Evan Kilgore
Role at the time: Political commentator, on his own X account
Condemned
Responding to
Trump promised a $5,000 payment to each adult American citizen if Republicans retained both the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms.
"they're paying people with our own taxpayer money to vote for them... Sounds like communism..."
Why we used this label
Expressly criticizes the funding-and-election arrangement. His comparison to communism is recorded as his rhetoric, not the dossier’s description.