After President Donald Trump’s Thursday night address on alleged election fraud, a White House official who has played a key role in amplifying such claims acknowledged to MS NOW there is no intelligence supporting the president’s claims that foreign actors manipulated votes.
“The Intelligence Committee has zero evidence that someone, that a foreign power, flipped the vote in 2020, ’22 or ’24,” John Solomon, a former journalist turned member of Trump’s election task force, said after the speech.
“We’re not through all the documents,” he quickly added.
Asked to confirm that Venezuela has not tampered with voting machines in the U.S., a long-debunked conspiracy theory election deniers have spread for years, Solomon replied: “No. The intelligence is very clear. They did it on their own machines. Why it’s important that they did it on their machines: Their machine protocols are the same as America.”
Pressed about the legitimacy of the 2020 elections, Solomon replied, “I’m still researching,” before adding there is “not yet” any intelligence supporting claims of election fraud.
“Not yet. Not that we found,” Solomon said, while being ushered away from reporters. “The president said that tonight.”
But that is not, in fact, what the president said Thursday night.
Instead, Trump touted the release of documents that he claimed showed a yearslong effort by China to interfere in U.S. elections beginning during the 2020 election cycle. He claimed that “members of the Deep State” tried to “suppress and downplay information about the extent of China’s sinister election meddling, covering it up from both the president and the American people.” He also said he would release materials that prove that voting machines are “extremely exposed to attack” from foreign adversaries.
But nothing in the since-released materials indicates that Chinese officials, or any other foreign actors, ever accessed U.S. voting infrastructure. Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Chang also rejected Trump’s allegation, saying in a statement: “China has all along adhered to the principle of non-interference in other’s internal affairs. The U.S. election is an internal matter of the U.S. Its outcome is determined by the votes of the American people.”
Solomon is among Trump’s loudest surrogates in pushing election fraud claims. He helped drive the White House push to declassify and release documents related to elections, alongside Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence. Solomon signed a contract with the White House in June as a special government employee to help determine which classified documents to release.
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