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Despite years of claiming that the election was stolen, he presented no evidence that any entity, foreign or domestic, manipulated votes or
Yunior Rivas at Democracy Docket:
President Donald Trump used a primetime address Thursday to resurrect debunked claims about the 2020 election, allege sweeping foreign interference in voting and pressure Congress to pass the anti-voting SAVE America Act.
But despite years of claiming that the election was stolen, he presented no evidence that any entity, foreign or domestic, manipulated votes or registration records, or in any way altered the outcome of the 2020 election. In fact, he didn’t even assert it.
In a disjointed speech, Trump claimed China obtained 220 million U.S. voter files and accused intelligence officials — whom he termed the “Deep State” — of concealing election threats. And he suggested electronic voting systems had previously been compromised.
Trump also announced that his administration would declassify intelligence documents supposedly backing his claims.
In fact, the U.S. intelligence community previously concluded that no foreign actor attempted to alter voter registration, ballot casting, vote tabulation or the reporting of results in 2020. Federal agencies also rejected claims that Venezuela, China or other foreign governments controlled voting equipment or manipulated vote totals.
Trump nevertheless described the newly released material as “brand new and irrefutable information” and said his administration would notify states about alleged vulnerabilities before the midterms.
Then he pivoted to pushing SAVE, his pet legislative project that election experts call “the most restrictive voting bill ever.”
“Addressing this crisis of election security demands that Congress must pass the SAVE America Act,” Trump said. “The only reason you wouldn’t do it is if you want to cheat.”
The massive anti-voting bill, which has stalled in the Senate, would require voters to show photo identification and provide documentary proof of citizenship. Trump also demanded an effective end to mail voting, falsely calling the practice “inherently corrupt.”
In pushing SAVE, Trump has regularly claimed — falsely — that illegal voting by noncitizens is widespread in U.S. elections.
During his speech Thursday, the president went further, saying that an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had identified 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote in federal elections.
He then directed DHS to notify states about these supposed noncitizens on the voter rolls and order their removal.
Trump also called for federal investigations, firings and possible criminal charges against officials he accused of suppressing intelligence.
“Today, I’m asking the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Justice, the FBI and the CIA to investigate how and why such crucial information was hidden,” Trump said. “To investigate how and why information about China’s election meddling and related security breaches was suppressed, and to fire those responsible for the cover-up.”
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Declassified files tell different story
Journalists and experts who began reviewing the newly released documents noticed that some of the records appeared to contradict Trump’s central claims that China sought to interfere in the 2020 election against him.
Journalist Sam Stein noted that one intelligence assessment stated Chinese cyber actors targeted Joe Biden’s campaign for intelligence gathering, but also concluded that China “does not currently intend to covertly interfere to try and sway the outcome of the election.”
Will Sommers also pointed to another declassified document showing that Russia — not China — was the only country assessed to have taken steps targeting the U.S. election process in 2020.
“Russia was the only country trying to meddle in American voting systems,” the document concluded.
Garrett Archer, a former senior elections analyst at the Arizona secretary of state’s office, likewise said the records did not support Trump’s assertion that China hacked election infrastructure.
Last night, Donald Trump delivered the same tired pablum of lies about election security and the 2020 elections. He also called for the passage of the anti-voting rights bill SAVE America Act.
See Also:
Daily Kos: Trump spews unhinged election conspiracy theories in speech TV networks refused to air
The Guardian: How Trump’s address was bluntly aimed at destabilizing the US electoral system
The Guardian: Trump makes unverified claims of China ‘election meddling’ as critics fear ploy to challenge midterm results
America, America (Steven Beschloss): The Liars and Sycophants Are Trying So Hard
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Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.
“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”
Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.
“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”
You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?
One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.
The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.
And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.
And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.
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Toronto is not a wildfire-prone area. It is extremely close to the USA border, and the smog is currently affecting NY right now. There is literal chunks of debris in the air. The sky is orange, and the sun is nowhere to be seen.
Climate change and its effects are right outside your door. Data centres are the cause for the insane heat waves across the globe, and the increase in wildfires and other natural disasters.
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