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Trump Brings Full Weight of Government to Bolster False Election Claims
The New York Times ^ | July 17, 2026Updated 3:39 p.m. ET | Zolan Kanno-YoungsNick Corasaniti and Dustin Volz

Posted on 07/17/2026 8:09:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

When President Trump tried to undermine and overturn the election results in 2020, he ran into stiff pushback — not just in the courts, but from many officials in his own government.

He made sure there would be little room for such dissent when he returned to the White House. Those seeking to join Mr. Trump’s second administration had to pass a key litmus test: Did they believe the 2020 election was stolen from Mr. Trump?

With like-minded allies now positioned in key roles throughout the government, Mr. Trump has trained the full arsenal of the federal government on one of his most persistent obsessions: sowing doubt about the security of the country’s election systems.

Major agencies such as the Justice Department, the F.B.I., the Homeland Security Department and the U.S. Postal Service have taken steps to revive his false claims about the 2020 election and try to assert federal control over state-run elections.

His efforts got additional reinforcements on Thursday from the country’s intelligence agencies, which provided the White House with a trove of declassified evidence that Mr. Trump held up as evidence of a broken election system.

“Tonight, I’m announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical intelligence, revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure,” the president said in a prime-time speech from the East Room.

Mr. Trump also said he had directed the F.B.I., C.I.A., the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Justice Department to investigate what he claimed to be a “cover-up” by U.S. officials of the extent of China’s efforts to influence American elections.


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


TOPICS: China; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; dustinvolz; fakenews; misleadingheadline; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nickcorasaniti; nyslimes; nytsedition; tds; threeauthors; zolankannoyoungs

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No matter how much you hate these people, you don't hate them enough.


1 posted on 07/17/2026 8:09:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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2 posted on 07/17/2026 8:14:56 PM PDT by Allegra (I hate the word “literally.” )
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And Anthony Fauci is THE SCIENCE

And Joe Biden is at the top of his game.

And the election was the most honest and secure ever.

And Russian Collusion was legit.

The NYT, never letting facts come between it and its narrative.


3 posted on 07/17/2026 8:17:52 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NYT article.


4 posted on 07/17/2026 8:18:45 PM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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Thank goodness for the NY Slimes reminding us that election fraud wasn’t real because it can’t be real. We know it can’t be real because, as they mercifully reassure us, any evidence to the contrary can only be a lie.

Whew. Thinking is hard!


5 posted on 07/17/2026 8:20:51 PM PDT by Señor Presidente (Tyranny deserves insurrection)
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NY Slimes spits its vitriol once again. Looking forward to the Slimes declaring bankruptcy.


6 posted on 07/17/2026 8:23:56 PM PDT by gildafarrell (To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!)
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Just think of all of the downballot frauds who were fraudulently “elected “. All pathetic criminals...and losers.


7 posted on 07/17/2026 8:24:12 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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I am still wanting to know, where DID the extra 15 Million prog votes come from?

Never there before, never there since.

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8 posted on 07/17/2026 8:27:23 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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The NY times has a problem on its hands. Trash heap of history is knocking.


9 posted on 07/17/2026 8:28:25 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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I am still wanting to know, where DID the extra 15 Million prog votes come from?

Just ask a George Soros "Fact Check" site.

I'm sure they have the answer.

10 posted on 07/17/2026 8:29:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel über alles.)
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LIARS AND TRAITORS.


11 posted on 07/17/2026 8:34:21 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (B''H We are given a new day today, with new choices. Choose wisely!)
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Some of the NYT people were involved and could be prosecuted. They are freaking.


12 posted on 07/17/2026 8:48:58 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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Protecting the fraud.


13 posted on 07/17/2026 8:53:21 PM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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This “case” (which is actually not one) is Constitutional science fiction.

The “election” alleged to be fraudulent has no Constitutional existence. The 50 State Legislatures which appoint 535 Electors (and Congress, which appoints 3) have all adopted the custom of having people voting as the means by which the appointments are normally made, but this creates 51 elections, not one.

Those 51 elections occur at the direction of, and are subservient to, 50 legislatures and Congress. The States unwisely granted Congress 3 Electors by ratifying the XXIII Amendment in 1960, so Congress does have supervisory power OVER THOSE THREE, but not otherwise.

There is only one Presidential election in the Constitution, it takes place in December, there are 538 voters, and in December 2020 Biden got 306 of them and was elected President.

No State Legislature objected that its Electors were not the ones they had appointed. No State Legislature even convened to consider the matter. In the case of Pennsylvania, the Legislature fled to avoid considering the matter.

It has never been alleged that a single one of the 306 votes for Biden/Harris was a forgery, that the Electors who casted them were impersonating someone else, or that the Legislatures had secretly appointed other Electors.

There is zero space for an allegation of fraud in the Constitutional Presidential election of December 14, 2020.

As far as the 51 elections which occurred on November 3, 2020, they may very well have been rife with fraud, but since the appointment power of the 50 State Legislatures (535) and Congress (3) is plenary, that’s a problem for those legislatures to deal with should they choose to do so.

14 posted on 07/17/2026 8:56:00 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et des phrases)
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In the case of Pennsylvania, the Legislature fled to avoid considering the matter.

You accidentally swerved into the truth of the matter you were so loquaciously trying to avoid, didn't ya?

15 posted on 07/17/2026 9:01:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel über alles.)
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WTF are you talking about?

Did the Pennsylvania Legislature appoint Biden electors in 2020, or did they not?

Did the Pennsylvania Legislature have the authority to appoint Trump electors if they wanted to do so?


16 posted on 07/17/2026 9:09:07 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et des phrases)
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To: hal ogen

The New York Times is extremely worried about these documented revelations.

I wonder why?


17 posted on 07/17/2026 9:14:14 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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Did they believe the 2020 election was stolen from Mr. Trump?


The effort to rig the election went on well before any votes were cast, between the distortion of election laws, abuse of the election conduct, collusion of the media, tech and government in squashing news and communications of their opposition.


18 posted on 07/17/2026 9:14:34 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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The very article is intentional misdirection from the purpose of President Trump’s speech: to insure future fraud is eliminated or minimized at the very least - for the good of the entire country.


19 posted on 07/17/2026 9:25:11 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Leader of The Free World means having to TCB when circumstances require for EVERYONE'S sake.)
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No matter how much you hate these people, you don't hate them enough.

You're right about that. They need to insert /sneer tags in the html for these stories.

20 posted on 07/17/2026 9:36:25 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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