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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump ‘fails the laugh test,’ say critics, with push to weaponize the Census for ‘rigged’ elections

Donald Trump’s ongoing crusade to prove he “won” the 2020 presidential election now relies on a dubious Census Bureau report that claims thousands of noncitizens “voted illegally.”

The unauthored, seven-page report posted on his Truth Social account this week doesn’t appear to come from the bureau’s own career civil servants but from people affiliated with the Trump-linked America First Policy Institute think tank, NPR discovered.

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