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Trump’s voter fraud hotline 'turns into nightmare' after prank calls and porn images: 'Saw an obese turtle'

Staff at Trump's campaign headquarters have reportedly been answering a barrage of 'prank calls from people laughing or mocking them over Biden’s win before hanging up'

President Donald Trump's 'voter fraud' hotline has reportedly been inundated with prank calls and pornographic images from left-wing activists. Sources have claimed that the phone service — intended to gather evidence of criminal activity at polling locations — has turned into a "nightmare", as reported by The Sun.

Staff at Trump's campaign headquarters in Virginia have reportedly been answering a barrage of "prank calls from people laughing or mocking them over Biden’s win before hanging up," according to ABC. Furthermore, they have also been dealing with "lefty teenagers" and "some disturbing unsolicited adult images," aides reportedly told Axios.

Trump's legal team is preparing to file lawsuits in at least 10 states after claiming that the election was "fraudulent" and fraught with irregularities. The president's son Eric Trump has alleged that the Democratic Party had orchestrated the prank calls. Nonetheless, several critics of Trump, including ex-Republican strategist Rick Wilson, seemed to encourage perpetrators to keep the phone lines jammed and break down the operation.

According to The Sun, one prank featured a caller claiming to see "an obese turtle" at a polling station, jokingly referring to CNN host Anderson Cooper's description of the president. Meanwhile, comedian Alex Hirsch posted a recording of himself telling a staffer that he saw the "McDonald's 'hamburglar'" visiting a polling location with "a bag full of swag." Another prank caller asked for Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani saying he had found an envelope full of "100,000 ballots" from Pennsylvania dumped in his fire pit. On the other hand, a Trump campaign spokesman claimed the "fraud" hotline had been "very effective."

This comes amid reports that Trump is planning to hold a series of rallies to "brandish the obituaries of dead people" who allegedly voted for the former veep. One proposed plan is to reportedly disclose details of deceased people who allegedly voted for Trump's Democratic challenger in last week's election. Aides purportedly count these as "specific pieces of evidence" that will eventually support their claims of widespread voter fraud and corruption in a court of law. Meanwhile, the president is also said to be launching "a campaign-style media operation" to popularize his claims.

However, Philadelphia's Republican commissioner has called Trump's voter fraud claims "deranged." Al Schmidt, one of the city's three commissioners who supervised the election in the city, revealed that his staff had received death threats due to the president's claims. Speaking to '60 Minutes', Schmidt said he was shocked at the allegations that were being leveled against him and his team.

"From the inside looking out, it feels all very deranged," the city commissioner said. “At the end of the day, we are counting eligible votes, cast by voters. The controversy surrounding it is something I don't understand. It's people making accusations that we wouldn't count those votes, or people are adding fraudulent votes, or — just, coming up with all sorts of crazy stuff."

Axios also reported that the Trump campaign was preparing for an all-out war on the ground over disputed election results. "We want to make sure we have an adequate supply of manpower on the ground for man-to-man combat," one source reportedly told the outlet.