When President Donald Trump addressed the nation regarding alleged vulnerabilities in the U.S. election system, he proclaimed that “no country can be great without fair and honest elections.” No argument there.
What he said, however, was mostly not new, and what was new was riddled with overstatement and exaggeration. While he promised the truth lay in a document dump to be posted online, the papers, upon examination, do not contain significant new revelations about vulnerabilities in election systems. If his purpose was to undermine the midterm elections, which he desperately needs to win and is almost sure to lose, it was one big nothing burger.
While he did not repeat his canard that he actually won the presidential election he lost in 2020, Jay Clayton, his nominee for Director of National Intelligence, appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee that afternoon, toed the Trump line, absurdly refusing to answer the simple question, “Who won the 2020 election?” So, the fantasy of 2020 election denial is alive and well in Trump’s Washington.
Trump did declassify some highly redacted documents he said showed an influence campaign by China in 2019, a cover-up by U.S. intelligence officials, fraud in Michigan, and voting machine tampering in Venezuela. The unconvincing evidence, however, did not support the claim of vulnerability. But it will certainly form the basis for Trump’s spurious efforts to curtail mail-in voting, add onerous voter ID requirements, and...
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