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Trump Ramps Up Effort to Sow Doubt About 2020 Election
The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 16, 2026 11:04 pm ET | Ken Thomas , Brian Schwartz and Vera Bergengruen

Posted on 07/16/2026 8:49:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Extraordinary address comes ahead of November midterm elections, with Republicans at risk of losing their majorities in Congress

WASHINGTON—President Trump delivered an extraordinary prime-time address in which he alleged that the U.S. election system had been compromised, ramping up his efforts to sow doubts about his 2020 election loss, raise skepticism about the coming midterms and pressure lawmakers into passing sweeping voter-ID legislation.

Speaking in the East Room on Thursday night, Trump said he was declassifying a trove of intelligence documents that he argued showed efforts by the Chinese government to interfere in or influence the 2020 U.S. election. He also said his administration found hundreds of thousands of noncitizens listed on state voting rolls.

“There is no Third World country that has elections like we have,” Trump said.

The president’s remarks came months before the November midterm elections in which Republicans are at risk of losing control of their majorities in Congress and as Democrats have warned that Trump would seek to undermine confidence in the nation’s election system.

During the 25-minute speech, Trump didn’t provide any evidence of voter fraud, prove that people had cast ballots in the U.S. who shouldn’t have or reveal that election outcomes had been altered because of interference.

Trump and his allies have lost dozens of court cases across multiple states challenging Joe Biden’s 2020 election win. State and federal judges dismissed the cases, often for being speculative or lacking evidence. Documented cases of voter fraud are extremely rare. A 2021 review by the Associated Press found fewer than 475 potential cases of voter fraud in the six battleground states in the 2020 election.

“America watched the ramblings of a mad king,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said in a social-media post after the speech. “Before a single vote has been cast,...”

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; election; fraud; rampsup; trump

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During the 25-minute speech, Trump didn’t provide any evidence of voter fraud, prove that people had cast ballots in the U.S. who shouldn’t have or reveal that election outcomes had been altered because of interference.

Et tu, Wall Street Urinal?


1 posted on 07/16/2026 8:49:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Lots of doubt. Little proof.


2 posted on 07/16/2026 8:52:57 PM PDT by joesbucks
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So it was gross racism for joe to get that many more votes than bronco bahmah.

🤔😂👍🇺🇸


3 posted on 07/16/2026 8:55:48 PM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

To think the WSJ used to be a decent paper. Just another example of our societal decline. Sigh.


4 posted on 07/16/2026 9:00:36 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: joesbucks

Go to the website and start reading. Or can’t you read?


5 posted on 07/16/2026 9:00:38 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

These WSJ retards probably believe that RussiaGate is a real thing that Trump & co. did.


6 posted on 07/16/2026 9:04:57 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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To: Flaming Conservative

Most of the country is either corrupt
and complicit


7 posted on 07/16/2026 9:05:08 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Wall Street Journal is as dead as Mamdani’s New York City.


8 posted on 07/16/2026 9:06:49 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Straw man argument, Trump is making a case for passing the SAFE act, not re-relitigating the 2020 elections.

But i'm sure Murdoch's PLA wife isn't happy about Trump calling out the ChiCom's out on hacking into our IT infrastructure.

9 posted on 07/16/2026 9:14:01 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (Political insight on loan from Rush Limbaugh)
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To: vivenne; joesbucks

>> Go to the website and start reading. Or can’t you read?

Like so many progressives with TDS, joesucks has only one-third of a normal human brain. It’s so sad.


10 posted on 07/16/2026 9:14:12 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: SaveFerris

Most publications and TV outlets are complicit.


11 posted on 07/16/2026 9:16:55 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Lots of doubt. Little proof.

Luckily enough, if you don't look for proof, you don't find any.

12 posted on 07/16/2026 9:20:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel über alles.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Yes


13 posted on 07/16/2026 9:23:46 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: joesbucks

there was proof of the steal online for just a short time on eletion night. In a dim counting room somewhere in georgia, a woman was brave enough to record on her phone a video of counting room leader telling them to throw out ballots from a few districts. I had time to check before it all disappeared: all republlican precincts.


14 posted on 07/16/2026 9:24:32 PM PDT by Veto! ((Whatever it is, I'm against it))
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>> Most of the country is either corrupt [or] complicit

There’s a fair amount of “ignorant” as well. Way too many.


15 posted on 07/16/2026 9:26:36 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“whadayamean effort to sow?’
D’ey’s already got folks thinking it’s been fixed!”
I’m one of them!


16 posted on 07/16/2026 9:27:21 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Flaming Conservative

The Wall Street Journal is not, and has never been, an ally of conservatism.

They are, and have always been, Deep State.

Accept their reporting at your own risk.


17 posted on 07/16/2026 9:27:28 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump & the GOP in the House & the Senate are going to get clobbered in the November mid-terms unfortunately for America, but that just shows how divided we are and how influential the fake news media still is.


18 posted on 07/16/2026 9:28:33 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

All the Urinal has anymore is Jedi mind tricks.


19 posted on 07/16/2026 9:36:40 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Nervous Tick

Unfortunately TRUE


20 posted on 07/16/2026 9:38:47 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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