President Donald Trump delivered a primetime speech on Thursday, during which he alleged that China engaged in systematic election interference in the 2020 presidential election, attempting to manufacture "illegal ballots" and seizing tens of millions of voters' personal data — doing everything in his power to validate his yearslong conspiracy theories that the election was stolen from him.
But reporter Isaac Saul of Tangle News took a deep dive through the documents Trump announced he is declassifying — and what he found, or rather, didn't find, spoke volumes.
"I know very few people are actually going to download and read these things, but just to be clear: Trump is *not even alleging* that any election tallies were impacted, just that our systems are vulnerable to foreign interference," Saul wrote on X. "Which Ds and Rs have both been warning about for decades."
The nature of Trump's speech was leaked days beforehand, with experts already poking holes in the argument and even Republican lawmakers themselves panicking that Trump could drag up a losing issue for the party during a midterm year.
