{"id":2416,"date":"2026-06-10T23:35:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2026-06-10T23:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:35:26","slug":"justice-department-officials-dance-around-trumps-unsupported-claims-of-california-election-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2416","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department officials dance around Trump\u2019s unsupported claims of California election fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div> <div>\n<button>\n<strong>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Summary<\/span>\n<\/strong>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Justice Department officials are promoting efforts to root out California election fraud despite acknowledging they haven&#8217;t found evidence of widespread wrongdoing.<\/li>\n<li>Trump-appointed prosecutors blame California&#8217;s voting system for making fraud hard to detect while citing isolated cases of illegal registration.<\/li>\n<li>The administration has lost legal battles in eight states seeking confidential voter data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            When President Donald Trump made claims of Democratic vote-rigging in the Los Angeles election, his top appointed prosecutor in the city took to the cameras to validate those beliefs while hinting his office may never be able prove that kind of grand conspiracy.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2402\">Johnson gets a bit of slack in his historically narrow House majority<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The Justice Department has launched no new criminal cases connected to how the city administered last week\u2019s contest, according to a source familiar with the matter, even as the president said on social media last week that such an investigation was underway.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The agency\u2019s leaders have been quick to tout the potential for fraud prosecutions. Front and center in the current media cycle is First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli, the Trump appointee leading the Los Angeles US Attorney\u2019s Office.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cWe\u2019re doing the work, we are doing the best we can in the circumstances, I expect people will be charged,\u201d Essayli said this week on \u201cThe Glenn Beck Program,\u201d where he was asked whether the department had seen a scale of fraud that would have changed the results.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cWe are looking for any sort of wide-scale conspiracies,\u201d Essayli said, while promoting the department\u2019s tip line. \u201cRight now, I would say, our investigations lean into more individual actors.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Essayli in recent days has promised prosecutions in California were only a matter of time \u2014 while also suggesting his office needed whistleblowers to come forward. He\u2019s acknowledged that the department hasn\u2019t found the kind of fraud that would impact electoral outcomes, but he\u2019s blamed California for a system that, he says, makes such evidence nearly impossible to find.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Assistant US Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli speaks during a news conference to discuss fraud prevention on January 9, 2026, in Los Angeles, California.\" class=\"wp-image-2410\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a18642779beb113ba80a34429c08083d.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a18642779beb113ba80a34429c08083d.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a18642779beb113ba80a34429c08083d-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Assistant US Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli speaks during a news conference to discuss fraud prevention on January 9, 2026, in Los Angeles, California.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Patrick T. Fallon\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The playbook is a familiar one \u2014 both for Trump, who faced criminal charges for his schemes to overturn the 2020 election, and now for the Justice Department leaders whose standing in the administration depends on keeping the president happy. They have seized on long-standing gripes about how long it takes California officials to report election results.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But without providing evidence of a sweeping plot to steal elections from Republicans, DOJ officials are instead hyping singular cases they have prosecuted dealing with illegal voter registration or single-digit noncitizen voting, while accusing Democrats of getting in the way of their investigations.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Georgia general election 2020 ballots are loaded by the FBI onto trucks at the Fulton County Election Hub on January 28 in Union City, Georgia.\" class=\"wp-image-2411\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7352313e90c3ad177b1b45027dfdb0c8.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Georgia general election 2020 ballots are loaded by the FBI onto trucks at the Fulton County Election Hub on January 28 in Union City, Georgia.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Mike Stewart\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>Inside the Justice Department\u2019s pursuit of Trump\u2019s 2020 election fraud fixations<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>9  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The dust has yet to settle at the department from Trump\u2019s ouster of former Attorney General Pam Bondi in the spring, as it has been made clear that officials\u2019 ability to deliver for the boss is the difference between a firing and a promotion. On Trump\u2019s election fraud fixations \u2014 as well as his desire for revenge against his political foes \u2014 federal officials are left tap-dancing around what he wants and what can practically be achieved.