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Jae C. Hong/AP photo President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Thursday night in a speech that alleged the country’s election integrity is at risk. During his 26-minute address, he urged viewers to visit the official White House website, where they could find newly declassified documents he said bolstered his case. However, one of the documents released said that the Russian government sought to assist Trump in his 2020 reelection bid against Joe Biden. Trump touched on the issue of foreign interference in U.S. elections, mainly by China. The president has long denied that Russian President Vladimir Putin had sought to assist him in elections. But according to an intelligence assessment released on Thursday, the Russian government did try to help Trump. The document (which can be downloaded here under “China’s Acquisition and Exploitation of American Voter Data” is a National Intelligence Council assessment dated Aug. 19 2020. The assessment says in part: [REDACTED] President Putin and senior Russian officials are overseeing efforts by proxies– [REDACTED] –to spread claims about fomer Vice President Biden as well as Ukrainian politicians and alleged Ukrainian influence in the 2016 US election. These claims include that when the former Vice President was in office, he engaged in criminal activity in his dealings with Ukraine and individuals tied to Ukrainian energy firm Burisma. Derkach, Kilimnik, and other proxy actors affiliated with the Russian Government are advancing such nauatives with US officials and other prominent persons as well as online, including through personal interactions and audio and documentary film releases via US and Ukrainian media outlets. [REDACTED] These figures are conspiring to intensify their efforts as the election approaches to orchestrate a high-profile corruption scandal implicating former Vice President Biden and the Democratic Party at the peak of the 2020 US presidential campaign. Their aim is to defeat the former Vice President and ensure the President’s victory. Some of these proxy actors anticipate that Ukraine themed narratives about Democratic corruption will play a decisive role in the election and that US persons are key to propagating these narratives. In July 2019, Trump withheld foreign aid to Ukraine and, in a phone call, demanded that President Volodymyr Zelensky open an investigation into the Biden family, specifically, Hunter Biden’s business dealings in the country, which included a job on the board of Burisma, an energy company. Three months before the call, Joe Biden announced his bid for the… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Treasury Official Fired After He Reportedly Warned White House Might Be Violatin...
AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Assistant Treasury Secretary Kenneth Kies has been ousted after he reportedly warned that the Trump administration was potentially violating a law prohibiting White House officials from intervening in IRS audits, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Kies also serves as acting chief counsel of the IRS. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Journal said Kies will be exiting in the coming weeks. The report said: Kies at times clashed behind the scenes with White House officials, the people said. That included a recent meeting in which he contended that a potential White House request would violate Section 7217 of the Internal Revenue Code, one of the people said. That law prohibits the president, vice president, White House staff and certain agency heads from directly or indirectly requesting that the IRS conduct or terminate an audit or investigation of any particular taxpayer. Section 7217 of the IRS code deems it “unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.” The Journal said it was unclear what requests Kies objected to. On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that Kies would leave the Treasury Department, but did not give a reason. In January, President Donald Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion, alleging that the agency had wrongly targeted him, his oldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, as well as the Trump Organization, which the sons run. The president moved to drop the suit in January, in exchange for the Treasury Department setting up a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate some of his political allies, including potentially those involved in the Capitol riot. That plan has since been tabled after acute bipartisan pressure.The post Treasury Official Fired After He Reportedly Warned White House Might Be Violating Law first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Grok Sides With CNN Reporter Debunking Trump’s Election Claims: ‘They Do Not...
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Even Grok, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot, sided with CNN’s Zachary Cohen in rebutting President Donald Trump’s Thursday election fraud claims, writing that the declassified documents cited “do not contain evidence” that foreign interference or fraud actually changed the outcome of any past election. Trump’s address to the nation was centered around, in his words, “the largest compromise of election data in history.” According to him, during the 2020 election cycle, China allegedly acquired “220 million U.S. voter files,” including “names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data.” The president vowed that documents proving his case and “gathered by the White House Government Transparency Task Force” would be released online “starting tonight.” Cohen wrote via X on Thursday that “CNN has reviewed all” of the documents Trump mentioned, adding that they “largely discuss vulnerabilities that have been known for years and/or are reflected in the 2021 US intel community assessment.” He continued, “None of the declassified information supports the claim that any previous election results — including the 2020 presidential contest that Trump lost — were manipulated by foreign interference or fraud in a way that would’ve changed the outcome.” The documents Trump is referring to right now, and CNN has reviewed all of them, largely discuss vulnerabilities that have been known for years and/or are reflected in the 2021 US intel community assessment. None of the declassified information supports the claim that any… — Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) July 17, 2026 After an X user asked Grok to evaluate Cohen’s statement, the chatbot responded: Cohen’s claim is accurate. The declassified documents detail longstanding vulnerabilities in voting systems and foreign data access capabilities (e.g., China obtaining voter records), consistent with prior assessments. They do not contain evidence that foreign interference or fraud successfully manipulated results to change any past election outcome, including 2020. The focus is on known risks and future mitigation. Cohen's claim is accurate. The declassified documents detail longstanding vulnerabilities in voting systems and foreign data access capabilities (e.g., China obtaining voter records), consistent with prior assessments. They do not contain evidence that foreign interference or… — Grok (@grok) July 17, 2026 As Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) pointed out Thursday on MS NOW, ironically, Trump’s own appointees, mainly CIA Director John Ratcliffe, “were in charge of the intelligence community” in 2020, adding, “Why didn’t they find any… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Tony Dokoupil Bristles as Senate Democrat Takes CBS to Task for Airing Trump Spe...
CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil took umbrage with a Senate Democrat calling out the network for airing President Donald Trump’s Thursday night address “as news.” In a heated interview during the CBS News special report, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) took a shot at the network — accusing them of not putting the speech in proper context and allowing the president to air falsehoods about election integrity unchecked. “I was embarrassed that the President of the United States went before our whole country, and networks like yours carried this as news, as opposed to a rehash of falsehoods,” Warner said. “And it is incumbent upon you and any responsible journalist to push back on these falsehoods.” Dokoupil tried to interject — but Warner charged ahead. “He’s going to lose a free and fair election,” Warner said — seemingly referring to the 2026 midterms. “And unless responsible journalists and the American people step up and say, our system, which has stood the test of time, is not going to be undermined by this kind of falsehood, then, you know, we all have to live with those responsibilities.” When Warner wrapped up, Dokoupil countered by noting the network extensively fact-checked the president’s remarks. “You are calling for context and analysis and pushback,” Dokoupil said. “You are on the show right now giving it, and acting as though it’s not happening. So I just want to underscore that the reason you’re on is because we agree, you and I, that this is a vitally, vitally important topic. And the president has a terrible track record on it, as we said at the top and as we’ve been trying to buttress and fact check and give context and analysis for throughout.” “Where would you like me to start on the level of falsehoods, you know, just incredible lies,” Warner said. The senator proceeded to call out numerous false claims from the president, and then, once more, called out journalists. “I’ve never seen comments like this from a President of the United States,” Warner said. “Doesn’t matter what party, nothing to do with party, that is so less connected to truth than this. And if we don’t step up and you guys as journalists and people across the political aisle stand up and say, our election integrity is too important to mess around with, then shame on all of us.”… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Senator Immediately Undercuts Trump’s Claim About Election Fraud in Speech: â€...Immediately after President Donald Trump’s Thursday address to the nation, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) undercut his claim about Chinese election fraud, deeming it “so completely false.” Trump’s speech focused on what he called “the largest compromise of election data in history,” in which China allegedly acquired “220 million U.S. voter files,” including “names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data.” Speaking with MS NOW’s Jen Psaki, Warner pointed out on Thursday that Trump’s own appointees, mainly CIA Director John Ratcliffe, “were in charge of the intelligence community” in 2020, adding, “Why didn’t they find any of this?” He continued: And then just the plain ignorance and factual misrepresentations when he says, “Oh my gosh, countries get access to our voter files!” You know what? You can buy these voter files. There’s no need to hack. I buy the Virginia voter files on a regular basis. If you are gonna be a statewide candidate, they are open to any entity. And the fact that you accumulate all these voter files, which in many states, if you pay the price of the public information, that somehow leads to manipulation is so completely false. I just implore my Republican friends, if they’ve got any sense of dignity about our system, speak up and tell the truth. Because when you make these kind of accusations about China, and he ignores, conveniently, Russia, you know, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, every election cycle, try to influence our elections. They put out false information. They promote stories. Russia did it on behalf of Trump in 2020. Iran did it against Trump. North Korea just wanted to screw with the whole system. In Thursday’s address, Trump additionally promised that documents proving his case and “gathered by the White House Government Transparency Task Force” would be released online “starting tonight.” Watch the clip above via MS NOW.The post Senator Immediately Undercuts Trump’s Claim About Election Fraud in Speech: ‘So Completely False’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- ‘Um, No’: CNN’s John King Says He’d Never Heard a Primetime Speech Like ...CNN Chief National Correspondent John King said President Donald Trump’s primetime address was unlike any he had heard before. On Thursday, the president delivered a 26-minute speech from the White House, where he cast doubt on the integrity of elections in the U.S. CNN did not air Trump’s address live, but rather played snippets from it and fact-checked them while Trump was still delivering his remarks. King recapped the president’s most serious claims. “Ominous words from the president. It sounded more like a spy novel,” King said to Kaitlan Collins on The Source. “He focused mostly on China. And he said he was releasing all of these new documents tonight that were going to prove more things about China, he says, trying to get voter roll information, trying to learn about how to pry into voting machines and voting systems. He never directly connected any of that to changing an election result. That’s important. I don’t have the documents in front of me. We’ll see if they get you there. But the president never did.” He went on to note that Trump alleged that China helped the government of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro rig an election in 2020. “That is the only specific claim of actually rigging or changing an election result the president made,” King continued. “Much of it was, again, China’s trying to do this. Russia did a little bit of that, but again, focused mostly on China, about things we’ve known, about things that have been in past intelligence reports about China. Yes, trying to get information about U.S. voters. Yes, trying to test the vulnerabilities of U.S. election systems. But nowhere did the president in that speech connected to, ‘They changed the result in this state,’ or, ‘They changed the result in this precinct. There was no connecting the dots to that point in the speech.” King said much of Trump’s speech was his “greatest hits.” Collins asked King if he had heard a primetime speech like the one he had just seen: COLLINS: John, as someone who covered the White House, have you ever seen a primetime address or heard a primetime address like this one? KING: Um, no. No. And, again, again, if the president has new information about foreign meddling, foreign meddling is a big deal in our elections, has been for quite a long time, has been quite a long… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
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