WASHINGTON — President Trump offered $1 million Monday to anyone whose tips about voter fraud lead to convictions — as he ripped Sunday’s electoral triumph by Brazil’s leftist leader as “another rigged election.”
“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!” Trump wrote in a social media post shortly before departing the White House for a pre-midterms rally in Mississippi.
The president explained to reporters moments later that he was “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.”
“We give you, that person, a million dollars,” he added under the wing of Air Force One.
Trump also said that the Brazilian election, in which President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won a fourth term in an upset after promising government handouts, “looked so corrupt, so terrible” while calling a two-hour voting extension “very strange.”
The president did not specify a particular reporting mechanism to potentially receive the new financial award — which follows his announcement last week of a pre-trial bounty of $30,000 for tips that lead to fraud charges. That initiative is being managed by the Justice Department.
Voter fraud charges are relatively rare, but the Justice Department has announced dozens of cases against non-citizens who allegedly registered to vote or cast ballots illegally — with 48 such indictments unveiled Monday, and 16 others made public Oct. 12.
Although Trump has argued that fraud harms Republicans, his own supporters have on occasion been busted.
A 32-year-old Trump supporter was sentenced in July to six months of house arrest, three years of probation and $6,200 in fines for voting in both Pennsylvania and Florida in 2020.
