As we have explained in numerous articles, since 1999, or before, Red China has embraced the concept of unrestricted or more correctly “all domain” warfare against the United States. Last night President Donald Trump announced he has declassified records about the Chinese Communist Party's multi-domain influence operations targeting American elections, and his election in particular.
The documents, taken together show that Red China used all elements of government power, trade, diplomacy, social media, open-source reporting to undermine his re-election.
And our friend Ben Weiingarten explained what “all domain” warfare looks like in a post to X.
President Trump called Red Chinese acquisition of American voter data, "the largest compromise of election data in history," resulting in China's acquisition of 200 million US voter files.
However, that’s not the worst of the disclosures in the report.
Back in April the inimitable Catherine Herridge reported that, in run-up to the 2020 election the CIA, then led by Director Gina Haspel, would not document the Communist Chinese influence operations, in a formal way, out of concern that President Trump would use the intelligence to his advantage. (We note for the record we were one of the few to oppose Haspel's nomination to be CIA Director precisely because we viewed her as up to her eyeballs in the Obama-led anti-Trump conspiracy.)
Ms. Herridge reported that, based on a whistleblower complaint, senior intelligence officials are accused of heavy-handed editing of the whistleblower’s reports about China’s sweeping influence operations during the 2020 election cycle.
In some instances, senior CIA officials are accused of taking “pen to paper” to strike sections because “the intelligence assessments would help Trump.” I am told some track changes make “specific reference to domestic politics.”
A senior intelligence official emphasized that in 2020 China was not held to the same standard as Russia and other adversaries, including North Korea, Iran and its proxy Hezbollah. The official said Chinese influence operations were consistently “downplayed,” while Russia’s activities were routinely “amplified,” thereby increasing the political utility of the Russia threat for President Trump’s opponents, while downplaying the more potent Communist Chinese threat, the disclosure of which would benefit his reelection.
The official added that the CIA was “driving political bias” in the intelligence assessments as well as the need to “massage” the President’s Daily Brief.
As the documents the President has released show, CIA reporting explicitly stated, “In mid-2018, the Chinese Communist Party’s policy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements that were opposed to the U.S. President in an effort to reduce the U.S. President’s votes and make him resign or prevent his re-election.
Also, in mid-2018, Red China was working to influence the results of the U.S. mid-term elections, and later, the results of the 2020 Presidential Elections. Separately, in mid-2019, the Communist Chinese Government’s strategy against the United States was focused on undermining domestic confidence in the U.S. president.”
It further stated, “The strategy included efforts to use Chinese contracts with big U.S. companies to influence U.S. business leaders to turn against the U.S. President. The Chinese government sought to identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. President, and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him. The Chinese Government wanted the U.S. president to lose the next election.”
These are exact quotes from CIA reporting—the President noted the name of the person being quoted is “under review,” we hope with an eye toward releasing it to the public.
But it gets even worse. Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020, yet buried by rogue bureaucrats, stated that Communist China’s activities even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden.
Documents show that during this period, dozens of significant CIA and NSA reports about Red China’s election targeting were kept out of the Presidential Daily Briefing. One email among intelligence analysts admitted they had ‘deliberately massaged’ the Presidential Daily Briefing to withhold information regarding Chinese activities related to the election. Another official inside the FBI wrote that she was running ‘a shadow government’ to keep intelligence about China’s election meddling from becoming known. Other officials who witnessed such efforts perceived the motivations to be blatantly political.
And there were other bombshells in the President’s nationally televised briefing.
Trump revealed that 278,000 illegal aliens were registered to vote in US elections.
Additionally, over 250,000 non-citizens were also registered to vote in US elections, in just four states.
Democrat states continue to refuse to clean their voter rolls and handover voter data to federal election officials.
Here a few high points from the National Intelligence Council Assessment on foreign threats to federal elections.
We judge that Russia, China, Iran, as well as many nonstate actors, have the capability to conduct such activities.
Beijing has expanded its cyber collection of data related to the 2020 US elections by carrying out opportunistic intrusions against US private sector entities in efforts to collect information on US political candidates, campaigns, donors, and voter data.
Iran is conducting an influence campaign to undermine the current President and US democratic institutions, and to divide the country in advance of the 2020 elections.
We assess that hostile actors could exploit internet-connected election infrastructure-such as voter registration databases, pollbooks, and state or local election officials' websites-because of its ease of access and comparative lack of security.
These systems are designed for accessibility, commonly through web portals, making them vulnerable to a range of malicious cyber activities. A committed adversary could potentially use access to these systems to disrupt or sow doubts about our democratic election processes.
We assess that hostile actors could also manipulate systems that count or tabulate votes, such as voting machines on a localized basis, but it probably would be difficult to coordinate a campaign to alter voting results on a wide scale. Post-election audits and paper trails also most likely would uncover such efforts in the nearly all US states.
Supreme Leader Khamenei probably has authorized the influence campaign. These efforts focus largely on creating or amplifying social media content that criticizes the President and recirculating existing news reports, memes, and hashtags focused on US civil unrest, domestic protests for racial justice, mail-in voting, and the administration's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Iranian-contract cyber actors tried to compromise a server associated with a US business involved in election infrastructure.
Google announced that Iranian-linked cyber actors had unsuccessfully attempted to spear phish email accounts associated with campaign staffers working for the US President. Iran pursues such efforts in part to acquire derogatory information it could release publicly, as well as to inform its broader aims of weakening the US and damaging its standing abroad.
Criminal or other nonstate groups also have the capability to compromise US election infrastructure. Gaining access to election-related systems could allow them to disrupt the voting process, steal sensitive data, or undermine confidence in the election results.
Despite the president breaking stunning news of a massive Red Chinese hack of US voter data – and a massive cover-up of its election interference by the FBI and CIA – CNN, ABC and NBC blacked out his prime-time address, and CBS and MSNBC cut away from it. Only NewsNation, Fox and C-Span covered it in full.
We have covered just a few of the findings in the documents the President has declassified. Read the full report and then forward this message to your family, friends, neighbors, church and civic club mailing lists and encourage them to call their Senators TODAY. The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121, enlist everyone you know to "up the pressure" on the Senate to close the door to future Communist Chinese election interference by passing the SAVE America Act.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com and is a veteran of over 300 political campaigns. A member of American MENSA, and a member of The Committee on the Present Danger: China, 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.
