Documents that Trump said supported his election meddling claims relied on a photo of a computer game, per a new report.
On Thursday, Trump made a speech where he accused China of election interference, and he shared a document dump that he said would back up those claims.
According to an article by Talking Points Memo, the supposed evidence featured a "wild" anecdote about the 1990s computer shooter game "Doom."
"That underscored just how far the president was reaching as he tried to substantiate his theories," according to TPM.
The trove of documents included a January 2020 memo from the National Intelligence Council that was declassified by former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. It featured a "Pollbook Hacking Example" involving "Doom," according to TPM.
The pollbook hacking example was a photo of a pollbook that was described as having been "modified" at the 2019 Defcon Voting Machine Hacking Village to run "Doom," TPM reported. The memo noted that the description of the hacked pollbook was based on "press reporting" from the hacking event.
Although the picture was "treated as a serious example of threats to election infrastructure," it came from a tweet by user l33tLumberjack. The photo was included in a Washington Post article about the 2019 Def Con hacking conference, TPM reported.
"Doom on a electronic pollbook?" the tweet by l33tLumberjack read. "Yes please!"
The Post article that featured the "Doom" picture noted that the National Association of Secretaries of State described a prior version of the demonstration as "unrealistic," according to TPM.
