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President Donald Trump plans to revive his baseless claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential race in a primetime address to the country later this week.

“President Trump will be making a Speech to the Nation on Thursday evening, at 9 P.M. Eastern,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Monday. “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

The post did not include any mention of what Trump planned to discuss. Later on Monday, it was revealed that Trump’s speech will focus on newly declassified intelligence reports that indicate a foreign nation may have attempted to interfere in the 2020 presidential race. The president will also discuss supposed vulnerabilities within voting machines, the White House indicated.

The speech comes as it has also been revealed that the administration has formed a task force to investigate the 2020 election, an effort spearheaded by Trump devotee and former Fox News contributor John Solomon.

Trump has long maintained, without evidence, that his loss to former President Joe Biden in the 2020 election was the result of widespread fraud. There isn’t any indication that these new reports will demonstrate that attempts to interfere in the election were........

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