President Trump put a seven-figure price tag on election integrity tips Monday, promising $1 million to anyone whose fraud report leads to an arrest and conviction.
The announcement came shortly before the president left the White House for a pre-midterms rally in Mississippi, and he doubled down on the offer moments later while speaking to reporters under the wing of Air Force One.
“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.
He explained to the press pool 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.” The president added, “We give you, that person, a million dollars.”
Trump did not lay out any specific process for submitting tips or claiming the reward. His personal bounty arrives on top of a Justice Department program rolled out last week offering $30,000 for fraud tips, with that initiative focused particularly on social services violations.
The president’s million-dollar pledge came paired with sharp criticism of Brazil’s presidential runoff, which took place Sunday. Leftist incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, commonly known as Lula, won a fourth term in an upset victory over conservative Flavio Bolsonaro by more than 4 million votes.
Trump labeled the Brazilian contest “another rigged election,” telling reporters it “looked so corrupt, so terrible.” He singled out a two-hour extension of voting hours as “very strange.”
The Brazil result carries echoes of 2023, when a mob claiming election fraud ransacked the country’s legislature following a narrower Lula victory over Flavio’s father, former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Voter fraud prosecutions remain uncommon in the United States despite persistent political attention to the issue. The conservative Heritage Foundation maintains an election-fraud database that documents just 557 proven instances nationally between 2016 and 2025, a figure encompassing criminal convictions and other judicial or official findings.
The Justice Department has intensified its focus on the matter in recent months, particularly on deterring non-citizen voting. The department announced 48 fresh indictments Monday targeting that category, while 16 similar cases were made public on Oct. 12.
Trump has long maintained that voter fraud cost him the 2020 presidential election, a claim that found no traction in courts. His own supporters have occasionally faced charges: a 32-year-old backer was sentenced in July to six months of house arrest, three years of probation and $6,200 in fines for casting ballots in both Pennsylvania and Florida during that contest.
The president’s Monday remarks came eight days before Americans head to the polls for the 2026 midterm elections.