President Donald Trump’s declassified documents appear to “back up” allegations about the deep state and intelligence community officials’ biases intended “to harm him.”
The president addressed the nation from the White House Thursday evening to discuss redacted documents made accessible to the public, which were considered a nothingburger or lies by corporate media. Amid allegations of China hacking data of over 220 million voters and knowledge that tens of thousands of noncitizens have been permitted to register to vote, Catherine Herridge honed in on the latest evidence that some within the IC “suppressed” China’s supposed influence operation.
Sharing a screenshot from the declassified documents, the investigative journalist posted, “DISCONNECTING THE DOTS: China’s ‘multi-domain’ influence operation was suppressed by striking references to the 2020 election and ‘massaging’ intelligence reports for the President.”
She then shared the email dated Friday, November 20, 2020, attributed to a Strategic Intelligence Analyst, China & North Korea Strategic Assessments, that read in part, “We have deliberately massaged our one pending PDB (President’s Daily Brief) to avoid any direct links to the election.”
DISCONNECTING THE DOTS: China’s ‘multi-domain’ influence operation was suppressed by striking references to the 2020 election and “massaging” intelligence reports for the President.
Friday, November 20, 2020: “We have deliberately massaged our one pending PDB (President’s Daily… pic.twitter.com/bx2FcscLiu
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) July 17, 2026
Herridge addressed the document on NewsNation with Katie Pavlich after the president concluded his speech, and said, “I’ve been digging into the documents already and I found this November 2020 email, and it specifically states — it’s a conversation among intelligence officials — it specifically states that they have, ‘deliberately massaged one of our pending PDBs to avoid any direct links to the election.”
In the clip shared by the X account Wall Street Apes, the journalist went on, “This was a massive effort, what they call a multi-domain operation. That means trade, it means diplomacy, it means open-source information, it means social media — so all the levers of power China had to influence the U.S. election.”
Looking back to the summer of 2020, Herridge emphasized the difference between an influence and an interference operation, noting there were indicators that China was allegedly working on the former before that information was suppressed.
“… some of their reports,” she said, “there were — in officials’ own handwriting — that they wanted everything out that could help President Trump in his re-election. So there was clear evidence of political and personal bias.”
The documents featured a statement from FBI Foreign Interference Task Force Lead Nikki Floris, then-Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, who said, “I am basically running a shadow government inside the FBI right now.”
As previously reported, Floris was the official said to have recalled a Sept. 25, 2020 Intelligence Information Report about the Chinese Communist Party alleged use of “tens of thousands” of fake driver’s licenses to create fake mail-in votes after then-FBI Director Christopher Wray testified to the contrary that, “We have not seen historically any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it is by mail or otherwise.”
Floris was also said to be the official who briefed Senate Judiciary Committee chair Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) and Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson (R) in August 2020 that the investigation of Hunter Biden was advancing Russian disinformation.
Likewise, early in her tenure as Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents alleging a “treasonous conspiracy” by then-President Barack Obama’s administration, halting an intelligence community assessment for the PDB that dispelled the idea of Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
Gabbard releases DAMNING evidence of ‘treasonous’ Obama admin conspiracy to ‘usurp’ Trump https://t.co/6MctUqaiy1 via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) July 19, 2025
Following Gabbard’s departure from the ODNI, Herridge reported that there were “strong indicators” that the CIA had been “tracking ‘every keystroke’ of the Director’s Initiatives Group” while also denying the team access to analysts and officials in their investigations.
In the post, Wall Street Apes drew attention to former CIA officer Pedro Israel Orta’s remarks in an interview with Tucker Carlson where the whistleblower said of the agency, “They didn’t even wanna recognize [Trump] as the president.”
Boiling down the address that was blown off by the left, Herridge asserted, “What we heard tonight from the president is an allegation that this intelligence was suppressed in order to harm him, and now we’re seeing documents already which back up those claims.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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