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In the meantime, their willingness to feed into Trump\u2019s claims \u2014 without offering any proof of criminal wrongdoing that would sway elections \u2014 could undermine public confidence in the vote, election veterans told CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThis has just created this environment where you\u2019re tearing away the very fabric of the trust that has built up for decades for local county officials and city officials,\u201d said Neal Kelley, a Republican who ran elections in Orange County, California, for nearly two decades before his 2022 retirement.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Essayli\u2019s office declined to comment for this story.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThe Department of Justice has statutory authority to enforce our nation\u2019s election laws, including through requesting state voter rolls and monitoring returns when candidates for federal office are on the ballot,\u201d a Justice Department spokesperson told CNN in a statement. \u201cThe Department\u2019s investigations into voter fraud in California are in line with this authority and will continue despite the state\u2019s unwillingness to comply and reassure voters that their elections are in fact free, fair, and transparent. Protecting election integrity is a top priority for the Trump Administration.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Election workers process ballots for the California state primary election at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on June 05, 2026 in City of Industry, California.\" class=\"wp-image-2412\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/08099ea4720eb264f265c3ebb054e0a4-768x507.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/08099ea4720eb264f265c3ebb054e0a4-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/08099ea4720eb264f265c3ebb054e0a4-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/08099ea4720eb264f265c3ebb054e0a4.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Election workers process ballots for the California state primary election at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on June 05, 2026 in City of Industry, California.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>\n        Blaming \u2018the system\u2019\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            In their media appearances, Justice Department leaders have walked the line between promoting the work they\u2019re doing to find election fraud, while attempting to manage expectations that they will actually be able to deliver a case that alleges widespread voter fraud in a Democratic district.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThe system is not designed to protect or prevent fraud. The system sucks,\u201d Essayli said Thursday on CNN, in an appearance just after the Trump post suggesting his office was probing Los Angeles\u2019 vote.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Nonetheless, a few days later, Essayli expressed confidence on Glenn Beck\u2019s podcast that charges would come in 1 to 2 months, once the primary was certified.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Election officials in Los Angeles and California have defended their handling of the vote, and county officials granted a DOJ request last week to observe the ballot processing at the L.A. counting site.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2401\">\u2018Residual algae\u2019 coats part of newly opened Reflecting Pool<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThe key here is that election officials are welcoming the transparency,\u201d said David Becker, a former DOJ voting section attorney who now advises election officials as head of the Center for Election Innovation &amp; Research. \u201cAs usual, the election officials are showing their work. The federal officials \u2014 who, without evidence, are claiming fraud \u2014 are once again hiding the ball.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In this photo illustration, a Los Angeles County election ballot and 'I Voted' sticker are displayed on June 2, 2026 in Los Angeles.\" class=\"wp-image-2413\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/467635c76d5429111b750bb6cac70576.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/467635c76d5429111b750bb6cac70576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/467635c76d5429111b750bb6cac70576-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>In this photo illustration, a Los Angeles County election ballot and &#8216;I Voted&#8217; sticker are displayed on June 2, 2026 in Los Angeles.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>\n        Scrutiny of California\u2019s election laws\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            The Justice Department has already been grappling with vows by Trump that DOJ would bring prosecutions for the 2020 presidential election, which Trump still falsely claims was stolen from him. Sweeping moves by the Justice Department to obtain 2020 ballots in Georgia and audit materials from Arizona\u2019s election that year have unnerved election officials, but the administration has yet to show it\u2019s found any evidence that would prove fraud was to blame for Trump\u2019s loss.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Earlier this year, as he told Fox News that there was \u201ca ton of evidence that the election was rigged,\u201d acting Attorney General Todd Blanche claimed that those engaging in the fraud were \u201cvery good at hiding up misconduct and hiding what they\u2019re doing.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A handful of prosecutions related to illegal voting or registration by foreigners are what the administration has produced instead, having poured significant resources into finding noncitizens on voter rolls.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In another case, which Essayli and others at the department repeatedly cited, prosecutors charged a California woman with illegally paying people \u2014 some of them on Los Angeles\u2019 Skid Row \u2014 to register to vote as part of a scheme to maximize compensation she was receiving in petition drives. The woman pleaded guilty to one count in the case, which included the allegation that on \u201cseveral occasions\u201d she had homeless people use her own former address on the registration forms. Prosecutors are also looking at whether she worked with any organizations that could also be charged with a conspiracy, according to a source familiar with the matter.