Before she was tapped as Trump’s “election integrity” official at the Department of Homeland Security, Heather Honey reportedly told a group of right-wing activists in March that the president could declare a “national emergency” to effectively take control of local election administration. She said the move would follow an “actual investigation” of the 2020 election, if it revealed “manipulation” of the results, according to The New York Times, which had a recording of the call. We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again,” Trump said in the Oval Office Tuesday. But officials who explicitly embraced Trump’s election lies are working across the government in positions that critics fear could be weaponized against election administration. He is reportedly “asking intelligence agencies for information about the 2020 election,” including voting machines, the WSJ reported.

Source: The Times October 23, 2025 05:23 UTC