President Donald Trump spent Monday, Oct. 26, on a campaign swing to Corinth, Mississippi, for Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. Before leaving he offered a $1 million reward for voter-fraud tips and said Brazil’s runoff “looked like another rigged election” (transcript); on his return he called James Comey “a dirty cop” hours after new charges. In between he posted 31 endorsements, promised to appeal a court order on a Washington golf course and promoted a nurse-recruitment program. This entry in the series Every 24 Hours What the President Says covers 7:12 a.m. PT Monday to 7:12 a.m. PT Tuesday, lists highlights first, ranks topics by likely policy impact and then coverage, and closes with video he and the White House shared.

Highlights. At 12:31 p.m. PT he posted that anyone reporting voter fraud “will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud!” (). At Joint Base Andrews he said of Brazil, “I didn’t take sides, but it looked like another rigged election, frankly” (transcript). And back at Andrews that night: “I think he’s a dirty cop, James Comey, but I know nothing about it” (transcript).

1. Elections and the $1 million reward. At Andrews he previewed the offer: “I’m also going to be issuing $1 million bonus or reward or whatever you want to call it, for anybody that reports voter fraud leading to the arrest and conviction of somebody” (transcript). NBC News reports that a White House spokesperson “did not offer more details” and notes “There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in U.S. elections,” citing a Heritage Foundation tracker of “more than 1,600 incidents of voter fraud over 40 years” (NBC News); liberal influencers quoted by al.com call it “desperate” (al.com). Endorsing Michele Tafoya for Senate in Minnesota, he wrote, “The Federal Government will be watching closely,” and “I won Minnesota three times, but they didn’t give me the Victories” (); official results show he did not carry Minnesota in 2016, 2020 or 2024 (Minnesota Secretary of State).

2. Brazil and Israel. He added, “I like Lula. I get along with him very well. I just think it had a very bad look, the election, the way it was tabulated,” and “I’m not running Brazil. I’m running the USA” (transcript). Electoral court chief Kassio Nunes Marques said there “were no changes” from the extension, and Flávio Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party said, “We recognise the presidential election results, as proclaimed by the Superior Electoral Court” (AFP via SBS); Flávio Bolsonaro later said he would lead the opposition (El País). Asked whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought his second endorsement, he said, “No, I never spoke about that… I think he’s done a very good job as prime minister under very trying conditions” (transcript).

3. Comey and the courts. Prosecutors filed charges against former FBI Director James Comey of transmitting national defense information, tied to a 2016 New York Times article; NBC reports he “has not been indicted in the case” (NBC News). Asked at Andrews, Trump said, “No, I don’t know too much about it. I just heard about it,” then, “He’s a dirty cop, but I know nothing about what’s going on” (transcript). Comey: “Well, they’re back again… I’m still innocent.” A Justice Department spokesperson called filing a criminal information to pause the statute of limitations “a widely recognized practice”; former D.C. prosecutor Greg Rosen called it “vindictive” (both via NBC News).

4. The golf course. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes ordered 10 business days’ written notice before “any irreparable modification” to East Potomac Park and wrote, “Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President” (NBC News). At 8:37 p.m. PT he posted, “We are closing the East Potomac Golf Course Site as scheduled on November 15th,” and that the judge “does not have the Constitutional Right” to “ask for or receive notices” (). At Andrews: “it’s not my golf course. It’s a, uh, public course… I didn’t know she was an architectural critic of golf courses… So we’ll appeal that” (transcript). Plaintiffs’ lawyer Skye Perryman of Democracy Forward called the ruling “a big win” (NBC News).

