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President Donald Trump has, since even before his election in November 2016, made false or unfounded allegations of widespread voter fraud's influencing the results and outcomes of major elections in the United States. He has repeatedly claimed, without ever providing evidence, that his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton only won the popular vote as a result of mass-scale electoral fraud and promulgated baseless conspiracy theories about substantial voter fraud taking place in various 2018 midterm and statewide elections. As president, Trump established a commission to investigate potential large-scale electoral fraud, despite the absence of credible evidence that would typically justify such an action. The commission was disbanded without having found any such evidence. More recently, Trump claimed in August 2019 that he had only lost out to Clinton in New Hampshire in 2016 because the state was taken away as a result of thousands and thousands of people coming in from locations unknown [to vote in New Hampshire]. He did not cite or provide any evidence to support those claims. In the days following that latest baseless allegation of voter fraud, a letter was shared on social media that purported to have been written by Ellen Weintraub, chair of the Federal Election Commission, and addressed to Trump. It prompted multiple inquires from readers about its authenticity and provenance. The letter, from a relatively important federal official to the sitting U.S. president, was unusually combative and is worth quoting from in full: The letter was authentic. Weintraub even posted it to her verified Twitter account on Aug. 16: Three days later, Weintraub discussed her letter and its contents in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper:
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