President Trump delivered a prime-time address focused on election security, making a series of claims about China obtaining U.S. voter data, domestic ballot fraud and the integrity of U.S. elections. He also repeated his assertion that the 2020 election was stolen. MORE: https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-election-address/
President Trump alleged Thursday that U.S. intelligence agencies covered up information about alleged Chinese efforts to influence the 2020 U.S. election. Why it matters: The document release is likely to renew scrutiny of Trump's claims about foreign interference in the U.S. election and the government's past intelligence assessments. - The documents release allege that foreign adversaries — including Russia , China and Iran — were viewed as real threats to U.S. elections. Reality check: Multiple released documents say large-scale manipulation of U.S. voting systems would be difficult to accomplish without detection. - The White House released four batches of documents — including ones about voting vulnerabilities, China ,…
State of the Union: The White House released documents claimed to reveal Chinese government interference in 2020. The post In Speech, Trump Alleges Plots by China to Sway U.S. Elections appeared first on The American Conservative .
In a late night speech from the White House on Thursday, President Donald Trump alleged that the Chinese government interfered in the U.S. elections in 2018 and 2020. Trump cited CIA reports to claim that China attempted to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden and acquired 220 million U.S. voter files containing personal information. He also said the documents showed that “dozens” of CIA reports about Chinese targeting were kept out of briefings delivered to Trump. “They had deliberately massaged the presidential daily briefing to withhold information regarding Chinese activities related to the election” Trump said, claiming that an FBI official accused bureaucrats of “running a shadow government” to keep…Open
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