Warner labels Trump election fraud claim ‘completely false’

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Thursday rejected President Trump’s claims that China meddled with the 2020 presidential election, calling the allegations “so completely false” and accusing Trump of trying to undermine confidence in future elections.

Warner, in an interview with MS Now’s shortly after Trump delivered his primetime address, questioned why intelligence officers failed to uncover solid evidence of the alleged scheme sooner if it had actually occurred.

He noted the irony that Trump’s own appointees, including CIA Director John Ratfliffe, “were in charge of the intelligence community” at the time.

“Why didn’t they find any of these so-called allegations?” the Virginia Democrat, who serves as vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked.

During Trump’s 20-minute speech, he made unsubstantiated claims that China carried out what........

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