Donald Trump claims he sent federal agents to Florida to help Ron DeSantis win the governor's race, but that turned out to be a lie.
The ex-president claimed in November 2022 that he sent federal prosecutors and investigators to fight "voter fraud" in the 2018 gubernatorial election, but the Department of Justice has no records that Trump dispatched law enforcement to Florida, reported Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
"I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win. I stopped his Election from being stolen," Trump posted on his Truth Social website.
CREW filed a lawsuit seeking records to confirm Trump's claims, and the DOJ responded by saying the Office of the Attorney General had no records related to the former president sending any federal law enforcement agents to the state in connection with the 2018 election.
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The FBI had previously told CREW that it could not confirm Trump's claims.
"Had Trump actually used federal agents to interfere with election officials’ counting of ballots to sway the election in favor of a political ally, it would have directly undermined our democracy and election system," CREW wrote in its report. "The only evidence of that happening, however, seems to rest alongside the evidence of a stolen election: in Trump’s head."