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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Trump's fraud claims are garbage — and 'I helped dig it': Whistleblower - Alternet

President Donald Trump is preparing to release classified intelligence documents he claims will reveal “irregularities” in American elections address during the election he lost in 2020. But Trump’s former intelligence analyst Miles Taylor says it’s all going to be bunk. And Taylor should know — he helped scoop it.

“I know what’s in that well of information [Trump’s] drawing from, because I helped dig it. During Donald Trump’s first term, I worked on election protection at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), helping to stand up the administration’s response to historic Russian interference in 2016. We built an entire, government-wide response system — intelligence analysts, cyber defenders, and law enforcement agents — who were full-time focused on stopping any such attack from happening again,” Taylor said on his Defiance website. “And I can tell you now, before Trump says a single word, he’s full of s——.”

“Pardon my language. But I’m virtually certain that whatever he presents on Thursday, it will be twice-warmed leftovers of information, cherry-picked and recast to tell a story our intelligence agencies never told because it was never true,” added Taylor. “

What actually happened in 2020 when it came to foreign interference, said Taylor was that America’s adversaries did try to meddle in U.S. elections during Trump’s first term and his his re-election. This included Russia, Iran, and China. Taylor says “we knew it, we tracked it, and the U.S. government...



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