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July 22, 2026 — President Trump’s speech and document dump last Thursday had both encouraging and disappointing aspects, so I’ll get the worse part over with first.
Leaving much to the imagination, this sample declassified document doesn’t help the cause. Meanwhile, fraud deniers and Trump haters will all agree—surprise surprise—in calling it a big nothing burger.
Of course, they only say this to discourage the segment of Republicans who recognize election integrity as an existential threat to the American way of life. If just three percent of the GOP base grew discouraged over Washington’s hostility toward meaningful reform, a lot of Democrats could win this November, so don’t fall for it.
It’s not the missing stuff that has Democrats and Never-Trumpers awake at night. Their problem is what was not hidden: As I’ve suspected since 2020, the Chinese Communist Party really is meddling in our elections.
Trump used an old Obama/Biden trick called “conflating the data.” Remember how they always “created or saved” jobs in America? It had to drive the fraud deniers crazy when Trump said the CCP obtained the voter records by either “buying, stealing, or hacking.”
Some fraud denierreasoning is that, since the CCP bought some of the same public records that you or I can get from election officials, they were only intent on “influence operations.”1
I beg to differ. First off, North Carolina was mentioned in one heavily redacted document, along with Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, and Michigan. The implication was that some blacked-out actor had obtained voter data from those states.
Elsewhere in the CCP-involvement documents was a reference to files that contain voters’ personally identifying information (PII); but the source of the data is not revealed to the public.
While the question of bought vs. hacked, was handled less that spectacularly, we know with 100% certainty that some of the data contained Personally Identifying Information (or P-I-I). So, did the CCP hack the election files from internal servers to get that information? Or did they pay Equifax or L1 or somebody to append the voters’ known public data in order to get each voter’s PII?
How they got the PII isn’t worth too much speculation, but the fact that they did obtain such confidential informations eliminates one widely circulated spin from David Becker, the darling of the fraud-denying media, who claimed “everyone has this data.”2
In the immortal words of a certain unhoused Muppet, named Oscar T. Grouch, “ding dong, you’re wrong!” Only if everyone is breaking the law, does everyone have your Social Security Number.
Also, Trad Media3 leapt on some documents’ inferences of the CCP only using the documents for “influence” and not for “interference, but the inclusion of PII kinda blows up that spin too.
Bottom Line: PII changes everything.
But rather than focusing on what we don’t know from the documents, let’s see what happens when we tie together the things we do know?
A commonly used intel analysis method is to grab as many bits of unclassified or “friendly information” as possible and then try to make enough sense from those puzzle pieces in order to draw some conclusions.
From a defensive perspective, Commanders publicize the “Essential Elements of Friendly Information” or EEFIs (pronounced “EE-Fees”) that we really want know about anytime the enemy reveals them.
During Viet Nam, when the enemy got enough EEFIs, they could predict exactly what route our F-111 bombers were flying out on their missions and the design features of the newly deployed Terrain Following Radar. Thus, shooting down those lethal but costly weapon systems became an easier proposition.
But the midnight train runs both ways, so we can learn a lot about the adversary’s future operations by analyzing what’s known about their current activities.
Relevant to the CCP involvement and their collection of PII, consider two news items that deeply disturbed me and my ilk in the election integrity movement way back when these reports first broke.
An April 28, 2020 Customs and Border Protection press release revealed that CBP officers working out of the Dallas-Fort Worth port of entry had intercepted around 2,000 counterfeit driver’s licenses over the previous 18 months.
Sadly, the press release did not mention the nations from which the packages of fake licenses had been shipped. Nor did it mention the final destination of the packages, so I told Ghost, “I sure hope Trump’s FBI is looking at the voter fraud angle.”
A few months later, the CBE released news of another 19,988 counterfeit US drivers’ licenses they discovered at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport’s international shipping facility.
During the first half of 2020, the Chicago-based CBP had seized 1,513 shipments with the nearly 20,000 fake drivers’ licenses. Ominously, the press release said “most were for college-age students… other licenses would share the same picture but have different biographical data.”
Reading between the lines back when the story broke, some of the information mislead the public into believing the fake IDs were intended for underage drinking. ID cards with the same picture and differing “biographical data” clearly point to fraud, but only nerds like me would jump to the conclusion that their goal was widespread voter fraud.
The CBP press release from 2020 added more misdirection on that subject:
“These fraudulent identity documents can lead to identity theft, worksite enforcement, critical infrastructure protection, fraud linked to immigration-related crimes such as human smuggling and human trafficking, and these documents can be used by those individuals associated with terrorism to minimize scrutiny from travel screening measures.”
By making no mention of voter fraud, alarmed our cohort. Besides the general public, who else was the CBP trying to manipulate with their press release?
Then, in June of 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel made this stunning announcement before the Senate Intelligence Committee:
“Specifically, these include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver's licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots – allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public.”
According to Director Patel’s June ‘25 announcement and confirmed by a source at the White House Election Integrity Task Force, the FBI removed the initial intelligence report from a common operating website that’s shared by all 18 intelligence agencies that answer to the ODNI.
