The 2020 election has always been under a cloud of suspicion, thanks in large part to the unusual circumstances of a global pandemic, which Democrats and their cohorts in the mainstream media clearly exploited to their advantage.
How else does one explain the fact that the “winning” candidate, who campaigned from his basement and was already manifestly not fit for office, was able to garner the most votes in U.S. presidential election history? It couldn’t possibly have had anything to do with the fact that millions of votes were cast via mail-in ballots, rather than people showing up at polling stations to cast their vote in person.
Of course, the mainstream media dogma on the 2020 election is that it was the “most secure in history.” Furthermore, anyone who dares to question that dogma is tarred as an “election denier” and a “threat to democracy” on par with the worst of the worst January 6 rioters.
It has become a tired, over-referenced, and fundamentally dishonest litmus test used by Leftmedia pundits and commentators designed to disparage anyone who fails to agree as some conspiracy kook.
Yet following Donald Trump’s presidential election victory last November, it may be tempting to simply drop any further debate over the 2020 election. Trump is now president again, and arguably, his time away from the office has put him in a stronger position to move forward with his agenda than he would have been if he had maintained the office in 2020.
Despite this reality, some Republican lawmakers still want answers. One of them is Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa. Grassley requested and recently received from the FBI declassified intelligence reports regarding foreign election interference efforts ahead of the 2020 election.
According to FBI Director Kash Patel, who ordered these reports declassified, they “include allegations of plans from the [Chinese Communist Party] CCP to manufacture fake driver’s licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots — allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public.” Patel called the reports “alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by the CCP.”
Back in the summer of 2020, the FBI was alerted to the scheme that the Chinese government was manufacturing fake driver’s licenses in a plot to cast mail-in votes in the election. This scheme was apparently later corroborated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which intercepted some 20,000 fake U.S. driver’s licenses around the time the FBI received the intelligence. Furthermore, the informant claimed the plot was intended to benefit Biden.
So, what did the FBI do with the intel? Well, to put it briefly, the Bureau gave it the Jedi mind trick treatment: “Nothing to see here; move along.”
Grassley learned about this alleged CCP election interference scheme thanks to a whistleblower. Now he is digging into why the FBI, then under the directorship of Christopher Wray, essentially shut down the investigation. The intel document was “recalled in order to re-interview the source,” according to Grassley. “Recipients should destroy all copies of the original report and remove the original report from all computer holdings.”
Grassley wants to know why Wray would have given this order, and why the investigation was apparently shelved.
Recall that this was also during the time frame in which the FBI knew of the Hunter Biden laptop, and that its contents were legitimate. Still, the FBI chose to remain silent, effectively undermining the laptop’s validity. It now appears that FBI leadership chose to bury intelligence that implicated China in a significant election interference scheme.
In 2016, Democrats and the mainstream media repeatedly pushed the ridiculous narrative that Russia buying a few thousand dollars’ worth of ads on Facebook equated to election interference that handed Trump the victory. That, along with the bogus Christopher Steele dossier, was used as enough of a pretense for the FBI to launch its infamous Crossfire Hurricane investigation into allegations that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia.
Four years later, when the FBI was alerted to apparently credible and concerning allegations of China — a far more formidable geopolitical foe — seeking to directly interfere in the election via a fake driver’s license to obtain mail-in ballots, the leadership’s response was to shelve it.
Thankfully, Grassley and Patel aim to get to the bottom of these allegations and expose any wrongdoing.
