Did France and Ukraine give Trump fake intel to test leak?

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Eric Swalwell and the Chinese national ... Donald Trump and released Monday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force as part of a broader effort to unmask foreign threats to U.S. political and election systems. ... In a tense March 2020 meeting just months before the presidential election, the National Security Agency’s (NSA) deputy director blocked the release of a long-delayed report on foreign targeting of U.S. elections—not because the intelligence was flawed, ...

The people who warned of climate change, the “Russia hoax” and the “Ukraine hoax” are the same people “now saying that AI is going to kill us all.”

It was not the first time that the vice president had addressed Ukraine’s leader with words more commonly spoken to toddlers than heads of state. ... The Secret Service said the boats the agency uses for security are usually motorized and need deeper waters to operate. ... JD Vance, the vice president, sat down with Nigel Farage, a longtime supporter of President Trump whose party, Reform U.K., is leading in British polls. ... Vice President JD Vance singled out the tech firm as he and other officials accused an array of companies and universities of abusing the visa system.

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According to political scientist ... about Ukraine. On May 30, 2017, as inquiries into alleged Russian meddling in the U.S. election expanded, both the House and Senate congressional panels asked President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who was one of Trump's closest confidants, to provide information and testimony about any communications he had with people connected to the Kremlin. On May 31, 2017, the House Intelligence Committee ...

At the same time, he was busy creating ... to elect Donald Trump. ... [T]he entire intelligence community was on alert about this situation at least two months before [the dossier] became part of the investigation." The "Steele dossier has so far proven to be fairly accurate", LeTourneau wrote. In early August, which was after the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was opened, Steele was summoned to Rome where he gave a full briefing ...

The narrative expanded to include ... Western intelligence agent used as a counterintelligence trap for the Trump campaign, and elements of the conspiracy theories related to the Trump–Ukraine scandal; it posits that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for election interference. The theory further claimed that Ukraine had interfered in the elections at the behest of the Democratic Party to benefit Hillary Clinton's election campaign, and that they had planted evidence that Russia ...