Intel Officials: Trump’s Wrong to Say Mail-In Ballots Are Susceptible to Mass Foreign Interference
Foreign interference in November via mail-in ballots is not as big a concern as Trump makes it out to be, according to top officials.
JASON REDMOND
What President Trump claims “will be the scandal of our times” this November—foreign interference due to mail-in voting—is not quite a threat for top intel officials. “We have no information or intelligence that any nation-state threat actor is engaging in any activity to undermine the mail-in vote or ballots,” one intel official told Politico. A senior FBI official added, “It’s extraordinarily difficult to change a federal election outcome through this type of fraud alone.” But Trump has consistently pressed on with predictions that the election will be “RIGGED.” A senior Homeland Security cybersecurity official said, “We are way ahead of where we were in 2016” when Russian interference bombarded intelligence officials.
RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2020
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