Trump’s own appointees asked the government’s election security agency to secretly hack a voting machine and send the results to the White House. The career staff refused.
ProPublica broke this story. Early in this term, political appointees at Homeland Security went to CISA with a request. Buy a voting machine in secret. Break into it. Don’t tell the company that makes it what you find. Report back so it can go to the White House. That’s the opposite of how CISA works. When it finds a weakness, the whole point is to get it patched.
One former official said the plan looked like something they could keep in their back pocket to invalidate any election results they don’t like. The staff kept telling the appointees it couldn’t be done. Part of the reason? DOGE had already laid off the specialists who could pull it off.
This is the agency Trump created. In 2020 it called that election the most secure in American history, and Trump fired the director for saying so. Since then a third of its workforce is gone, states say they’ll never share information with it again, and its election security plan came out at thirteen pages after early voting had already started.
So the agency built to protect the vote has been gutted, and the people who gutted it asked what was left to hack a voting machine. I break it all down in today’s show (link in reply).
Giorgia Meloni just passed new measures that will end the “student protests” really fast.
If you take part in a violent demonstration, you face up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to €20,000.
The sentence is harsher if faces are covered or people are injured.
Parents are now financially liable for the damage and vandalism their underage children cause.
Police can detain 14–17 year olds who pose a danger, even without a prior crime.
She also deployed 500 army troops to Milan alongside police to protect the city through the end of the year.
This is great. Now she just needs to mass deport them all!
🇮🇹‼️ | Giorgia Meloni estableció nuevas pautas de seguridad. La Primera Ministra de Italia envió un mensaje inapelable tras el caos sufrido: "Hoy nace un nuevo delito, la participación violenta en una manifestación. Si durante una protesta, te pones a lanzar petardos, piedras bastones o pones en peligro la seguridad de todos, arriesgas hasta cinco años de cárcel y 20 mil euros de multa. Si tienes el rostro cubierto o hieres a alguien, la pena aumenta".
‼️UPDATE: Someone offered the hacker behind the AfD email leak €100,000 to take the leak site offline, the hacker told us.
An anonymous Proton Mail user wrote "How can we get in touch? We would pay you money to take the site offline."
The hacker is keeping the website online.
My electronic ballot machine flipped my vote to a Republican candidate three times. I clicked on Jon Rosenthal, but then the machine switched it to Bo French. I had to click Jon’s name three times to successfully check out with a blue ballot.
Reported it, but WTF!
‼️ DHS political appointees asked CISA to secretly obtain a voting machine and hack it
The findings were only to be shared with the White House, and the vendor was not to be told of any flaws
CISA employees feared they were being asked to participate in political interference
BREAKING: The Trump regime has attempted to hack voting machines. This is beyond alarming, with only two weeks to go before the most important midterm election in U.S. history. Trump appointees asked the federal cybersecurity agency CISA to secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. (Source: ProPublica)
Bravo! Not Trump, not Musk, not anybody in the world can choose the president of Ukraine. It’s the people of Ukraine that can do that
Volodymyr Zelensky gave what was perhaps one of his most powerful interviews today, and his remarks are already being widely quoted.
Here are a few more statements from the Ukrainian president:
🔺“If I am removed, I’m sure the new man or woman will defend our country because this is our home.”
🔺“Some big guys want to change me because I will never accept Ukrainian land as Russian land.”
🔺Piers Morgan: “Can you win without the Americans on your side?”
Zelensky: “We will not, in any way, lose our independence.”