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Four months out from the critical November midterms, President Donald Trump delivered a primetime address on Thursday night attempting to sow doubt about the integrity of US elections, repeating well-worn lies about the 2020 contest that he lost and claiming to have uncovered a sprawling Chinese plot to meddle in the voting process.<\/p>\n

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Trump, who has said his administration should \u201ctake over\u201d US elections that are currently run by states, asserted in his speech that the American voting system was \u201cleft vulnerable to being rigged and stolen\u201d by his political enemies and accused China of \u201cillicit acquisition of 220 million US voter files\u201d in an effort to undermine him. Trump\u2019s speech coincided with the declassification of intelligence purportedly revealing China\u2019s \u201csinister\u201d scheme to disrupt US elections as well as attempts by \u201cmembers of the Deep State\u201d to \u201csuppress and downplay\u201d the scheme.<\/p>\n

Experts and critics of the president said his speech cherrypicked intelligence agency findings to concoct a false, self-serving narrative about the vulnerability of US elections and the need for legislation such as the SAVE America Act, a voter suppression bill that Trump has obsessively worked to push through Congress.<\/p>\n

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), a senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said in a statement that Trump \u201cselectively declassified intelligence to try to rewrite the history of an election he lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven his own document release does not support his claim that the 2020 election was stolen. It confirms what we\u2019ve long known: Foreign adversaries targeted our democracy, but there is no evidence they changed a single vote or altered the casting or counting of ballots,\u201d said Krishnamoorthi. \u201cPresident Trump lost the 2020 election fair and square. If he cared about election security, he wouldn\u2019t be putting unqualified political loyalists in charge of our intelligence agencies or weakening the agencies responsible for protecting our elections from foreign threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead,\u201d Krishnamoorthi added, \u201che\u2019s reviving conspiracy theories about mail voting, pushing voter suppression, and laying the groundwork for an unprecedented federal takeover of our elections\u2014all while ignoring the real challenges facing American families.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his speech, Trump lashed out at major TV news networks for declining to broadcast his speech live and in full, accusing media outlets of being \u201cpart of the plot\u201d and calling for the \u201crevocation\u201d of NBC and ABC\u2019s broadcast licenses.<\/p>\n

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called Trump\u2019s threat \u201cinsane.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time when millions of Americans are finding it harder to pay for groceries, housing, and healthcare, when the climate crisis is causing record heatwaves and forest fires, Donald Trump felt it appropriate tonight to spew conspiracy theories about the 2020 election,\u201d said Sanders. \u201cPathetically, in true authoritarian fashion, he even threatened to revoke the licenses of ABC and NBC because they would not cover his speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of us, regardless of our political views, must stand together against this dangerous president who is seeking to undermine our Constitution and our basic freedoms,\u201d Sanders added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTrump is laying the groundwork to dismantle our elections, overturn results he does not like, cancel the will of the people, and hold onto power by any means necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s address cited \u201craw intelligence\u201d that he said shows an attempt by China \u201cto manufacture illegal ballots\u201d for former President Joe Biden. The president claimed, without evidence, that the intelligence was maliciously \u201cburied by rogue bureaucrats.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, as The Washington Post observed, \u201craw intelligence reports are often wrong, incomplete, or contradictory, and spy agencies rely on judgments by expert analysts to vet and piece together the information to make conclusions with different levels of confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficials in 2020 disagreed about whether China wanted Trump to lose and about whether Beijing took any steps to undermine him\u2014a controversy noted in a declassified 2021 report. That report described consensus on the conclusion that neither China nor any other foreign actors had tampered with any votes,\u201d the Post noted. \u201cThe hundreds of pages of documents released online by the White House during Trump\u2019s speech did not appear to support Trump\u2019s contention that China interfered in the 2020 election to try to defeat him or that US intelligence officials deliberately hid information about Beijing\u2019s intentions from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert Weissman, co-president of the advocacy group Public Citizen, characterized Trump\u2019s speech as an attempt to divert public attention from his administration\u2019s \u201ccatastrophic policy failures and plummeting approval ratings.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump is waging an illegal, unconstitutional, and utterly pointless war that continues to put American and Iranian lives in jeopardy and drive up gas prices. Corporations are setting prices out of reach for people being paid too little,\u201d said Weissman. \u201cTrump rammed through tax cuts for the rich, paid for by cutting healthcare and food assistance for millions and millions of people. An out-of-control paramilitary force is kidnapping people off our streets and killing them at shocking rates. Trump\u2019s delusional rantings tonight are a transparent effort to distract from these realities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Living United for Change in Arizona, a pro-democracy organization, warned that \u201cTrump is trying to end our democracy in front of our very eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTonight Donald Trump stood before the nation and attempted to rewrite history, erase the will of the voters, and prepare the country for his next assault on American democracy,\u201d the group said. \u201cWe must call this what it is. Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to dismantle our elections, overturn results he does not like, cancel the will of the people, and hold onto power by any means necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

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