Before former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced her departure released several bombshells. Among them was a finding that, Yes the Red Chinese did conduct election interference against President Trump in the 2020 election - and Intelligence Community officials spiked the story.
“Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has spurred an investigation into evidence that spy agencies tried to conceal U.S. election vulnerabilities, including whistle-blower claims that a CIA officer was asked to alter evidence of China meddling and that President Donald Trump and Congress were intentionally kept in the dark about concerns involving China and Venezuela, according to unclassified memos,” retired Col. John Mills wrote in a recent substack post.
The Chinese Unrestricted Warfare campaign was alive and well until the Autopen went away, observed Col. Mills.
Then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard initiated a probe following the discovery of unclassified memos detailing suppressed intelligence, altered records, and withheld briefings intended for Congress and President Donald Trump. The investigation was subsequently referred to the Intelligence Community Inspector General for a comprehensive review.
The probe centers around multiple layers of intelligence that were allegedly withheld or manipulated by personnel within the Intelligence Community (IC).
Among the Key Evidence and Revelations Were:
The Recalled Fake Identity Memo: In 2025, declassified Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) documents revealed that a confidential source warned the bureau in the summer of 2020 about a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) plot. The plot involved manufacturing and shipping tens of thousands of fake U.S. driver's licenses to battleground states to establish fraudulent voter identities and cast mail-in ballots.
The Deletion Directive: Although U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) corroborated the intelligence by intercepting roughly 20,000 fake licenses in July 2020, the FBI abruptly recalled its intelligence advisory on August 24, 2020. The recall notice explicitly ordered other spy agencies to completely erase and destroy the original intelligence memo.
Suppressed Voter Data Access: Declassified intelligence reports from 2022 and 2026 revealed that Chinese intelligence successfully accessed and analyzed voter registration data across multiple U.S. states prior to the 2020 election. Members of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board raised alarms that this information was known internally as early as 2019 but was kept hidden from both Congress and the public.
Just the News reported this week that the U.S. intelligence community has known since early 2020 that Beijing also gained access to American voter registration data and used that information to conduct opinion analysis related to the presidential election between Trump and then-former Vice President Joe Biden.
This is not the only piece of evidence pointing to Chinese government election influence efforts in the 2020 election. Although much about China’s activities in 2020 remains classified, Just the News conducted a thorough review of publicly-available intelligence assessments, federal indictments, foreign government warnings, and cybersecurity firm analyses.
Just the News further reported there is credible evidence that Chinese government-linked cyber hackers and Chinese social media troll farms took aim at the U.S. presidential election in 2020 and sought to undercut Trump during his run against now-former President Biden. There are also indicators that Chinese intelligence and law enforcement agencies — China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) and its Ministry of Public Security (MPS) — also played a role in 2020.
At this point it is unknown whether the new Acting DNI, Bill Pulte, will keep the probe going and continue investigating whether the halting of the FBI's investigation and the ordering of memo destruction constituted intentional political decision-making to protect individual agencies or legacy conclusions. Investigators are focusing on whether internal leadership deliberately deep-sixed high-probability leads to align with public congressional testimonies. We urge Acting DNI Pulte and his newly nominated successor U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to maintain and intensify the investigation.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com and is a veteran of over 300 political campaigns. A member of American MENSA, he served on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle, as Director of Policy and Communication for former Congressman Adam Putnam (FL-12) then Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, and as spokesman for retired Rep. Mac Thornberry formerly a member of the House Intelligence Committee and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