5. Money promises and the economy. At the rally he repeated a pledge from earlier stops: “If Republicans win the House of Representatives and Senate, I am going to give all adult citizens in the United States $5,000,” adding, “The $5,000 Trump dividend is approximately $1 trillion” (transcript). NBC notes he “has similarly not clarified where the money for those payments would come from” (NBC News). He said, “if the Democrats win, you will have a 1929-style economic depression,” claimed “1.7 percent inflation” over three months and cited an $8 billion Harvest Fuel Relief Program for farmers (transcript); the desk did not verify those figures. At 3:10 p.m. PT he promoted a “250 MILLION DOLLAR PLUS initiative” in which nurses “can get up to $50,000 in Grants” (); the American Hospital Association, reporting the program’s Oct. 23 launch by CMS, describes up to $40,000 in loan repayment and/or a $10,000 stipend (AHA; CMS). His line that the fund “was nearly a THIRD of this amount until I stepped in” went unverified.

6. The press. CNN and Politico, the scheduled TV and print poolers, “were blocked from travel by the White House,” and Axios covered from the secondary print seat (pool report). A White House official told Deadline, “Media that pedal misinformation and defamation are completely capable of reporting their manufactured stories from directly outside”; CNN lawyer Theodore Boutrous Jr. had called such moves “mistaken, counterproductive and unlawful” in a letter last week (Deadline).

7. Mississippi and other races. At the rally he called Hyde-Smith’s opponent, District Attorney Scott Colom, “a Marxist radical left Soros district attorney” and said Colom “became the district attorney with nearly $1 million directly from George Soros” (transcript); the desk did not verify that figure. Colom, at a press conference in Corinth, said of Trump and Hyde-Smith, “they’ve been doing too much talking and not enough listening” (Mississippi Today). Of North Carolina he said “they have a guy who allowed 88 prisoners, all murderers, to get out of jail,” giving no name or source; the desk could not confirm those numbers (transcript). Of Rep. Ilhan Omar he said “she used a fake name to be sworn in” and “we must immediately resign her from Congress” (transcript), and he twice shared a Fox News opinion column by Gregg Jarrett on Omar (; ). Omar has said, “My name has always been Ilhan Omar,” and the Star Tribune notes a DOJ filing “does not prove that Omar has used a false name” (Star Tribune; Washington Examiner, a right-leaning outlet). Between 1:40 and 1:56 p.m. PT he posted 28 endorsements of congressional and other candidates, plus posts backing Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas and House Speaker Mike Johnson ().

8. Obama, Europe, clocks and more. Asked about former President Barack Obama’s Oct. 24 joke that the redecorated White House looks “like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory” (NBC Chicago), he said Obama “doesn’t notice dirt and filth” and “for you to say it’s a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president” (transcript; USA Today). Asked about violence in Europe: “I’m not worried about it… That’s an immigration problem” (transcript). He wrote, “The United States Senate is letting the Daylight Saving Bill die… TAKE A VOTE!” (), and said of RSBN, a pro-Trump outlet, “Wow, I’ve never heard such great things being said about me!” ().

Coming up. Tuesday, Oct. 27: events in Corpus Christi at 2 p.m. CDT and Lubbock at 6 p.m. CDT, Texas, per the schedule in the pool (pool report). Election Day falls on Tuesday, Nov. 3.

Deep dive: the $1 million offer and Brazil, in his words and theirs. The reward came first at Andrews, after a reporter asked whether deporting noncitizens who vote “would clean up elections”: “Well, I think so. And we do that and we’re starting that process” (transcript), then in writing at 12:31 p.m. PT, with the payment tied to “the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud” (). NBC adds that the offer “comes after he unveiled a $25 million government fraud whistleblower program” and that courts have blocked some of his mail-voting changes (NBC News). In the same gaggle, on Brazil: “Elections have to be indisputable, and it looked very bad to me,” and “with the extension given was very strange” (transcript).

What the record shows. Voting in Brazil ran two extra hours at Lula’s request, and Lula won by about 4.4 million votes (AFP via SBS). No U.S. agency has published rules, a budget line or a claims process for the $1 million reward, and NBC found the White House offered no more detail (NBC News).

Responses. Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party accepted the result, as noted above (AFP via SBS). The White House’s Rapid Response account posted the Brazil and reward clips (; ). American Bridge 21st Century, a Democratic super PAC, said ahead of the rally it had spent $2.1 million on the Mississippi race (Mississippi Today).