Jack Crosbie
View all posts by Jack Crosbie October 26, 2026 Add us as a Google Preferred Source
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Donald Trump speaks to the press before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, on Oct. 26, 2026. Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images All around America, voters are fed up with the short-sighted, destructive policies of Donald Trump’s second administration. But rather than addressing those concerns, the president today decided to try a new tactic in shifting the balance of America’s fragile democracy: offering a boat load of cash to anyone who could catch a fraud.
In a Truth Social post on Monday afternoon, Trump said that “anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud!”
Rolling Stone reached out to the White House for more information, such as where the million-dollar bounty or bounties would come from, and whether the Trump administration has examples of prior cases that would fit the criteria. “Refer to the TRUTH,” a White House press officer replied.
Voter fraud cases are extremely rare. In the 2020 election, for instance, an Associated Press investigation found fewer than 475 potential cases of fraud across six battleground states, a figure that, even if all were confirmed, would not have changed the outcome of the presidential election in any way.
But in recent weeks, the Trump administration has once again been focusing on potential fraud as a way to agitate conservative voters and cast doubt on the overall legitimacy of unfavorable elections, like Trump’s 2020 defeat. Earlier this month, the DOJ indicted 10 non-U.S. citizens, including one undocumented immigrant, for allegedly voting in the 2024 election in North Carolina, a state that Trump won by almost 200,000 votes.
