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Mon Feb 16, 2026, 04:00 PM Monday

Trump's election manuevers about more than ego-boosting

By Carl P. Leubsdorf / The Dallas Morning News

President Donald Trump has not only turned the Justice Department into a vengeance-seeking arm of the White House, but he’s using it to try and prove the falsehood that massive voter fraud cost him the 2020 election.

That’s the one Trump lost to Joe Biden; but claims he really won, in part because his ego wouldn’t permit him to accept losing to the man he derides as “Sleepy Joe Biden” and worse.

It isn’t clear yet exactly what Trump is up to, though we know it won’t be anything good.

Either the recent FBI raid on Georgia’s 2020 voting data is a precursor to retroactive prosecutions of those he falsely blames for counting him out; or he is trying to establish the basis for federal intervention in next November’s mid-term elections, something that has long concerned top Democrats.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-trumps-election-manuevers-about-more-than-ego-boosting/

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