Trump dissolves voter fraud commission

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Trump Disbands Commission on Voter Fraud
Michael Tackett and Michael Wines
4-5 minutes
President Trump in 2016 with Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state who went on to become a member of the White House voter fraud commission. Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press

WASHINGTON — ................................

Richard L. Hasen, a law professor and election law scholar at the University of California, Irvine, was sharply critical of the commission in a blog post.

“The commission was poorly organized and conceived,” he wrote. “It tried to operate to a large extent in secrecy, without recognition that doing so would violate the federal laws that govern presidential commissions and that protect privacy.”

“It made rookie, boneheaded mistakes about handling documents used by the commission, again in violation of federal law. It did not seem to have an endgame,” he wrote.

While Mr. Trump has repeatedly claimed there was widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election, he announced the abandonment of the commission late on a day dominated by revelations in a new book about the White House and his presidency. The book, “Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff, prompted Mr. Trump to excoriate his former chief political strategist, Stephen K. Bannon.