Trump stoked outrage when he signed an executive order on May 11 creating the voter fraud commission.
President Trump disbanded his controversial voter fraud commission on Wednesday night — but not without taking a jab at state officials for supposedly refusing to provide investigators with “basic information.”
Trump stoked outrage when he signed an executive order on May 11 creating the so-called Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. Without proof, the President claimed millions of undocumented immigrants had voted in the 2016 election and his commission would get to the bottom of the issue.
Failing to prove those unsubstantiated assertions, Trump dissolved the commission Wednesday night. But he still insisted — once again without proof — that there’s “substantial evidence” of voter fraud.
“Many states have refused to provide the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity with basic information relevant to its inquiry,” Trump said in a statement. “Rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today I signed an executive order to dissolve the Commission.”
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Trump added that he has asked Department of Homeland Security officials to look into the issue and see if any further investigative action can be taken.
