READ: Trump documents allege China interfered in U.S. elections
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President Trump alleged Thursday that U.S. intelligence agencies covered up information about alleged Chinese efforts to influence the 2020 U.S. election.
Why it matters: The document release is likely to renew scrutiny of Trump's claims about foreign interference in the U.S. election and the government's past intelligence assessments.
- The documents release allege that foreign adversaries — including Russia, China and Iran — were viewed as real threats to U.S. elections.
Reality check: Multiple released documents say large-scale manipulation of U.S. voting systems would be difficult to accomplish without detection.
- The White House released four batches of documents — including ones about voting vulnerabilities, China, Michigan and "non citizen voter rolls" — as part of a broader White House website rollout.
The documents tied to election interference in the first batch are embedded below.
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