President Donald Trump plans to claim in a Thursday night speech that newly declassified intelligence reports reveal a foreign nation’s plans to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, two White House officials told MS NOW on Monday.

Trump will be joined by officials including CIA Director John Ratcliffe, acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, FBI Director Kash Patel and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, according to one of the officials, who were granted anonymity to discuss the internal plans, MS NOW reported.

Trump earlier Monday afternoon announced on Truth Social that he “will be making a Speech to the Nation on Thursday evening, at 9 P.M. Eastern,” without providing further details.

I bet this is all made up pretense for him to take control of elections

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    8 hours ago

    I’d bet a paycheck that a foreign country has interfered or planned to interfere or influence elections since the end of WWII, probably as early as the first election.

    If they prove that his first and second elections were interfered with and he still won; does that change anything? Do we get to undo all of his decisions? What does he plan to accomplish by pointing out that there was a security breach on his watch?

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      7 hours ago

      Likely used as justification for some sort of illegal change to how voting works or to further push the “SAVE” act.