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President Donald Trump stood in the East Room of the White House on Thursday night, his top law enforcement and intelligence leaders assembled before him, and told the country that its elections had been left open to being \u201crigged.\u201d His administration released intelligence that, he suggested, would prove it.<\/p>\n

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The documents did no such thing.<\/p>\n

The roughly 25-minute prime-time address, delivered with just under four months until the midterm elections, was less a disclosure than a reprise: nearly six years after losing to Joe Biden, and five-plus years after pressuring his own vice president to reject the result, Trump returned to conspiracy theories that his own intelligence agencies have repeatedly examined and rejected.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreat damage has been done to our country,\u201d Trump said. \u201cOur elections were left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen, and the trust of the American people was lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

While simultaneously ordering the declassification of intelligence documents in parallel to his primetime address, the material newly released by the administration did not prove that Trump won the 2020 election. Instead, the president overstated the details, and made claims that did not match the actual conclusions by the intelligence community.<\/p>\n

The material his administration released was heavily redacted, and included documents that dealt with China\u2019s ability to influence elections and included a CIA analysis finding that Venezuela had \u201csome capability in manipulating electronic voting systems\u201d \u2014 though in Venezuelan elections, not ones in the U.S. Nothing in the release indicated that either country had hacked or accessed critical American voting infrastructure. Trump nevertheless claimed the material had been \u201cburied and covered up,\u201d though his own intelligence leaders had access to it during his first term.<\/p>\n

The clearest rebuttal came from one of his own appointees. John Solomon \u2014 a former journalist, prominent election denier and member of Trump\u2019s election task force \u2014 acknowledged Thursday night that no foreign actor had manipulated a single vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intelligence community has zero evidence that someone, that a foreign power flipped a vote in 2020, \u201822 or \u201824\u201d Solomon told MS NOW after attending the speech. Venezuela, he acknowledged, had not tampered with U.S. voting machines \u2014 a claim advanced for years by some of Trump\u2019s most ardent allies in the effort to overturn the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intelligence is very clear, they did it on their own machines,\u201d Solomon said. In fact, one of the CIA reports in the document dump, assessing intelligence gathered across nearly two decades, said \u201cneither Smartmatic nor the Venezuelan Government had the capability \u2014 that is, the level of control or access required \u2014 to manipulate the outcome of an election outside of Venezuela.\u201d<\/p>\n

CIA Director John Ratcliffe, who served as director of National Intelligence in the final year of Trump\u2019s first term, issued a carefully worded statement about the declassifications. The documents, he said, \u201cshed further light on China\u2019s intentions\u201d and on Venezuela\u2019s \u201ccapabilities.\u201d Nowhere in his statement did he assert foreign interference in voting infrastructure changed the outcome of the 2020 election.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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That gap between the president\u2019s language and his officials\u2019 is not accidental. Intelligence assessments, including those compiled during Trump\u2019s first term, draw a hard line between influence and interference. Influence campaigns did occur in 2020: social media operations by Iran and China aimed at weakening Trump, and by Russia aimed at denigrating Biden. Interference \u2014 technically compromising voting systems to alter votes and change an outcome \u2014 did not. Intelligence officials concluded China never crossed it.<\/p>\n

Still, on Thursday, Trump claimed the documents showed that \u201cstarting during the 2020 election,\u201d China carried out \u201cthe largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China\u2019s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The underlying intelligence said something considerably smaller: that China\u201chad previously purchased 2020 voter data\u201d from seven states \u2014 a fully legal acquisition. In fact, voter data is often available for the public to freely download.<\/p>\n

The release of the intelligence material related to China\u2019s influence efforts comes just two months after the president traveled to the country to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and made no public mention of the allegations that he leveled against the country on Thursday night. A current administration official familiar with the deliberations of the raw intelligence material and granted anonymity to address a sensitive topic told MS NOW before the speech that the information related to China\u2019s influence campaigns was known to the intelligence community prior to Trump\u2019s visit to Beijing.<\/p>\n

The president also warned of \u201ccritical intelligence revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure,\u201d a pronouncement that was foreshadowed by former intelligence officials who spoke with MS NOW. The White House, however, did not provide evidence that foreign or domestic actors have hacked into or hampered voting systems in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Ahead of his address to the country, Trump spent weeks seeding the ground. After Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard resigned in May, he installed Bill Pulte, a former housing agency official with no intelligence background, as her successor in an acting capacity. In June, he brought Solomon into the White House as a special government employee to help coordinate the declassification of documents related to the election.<\/p>\n

Multiple current and former intelligence and administration officials told MS NOW before the address what Solomon confirmed after it: no U.S. intelligence exists showing that any foreign country changed the outcome of the 2020 election. Trump has now had command of the world\u2019s largest intelligence apparatus for more than a year and a half of a second term, and access to every classified holding in it. He has yet to produce it.<\/p>\n

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