud. for voters to submit mail or absentee ballots to bypass the post office.
States set their own laws about whether they allow local election officials to establish drop boxes. They are commonly used in states where generally all voting is by mail, including in Republican-led Utah. Oregon has used drop boxes for more than 20 years. In Washington state in 2020, about 72% of voters submitted their ballot via a drop box.makes the false argument that drop boxes were used for widespread fraud in 2020.
Elections and law enforcement officials in battleground states have said that they have not received evidence to prove the allegations in the "2,000 Mules" movie that suggests widespread cheating via ballot drop boxes. Barr, attorney general under Trump, also publicly rejected the movie’s premise. We could find only two cases of individuals convicted related to violating rules about ballot drop boxes in Arizona.
"Instead of doubling the number of IRS agents, who are allowed to carry guns, by the way … they fight us on the Second Amendment, they fight us on guns and guns that we need for safety, yet they are allowed to have the IRS agents carry guns, 88,000."$80 billion for the IRS to enhance enforcement and operations. But the agency is not doubling in size nor is it newly arming its agents.
The IRS does have some armed agents, but they are a fraction of the staff. A Criminal Investigation division that has been around for
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