Weekend Report: Trump orders DOJ to investigate California election for “fraud”

And: Documents show there are few criminals being held at the atrocious ICE prison, Delaney Hall. Plus: Is Lindsey Graham in trouble in next week’s South Carolina primary?

As votes continue to be counted in California’s jungle primary for governor, the Department of Justice, under Donald Trump’s orders, has now launched a scurrilous investigation to find election fraud. This as Trump’s favored choice, Steve Hilton, who was leading in earlier counting, has fallen behind former Biden administration Health Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and may not make the runoff as more votes come in, and as leftist billionaire Tom Steyer advances. But this is really about Trump wanting to take control of California’s elections.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is claiming that the undocumented immigrants being held the ICE prison Delaney Hall in Newark—which has been faced with protests because of its horribly inhumane conditions—are “the worst of the worst.” But the government’s own data shows that, in fact, only a fraction of those being kept at the facility, where there are allegations of starvation, little medical care and horrendous psychological abuse, have been convicted of crimes. The prison has received intense attention in recent days as protestors have been subjected to violence by federal agents.

Is Senator Lindsey Graham’s constant and nauseating embrace of Trump—which he seems to have wratcheted to new levels in recent months—due to his fear of political trouble as the South Carolina primary comes upon us next week? His spending and some polling certainly seem to suggest it, as he seeks a fifth term in Congress.

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