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#electioninterference

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Thursday, August 28, 2025

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@ArenaCops

Why are people clamoring for #Epstein files now when #Biden DOJ could have easily released them but did not?

As @Strandjunker said, "#GhislaineMaxwell and Jeffrey Epstein could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex"

There is a probable explanation for why Biden failed to nail Trump in every single case (#J6, #FakeElectors, GA #ElectionInterference, #ClassifiedDocs), including letting #Mueller evidence become time-barred and expire

#GiftArticle

Gabbard overrode #CIA officials’ concerns in push to release #classified #Russia report

CIA officials worried that the release of a #House report on 2016 Russian #ElectionInterference could reveal #TopSecret spying techniques & sources, but Director of National *Intelligence* #TulsiGabbard authorized a lightly redacted version with #Trump’s blessing.

#NationalSecurity
wapo.st/3Hmq8nl

The Washington Post · Gabbard overrode CIA officials’ concerns in push to release classified Russia reportBy Warren P. Strobel

#GiftArticle

New Reports on Russian Interference Don’t Show What #Trump Says They Do
[ya don’t say🙄?]

A January 2017 assessment said that President Vladimir #Putin of #Russia had ordered a multifaceted information operation targeting the US #2016election.

The admin’s claims are overblown, but newly declassified information provides some messy details about a Jan 2017 #intelligence assessment of Moscow’s #ElectionInterference.

#law #FactCheck #TrumpLies #gaslighting
nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/trum

The New York Times · New Reports on Russian Interference Show Trump’s Claims on Obama Are OverblownBy Charlie Savage

When asked in the Oval Office about the #JeffreyEpstein case, #Trump quickly pivoted into an attack on President Barack #Obama.

He referred to his *#intelligence* director #TulsiGabbard's allegations about Obama's handling of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

#Russia's #ElectionInterference was detailed in an early 2017 US intelligence report.

"Whether it's right or wrong it's time to go after people," Trump said.

#Trump spy chief claims #Obama admin ‘manufactured’ intel on #Russia

[Though she’s a Russian asset, so don’t take her word for it.]

The #ODNI has published the latest in a series of recent Trump admin reports aimed at scrutinizing years-old #intelligence community conclusions about Russian #ElectionInterference in 2016 in favor of Trump.

#propaganda #disinformation #FactCheck #TrumpLies
npr.org/2025/07/21/nx-s1-54751

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#Federal law gives the #DOJ the ability to ensure #states have procedures in place to remove ineligible voters & otherwise properly maintain their rolls. It does not expressly give the agency the authority to review the voter rolls themselves.

States routinely check their rolls to identify people who are ineligible because they are not citizens, have moved to another voting jurisdiction, have been convicted of a felony or have died.

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Some information contained in voter rolls — such as names of voters & elections in which they have participated — is commonly available. Other information, such as the last four digits of voters’ #SocialSecurity numbers, is not. Colorado & Florida have provided the #DOJ w/ information from their lists that is generally available to the public, while most other #states said they were reviewing the requests.

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Separately, the #DOJ has recently asked some #states for copies of their voter lists. Those inquiries went to a mix of Republican and Democratic-controlled states, including Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma & Wisconsin, according to copies of the letters & information from state #election officials.

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Small hung up on a Post reporter Tuesday & did not respond to messages seeking comment. A spokesman for Boebert declined to comment on the outreach to clerks by her former chief of staff. A DHS spox said that the agency works closely w/ others on #election security but that “we don’t disclose every single conversation we have with them.”

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Steve Schleiker, the Republican clerk of El Paso County, said Small told him he was working with #DOJ & #DHS to team up w/ clerks on #election security. Soon after their conversation, Schleiker said, he got a call from a DHS official who wanted to review his #election equipment.

“We would like to test the voting equipment to see if there’s any gaps,” the official said, according to Schleiker.

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And last week, Small contacted clerks, claiming to have ties to #Trump. “I am reaching out on a timely election integrity project I’m working with the White House on & was hoping to chat,” read one text message from Small to a county clerk. A message to another clerk said the outreach “is from #StephenMiller,” the White House deputy chief of staff.