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Still, the DOJ has not put forward evidence in the court proceedings that the illegal registrations resulted in fraudulent votes. Essayli and others have nonetheless used the case to criticize California\u2019s universal mail voting system, under which every registered voter receives a mail ballot, while criticizing its lack of a photo voter ID requirement and how the state allows outside groups to collect and submit mail ballots.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bill Essayli speaks on the phone outside the United States District Court in Los Angeles, California, on December 16, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-2414\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7e98fedee023582a4fdb4b7562de0f7a-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7e98fedee023582a4fdb4b7562de0f7a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7e98fedee023582a4fdb4b7562de0f7a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7e98fedee023582a4fdb4b7562de0f7a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Bill Essayli speaks on the phone outside the United States District Court in Los Angeles, California, on December 16, 2025.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Patrick T. Fallon\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Much of the flak California election officials are getting now is focused on the pace of the ballots count. But the process that election officials must go through to verify that mail ballots are authentic is partly why California\u2019s results take time to report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThey\u2019re complaining about the speed of counting when what the election officials are doing right now is checking voter ID, confirming integrity, making sure there\u2019s no fraud,\u201d Becker said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The time it takes for the results to be finalized is the fault of the state legislature, Kelley said, because of the election rules that allowed Californians turn in their ballots at the last minute, creating a bottleneck in the canvassing process for election officials.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cYou\u2019ve given them the opportunity to wait, they\u2019re going to take it,\u201d Kelley said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Manhattan\u2019s top federal prosecutor, US Attorney Jay Clayton, was grilled on CNBC this week on the distinction between state laws that make California\u2019s vote tabulation a slow process and actual evidence of fraud.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThere\u2019s a great phrase, \u2018opportunity for fraud,\u2019\u201d Clayton said.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Pivoting to a fight over confidential voter files\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n            Justice Department officials have also used the California spotlight to rail against election officials for resisting its demands for the state\u2019s unredacted voter rolls, in a legal battle that the administration so far has lost not just in Golden State, but also in seven others.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A person votes via the drive-thru drop box at the San Diego County Registrar of Voters office during California's primary election.\" class=\"wp-image-2415\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bec3fa42a95d99e47a6657aa6c5896e7.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bec3fa42a95d99e47a6657aa6c5896e7.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bec3fa42a95d99e47a6657aa6c5896e7-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>A person votes via the drive-thru drop box at the San Diego County Registrar of Voters office during California&#8217;s primary election.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Michael Ho Wai Lee\/SOPA Images\/Sipa USA\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is currently examining a federal judge\u2019s ruling that the DOJ could not force California to turn over its confidential voter registration files. The administration has brought 31 lawsuits in total against both Democratic and Republican election offices that have declined to comply with the voter registration data requests, which sought normally confidential information about voters, such as their Social Security numbers or driver\u2019s license numbers. The Trump administration has not won a favorable ruling in any of those cases, and district courts in eight of them have thrown out the lawsuits. Several appeals courts are now weighing the matter.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The DOJ\u2019s assistant attorney general for civil rights, Harmeet Dhillon, is leading the voter data collection effort, as her division includes the department\u2019s voting section. She has vowed to take the issue to the Supreme Court.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Essayli highlighted the work Dhillon was doing to obtain California\u2019s rolls in a social media post laying out the election-related work the department was doing in California.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=2397\">Trump\u2019s most tone-deaf comments on Iran and the economy, ranked<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cTeamwork\/dreamwork,\u201d Dhillon said in her own response to the post on X.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n<em>CNN\u2019s Abigail Roedersheimer has contributed to this report. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When President Donald Trump made claims of Democratic vote-rigging in the Los Angeles election, his top appointed prosecutor in the city took to the cameras to validate those beliefs while suggesting his office may never be able prove that kind of grand conspiracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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