CBS News 60 Minutes host Lesley Stahl introduced a segment on election integrity Sunday evening by condemning President Donald Trump’s attempt to ensure non-citizens do not vote in the nation’s elections.
“The midterms are just two weeks away, and President Trump is using his power to intimidate the people who run our elections, putting the voting system under remarkable stress,” Stahl said, citing the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recent lawsuit against the state of California after determining that its voter list reveals more than 20,000 likely aliens are registered to vote in the state.
“[I]t’s the latest in a sequence of actions that has bred an erosion of faith in the integrity of our elections,” Stahl asserted. “Our story focuses on how state and local election officials are being pressured in a way that is stoking that distrust.”
Stahl started her story with video of FBI agents in Fulton, Georgia removing ballots – a scene that was portrayed in the segment as an alarming invasion by federal law enforcement, even though the official she interviewed admitted that “they had a valid warrant, signed by a judge.”
