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Documents Trump declassified contain an intelligence assessment that China evaluated leaking damaging information about Trump to thwart his reelection if US-China relations became threatening to Beijing's rise. The specifics of what China held are entirely redacted — but the structure of the document makes clear something was there.
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When Trump declassified hundreds of intelligence documents following his speech, he may not have fully grasped what he was releasing. Among the files was an assessment stating that if Beijing concluded the downward trajectory in US-China relations threatened China's rise, it 'might attempt more directly to thwart the president's reelection' — including by leaking information about Trump. The details of what that information was are entirely redacted, but the document structure alone implies China held leverage [1] — Ben Meiselas "Documents Trump declassified contain an intelligence assessment that China evaluated leaking damaging information about Trump to thwart his…" 06:20 . Meiselas frames this as China having 'dirt on Trump' that Trump himself put into the public domain. The same document dump also confirmed Russia's 2020 interference operation: spreading false Burisma corruption narratives about Joe and Hunter Biden, coordinating with people close to Trump, and planning a high-profile scandal timed to the election. Ratcliffe, who oversaw the intelligence community during all of this, ensured these documents were in the batch — Meiselas argues this was deliberate.
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