President Donald Trump is escalating his campaign against election fraud by offering a seven-figure bounty to incentivize whistleblowers ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
According to Gateway Pundit, President Trump on Monday pledged a $1 million reward to any individual who reports voter fraud that results in both arrest and conviction, framing the move as a direct response to ongoing concerns about election integrity that many in the conservative base believe have been dismissed or mocked by the political establishment. In a Truth Social post, he declared, Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP Trump said in a Truth Social post on Monday afternoon.
Speaking later to reporters, he reaffirmed the pledge, stating, Im also going to be issuing a million dollar bonus or reward or whatever you want to call it for anybody that reports voter fraud, leading to the arrest and conviction of somebody. The initiative follows a public push by conservative commentator Wayne Root, who has urged a more aggressive whistleblower strategy to expose alleged misconduct in prior elections.
Root specifically called on President Trump to offer $1 million each to the first 100 Democrats to come forward who were involved in rigging and stealing the 2020 election. While Trump and his supporters are seeking to empower citizens to expose fraud, the Biden Justice Department is expanding its own footprint inside Americas polling places.
The Justice Department last week began notifying counties about election monitoring, and Harmeet Dhillion, the head of the DOJs Civil Rights Division said 1,000 observers will be deployed nationwide during the November midterms. In a statement outlining its plans, the DOJ emphasized its authority to oversee local election procedures.
The Civil Rights Division conducts monitoring of polling places on election day using federal observers, and as well as monitoring using Division attorneys and staff, to help assess compliance with the federal voting rights laws around the country, the DOJ said. The department further detailed the scope of its federal observer program, underscoring Washingtons power to insert personnel into local election operations.
The Voting Rights Act permits federal observers to monitor procedures in polling places and at sites where ballots are counted in eligible political subdivisions. The Division determines whether federal observers are needed in an eligible jurisdiction, the DOJ said in a press release.
If so, the Division notifies the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that federal observers are needed, which OPM recruits, and then, in cooperation with Division attorneys, supervises federal observers. Federal observers write reports of the activities they witness in polling places and provide those reports to the Division, the DOJ said. The Democrat-media complex has accused President Trump of trying to rig the midterms by deploying an army of poll observers, even as the federal government dramatically expands its own monitoring presence.
Trumps latest pledge fits into a broader effort to expose corruption and waste in government that many conservatives see as endemic to the administrative state. President Trump is on a roll hunting down fraudsters, as last week Trump and Vance announced a $25 million Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program (WHIP) to reward people who successfully report government fraud, with tips that lead to criminal charges eligible for rewards ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 or more.
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