Trump's Address About Election Integrity And Implications

Being bedridden after my heart attack, I was pretty much stuck watching television, so I was able to catch most of Trump's speech yesterday evening. The speech started out like a mini-State of the Union, touting various accomplishments, before moving on to the substance and primary point: the 2020 election was hacked by foreign powers and he has the evidence to back it up. Town Hall sums up the salient points:

    The documents highlight major areas of concern. Starting in 2020, Beijing carried out the largest-ever compromise of election data. Some 220 million American voters' files were meddled with by Chinese intelligence services. China signed a data exploitation unit for this project. 

   Members of the Deep State within the IC worked to suppress and downplay the scope and impact of China’s election interference. U.S. spy agencies discovered that the voter data breach in 18 states was bought, stolen, or hacked by China. That breach was kept hidden; Trump, who was still president at the time, was not informed, nor was Congress. The line was that the 2020 election was the most secure in history. 

   CIA reported in mid-2018 that the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements opposed to Trump. In mid-2019, China’s approach was to undermine domestic confidence during the first Trump presidency. The Chinese government aimed to identify anti-Trump reporters and pay them large sums of money to produce stories that cast Trump in a negative light.

    The FBI obtained raw intelligence indicating that China’s activities included efforts to produce illegal ballots for Joe Biden. These were kept out of the presidential briefing. One analyst admitted to intentionally downplaying Chinese election activities. Another official stated she was running a shadow government to keep intelligence on China’s election interference away from the media and the White House. Numerous burn bags have been found. 

    Americans were lied to about the security of our election systems, including voting machines. They’re highly susceptible to attack. Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and non-state actors have the ability to compromise our election infrastructure. 

    Michigan police raided a Democrat GOTV organization and were so concerned they contacted the FBI in Detroit. The documents state that canvassers signed voter registration forms in other people’s names, registered nonexistent individuals, and got paid based on the number of applications they produced. The FBI believed crimes were committed, but the Biden DOJ slow-walked and suppressed the case. 

    Trump also said they’re releasing a report from the Department of Homeland Security, where they found 270,000 noncitizens are enrolled to vote in our elections. The real number is likely higher since blue states refused to turn over their voter rolls. 

 You can view the documents here.

     Just looking at the bare bone facts and accusations above, there are two main conclusions that can be taken away from this:

1. Our foreign adversaries have hacked our elections and probably altered the outcome of the 2020 election; and,
2. The intelligence community knew of this and not only did nothing, but concealed the fact from the President and the public. 

But there is more to it than that. You probably remember the 50 intelligence officials that signed the letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop was fake. This shows that, in at least that one incident, the intelligence community actively intervened to influence the outcome of the election. We also know that they were trying to cover up what exactly went on based on the numerous burn bags that have been found which hadn't been destroyed. We can only assume that these represent only a small number of the total amount of documents and things earmarked for destruction. 

    But there is no reason to assume that it stopped with the intelligence community simply sitting back to let China do this. What comes up again and again, whether discussing the information released by Snowden about domestic spying, how the Russia dossier was arranged, and even the gain of function research carried out by Fauci, is that our government agencies often use cut-outs to do what they are not otherwise allowed to do. 

    For instance, the Five Eyes program is used to allow intelligence agencies to avoid laws prohibiting domestic spying by simply allowing a foreign intelligence agency to do the spying for them. Thus, if the NSA wants to spy on an American citizen, they simply have British or Canadian intelligence do the spying for them. 

    And we know that Fauci was doing gain of function research he was prohibited by law from doing by backdooring it through a Chinese biolab and award of contracts or grants to private companies. 

    My point with this is that we need to consider whether the intelligence community did not just bury foreign interference with U.S. elections, but actually solicited and/or directed that interference for their own ends.