Chris Wray swore to Congress there were no foreign plots to interfere in the 2020 election.
Now Trump has the CIA and NSA documents that prove Wray was sitting on dozens of them.
What Wray hid – and why he hid it – is the story that Washington, DC doesn't want you reading tonight.
What the Intelligence Actually Says
The White House released four categories of declassified documents Thursday night: voting machine vulnerabilities, China's acquisition of American voter data, a Michigan voter-registration investigation, and noncitizens on state voter rolls.
The China section is the bombshell.
According to the declassified reports, beginning in the 2020 election cycle Beijing carried out what the White House calls "the largest compromise of election data in history" – stealing 220 million U.S. voter files.
That's more files than there were registered voters in America.
China didn't just collect names and addresses.
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They grabbed political party affiliations, phone numbers, and every data point needed to build a fake American voter identity from scratch.
Kash Patel then declassified a separate August 2020 FBI intelligence report: the CCP had allegedly used TikTok account data to manufacture fraudulent U.S. driver's licenses and ship them into the country for use in fraudulent mail-in ballots.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized nearly 20,000 of those fake licenses around the same time.
The intelligence report was pulled back before investigators could pursue it.
What Wray Told Congress While the Files Sat in FBI Headquarters
Trump said that during 2020, "dozens of significant CIA and NSA reports about China's election targeting were kept out of the presidential briefing" he received almost every day.
Kept out.
Not flagged as unverified, not summarized with caveats – kept out entirely.
Congress wasn't notified either.
And then Chris Wray went to Capitol Hill and told senators there were no known foreign plots targeting the 2020 election.
The intelligence sitting in FBI files said otherwise.
Election law expert Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at Advancing American Freedom, told Fox News Digital the president should be "commended for declassifying and releasing the reports."
He added that anyone involved in covering up the intrusions should be "investigated and prosecuted for any criminal violations of the law."
Trump ordered the Director of National Intelligence, the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA to launch investigations and, where appropriate, fire those responsible and press criminal charges.
Why Schumer Is Desperate to Stop the SAVE America Act
Chuck Schumer went on X Thursday night and wrote that the SAVE America Act is "dead on arrival in the United States Senate."
Not because it's unconstitutional.
Not because it's unworkable.
Because it requires proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.
DHS has already told California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania that a preliminary review found more than 256,000 potential noncitizens on their voter rolls.
Schumer knows what those numbers mean for his party.
The SAVE America Act passed the House in February.
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Democrats are filibustering it in the Senate – at the exact moment Trump is presenting intelligence showing China built a 220-million-file voter database and manufactured fake IDs to exploit the mail-in ballot system.
The timing isn't subtle.
China spent years building the infrastructure to put fake voters into the American election system.
Democrats are blocking the one law that would stop them.
Connect those dots yourself.
Sources:
- Ashley J. DiMella, "Trump releases declassified election intelligence, says it reveals 'shocking vulnerabilities,'" Fox News, July 16, 2026.
- "Election Integrity," The White House, whitehouse.gov, July 16, 2026.
- Fox News Digital, "Senate, FBI probe alleged Chinese plot to influence Biden's election with fake IDs," Fox News, June 2025.
- Fox News Digital, "DHS alleges over 256,000 non-citizens may be on voter rolls across 4 states," Fox News, July 16, 2026.
- Jeff Mordock, "FBI intelligence links China to alleged interference in 2020 election," Washington Times, June 2025.
