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FBI declassifies report on Chinese 'interference' in 2020 election via fake mail-in ballots
FBI Director Kash Patel has claimed to have declassified a report on Chinese 'interference' in the 2020 election via fake mail-in ballots in favour of former President Joe Biden. read more
Kash Patel speaks after being sworn in as FBI Director by US Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) on the White House campus in Washington, DC, US, February 21, 2025. (Reuters/Leah Millis/File Photo)
FBI Director Kash Patel has declassified a purported report on alleged Chinese interference in the 2020 presidential election.
Former President Joe Biden defeated now-President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. However, Trump and his allies have falsely maintained that the election was 'stolen' and that he had actually won. They tried to illegally overturn the election with an attack on the Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, but failed to do so.
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In a post on X, Patel said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has 'located documents which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 US election, including allegations of interference by the CCP [Chinese Communist Party]'. He added that he has declassified documents and handed them to Chuck Grassley, the Republican who serves as the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The FBI has located documents which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by the CCP.
I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over to the Chairman Grassley for further review. pic.twitter.com/sBVNUgN2BJ — FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) June 17, 2025
Patel told conservative website Just The News that the purported Chinese interference involved bringing in thousands of fake driving licences into the United States and using them to procure fake mail-in ballots to cast thousands of votes in favour of Biden.
The website said that Patel's action came after Grassley raised concerns that FBI had intelligence related to the 2020 election that had not been fully vetted.
What's inside purported Chinese interference report?
Patel told Just The News that the allegations were 'substantiated' but material related to them was recalled and never made public.
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'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,' said Patel.
The outlet said that the purported intelligence originated in August 2020 when Trump was still the president in his first term and Chris Wray was the Director of FBI — a Trump appointee. Wray testified that there was no foreign interference in the 2020 election.
The outlet said that the purported intelligence came from a relatively new confidential source who said in the summer of 2020 that the Chinese regime was plotting to have Chinese residents in the United States cast votes from fake driver licences.
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