President Trump on Thursday revealed the most compelling evidence so far that elections in the U.S. have been compromised by foreign powers and, quite possibly, hundreds of thousands of non-citizen registered voters.
One Democrat responded to the findings, which Trump substantiated with declassified documents he ordered posted to the White House website, not by calling for improved election integrity but with a call to impeach the messenger.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called on Congress to impeach Trump after the president asserted during his primetime address that those responsible for what he described as the theft of the 2020 presidential election remain active and pose a threat to the integrity of the 2026 midterm elections.
During the address, Trump used phrases such as “rigged and stolen,” “corrupt,” and “cover-up” while pointing to recently declassified documents that he said supported his claims.
Critics from both parties, however, argued that he did not provide sufficient evidence to substantiate his central allegation that U.S. elections are affected by widespread fraud.
“Trump must be impeached for undermining and subverting our free and fair elections,” Markey falsely claimed on X.
He then appeared to issue a call to violence.
“And when he sends ICE agents to the polls, then we must turn civic action into civil disobedience and take to the streets. Sit in. Protest. Withhold our labor. Everything must be on the table,” his post continued.
Democrats have consistently claimed there is no widespread vote fraud while literally opposing ever GOP-led election integrity measure offered, leading Republicans to accuse them of a massive cover-up.
Earlier Thursday evening, Trump claimed that newly released documents showed the Chinese government had obtained 220 million U.S. voter files over a five-year period beginning during the 2020 election cycle.
Trump also alleged that members of the “deep state” have worked to “suppress and downplay information about the extent of China’s sinister election meddling.”
Trump also claimed that the Chinese government wanted him to lose the 2020 presidential election and asserted that “raw intelligence” obtained by the FBI in 2020 indicated Beijing had attempted to manufacture illegal ballots for former President Joe Biden, who defeated Trump in that election.
While critics are counter-claiming that Trump’s information is bogus, the president literally had the once-classified memos and intelligence published online at the White House site.
Markey, one of the Senate Democratic caucus’s left-wing members, also called for Trump’s removal from office in April after the president threatened severe consequences for Iran if its leaders did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
“With each passing day, it becomes increasingly apparent that Donald Trump is unstable and a clear and present danger, not just to the American people but to the world,” he complained.
“He must be removed from office before he causes incalculable and unfathomable harm,” Markey said at the time.
Markey urged the House to pass articles of impeachment and the Senate to vote to convict and remove Trump from office.
He also called on Trump’s Cabinet and Vice President Vance to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office, The Hill reported.
Trump’s primetime address quickly ignited a fierce political debate as lawmakers and administration officials began weighing in on his warnings about the nation’s election system.
Trump announced Thursday that he was immediately declassifying hundreds of pages of documents that he said reveal “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure,” including information about alleged Chinese efforts to obtain American voter data.
On Friday morning, Republicans flooded the airwaves with calls to pass the SAVE America Act.
During an interview on Fox Business Mornings with Mari, Dan Meuser (R-PA) called on more Republicans to fight harder to pass the SAVE America Act.
“The public overwhelmingly supports this legislation, and it is vital for ensuring free and fair elections,” Meuser declared.
