What’s up with Trump’s unprecedented demand for state voter lists?

With the U.S. midterms just months away, the answer is no coincidence. Is Donald Trump trying to challenge or even purge those voters’ lists? If so, this president is a clear and present danger to what America has always stood for: democracy not tyranny.
U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting on Jan. 21, 2026, in Davos, Switzerland.

HALIFAX—When assessing Donald Trump’s often absurd pronouncements as Unites States president, the temptation is often to write them off as part of an ongoing clown show. Donald being Donald, exercising his gift for mendacious hyperbole.

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