President Donald Trump fumed at the conservative Daily Mail Tuesday after the outlet reported on his midterm-eve speech given at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, one that was reportedly attended by just a few dozen people.

At the Monday event, Trump joked that he planned to rename the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as the “Trump Reflecting Pool,” speaking in front of roughly 60 people. He also confused Republicans, the Daily Mail reported, by using the final day ahead of the midterms to boast about one of his D.C. beautification projects.

“The Daily Mail wrongly took my joke at a Presidential News Conference where the beautiful Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was opened yesterday, and pretended it wasn’t a joke when I said, I’m going to name it, ‘TRUMP,’” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

“It wasn’t a ‘Final Midterms Speech’ that only had 60 people, it was a NEWS CONFERENCE, nobody was invited, it was closed to the Public — Just Reporters. My Final Midterms Speech was the day before in lowa and Kansas, where we had 50,000 people. This just shows you how FAKE the News is. I said, very clearly, ‘I’m joking.’ The Fake News is so corrupt!”

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin warned Tuesday that his department would “hunt down” people who vote illegally in an ominous message as Americans headed to the polls.

“If you vote illegally in this country, and you are NOT eligible to vote, will find you, hunt you down, and you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Mullin wrote in a social media post. “Only American citizens should be deciding American elections.”

The threat targets conduct that is “exceedingly rare,” Democracy Docket reported. The outlet noted that noncitizens have never decided the outcome of an American election.

The Election Day threat follows Mullin's claim that his department is investigating 300,000 cases of illegal voting, according to the outlet.

Mullin’s “hunt you down” rhetoric echoed a warning from U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz in Texas last month.

“If you violate federal election law, I will hunt you down and prosecute you,” Reitz said in a video, Democracy Docket reported Tuesday. Reitz also targeted “crooked local election administrators,” saying they had a duty to prevent illegal voting.

“Election Day is Tuesday, November 3,” he said. “We’ll see you out at the polls.”

The U.S. intelligence community has fractured so badly under President Donald Trump that former officials and experts are warning of failures like those exposed by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a new report.

Reuters reported that eight current and former officials and people briefed on the matter say that intelligence sharing on Iran and other global threats has slowed, and in some cases temporarily stopped, both with Congress and across the federal government.

Former officials and outside experts told Reuters the disruptions risk leaving policymakers with an incomplete picture of the threats facing the country, and the breakdown comes as the administration weighs whether to resume strikes on Iran after Tuesday’s midterm elections.

“All of these things are adding up in a really complex world where policymakers need to have a more sophisticated, nuanced, and integrated view of the world, and they are getting less,” said Beth Sanner, a deputy director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term.

The problems took root under former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Her office clashed with the CIA in what officials called one of the biggest turf wars in three decades, between two agencies that are key to preventing another 9/11.

The feud began when Gabbard’s office revoked the security clearances of current and former intelligence officials, and it grew so heated that White House chief of staff Susie Wiles had to intervene several times.

The ODNI itself was formed in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Gabbard resigned in June, but the tension persists. The CIA has stopped co-authoring assessments with the National Intelligence Council, which pulls together the views of the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies. Since then, the council has slowed its output, and none of its assessments have focused on the war in Iran, five current and former officials said.

Gabbard’s office also briefly cut off intelligence reports to lawmakers twice, accusing them of leaking – after the June 2025 Iran intervention and again after the capture of Nicolás Maduro in January.

Officials said some analysts now avoid writing assessments that contradict the White House for fear of retaliation.

“This White House has made them irrelevant because the president treats unwelcome information as disloyalty,” said Julia Curlee, a former CIA analyst.

Morgan Muir, a former deputy DNI under President Joe Biden, warned that agencies are turning into “little lily pads,” and “everybody can pick their own lily pad to listen to.”

Some former officials are now working at Stanford’s Hoover Institution on a bipartisan plan to rebuild the intelligence community under the next administration.

The CIA said it “participates fully” in the assessment process, and an ODNI official said the council’s output remains close to “historic trendlines.” The White House did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment.