Intelligence Officials Believe China Meddled in 2020 Election to Damage Trump: Report

Intelligence Officials Believe China Meddled in 2020 Election to Damage Trump: Report
Then-President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden in file photographs. AP Photo; Getty Images
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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A report from the U.S. intelligence community suggests that a minority of intelligence officials believed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) did, in fact, attempt to hinder former President Donald Trump’s chances in the 2020 election, while reporting that the CCP did not “deploy interference efforts.”

A report from the National Intelligence Council (pdf) released March 10 stated that Russia sought to denigrate President Joe Biden and boost Trump during the 2020 election, and that China “did not deploy interference efforts and considered but did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the U.S. presidential election,” adding: “We have high confidence in this judgment.”
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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