Trump's childish inability to admit he lost in 2020 continues to this day, despite the total lack of evidence the election he lost was tainted in any way. At best his silly speech was bogus insinuation, while at worst it was simply lies. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) gathered intel from all US intelligence agencies and produced a report on the election, which was eventually declassified. The conclusion of the report was this: “We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results.” The head of the ODNI at the time the report was issued under classification was John Ratcliffe, the last DNI appointed by Trump and the current Director of Central Intelligence. If, as Trump lied on Thursday, there was some conspiracy by the intel community to hide facts, it was his own appointee Ratcliffe behind it. Trump went on to note China may have gotten voter rolls. Sounds scary, yes? Well obtaining voter rolls does not equate to interference, nor does it even suggest anything untoward, because voter rolls are officially available for purchase online by anyone. China always collects whatever it can on US citizens, because it likes to identify individuals who might be intelligence officers or might be people who have access to classified military data or private sector technology that might be of interest. Lost to those MAGA minds incapable of thinking rationally is the fact Trump never questioned the 2016 result nor did he question the 2024 election result. He has only questioned the one he lost, 2020. The govt under the then-current President is responsible for election security, which would have been Obama in Trump's 2016 win and Biden in Trump's 2024 win. The President---and thus the Admin responsible for election security in Trump's 2020 defeat: Donald Trump. The much more believable evidence regarding attempts to interfere in the 2020 election were two glaring omissions in Trump's Thursday speech. The first was when "someone" contacted Ukraine President Zelenskyy and demanded he manufacture dirt on Joe Biden in exchange for being given aid and weaponry already approved by the US Congress. That "someone", for which he faced his first impeachment, was Donald J Trump. The second bit of evidence regarding an attempt to interfere in the election was when "someone" called the SecState of Georgia telling the man to "just find me 11,780 votes", which did not exist. Again, that was Donald J Trump. I guess it's understandable why Trump might leave those out of his speech. Trump's speech was an epic fail. He may well have just gone with his former lawyer Sidney Powell and claimed interference from Hugo Chavez, who Powell claimed rose from the grave, wrote computer code, uploaded it to an Italian satellite, which then altered votes on Dominion Voting Machines gear. Powell stated that publicly on several occasions, but was still sane enough to not raise it in any suit in court, as that absurdity would have gotten her disbarred. Trump, you lost. Get over it. Even your own Chief of Cyber Security at the time---Chris Krebs---said that technically 2020 was the "safest and most secure election in US history".
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