Senator Immediately Undercuts Trump’s Claim About Election Fraud in Speech: ‘So Completely False’

Immediately after President Donald Trump’s Thursday address to the nation, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) undercut his claim about Chinese election fraud, deeming it “so completely false.”

Trump’s speech focused on what he called “the largest compromise of election data in history,” in which China allegedly acquired “220 million U.S. voter files,” including “names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data.”

Speaking with MS NOW’s Jen Psaki, Warner pointed out on Thursday that Trump’s own appointees, mainly CIA Director John Ratcliffe, “were in charge of the intelligence community” in 2020, adding, “Why didn’t they find any of this?”

He continued:

And then just the plain ignorance and factual misrepresentations when he says, “Oh my gosh, countries get access to our voter files!” You know what? You can buy these voter files. There’s no need to hack. I buy the Virginia voter files on a regular basis. If you are gonna be a statewide candidate, they are open to any entity. And the fact that you accumulate all these voter files, which in many states, if you pay the price of the public information, that somehow leads to manipulation is so completely false.

I just implore my Republican friends, if they’ve got any sense of dignity about our system, speak up and tell the truth. Because when you make these kind of accusations about China, and he ignores, conveniently, Russia, you know, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, every election cycle, try to influence our elections. They put out false information. They promote stories. Russia did it on behalf of Trump in 2020. Iran did it against Trump. North Korea just wanted to screw with the whole system.

In Thursday’s address, Trump additionally promised that documents proving his case and “gathered by the White House Government Transparency Task Force” would be released online “starting tonight.”

Watch the clip above via MS NOW.

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