They Let China Rig 2020, Shredded the Proof, and Called You a Conspiracy Theorist

Now they tell us. Now. Yesterday, Newsweek ran a story headlined, “FBI raises ‘alarming’ claims of Chinese interference in 2020 election.” On Monday, FBI Director Kash Patel declassified previously withheld FBI documents, and shared them with U.S. senators, explaining they detailed “alarming allegations” about real Chinese interference in the 2020 election.

 
In a statement only to conservative outlet Just The News, the FBI Director said, “Specifically, these include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver’s licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots—allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public.”

The Chinese scheme was intended to distribute the fake driver’s licenses to Chinese sympathizers in the U.S. who would use them to cast mail-in votes for Biden.

Worse, according to FBI whistleblowers, in the lead-up to the election, then-FBI Director Chris Wray inexplicably issued a “destruction” order for all copies of documents related to the Chinese interference investigation. “An FBI spokesperson told the New York Post that federal authorities became aware of an alleged plot to impact the 2020 election around August of that year,” Newsweek reported, “though the intelligence reports were recalled for unknown reasons.”

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Patel’s letter alleged “serious national security concerns that need to be fully investigated by the FBI.” Yesterday, Grassley shot back his own letter requesting that all related documents be turned over to the Committee.

In Washington, the trading of public letters between aligned officials can often signal a pre-coordinated dance between the agencies. My guess is that Director Patel already has a package ready for delivery to Senate Republicans.

In October, 2020, after testifying under oath that all the FBI saw were frustrated Russian efforts at election meddling, then-FBI Director Chris Wray gave a press briefing wherein he assured the public that, “When we see indications of foreign interference… we’re going to aggressively investigate and work with our partners.”

Meaning, the exact opposite. If he’d had even barely credible evidence of a Chinese fake-ID plot, Wray should have immediately notified all 50 state supervisors of elections so they could secure ballot-handling procedures, especially for mail-in ballots.

 
But Wray didn’t notify anyone. Not only that, but he issued a bizarre order recalling all documents related to the scheme, and for good measure, instructed the other intelligence agencies to destroy their copies.

Now, I’ve been reliably informed until my ear canals bled that election interference is a blasphemous and unforgivable crime that is one thousand times worse than ethnic cleansing. Worse than treason. Worse than genocide. Worse than misgendering someone.

For that contemptible crime, they prosecuted Trump in state and federal courts, sued legions of conservative lawyers, locked up grandma, filled the op-ed pages with faux outrage, cried rivers of crocodile tears, and generally turned election law into a hypersonic railgun aimed at every politically convenient target.

The bare threat of election interference is so awful, apparently, that just writing the wrong accounting code on your check stub is so corrosive and anti-democratic that it requires the full attention of the State of New York for four years.

But also, apparently, the very same people who hysterically screamed about SharpieGate and alternative electors simultaneously covered up credible reports of imminent, wide-scale cheating using fake IDs created in communist labor camps.

And then they had the gall to call it, “the most secure election in US history.”

Maybe what they really meant was that they “secured” the election, the same way mobsters secure witnesses— by making sure all the inconvenient evidence gets buried six floors beneath the Hoover Building next to Jimmy Hoffa and the Epstein security footage. Axios, September 2021:

 
He might not have seen the evidence since he kept his eyes closed while he was pushing it into the shredder.

This story has muscular legs. It touches all the big flash points: the stolen election, the two-tiered justice system, and all the fake hysteria over election integrity. This story doesn’t just destroy the narrative. It retroactively incinerates the moral authority they used to prosecute everybody else.

Democrats are already caught in their purity spiral of irresolvable political positions— open borders versus soccer mom safety, trans rights versus women’s sports, Hamas flags versus anti-Semitism. If the 2020 election starts to unravel —as Trump has always said it would— then Lucy will have some serious ‘splainin to do.

Since 2020, the dominant media-Democrat narrative has been “Trump lied about the election. He’s a danger to democracy. The election was secure. Questioning it is dangerous disinformation.” PBS headline from October, 2021:

 
If Trump turns out to have been right, even partially —that there was a meaningful threat of election interference, the suppression of intel, and FBI hijinx— it will be a narrative supernova. The Overton window will shift so fast it will give CNN whiplash.

The deep state is already mired in a slow-motion erosion of trust in the FBI, DOJ, media, Big Tech, public health, and even elections themselves. But if Trump turns out to be right, and those institutions suppressed evidence of foreign election interference —especially if they destroyed the evidence— that erosion will become a landslide.

Time for a reckoning.

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