CCP Election Interference in the U.S. About to Be Proven? America Poised for Thunderous Fury

U.S.-China Confrontation. (Video screenshot)

— FBI Director Submits Evidence to Congress: CCP Interfered in the U.S. Election?

[People News] A shocking revelation was reported by NBC News and several other U.S. media outlets on June 17: FBI Director Kash Patel submitted a report to Congress on June 16 detailing "stunning" documents allegedly related to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Patel stated, “The FBI has obtained detailed documents containing shocking allegations related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, including accusations of CCP interference.” He added, “I have declassified these materials immediately and handed them over to Chairman Grassley for further examination.” Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, is Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

According to reports, these documents were provided to the FBI in 2020 (during former President Trump’s first term) by a confidential source. The source claimed that the CCP mass-produced fake driver’s licenses used for mail-in ballots.

Patel is also linked to an article by John Solomon. In 2022, Trump appointed both Solomon and Patel as his representatives to the National Archives and Records Administration to handle matters related to his presidential records.

The article recommended by Patel mentioned that U.S. Customs and Border Protection had intercepted fake driver’s licenses, mostly from mainland China and Hong Kong. Most of the seized IDs were in the names of "college students."

In fact, back in August 2020, then-FBI Director Chris Wray testified to Congress that no foreign interference had been detected ahead of the 2020 election, and related documents were subsequently sealed. At the time, Senator Grassley questioned the FBI's actions, asserting that the intelligence—which included evidence of forged IDs—had been dismissed without thorough verification. This time, Patel's decision to declassify and submit the materials to Grassley aims to allow for further authentication.

It’s worth recalling that on December 18, 2020, General Michael Flynn, former National Security Advisor and staunch Trump ally, stated: “Given all the bad behaviour we’ve seen in election security, we cannot tolerate foreign influence. We have direct evidence of foreign influence. In fact, other countries and foreign partners witnessed the attack on our election system on November 3, 2020, and they are willing to provide this evidence directly to President Trump.”

Did the CCP interfere in the U.S. election? The forging of driver’s licenses and ballots is certainly part of the picture. Several irregularities were reported by foreign media after the 2020 election:

1. U.S. Customs reported seizing at least 20,000 fake driver’s licenses from mainland China and Hong Kong. These were suspected to have been generated using personal information stolen via TikTok or other digital means, or by Chinese hackers. Analysts viewed this as a form of CCP “unrestricted warfare” aimed at meddling in the U.S. election.

2. The mass fabrication of ballots by the CCP. On December 5, 2020, U.S. independent media outlet Gateway Pundit reported a video from CCP princeling Yi Qiwei, who claimed the CCP forged ballots for Mississippi, Florida, and North Carolina, producing 500,000 per month. On November 9, Yi tweeted: “Printing factories in Guangdong, China are helping to print fake ballots, which were shipped under the guise of medical supplies to Canada and Mexico between August and October 2020, and then smuggled into the U.S.”

In addition, in January 2024, Dajiyuan published an investigative report titled “How the CCP Interfered in the U.S. Election.” Based on a declassified report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and multiple private investigations, it confirmed that the CCP employed various tactics to interfere in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections.

The methods included: Retaliating against U.S. lawmakers; Targeting anti-CCP candidates for punishment while rewarding pro-CCP ones. Spreading divisive content to sow discord; Using social media accounts, proxy websites, paid influencers, and PR firms to manipulate American public opinion on China, even posing as U.S. voters online.

These findings matched reports released by tech giants Meta and Microsoft in 2023. In August 2023, Meta announced it had removed thousands of accounts linked to China’s law enforcement apparatus, describing it as part of the largest global influence operation of its kind. These actors attempted to influence the 2022 U.S. midterm elections and simultaneously targeted key U.S. allies and partners, including Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and the U.K.

In September 2023, Microsoft also released a report revealing that CCP hackers had impersonated American voters online during the 2022 midterms and used AI-generated content to spread divisive messaging.

Additionally, on August 30, 2020, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe stated in an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that: “The Chinese Communist Party is conducting large-scale, sophisticated interference activities targeting the U.S. election—far surpassing the capabilities of any other country. Their operations are massive and deeply embedded.”

Undeniably, the CCP’s methods for interfering in the midterms were also used in the 2020 presidential election. The scale and depth of the CCP’s prior election interference and infiltration of the U.S. have made it hard for American political circles—both Republican and Democrat—to believe Beijing will refrain from similar actions in the 2024 election. This concern may explain why President Biden has twice publicly warned the CCP not to interfere in U.S. elections.

So, if concrete evidence proves the CCP interfered in a U.S. election, not only will its disgraceful behaviour be fully exposed to the world, but what kind of thunderous fury will the United States unleash in response? △

(First published by People News)