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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

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[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 14 points 3 days ago

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

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 47 points 4 days ago

Fucking clown show.

[–] sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

With this?

Honestly asking.

[–] sportsjorts@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Yeah, by Russia, to install Pumpkinhead.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

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

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] NM_Gringo@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] PwnTra1n@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

He has plenty of chances in his day to nap.

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 points 3 days ago

He's going to brag about it.

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

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 days ago

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

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 12 points 3 days ago

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

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] cranakis@reddthat.com 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

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."

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[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 points 4 days ago

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

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

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

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[–] kurmudgeon@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 days ago

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

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 15 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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

*on his behalf.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago
[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

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

[–] Zier@fedia.io 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

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

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

You sonuvabitch, I'm in!

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

[–] kboos1@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 points 4 days ago

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

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 5 points 4 days ago

Whiny-ass bitch loser.

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