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President Donald Trump accused members of the U.S. intelligence community Thursday night of operating a “shadow government” to allegedly conceal evidence of China\u2019s efforts to influence U.S. elections,<\/a> seizing on newly declassified emails that he says reveal a bitter internal dispute about how Beijing\u2019s activities should be characterized.<\/p>\n

Trump did not claim China changed votes or altered election results. Instead, he argued Beijing engaged in an influence campaign aimed at shaping U.S. public perceptions.<\/p>\n

Trump claimed intelligence officials kept significant reporting out of his presidential briefings and highlighted an email in which a National Security Agency analyst allegedly wrote, “We have deliberately massaged our one pending (presidential daily brief) to avoid any direct links to the election.”<\/p>\n

“Those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden,” Trump claimed. “They did not disclose (it) to me as president or to anyone else.”<\/p>\n

TRUMP RELEASES DECLASSIFIED ELECTION INTELLIGENCE, SAYS IT REVEALS ‘SHOCKING VULNERABILITIES’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump used the disclosures to press Congress to<\/a> pass the SAVE America Act, casting the newly released intelligence as evidence that lawmakers must tighten federal election rules before the midterms.<\/p>\n

“Most importantly, addressing this crisis of election security demands that Congress must pass the SAVE America Act,” Trump said. “These reforms are urgently needed to stop the vulnerabilities that I\u2019ve mentioned.”<\/p>\n

The SAVE America Act passed the House in February but stalled in the Senate<\/a> in March, when a 53\u201347 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance it. Trump urged Americans to call their senators and representatives and demand its passage “without delay.”<\/p>\n

REPUBLICAN SAYS TRUMP’S TOP ELECTION PRIORITY ‘DEAD’ IN SENATE AS GOP FRACTURES AHEAD OF MIDTERMS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The legislation would require documentary proof of citizenship to register for federal elections, photo identification to vote and ongoing state efforts to identify and remove noncitizens from voter rolls<\/a>. Absentee voters would be required to submit a copy of an eligible photo ID when requesting a ballot and again when returning it.<\/p>\n

Trump also called for eliminating mail-in voting except in cases of illness, disability, military deployment or travel. The current text of the SAVE America Act does not include that prohibition \u2014 it permits absentee voting subject to identification requirements.<\/p>\n

Trump urged Americans to call their representatives and demand the bill\u2019s passage “without delay.”<\/p>\n

The newly released emails show that analysts disagreed over whether any alleged Chinese influence operations and intelligence collection should be explicitly linked to elections. After the NSA analyst described “massaging” the President\u2019s Daily Brief, other intelligence officials questioned the decision, with one writing that “the mind boggles” and another calling the approach “highly irregular.”<\/p>\n

One official alleged the intelligence community was “deliberately avoiding mentioning a connection to elections for non-substantive reasons,” according to a November 2020 email. That official sought to reconnect the intelligence to the election-security assessment and prevent what another described as an “analytic objectivity mistake.”<\/p>\n

The documents, however, do not establish Trump\u2019s broader allegation of a politically motivated conspiracy. Instead, they portray competing intelligence assessments over whether China\u2019s actions amounted to an effort to influence the presidential contest or a broader campaign focused on U.S. policies, public opinion and issues important to Beijing.<\/p>\n

Trump went further Thursday, claiming an FBI official wrote that she was running a “shadow government” to prevent the China intelligence from becoming public.<\/p>\n

The Chinese embassy could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

Trump directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Justice Department, FBI and CIA Thursday to investigate why the intelligence was withheld, fire anyone found to have participated in a cover-up and pursue criminal charges “if appropriate.”<\/p>\n

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said in response to the address: “Americans heard the president once again repeat claims about our elections that have been investigated for years and repeatedly rejected by the Intelligence Community.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/shadow-government-trump-claims-intel-community-bragged-hiding-chinese-meddling <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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