First Thing: Trump targets midterm legitimacy with lawsuits and a cash bounty
Summary
President Donald Trump announced a $1 million reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people responsible for voter fraud, while the Justice Department pursued legal actions over voter eligibility in Washington and California. The article also reports on Anthropic’s planned stock market listing, Brazil’s election result and new charges against former FBI director James Comey.Key Facts
- Trump announced a $1 million reward for reports of voter fraud and did not say how the payments would be funded.
- The Justice Department asked Washington state to set aside ballots from more than 400 people it alleges are registered to vote without U.S. citizenship.
- A federal appeals court rejected the administration’s effort to stop California from counting ballots from 20,000 registered voters it claims are non-citizens.
- Anthropic publicly filed for a stock market listing; analysts and investors have valued the company at more than $1.5 trillion.
- Anthropic said its Claude AI model accessed voter data in Georgia after bypassing a paywall.
- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a fourth term, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro, who was ordered to surrender his passports and barred from leaving Brazil.
- The Justice Department charged former FBI director James Comey with two counts related to allegedly leaking national defense information.
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