All posts tagged "Election Interference"

Trump's claims about China interfering in U.S. elections were fact-checked by political analysts in real-time using documents he released.

In Trump's Thursday night speech, he announced that his administration would be releasing documents and intelligence findings that support his claim that China meddled in the 2020 U.S. elections. However, the documents didn't show anything of the sort, analysts noted.

During the speech, CNN senior national security reporter Zachary Cohen pointed out in a post on X that CNN had reviewed documents Trump was talking about in his speech....

President Donald Trump's primetime speech on Thursday is expected to feature a bombshell allegation against China, according to CBS News.

Sources familiar with the speech that Trump teased earlier this week say it will accuse China of election meddling, the report indicated. Trump had only teased that his speech would focus on election security, but didn't reveal much else.

"Part of President Trump's speech Thursday night is expected to touch on previously unreported alleged Chinese meddling in U.S. elections," CBS News reported, adding that Trump alleges that "Beijing compromised U.S. voter data and evidence the CIA knew about the action." ...

A right-wing social media influencer who was sentenced to seven months in federal prison for trying to trick Black and Brown Americans out of voting in the 2016 presidential election has been exonerated.

Douglass Mackey, who went by the online persona of "Ricky Vaughn," wrote in all caps on X Wednesday, "The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out my conviction for lack of evidence. The case has ben remanded to the district court with orders to immediately dismiss."

Mackey was convicted of election interference after tweeting in Nov. 2016 about "limiting black turnout," then posting an image "that featured an African American woman standing in front of an 'African Americans for Hillary' sign," according to the DOJ indictment. "The image included the following text: 'Avoid the Line. Vote from Home. Text 'Hillary' to 59925. Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.'"...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) was forced to admit Friday on "The Benny Show" that he had little evidence to support a right-wing theory that the Chinese government conspired to interfere in the 2020 election — and then blamed Joe Biden for a cover-up.

To introduce the topic, MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson said Congress had "credible whistleblowers" showing the Chinese government was trying to "put fake IDs into the system here, in this country in order to rig the mail-in balloting process, which makes a ton of sense to us knowing how loose those systems and securities were."

He continued, "The border patrol were able to nab 20,000 fake ballots that were printed for Chinese nationals trying to smuggle across our border...and now we have Chinese students voting illegally in the 2024 election — they're being charged. So, this really does stand to reason — can you explain, like, the evidence that you have right now for this scheme?"...

The Georgia prosecutor leading the charge in Donald Trump’s election interference case is “ready and willing” to move up his trial date, she said in a new interview Tuesday.

“I always say, ‘Stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready,’” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Willis then acknowledged the fluidity of court proceedings that can turn on a dime, as Special Counsel Jack Smith proved Monday with a top-of-the-fold filing demanding the Supreme Court consider Trump’s presidential immunity claims. ...

Donald Trump’s personal social media attacks will come back to bite him when he faces off against special counsel Jack Smith in his federal election interference trial next year, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance predicts.

“Smith is going to ram Trump’s attacks on people involved in the cases against him, and especially witnesses, right back down his throat at trial,” Vance writes.

Vance, whose legal expertise has garnered the Obama-appointed prosecutor a prestigious standing with MSNBC, published Thursday her legal analysis of Smith’s pre-trial notice detailing evidence he intends to present in court. ...