The fox appointed henhouse security chief ?
If this were purely a matter of partisan suspicion, concerns might be without much evidence.
We have MUCH evidence.
Trump has ALREADY tried to interfere with a legitimate election outcome.
We're supposed to think Trump's drunken thug Hegseth has suddenly become ethical?
Politics
Hegseth says national security, military cyber forces will guard US election systems during midterms
By
JONATHAN J. COOPER Updated 7:19 PM GMT-5, September 28, 2026
The U.S. National Security Agency and other military intelligence and cybersecurity forces will guard election systems during the
November midterms, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday.
Military cybersecurity experts have routinely helped monitor systems and deter potential hackers since election equipment was designated “
critical infrastructure ” in 2017.
But Hegseth’s announcement comes after President Donald Trump
gutted the civilian agency specifically created to safeguard election infrastructure, a division of the Department of Homeland Security called the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. That agency last week
released an election infrastructure security plan that lays out potential threats to election systems and lists services it would offer to election officials to protect the vote.
Both announcements come just weeks before Election Day on Nov. 3 and with early voting already underway. The short timeline “suggests this is just theater,” said David Becker, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney who leads the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation & Research.
“If the administration was serious about assisting state and local election officials, they shouldn’t have dismantled all of the federal government’s election cybersecurity capacity and fired all their experts in early 2025,” he said.
Though cybersecurity assistance from the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command is routine, many elections experts, civil rights groups and Democratic election officials are on guard for signs of
meddling in voting or ballot counting by the Trump administration. The president continues to
push false claims that elections are rife with fraud while
trying to interfere with longstanding election procedures.
It's alarm bell time !
Trump's $5,000.oo per voter bribe appears to have failed.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw. - Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
Trump is desperate.
And desperation has been known to cause convicted felons to do dangerous things.
