Trump Recycles And Distorts Old Intelligence Reports To Attack US Elections Anew

The president lost his 2020 reelection to Joe Biden by 7 million votes, but has been falsely claiming he won for five years, eight months and 13 days now.

Senior White House Correspondent, HuffPost

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump, who lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him on a near-daily basis, claimed in a much-hyped White House speech on Thursday that US elections are vulnerable to hacking and worse than those in third-world countries as he renewed assertions that a “deep state” withheld information from him.

“Members of the deep state, very, very famous group of people, many cases, in our intelligence agency, worked to actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China’s sinister election meddling, covering it up from both the president and the American people like nobody thought was possible,” Trump said during 25 minutes of disjointed, often difficult-to-follow remarks from the East Room.

Trump’s many claims, though, are rebutted by a declassified intelligence report released in March 2021, after the classified version was given to him on Jan. 7, 2021 — the day after his failed coup attempt to remain in power despite having lost his 2020 reelection bid. That report was written or approved by Trump’s own first-term political appointees.

That report found that while China obtained publicly available voter registration information, it did not attempt to interfere in the actual election process. A minority view in that report states that China preferred that Trump lose the election to Democrat Joe Biden. The report also said Russia again worked to help Trump win, although not to the extent that it had four........

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