Trump to claim declassified intel reveals 2020 election interference: MS NOW

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/13/trump-2020-election-intelligence-speech.html

President Donald Trump plans to claim in a Thursday night speech that newly declassified intelligence reports reveal a foreign nation’s plans to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, two White House officials told MS NOW on Monday.

Trump will be joined by officials including CIA Director John Ratcliffe, acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, FBI Director Kash Patel and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, according to one of the officials, who were granted anonymity to discuss the internal plans, MS NOW reported.

Trump earlier Monday afternoon announced on Truth Social that he “will be making a Speech to the Nation on Thursday evening, at 9 P.M. Eastern,” without providing further details.

I bet this is all made up pretense for him to take control of elections

179 points · 69 comments · view on lemmy.world

69 Comments

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 48 pts · 21d

Fucking clown show.

NM_Gringo@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 21d (2 replies)

What kind of drugs can keep that demented sack of shit upright until 9 pm?

PwnTra1n@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 21d

He has plenty of chances in his day to nap.

fartographer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 20d

Cork that leaky butt, and the shit backs up enough to support the entire sack

Triumph@fedia.io · 29 pts · 21d (1 reply)

"A foreign nation." I guarantee that no foreign nation was interfering to get Biden elected.

cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 21d

I mean I would’ve appreciated it if one of our allies did

sylver_dragon@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 21d (1 reply)

I would be more surprised if countries like Russia, Iran, and the DPRK didn't have plans to try and interfere in US elections. Now, can he provide evidence that those plans actually went into effect and had a material outcome on the election? Because that's what really matters. I can make elaborate plans to create cold fusion. But small issues like entropy mean those plans don't count for shit.

lemmyng@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 21d

I would be more surprised if countries like Russia, Iran, and the DPRK didn't have plans to try and interfere in US elections.

*on his behalf

Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 21d (8 replies)

Let me guess? It was Greenland, all along!! Now they'll definitely have to annex them, just to stop the voter fraud!! Then, they'll discover Canada was in on it, and invade them next.

cranakis@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 21d (3 replies)

Based on how Iran is going, I think Canada would kick our asses.

baldingpudenda@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 21d

Dumbass starts a war with Canada and they burn the white house. Trump: "now they gotta pay for my ballroom! These losers are not too smart folks, not too smart."

Mirshe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 20d

Remember that Greenland is still a Danish protectorate, so we'd be getting into a shooting match with the entire EU, more than likely.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 20d

If Canada wants to start annexing states, I'm cool with that.

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 20d (3 replies)

Denmark will cut off trade with the Untied States and Trump will be defeated by a horde of angry LEGO fans

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20d (2 replies)

"Defeated"?

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 20d (1 reply)

I wonder if there are LEGO guillotines

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20d

That would be an interesting thing to set up. Get one all build and ready, someone locked in, blade raised then dropped, then it all falls to pieces and nothing else happens. 😝

snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 21d (1 reply)

They will use this to force the SAVE act as an emergency measure.

It's their last try to shove this up our asses.

ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21d

Or they will use it as an excuse to give up on the failed Iran negotiations and try a ground assault.

loaf@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 21d

This is how he keeps his psychotic cult riled up for midterms: give them a conspiracy to hold onto until time to vote. Then if it doesn’t go his way, we get another J6.

kurmudgeon@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 21d (2 replies)

Nobody in this country, or the world, believes a damn thing he has to say. It's all pure bullshit, spewed from the shit-invested walls of his decaying cranium.

LastWish@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 21d (1 reply)

That's not true. Something like 40% of the US population believes every word he says, no matter what.

fishy@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 20d

That's what kills me the most. It's completely shaken my belief that people are anything more than stupid scared animals in a herd.

HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 21d

So we all know what he's going to claim now right? We're going to keep pretending after that, America?

Linktank@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 20d

It's ALWAYS the republicans cheating. If they're not cheating, lying, or raping, then they're projecting about one of those things.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 15 pts · 21d

Trump will be joined by officials including CIA Director John Ratcliffe, acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, FBI Director Kash Patel and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, according to one of the officials, who were granted anonymity to discuss the internal plans, MS NOW reported.

Inspires utmost confidence, if you don't have properly functional gray matter.

Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 20d (1 reply)

Just more lies from the shittiest President in the past 100 years.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 20d

In this case he's almost telling the truth. It's just that election was rigged by and for him with the help of Russia. There's a very clear Russian Tail on all three elections he was involved in.

astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 21d (1 reply)

President Donald Trump plans to claim in a Thursday night speech that newly declassified intelligence reports reveal a foreign nation’s plans to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, two White House officials told MS NOW on Monday.

No shit there were plans. Russia and China plan to interfere with every election the US has. The real question is if there is proof that they were successful.

Just saying there are plans is meaningless, but Trump and his toadies will trumpet this like his election denialism is actually justified. Utter and complete clown show.

lemmyng@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 21d

Russia and China plan to interfere with every election the US has.

