AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - New Jersey's governor called Trump a liar on voter rolls — the DOJ says she already knew the truth
The Justice Department's top civil rights official says New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill publicly accused President Trump of lying about noncitizen voter registration even though her own administration was about to confirm the problem he described. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, told Fox News Digital that the sequence […] The post New Jersey's governor called Trump a liar on voter rolls — the DOJ says she already knew the truth appeared first on American Almanac .
The Justice Department's top civil rights official says New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill publicly accused President Trump of lying about noncitizen voter registration even though her own administration was about to confirm the problem he described. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, told Fox News Digital that the sequence of events around Trump's July 16 primetime address points to a governor who chose political posturing over transparency. Trump used the speech to allege that several Democrat-led states, including New Jersey, carried large numbers of noncitizens on their voter rolls. The Department of Homeland Security released data the same night showing more than 35,000 potential…Open