When it comes to the 2020 election, a lot of people still have some unanswered questions, and the Biden administration is adding yet another to the list.
Now, in addition to the Capitol riots, QAnon, ballot dumping, ballot harvesting, and whatever Sidney Powell was trying to sell us, the Kremlin is now somehow allegedly involved in the messy and confusing contest.
Russia and Iran both carried out operations to try to interfere in the 2020 presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, according to a U.S. intelligence report released Tuesday.
The U.S. intelligence community also determined that China did not try to change the outcome of the 2020 races and said there are no indications that foreign actors attempted to alter U.S. ballots or vote tabulation, the report says.
The assessment was released as the Biden administration works to bolster relationships with key U.S. allies in order to mount pressure on Russia and Iran.
Tehran and Moscow have previously denied any involvement in attempting to influence U.S. elections.
But the report said that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized “influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process, and exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the US.”
Russia also stood accused of attempting to interfere in the 2016 election – something that the Democrats used to attempt to tie Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin during a lengthy and expensive investigation by Robert Mueller.