*on his behalf.

sportsjorts@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 20d (2 replies)

Remove the pedophile traitor who already tried to overthrow the U.S. once.

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 20d (1 reply)

With this?

Honestly asking.

sportsjorts@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 20d

Can’t comment on that or ice will burst through my door and shoot me.

Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 21d (2 replies)

Mueller report reported a similar thing. But this poor snowflake was in office so they postponed it... Never heard of again. Buried under the Epstein files. Also never heard of again. Because buried.... etc.

SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social · 5 pts · 21d (1 reply)

I just remember them screeching "Total exoneration"

krashmo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21d

Yeah and Mueller, the man with supposedly unquestionable character, sat there like an impotent clown and watched them do it without so much as a whimper in objection.

northernlights@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 20d

Someone tell him the intel shows he's the one who facilitated him and the foreign country is Russia.

lennybird@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 21d

Gabbard did her part, setting the stage and stealing every state secret for ruzzia she could and then got the fuck out

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 20d (1 reply)

He finally going to confess he cheated to win?

Ignoring the fact that he already did and nothing was done about it

Napster153@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 19d

He's going to brag about it.

Americans are at the stage where they will do nothing and be happy (by threat of death).

switcheroo@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 20d

What this fucker needs to do... well besides that... is to release all the files and prove 1) that he had that fuckwit muskrat to steal the election and 2) release the trumpstein files.

DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 20d

Hey y'all, let's hear what this felon rapist pedophile has to say.

Zier@fedia.io · 9 pts · 20d (2 replies)

So he will claim that elections are suspended this year to combat fraud. The illegal fraud he is perpetrating on the USA. Don the Con, we got your number you complete fucking idiot.

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20d (1 reply)

Don the Con, we got your number you complete fucking idiot.

Is that true? What of his goons like Miller and Theil?

Zier@fedia.io · 2 pts · 19d

These people are all trying to take over the government. But the sad part is, it's just a clown car stuffed full of junkies & alcoholics. They are incompetent, and we can see it, daily. Really bad con artists.

zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 20d (1 reply)

he will announce that as of Friday all elections are illegal if a republican didn't win.....

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20d

Wonder how long he'd live. He's probably having congestive heart failure, but would people go after his kids and family? What about JD's?

tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 20d

They're gonna say it was Ukraine. Lindsey was going to whistleblow the whole thing and that's why he needed to die.

/tinfoil hat

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 20d (1 reply)

Is this a distraction to distract from the quagmire he started to distract from the Trump-Epstein files?

Sunflier@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 20d

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 20d

Yeah, by Russia, to install Pumpkinhead.

AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 21d

I 100% support voting, but we are at a point where that isn't enough and not enough people have realized or accepted that.

The midterms will not bring respite - I'm happy to be wrong.

kboos1@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 21d (1 reply)

I'd bet a paycheck that a foreign country has interfered or planned to interfere or influence elections since the end of WWII, probably as early as the first election.

If they prove that his first and second elections were interfered with and he still won; does that change anything? Do we get to undo all of his decisions? What does he plan to accomplish by pointing out that there was a security breach on his watch?

Fandangalo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 21d

Likely used as justification for some sort of illegal change to how voting works or to further push the “SAVE” act.

Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 20d

It's like listening to Rumsfeld swear the middle east is dangerous. No shit Sherlock, you did that lol

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 21d (1 reply)

So, he won in 2020 and can't be president from 2024-onwards?

You sonuvabitch, I'm in!

justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io · 5 pts · 21d

Watch as he appoints lackeys to the election commission, they state that they are postponing elections until foreign interference is rooted out.

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 20d
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 5 pts · 21d

Whiny-ass bitch loser.

Dryad@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21d

How about they instead focus on the inconceivably vast statistical improbability of the 2024 election instead. Probably more domestic interference than foreign, but still.

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 20d (2 replies)

I would laugh so hard if OpenAI or Claude came out after this was released and they said it had their fingerprints all over it, and after looking up the prompts they were used to help fabricate it all.

They're that dumb, it's totally possible.

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 20d (1 reply)

Except the techbros have their faces full of rectoplasm after years of brownnosing this administration

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 20d

Claude did back out contracts over a disagreement on military use and the government try to blacklist them, so you never know they might speak up if they were flat out lying to the people like that and they saw the fingerprints.

sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21d (1 reply)

Clear your schedules for the weekend in case a protest is required...

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 20d

Yes, a peaceful protest, then the fascists will say "oh I guess people don't want fascism, so sorry, we didnt realize" and then they'll just back off

CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 21d

Could be some shit like "Iran interfered to get Biden elected"

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 20d

Trump "proclaiming" reminds me of that hoary old cripple who lied in every breath from that popular poem from the olden times.

tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21d

Bets it was a Chinese phone farm that manipulated social media.

altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 21d

So Cambodia? We are going to fight Cambodia? Have y'all seen their long boats? We gotta stop this guy from totally ruining the country now! The guy is demented and totally crazy. C'mon people! Wake up!