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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 presidency, which would ultimately be successful.
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