EXPOSED: New White House Documents Reveal Pro-Trump Russian Interference Instead of Evidence to Support Trump's Election Lies

“Previously classified documents that the White House posted online on Thursday indicate that China and Russia targeted former President Joe Biden's campaign during the 2020 election.”

“A Newsweek review of the documents posted on the White House's website found no evidence supporting Trump's claim that foreign interference or fraud had altered the outcome of any election, including the 2020 presidential election.”

“Another document, a National Intelligence Council assessment of foreign threats to the 2020 elections, noted that intelligence officials assess that Russia was ‘using a range of measures primarily to denigrate former Vice President Biden and what it sees as an anti-Russia establishment.' The document said Russia was ‘directing or encouraging proxies to spread claims about' Biden and some ‘Kremlin-linked actors are also seeking to boost President Trump's candidacy on social media.'”

“Among the trove of election integrity documents, released in tandem with the president's speech, one National Intelligence Council assessment on ‘Foreign Threats to the 2020 Election' determined that Russian government-linked actors were trying to boost Trump's campaign. The document insinuates that Russia seemingly preferred Trump and wanted to boost his campaign on social media while disparaging former President Joe Biden's then-presidential campaign.”

“When President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Thursday, he wanted the world to believe that China stole the 2020 election from him. Instead, he dropped fresh evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin had worked to hand it to him.”

“Rather than reinforcing Trump's claim that Beijing worked to stop his re-election, the pages spotlight an intelligence assessment that Moscow sought to help it.”

“His most dramatic claim was that China had obtained voter-registration information concerning roughly 220 million Americans. If accurate, it would be a serious data-security breach. It would not, however, establish that China changed a vote, manipulated a voting machine, or altered the result of the 2020 election. Nothing in the declassified material appears to support such a conclusion.”

“In the end, the documentary evidence that Mr. Trump promised appeared bound to disappoint those who expected bombshell revelations, not unlike the Pentagon's release of ‘never-before-seen' reports of unidentified flying objects and the last government documents about the Kennedy assassination.”

“His description of China's efforts to obtain information about voters omitted the fact that most of the data was publicly available, sometimes for a fee.”

“In a 25-minute primetime address from the White House's East Room that included many baseless claims, Trump said he was declassifying intelligence documents that he said reveal ‘shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure.' Those include allegations of Chinese efforts to influence American elections, concerns over voting machine security, and that noncitizens are found on certain states' voter rolls. However, many of the documents the White House posted online during the speech did not appear to fully support sweeping claims the president made.”

“However, the documents do not state that China directly interfered in the election or did anything to change its outcome. In some cases, they say the opposite.”

“That same document said China wanted Trump to lose and had tried to sway public opinion online, as Trump claims. But it also says Russia was doing the opposite, using a ‘range of measures' to boost Trump's candidacy. Those measures included allegations that Joe Biden was engaged in criminal activity related to Ukraine. Trump didn't mention these Russian efforts in his speech last night.”

“After almost six years of promises to imminently reveal smoking-gun proof of tampering with the 2020 election, President Donald Trump stopped short again on Thursday.”

“He accused China of an ‘illicit' acquisition of U.S. voter files including names, addresses, phone number and party affiliation — all of which is publicly available information. There is no evidence or intelligence that the Chinese government hacked or compromised state voter registration systems in 2020, two former senior U.S. officials said.”

“Trump said the declassified material would reveal ‘shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure.' But many appeared to show the opposite, or were not related to U.S. election infrastructure at all.”