๐จBREAKING: Trump's declassified documents released tonight include a NIC report that Putin oversaw efforts to influence the 2020 election to HELP TRUMP by spreading misinformation against then-VP Biden.
Trump pushes conspiracies while ignoring HIS intel.
Here's what it says:
"President Putin and senior Russian officials are overseeing efforts by proxies to spread claims about former Vice President Biden as well as Ukrainian politicians and alleged Ukrainian influence in the 2016 US election.โ
This release BACKFIRED spectacularly.
NBC bumped Trump's big election speech for a Tom Hanks nature documentary. ABC ran a game show. CNN wouldn't put it on TV at all. The White House called them "cowards." The fact-checkers spent the night proving them right.
Here's what happened. Trump spent the week hyping "really big news" about elections, demanding a 9 p.m. primetime slot Thursday. NBC and ABC declined to interrupt their broadcasts, NBC airing The Americas with Tom Hanks and ABC sticking with Press Your Luck, parking the speech on streaming apps that reach a fraction of their audiences.
CNN said it would monitor the address "as a news event," feed on the website, fact-checks to follow. Even CBS split the difference with an anchored report.
Not partisan reflex, either. These same networks declined a Biden democracy speech in 2022, and they carried Trump's Iran address live this spring. They'd simply read this script before, and they made the call knowing Trump's FCC has spent the year threatening broadcasters' licenses.
Because here's what the country didn't miss. Twenty-five minutes in the East Room, five "areas of concern," and a headline claim that China pulled off "the largest compromise of election data in history" by acquiring 220 million voter files.
Then his own White House posted the supporting documents, and they tell a different story.
The "heist" involved voter data that is publicly available for download from commercial websites.
Senator Mark Warner said it plainly: "You don't have to hack into them. You can buy them." Campaigns and data companies buy those files every single day.
The scary Venezuela voting-machine document describes a hypothetical flaw in a machine used in Venezuela, not America. And the government's own cybersecurity agency called 2020 "the most secure in American history."
The real point arrived at the end: pass the SAVE America Act, the voting-restriction bill he refused to sign his own party's housing law over. Critics warn its photo ID and citizenship-paperwork rules would shrink the electorate by millions.
Chuck Schumer answered within minutes: "Not now. Not ever." Dead on arrival.
Hakeem Jeffries called him "a feeble, unhinged conspiracy-peddling 80-year old failed President."
And the tell that the snub landed? Trump spent part of his own speech complaining about the networks that weren't airing it. He noticed. It stung.
So why any of it, the primetime demand, the recycled 2020 fantasy, the desperate push for the bill? Jon Ossoff called the play in advance: Trump is "afraid to lose the midterms." Polling has Democrats favored to take the House in November. Thursday night was a man rehearsing his excuse four months early.
The rehearsal bombed.
Meanwhile, over on ABC, Press Your Luck contestants spent his time slot shouting "no Whammies."
America finally dodged one.
The man got 25 minutes ranting at the cameras in an empty room. The country got Tom Hanks.
Good news, Kentucky - our property tax rate has dropped for the sixth straight year. This will help our families save and builds on the steps we're taking to help everyone with the rising prices our nation faces.
President Trump, the narcissist-in-chief, is putting his picture on a $1 gold coin.
No, Mr. President. At a time when millions are struggling to survive, Americans don't want another monument to your ego.
They want healthcare, housing and groceries they can afford.
BREAKINGNEWS Trumps own current CIA Director John Ratcliffe in declassified documents says there is no evidence foreign interference changed any votes in 2020. In fact our intelligence agencies came to the same conclusion in 2016 and 2024. Trump gave a press conference on delusional lies only MAGA would believe without reading.
BREAKINGNEWS Trump declassified documents proving that Russia was spreading propaganda agaisnt President Joe Biden in 2020 election. The final assessment is no votes were changed in voting machine, and election integrity was secure.
Propaganda could have changed minds and votes prior to voting but no election machines were hacked or altered. ๐จ
The Guy Who Was Caught On A Phone Call Tryin To Steal 11,000 Votes In Georgia. Is Telling Americans That Someone Else Was Trying To Interfere & Steal An Election. ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ The Irony!!
This is a 25th Amendment moment.
I just watched the ramblings of a mad king and what else can I say โ the only thing missing was tin foil.
Donald Trump is trying to rig our elections and we have to stop him.
Show up and VOTE this November.
BREAKINGNEWS Trump declassified documents show China was aware of individual actors getting involved in 2020 election but the Government did not partake.
This is a huge embarrassment for America and for the Presidency that Trump thinks people are this fucking stupid to not read. ๐จ
BREAKINGNEWS Trump declassified documents released shows our own intelligence agencies concluded that the Government of China has no plans to interfere in our elections. That China Government didn't interfere to help President Biden but some actors within China did.
That Russia did in fact spread propaganda in 2016 to help Donald Trump get elected.
However no votes were changed as our voting machines arent hooked up to the internet.
What a fucking embarrassment to Donald Trump to lie to the American people and claim the opposite of what the documents actually state. ๐จ
Tonight I heard a failed and desperate president who as war spirals and prices rise is as always focused on his grievances, his shame, and above all his fear of the accountability that will come with defeat.
I also heard a president signaling his unmistakable intent to attack these elections and our voting rights, just as he tried to throw out our votes and seize the presidency in 2020.
Our answer will be overwhelming.
Across Georgia a wave of defiance is building to rebuke him so decisively that no president ever again dares such brazen corruption and abuse.
The power of the presidency is nothing compared to the power of the people.
BREAKINGNEWS Trumps declassified documents he released shows Russia while he was President attempted to influence our 2020 election with Vladimir Putin knowledge. That determination still shows no vote was changed or altered. ๐จ
BREAKINGNEWS According to Donald Trump released documents US voter data was purchased by China on commercial websites. Anyone can purchase this data. This wasn't a hack per document.
FRIENDS: Can we get 1,000 quick replies using the hashtag #LoserTrumpsElectionLies to make clear that while Trump relitigates 2020 tonight instead of addressing affordability, nothing he says will stop Americans from exercising their right to vote this November?
BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt refuses to answer the questions of if Trump will accept the results of November's election:
Reporter: "On oncerns about the election. Will the president accept the results of November's elections?"
Leavitt: "Look, Ed, you should tune into the president's speech tonight before you jump ahead to conclusions about what's actually in the speech. Again, I've seen a lot of reporting and misreporting about what the president will say."