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Trump's CIA Director Issues Stark Warning on National Security
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MSNBC Panel: Ratcliffe's Own Documents Undercut Trump
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The MSNBC panel segment adds a layer of documentary accountability to the episode. Panelist Rhode, citing senior intelligence officials, reported that everything Trump is now portraying as a cover-up actually occurred under John Ratcliffe's watch as DNI [1] — Rhode "In his own 2021 dissent to the foreign interference assessment, John Ratcliffe only argued that China's disinformation effort was larger th…" 12:31 . More damaging: Rhode read directly from Ratcliffe's own 2021 dissent to the foreign influence operations assessment, revealing that Ratcliffe's sole complaint was that China's disinformation effort — bots, influence networks — was larger than the main assessment indicated. There is, Rhode emphasized repeatedly, nothing in that dissent about votes being switched by China in any state. Nothing. The implication is clear: the man Trump is asking to validate his stolen-election narrative is the same man who, on the record, declined to do so. Rhode also flagged that $200 million in US voter records were obtained by China during Ratcliffe's DNI tenure, adding a further dimension to the accountability question.
An MSNBC panelist noted that during Trump's first term, under Ratcliffe's oversight as DNI, China obtained $200 million worth of voter records.
In his 2021 dissent to the foreign interference assessment, Ratcliffe's only complaint was that China's disinformation effort was larger than the main assessment indicated — he said nothing about votes being switched.
Declassified documents confirmed Russia spread false claims about Biden and Hunter Biden via Burisma and planned a corruption scandal during the 2020 election.
Documents released in Trump's own declassification batch confirm that Russia spread false claims about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden through Burisma, planned a high-profile corruption scandal timed to the 2020 election, and advanced those narratives with US officials and people close to Trump himself. The receipts came from Trump's own document dump.
