CNN on Trump’s claims tonight:
1. They're arguing that China got access to 200 million voter files for 200 million Americans, but they might not have pointed out, is that a lot of those voter files, you can buy them online.
2. Concerns that Venezuela was experimenting with software that could flip votes—We looked at the CIA memo that described that allegation, and it made pretty clear that, Venezuela might be able to do that at home. But the assessment from the CIA was that they wouldn't be able to do that abroad
3. There was new information that the white house claimed showed from the department of homeland security 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls. That's their allegation. We looked deeper into the data and the sources of that information are just not so reliable. When you looked at the better source, the government sources that assess the who's a citizen who's not, it was a much smaller number, only about 28,000.
And there you have it.
Donald Trump released these documents tonight believing they would finally prove the 2020 election was rigged against him.
Instead, his own release reinforced the exact opposite: Russia interfered to damage Joe Biden and benefit Donald Trump.
The central @HunterBiden -Burisma bribery smear was built on fabricated claims from an FBI informant with Russian contacts, a man now serving six years in federal prison. Meanwhile, Hunter Biden is winning millions in court over defamatory lies.
Trump tried to expose a conspiracy against himself and accidentally exposed the operation that benefited him.
Absolute, breathtaking incompetence.
Thanks for releasing the receipts, Donald!
We will be ready. We have systems to protect the vote and lawyers to defend those systems.
The important thing right now is for the public to see and understand what this lawless and increasingly unhinged president is trying to do.
What a non-sensical prime time address or whatever that was. The rantings of a mad-man.
Dude must have consumed contaminated lettuce. But it affected the wrong orifice. He has explosive diarrhea of the mouth.
HOLY CRAP!
The documents Trump just released following his speech show that Russians worked with American officials to advance stories about Burisma and Joe Biden being corrupt.
Someone is going to get fired tonight for accidentally allowing this one to be declassified.
It is absolutely astonishing that the deep state manipulated the data when Trump was president to keep him from winning reelection, but then turned around and manipulated it again in 2024 to elect him. The same people who were a part of the deep state in both election years!
I’m so confused? Trump was president and yet all this happened on his watch, and he was clueless and unable to do anything about it! Sounds like we need to elect more Democrats!
It is tempting to simply view this speech with derision. A feeble demagogue lying over and over. It is far more dangerous and insidious. Trump is trying to lay the predicate to declare a national emergency and seize control of the election machinery. Potentially to seize control of television and radio outlets. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Sue Gordon, who served as the principal deputy Director of National Intelligence in his first term until 2019, responds to President Trump's speech. "I think this was a dangerous speech about an incredibly important topic with some really questionable remedies in mind."
This was another deranged dictator speech from Trump. No evidence was presented that votes were changed in 2020. The only election fraudster is Trump. He tried to overturn a free and fair election. My reaction to this dangerous speech:
Sen. Mark Warner just told our @MSNow audience that everything Trump raised tonight had been examined by the Senate intel committee, which agreed on a bipartisan basis that the spy agencies were right when they said in 2020 that no foreign government changed any votes.
Trump suggested the "Deep State" hid from him that China was trying to interfere in our elections...
... maybe he forgot that we personally briefed him on the threat throughout 2018.
Big mistake to make claims living humans can refute.
America, this is a test -- what do you do when the president of the United States is on TV and he sounds like he's reading the script of the conspiracy theory guy in the movie Conspiracy Theory?