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Posted on 07/02/2026 6:00:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his acting spy chief has wide permission to declassify records, including any tied to the 2020 election, even though his close ally is only at the intelligence helm for a short time.
Trump appointed Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence last month, elevating a political loyalist with no national security experience at a time of war and global tensions.
Following a political backlash over his pick, Trump subsequently nominated Jay Clayton, the top U.S. attorney for Manhattan. But he then abruptly postponed Clayton’s confirmation hearing in an effort to force Congress to pass a strict voter identification bill.
“Bill’s there, just, you know, for maybe a month or two months or something,” Trump told reporters as he departed Joint Base Andrews for an event in North Dakota. “But while he’s there, I said, ‘You can declassify whatever you want’.”
Asked if that included any records related to the 2020 election, Trump added: “I told him you could do it, it’s fair. You got to ask him.”
Trump, who won a second White House term in the 2024 election after losing in 2020, long has falsely claimed widespread fraud in U.S. elections and continued to push debunked claims ahead of November’s midterm contests as part of his pressure campaign to pass a strict voter identification law.
His comments come as NBC News reported that a White House task force was gathering documents related to the 2020 election with the aim of declassifying some of them.
“As the most transparent president in history, President Trump is totally committed to sharing as much information with the public as possible,” said a White House official who requested anonymity.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the office of Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton did not respond to requests for comment on Trump’s remarks.
The ODNI oversees the 18-agency U.S. intelligence community that includes the premier foreign spy service, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency, the massive agency that eavesdrops on foreign communications and helps defend the United States against cyberattacks.
It was not clear when lawmakers would act on Clayton’s nomination, but Trump told reporters there would be a hearing in two weeks.
A source familiar with the situation, on condition of anonymity, said Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, was “targeting” July 15.
Pulte currently leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency but will also remain as ODNI until Clayton is confirmed by the Senate. Pulte has reportedly already moved to cut hundreds of intelligence jobs.
Trump has said legislation known as the SAVE Act would deliver his fellow Republicans a “guaranteed” win in November as they seek to maintain their slim control of Congress. Democrats are hoping to capitalize on Trump’s low approval ratings to recapture at least the House of Representatives or the Senate.
Democrats and voting-rights advocates say the measure could hinder voter registration for millions of eligible Americans.
On Tuesday, Trump in a social media post said he had met with Tina Peters, a former county elections clerk in Colorado who was convicted of illegally tampering with voting machines in pursuit of Trump’s false claims over the 2020 race.
Representatives of Peters did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey and Jonathan Landay; editing by Michelle Nichols and Bill Berkrot)
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Odd that a man who has “no evidence of widespread” abuse and “falsely” claims everything was rigged wants to open up everything.
Stopped there
Declassifying election records?!! Why would they be classified in the first place?
And yet somehow they STILL managed to tie him to Epstein also. Another story like this.
He who controls the channels of communications.
The MSM and social media are liberal biased and pro Democrat.
What that means for us cannot be overstated.
What Intel could they possibly have related to 2020 that they haven’t already burned or at least heavily redacted?
Anytime I see propaganda rags talk about Trump’s “false claims about the 2020 election” I think, “How the heck can they say they are false when the evidence on it is still classified?”
Even at that, though, they obviously haven’t heard of Gary Berntsen, Ralph, Pezzulo, or Patrick Byrne. Ignoramuses (and that’s the best possible thing I could say about them).
For example, if we used NSA wiretaps and CIA agents to track Russia and China funding Biden’s campaign and social media influence. Suddenly the Russians put the revealed data together and figure out the the likely source is Putin’s personal secretary so another Moscow urban skydiving lesson is given. The Three Letter Agencies are very protective of their sources.
LOL. Uh, yeah, right. I think they missed a couple of its more recent unofficial missions, like eavesdropping on US citizens, censoring US political opinion and working to elect candidates in the US and in other countries that advance the Deep State agenda.
As soon as I read “with no national security experience” I thought of it as a resume enhancer.
If the media was not insane with TDS, one would think that, viewing Trump rationally, they would be praising at least this aspect of his presidency as unprecedented. He is declassifying so much of what the intelligence community wants to keep classified. In the pre-Trump days, that would be the Holy Grail for the media. They had fantasies about reporters heroically releasing classified intelligence materials that really should not have been classified because they hid government corruption, not true national secrets. That is exactly what Trump is doing. But our diminished, petty, small-minded media, which are nothing more than shills for the Democratic Party these days, reflexively think this is horrible.
Daily mail POTUS 47% approval. Rasmussen was 46%.
CNN Democrats generic 27%.
Not sure what “low approval ratings” Democrats are looking to take advantage of!
“Tina Peters was convicted of tampering with voting machines in oursuit if Trumps false claims of election fraud”
The core allegation against Tina Peters was that, as Mesa County clerk, she helped an unauthorized person gain access to the county’s election system and voting-machine data in 2021, including actions that led to sensitive information being copied and later posted online.
So basically she helped copy voter information that essentially proved Trumps claims of election fraud.
“On Tuesday, Trump in a social media post said he had met with Tina Peters, a former county elections clerk in Colorado who was convicted of illegally tampering with voting machines in pursuit of Trump’s false claims over the 2020 race.”
The courts went after her for copying the hard drive data, trying to preserve it, for illegal voting and changes. They convicted her of that. You might be ‘shocked’ to hear that ABSOLUTELY no independent investigation about what was on the hard drives that might prove an illegal election, was allowed.
Don’t you find it so odd that they keep making the claim that it was the ‘Most secure election every’ and yet refuse to allow any transparency? Same with Fulton County.
Trump loves the spotlight, I have a feeling that he is lining up the ducks for a very frightening release right before the midterms for maximum political effect.
Trump doesn’t need that person’s permission. He can declassify whatever he wants.
I wish he would stop being so performative and just “do it.”
Every so often a bureaucracy needs a CHAINSAW AL to come in, clean house and then leave. It is not useful for the Chainsaw Al to stick around after the house cleaning.
(Chainsaw AL is a term, and man, from corporate take-overs that need the same house cleaning.)
Huge difference between URGES and ORDERS.
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