Thank you, Mr. President, for fact-checking yourself

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/19/what-trumps-document-dump-actually-reveals/

When President Donald Trump delivered his television tirade Thursday night about “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure” and a “cover-up” of Chinese election interference, he directed viewers to examine declassified intelligence the White House had just posted on its website.

Rather than supporting Trump’s inflammatory claims about Chinese election meddling and other threats, the documents undermine many of his arguments. And contrary to his portrait of a diabolical “deep state,” they show an intelligence community that’s almost comically cautious and bureaucratic in reaching its conclusions.

The unverified report about China forging fake ballots to elect Biden was recalled by the FBI. Trump made this recall the centerpiece of his case that “members of the deep state … worked to actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China’s sinister election meddling.”