We even bragged about interfering in the Russian elections.
Posted on 07/17/2026 6:39:10 AM PDT by Twotone
President Donald Trump accused members of the U.S. intelligence community Thursday night of operating a "shadow government" to allegedly conceal evidence of China’s efforts to influence U.S. elections, seizing on newly declassified emails that he says reveal a bitter internal dispute about how Beijing’s activities should be characterized.
Trump did not claim China changed votes or altered election results. Instead, he argued Beijing engaged in an influence campaign aimed at shaping U.S. public perceptions.
Trump claimed intelligence officials kept significant reporting out of his presidential briefings and highlighted an email in which a National Security Agency analyst allegedly wrote, "We have deliberately massaged our one pending (presidential daily brief) to avoid any direct links to the election."
"Those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden," Trump claimed. "They did not disclose (it) to me as president or to anyone else."
Trump used the disclosures to press Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, casting the newly released intelligence as evidence that lawmakers must tighten federal election rules before the midterms.
"Most importantly, addressing this crisis of election security demands that Congress must pass the SAVE America Act," Trump said. "These reforms are urgently needed to stop the vulnerabilities that I’ve mentioned."
The SAVE America Act passed the House in February but stalled in the Senate in March, when a 53–47 vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance it. Trump urged Americans to call their senators and representatives and demand its passage "without delay."
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They need some arrests ASAP!
Otherwise this will just be dragged out until the next administration...and they democrats will double down on cheating to ensure they can let their cronies free by dropping charges.
The ‘intelligence’ community leaked a lot of lies to MSNBC - I’m guessing Trump’s right - power and lack of oversight went to their heads - psychopaths ruled.
The USSR was involved in US elections in the 80s-aiding the Democrats. Ain’t nothing new under the sun about our enemies meddling in our vote.
And yet CNN, an arm of the CIA, is busy poo pooing everything the President said, except they didn’t watch it. Their responses were pre-planned before he even gave his speech and shows the depth of their complicity.
We even bragged about interfering in the Russian elections.
Big part of me believes it - but unless there are arrests, I will have my doubts. It is simply not enough to claim criminal activity took place, and then do nothing.
Makes Trump either look weak, or look like a whack-job conspiracy theorist.
Democrats = arrogance, envy and greed.
John Solomon was just on Glenn Beck, saying he thinks it will start with firings, but anticipates there will be prosecutions of these individuals. We shall see...
Trump claimed intelligence officials kept significant reporting out of his presidential briefings and highlighted an email in which a National Security Agency analyst allegedly wrote, “We have deliberately massaged our one pending (presidential daily brief) to avoid any direct links to the election.”
“Those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden,” Trump claimed. “They did not disclose (it) to me as president or to anyone else.”
Who believes this is the same thing as conspiring with a foreign government to alter US elections? I don’t know how this couldn’t be considered Sedition to the Republic. Why can’t these people hang in public?
Deep State members of the intel community’s “shadow government” have given aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States. They need to be tried, convicted, and sentenced to become one-time public rope testers.
Hope you are right - without arrests Trump will continue to be painted like a lunatic by most of the media.
Need arrests and convictions - OR arrests and guilty pleas. Nothing else will matter.
Until Solomon (or Trump) says who “these individuals” are, this means nothing.
Congress must pass the SAVE America Act.
If not cheating will not end in elections.
OH WAIT it’s democrat agenda approved.
so Dems claim Russian influence and meddling and Republicans claim Chinese meddling. No different, same kabuki theater.
The woman who claimed she was running a ‘shadow government’ in 2020 was Nikki Floris who at the time was working for the FBI in counterintelligence.
Dear Mr. President, name names before kicking them out the door. Please.
Like hell. Democrats are still directly accusing Trump of being a traitor for Russia, which has never been true. Not the same at all.
The fact that at least 50% of Americans do not trust election integrity , should be enough to trigger guarantees. It is not too difficult to return to voting with id. No machines.
Supposedly Joe DeGenova has a bunch of grand juries convened down in S Florida.
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