The Traitor is once again contradicted by OUR Intelligence Officials

[Straw Man]

Trump's own intelligence officials contradict his repeated claims of mail-in voting fraud

Washington (CNN)US intelligence officials on Friday discounted the possibility of foreign countries mass producing fake ballots to interfere in the November elections, contradicting President Donald Trump's continued insistence that mail-in voting poses a significant threat to election security.

The closed-door House briefing was led by the US intelligence community's top election official, Bill Evanina, and senior intelligence officials who specialize in election security. Officials dismissed the possibility of foreign powers being able to interfere on a mass scale to produce and send fake ballots to voters and election authorities, a source said.

The issue of forged ballots only came up when a lawmaker asked about it, a source in attendance told CNN. Evanina didn't raise any alarms about that possibility, the source said.  The briefing highlighted the regular clash of views on election security between Trump and the administration's top officials charged with keeping the November vote secure, both in public and in classified briefings.

For months, those officials have routinely warned that the most serious foreign threats are hacking of election and campaign infrastructure, along with disinformation campaigns, largely from China, Russia and Iran. The issue of fake ballots is an issue that they don't raise, according to multiple sources familiar with the ongoing briefings.

That's night and day from the President's almost singular focus on mail-in ballots, which he alleges will lead to a 'rigged' election this fall. So great is the threat, the President said Thursday, he raised the possibility of delaying the vote.
 
On Friday at the White House, Trump specifically claimed that foreign countries will be able to forge ballots.
"This is going to be the greatest election disaster in history," Trump said.  "And by the way you guys like to talk about Russia and China and other places, they'll be able to forge ballots, they'll forge up, they'll do whatever they have to do," he said.

The President is so vocal in his distrust of voting by mail that there are concerns among intelligence and law enforcement officials that he is laying the groundwork for the exact sort of foreign disinformation campaigns they warn about.

They can't physically do anything about (mail-in ballots) but (they can) create social media narratives to create levels of doubt and play into the debate," a law enforcement official said. "We are alert for the fact they may take doubts about mail-in ballots and exploit that online."
Roundly debunked by election experts, a source close to the Trump campaign rejected the notion that what the President is saying amounts to the kind of nefarious disinformation used by adversaries, but admitted the President's intention usually is to cause chaos.

"The Russians and Chinese are actively doing what they do to influence and sway an election," the source said. "The President's tweet, although it carries weight, totally different -- his intention is different." Evanina also briefs the Trump and Biden campaigns as well as the political parties on election threats. In a July 24 statement on election threats with 100 days to go before November 3, Evanina made no mention of mail-in ballots.
Changing actual votes, he said -- as the President repeatedly alleges -- is "extraordinarily difficult."

"The diversity of election systems among the states, multiple checks and redundancies in those systems, and post-election auditing all make it extraordinarily difficult for foreign adversaries to broadly disrupt or change vote tallies without detection," Evanina said in his statement.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to elaborate on Evanina's views on mail-in ballots, saying the statement speaks for itself. The Trump and Biden campaigns also declined to comment on his briefings to them.[/quote]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/politics/trump-intelligence-officials-contradict-mail-in-voting-sow-doubt-foreign/index.html

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