Click the link at the bottom for more from Trump's ex-DHS chief of staff who helped oversee election security in his first term. .
"I can tell you now, before Trump says a single word, he’s full of ****.
Pardon my language. But I’m virtually certain that whatever he presents on Thursday, it will be twice-warmed leftovers of information, cherry-picked and recast to tell a story our intelligence agencies
never told because it was never true. Indeed, the president appears poised to make it sound like a foreign adversary, specifically China, took away the White House from him by helping Joe Biden win. If the Big Lie was bad, this will be even Bigger because now he’s might name the actual boogeyman that has eluded him, over years of delusional claims about an unfair loss.
Before you get caught up in his stream of lies, here’s what actually happened in 2020 when it comes to foreign interference. Yes, America’s adversaries
tried to meddle in our elections during Trump’s first term and amidst his re-election. Russia did. Iran did. China did. We knew it, we tracked it, and the U.S. government
declassified much of that information years ago. But our agencies were
unanimous on a crucial point: none of those bad guys changed votes. Not in 2018. Not in 2020.
Chris Krebs, my former colleague and Trump’s own cybersecurity chief, said it plainly by
calling the 2020 election the “most secure in American history.” At the very least, it was the most scrutinized in American history, leaving experts able to say with high confidence that no foreign adversary affected the outcome. That angered Trump. He wanted to say someone stole victory from him. But Chris Krebs stood in the way of the Big Lie with a simple truth. And for doing so, the president fired Chris by tweet.
I’m going to make a revelation, right here, that I want you to remember on Thursday when this sideshow begins again.
Trump never wanted election security; he wanted
selective election security. In 2018, ahead of the midterms, we briefed him on the full threat landscape. Multiple countries were planning to interfere. We advised the White House that we needed to expose all of those actors and threaten them with consequences. Trump seemed uninterested in calling them out, with one exception. He was keenly interested in exposing any country that wanted to interfere in ways that would be
unhelpful to his party’s chances, specifically: China.
And wouldn’t you know it — that September, Trump stood before the UN General Assembly and delivered
sweeping warnings about Chinese interference. Yet he said next to nothing about Russia, the country that had actually run a sophisticated operation to help him in 2016 and
was gearing up to do it again. We were gobsmacked. So were Members of Congress briefed on the same intelligence."
The president will reportedly begin releasing cherry-picked intelligence from 2020 to make it look like a foreign country helped Joe Biden win. The claims are categorically false.
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