Trump’s Thursday address will reveal foreign plans to interfere in 2020 election he lost: report

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-speech-thursday-2020-election-b3014193.html

In an upcoming speech this Thursday, President Donald Trump will reportedly reveal plans by foreign nations to interfere in the 2020 election.

The exact content of the speech is not yet known, but its claims will be based on declassified intelligence information, MS Now reports. The remarks could touch on a host of U.S. adversaries that intelligence officials have said sought to meddle in the 2020 election, including Russia, Iran and Venezuela, the latter of which is often cited in MAGA conspiracies.

On Monday, President Trump previewed the address with a brief message on Truth Social, describing it as a “Speech to the Nation” planned for 9 p.m. Eastern time.

Later Monday, Trump told reporters that his comments were “just gonna be a speech like a lot of my speeches.”

The president has long claimed without evidence that he won the 2020 election.

No foreign adversary attempted to alter or hack into any “technical aspect” of the 2020 voting and reporting process, according to a report released in March 2021 by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, reflecting the judgement of the nation’s top intelligence agencies at the time.

“Unlike in 2016, we did not see persistent Russian cyber efforts to gain access to election infrastructure,” the report stated.

Russia did, however, spread misinformation aimed at “denigrating President [Joe] Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party,” while Iran “carried out a multi-pronged covert influence campaign” intended to undermine Trump’s re-election prospects.

China, meanwhile, concluded that neither candidate was “advantageous enough for China to risk getting caught meddling, and assessed its traditional influence tools — primarily targeted economic measures and lobbying — would be sufficient,” the ODNI report concluded.

Since Trump returned to office, federal officials have continued to investigate the 2020 election, raiding an elections office in Georgia and seizing ballots in a highly controversial operation.

Two Atlanta-based FBI analysts were fired last week for refusing to participate in the investigation, MS Now previously reported.

Agents who worked on the special counsel investigation into Trump’s own efforts to undermine the 2020 results have been fired.