Miles Taylor: "I helped oversee election security for Trump. He's about to swap the "Big Lie" for a Bigger Lie."

https://www.defiance.news/p/i-helped-oversee-election-security

The White House hastily manufactured a Big Lie in 2020 that the election was stolen from Trump, but in the frenzied aftermath, it couldn’t really find a culprit. So after years of searching desperately for a thief, Trump and team have decided to invent one.

Get ready for the Bigger Lie.

The president wants a spectacle on Thursday. According to reporting from MSNOW, the White House is preparing to release classified intelligence documents it claims will reveal “irregularities” in American elections, as part of a preview of the president’s address that will allege foreign actors stole the election from him in 2020. In those remarks, he may even name the culprit. I’ll get to that in a moment.

But first, I know what’s in that well of information he’s drawing from, because I helped dig it. During Donald Trump’s first term, I worked on election protection at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), helping to stand up the administration’s response to historic Russian interference in 2016. We built an entire, government-wide response system — intelligence analysts, cyber defenders, and law enforcement agents — who were full-time focused on stopping any such attack from happening again. And I can tell you now, before Trump says a single word, he’s full of shit.

Pardon my language. But I’m virtually certain that whatever he presents on Thursday, it will be twice-warmed leftovers of information, cherry-picked and recast to tell a story our intelligence agencies never told because it was never true. Indeed, the president appears poised to make it sound like a foreign adversary, specifically China, took away the White House from him by helping Joe Biden win. If the Big Lie was bad, this will be even Bigger because now he’s might name the actual boogeyman that has eluded him, over years of delusional claims about an unfair loss.

Before you get caught up in his stream of lies, here’s what actually happened in 2020 when it comes to foreign interference. Yes, America’s adversaries tried to meddle in our elections during Trump’s first term and amidst his re-election. Russia did. Iran did. China did. We knew it, we tracked it, and the U.S. government declassified much of that information years ago. But our agencies were unanimous on a crucial point: none of those bad guys changed votes. Not in 2018. Not in 2020.

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