Report tied to think tank NPR calls ‘Trump-aligned’
NPR said it “has learned” that a think tank it describes as aligned with President Trump has ties to a Census Bureau report on noncitizen voting. The outlet said the president is using the report as he renews claims about the 2020 election.
The document at the center of the disclosure is a Census Bureau report on voting by non-U.S. citizens. NPR described the report as “highly unusual,” applying that description in its account of the report’s connection to the think tank.
According to NPR, the president is using the report to renew claims of widespread voting by non-U.S. citizens in 2020. NPR characterized those claims as false.
NPR’s characterization of the think tank as aligned with the president is part of the outlet’s account of the report’s ties. The story appeared August 24 in NPR’s politics section under the byline of Hansi Lo Wang, headlined “A Census Bureau report on noncitizen voting has ties to a Trump-aligned think tank.”
The significance of the disclosure, as NPR presented it, is that a president is publicly invoking a Census Bureau report to renew claims about the 2020 election while the report itself carries a connection — in the outlet’s telling — to a think tank aligned with him.
NPR’s story pairs a document it called “highly unusual” — tied, in the outlet’s telling, to a think tank aligned with the president — with renewed claims it said are false.