The impact of that action was to prevent any of the other agencies from developing the investigation further. If you peruse the other agencies on that ODNI server, you’d see why this mattered. Just one example shows the grave consequences of that subversive action.
The NSA is really good at monitoring all of our phone conversations and they could have monitored communications involving the intended recipients of those boxes of fake licenses. Under the same FISA rules, used by the Obama Administration to spy on Trump’s 2016 campaign efforts, the NSA could have spied on any US citizens working with the CCP to process and distribute the fake identity documents.
My source explained how raw intel is vetted before it’s allowed on that platform. Until last week, the public didn’t know who at the FBI pulled the initial report. An FBI employee named Nikki Flores is alleged to have ordered the removal of the raw intel about the CCP’s fake drivers’ license offensive. The justification for the removal at the time was a claim that the source of the raw intel report had not met the criteria for the interagency disclosure.
The report eventually did make it back onto the platform, but only after analysts re-confirmed the veracity of the document.
Amid last week’s White House document dump the evidence suggested Ms. Floris was a self-proclaimed “shadow government” FBI supervisor was deliberately hiding these reports of CCP involvement in the 2020 elections.
Late last week, Catherine Herridge reposted from the file that certain intel officials, “[had] deliberately massaged our one pending PDB (President’s Daily Brief) to avoid any direct links to the election."
The smoking gun came in the form of a widely circulated screenshot, taken from the desk of an Nikki Floris, the FBI supervisor. She told others, “I’m basically running a shadow government across the FBI at this point.”
The date of her message is unknown, but a source, formerly at DIA noted how, during the COVID lockdowns of 2020, only an elite few were allowed into their massive DC-area headquarters, making it easier to collaborate with their CCP comrades.
.Whether or not the alleged treasonous bureaucrats eventually punch their card for Club Gitmo, we still have one issue on which we should remained focused: Enterprise-level voter fraud.
Tying itself back to the puzzling fake drivers’ licenses discovered in Texas and Illinois, come with me into the weeds of that raw intel report that was confirmed, posted, removed, re-confirmed, and re-posted.
The Albany NY office of the FBI sent that “information report” dated Sep 25, 2020, to everybody below the rank of POTUS who had a need to know about serious intel findings. The all fell under the ODNI’s purview.
The message completely downplayed the credibility of a source who had discovered how the CCP was working to steal the 2020 election. It has widely been reported that the CCP intent was just influence operations, but that was more Deep State spin.
Those fake licenses prove that the CCP was working to steal the election by good old-fashioned voter impersonation fraud.
Here’s the boilerplate paragraph:
“In late August, 2020, the Chinese government had produced a large amount of fraudulent United States drivers licenses that were secretly exported to the United States (NFI). The fraudulent drivers licenses would allow tens of thousands of Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party to vote for US Presidential Candidate USPER Joe ((Biden)), despite not being eligible to vote in the United States. China had collected private US user data from millions of TikTok accounts, to include name, ID and address, which would allow the Chinese government to use real US persons’ information to create the fraudulent drivers license. The fraudulent drivers licenses were to include true ID number and true address of US citizens, making them difficult to detect. China planned to use the fraudulent drivers licenses to account for then of thousands of mail-in votes.”
Among the EEFIs our FBI should know about this case are the following:
Who was intended to receive multiple ID cards with the same face but with different names. Some college kid, wanting to get a fake ID would have received one face and one name on the ID card. In enterprise-level vote fraud, you will always find one person with several different names, or “biographical data.” Persons the message deemed “sympathetic” to the CCP and willing to commit such a crime are enemies of the state. Happily, the FBI has the faces of these CCP operatives and can easily use facial recognition to find them.
Whose names were being used on the fake licenses? Presumably, they were innocent victims, selected because their demographics matched those of the CCP agent committing the voter fraud, but we beg our third question.
What characteristics did these intended victims have in common with each other? Why this is important is that it might help investigators learn how to detect the CCP voters whose fake drivers’ licenses were delivered into America before they were noticed by the CBP.
And this finally brings us to the most pressing aspect of this entire matter: This criminal conspiracy is ongoing and people participating in it really are the insurrectionists in America.
How many CCP sympathizers got away with it and what is our White House Task Force doing to root them out?
My colleagues and I think we’ve devised some ways of developing evidence on this vexing problem, but you’ll be the first to know when that information is ready for prime time.
Stay tuned!
~ jd
One of the leading fraud denier organizations, ironically known as “FactCheck.org” published a piece shooting laughably weak holes in claims Trump made during the speech. When it came to post-hoc changing of votes, they scoffed at comments Trump did not make and even summoned the Trad Media’s favorite fraud denier, David Becker, in order to seem more credible. I’ll published a special edition on Becker some day, but the Cliff Note on this guy is that Becker is to election integrity advocates as Peter Hotez is to vaccine skeptics.
Good ol’ Democracy Docket dragged out Becker for that narrative, the morning after Trump’s speech in this interesting artifact.
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