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Trump, despite his record, eyes prime-time address on foreign election interference 34%
By Steve Benen99%
7/14/2026, 1:02:44 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Politically Left Leaning Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Ad Hominem, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 20% saturation with 101 hits. Analysis detected 177 faulty-reasoning hits from 505 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 42.2% and a BS Rank of 34% (10,284 of 15,517 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 66.30% of the article peer group.
As this week got underway, Donald Trump announced by way of his social media platform that he’d deliver “a Speech to the Nation” on Thursday night, though the president initially didn’t say a word about why or what he intended to say.
Hours later, however, he spoke via phone to Newsmax and shed some light on what the public can expect to hear.
Trump previews his Thursday speech: "Our elections are crooked and we've gotta straighten them out."
“Our elections are crooked and we’ve got to straighten them out,” Trump said, peddling familiar, tiresome nonsense.
“We’ve got to have voter ID; we’ve got to have proof of citizenship; and we have got to do something about the mail-in ballots, which are just corrupt, crooked and should not be allowed.”
In other words, the president remains focused on his voter-suppression proposal, which the White House has labeled the Save America Act and which congressional Republicans have already conceded they can’t pass.
We’ll learn soon enough what makes its way onto the Republican’s teleprompter, but there’s one thing of particular interest that’s likely to make the cut.
MS NOW, citing comments from two White House officials granted anonymity to discuss internal plans, reported on Monday afternoon that Trump plans to address newly declassified intelligence reports that the White House asserts reveal plans by foreign nations to interfere in the 2020 election.
One obviously can’t fact-check claims that have yet to be made, but if the president and his team follow through on these plans, there are a few things the public should keep in mind.
First, there is some irony to the idea that Trump, of all people, would voice concerns along these lines: In 2016, Russia launched a military intelligence operation that targeted the American presidential election for the express purpose of putting Trump in power.
Confronted with overwhelming evidence of that effort, Trump falsely dismissed the evidence as a “hoax” and ultimately said he trusted Russian President Vladimir Putin more than his own country’s intelligence agencies.
Second, if the president really wants to talk about foreign interference in the 2020 election, the White House should probably expect a few questions about that time Trump explicitly said he would welcome foreign election interference in the 2020 election.
Third, ahead of Election Day 2020, congressional Democrats pushed a variety of measures intended to discourage foreign election interference.
Republicans rejected all of those proposals .
And finally, let’s not forget that when U.S. intelligence again showed that Russia was targeting the 2020 election to help Trump stay in power, the Trump administration responded by announcing it would no longer provide briefings to Congress about foreign interference in the 2020 election.
In other words, if the president wants to renew a public conversation about foreign election interference six years ago, he might not like where the conversation ends up.
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