'F**k with, sow distrust in elections': Joe Walsh calls out Trump's meddling in American elections

Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh doubled down on his attacks on President Donald Trump, calling him "America's enemy" and saying he belongs behind bars. "The President of the United States is currently doing everything he can do to fuck with, sow distrust in, and destroy another American election," he wrote on X after Trump fired remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC).

The commission is a bipartisan federal body created in 2000 by Congress, responsible for distributing federal grants to states, overseeing the evaluation of voting systems and maintaining the national voter registration form, according to the Associated Press, which added that the agency has drawn Trump's ire for resisting his efforts to tinker with the election process by requiring first-time voters to prove their U.S. citizenship before registering to vote.

In fact, in explaining the rationale behind its decision, the White House told AP that "the President, and head of the Executive Branch, reserves the right to remove individuals that may not be totally aligned with the important task of securing America's elections and ensuring every legal vote is counted", citing the Slaughter decision as precedent. This marks the first exercise of the newly expanded presidential power following the Supreme Court's contentious decision, the report added.

The 6-3 ruling cleared the way for the President to fire members of independent agencies or commissions without cause, overturning 90 years of precedent that had served as a check on executive overreach. The dissent in Trump v. Slaughter came from Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan. The suit was brought by Rebecca Slaughter, a Federal Trade Commission member fired by the White House in March 2025 via email because she was "inconsistent with the administration's priorities."

Trump moved swiftly to dismiss two Democratic members of the four-seat commission, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland, after which Republican member Christy McCormick was allowed to resign from her post. The agency's fourth commissioner, Republican Donald Palmer, left the agency voluntarily earlier this year, Votebeat reported, noting that whether bipartisan election agencies like the EAC fall under the Supreme Court's ruling remains unresolved, casting doubt on the move's legal validity.

This is not the first time Walsh has called out Trump's so-called meddling with American elections. He previously claimed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act was unnecessary and accused Trump of spreading lies to push his agenda. His comments came after Trump, who has made the bill the central plank of his second term, called on Congress to pass the act — legislation that many critics have warned could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.