A legal expert floated a disturbing new theory on Thursday about President Donald Trump's efforts to end elections in the United States.
So far, most media coverage of Trump's plans to meddle with the 2026 midterm election results has focused on states changing election maps, and most recently, Trump's call for Republicans to "nationalize" parts of the elections. However, part of Trump's foreign policy may intersect with his goal of ending America's free and fair election system.
Legal expert Allison Gill, host of the "Mueller, She Wrote" podcast, speculated in a new Substack essay on Thursday that Trump's ploy to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and extradite him to the U.S. may also be part of Trump's election gambit.
She pointed to recent reporting that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's team took voting machines from Puerto Rico to see if Venezuela had been able to access them during the last election. She argued that Trump might use a similar pretext to interfere with the U.S. elections.
"Will Trump use Maduro to fabricate false claims of foreign election interference so he can try to seize voting machines, end vote-by-mail, and nationalize elections? I think so," Gill wrote. "And it will all come down to whether the Supreme Court believes he has the authority."