by John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy at Just the News
Recently-unearthed internal FBI documents provide more evidence that the bureau purposely failed to properly investigate allegations of Chinese government meddling in the 2020 U.S. presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
The FBI has located internal documents showing that it did not pursue intelligence indicating that Communist China was looking to hijack the 2020 presidential election with a potential mail-in ballot scheme to assist then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden because the bureau feared that would undercut then-FBI Director Christopher Wray’s assurances to Congress that foreign meddling did not pose a threat to the presidential race, officials told Just the News.
The documents showing the internal conversations and deliberations are being transmitted to Congress, the officials told Just the News on Wednesday, and Attorney General Pam Bondi is expected to address the allegations as early as Wednesday during a Senate Appropriations hearing.
The FBI memo detailing an alleged Chinese plot to meddle in the 2020 election was recalled from the rest of the U.S. intelligence community’s spy agencies because it conflicted with Wray’s assurances that foreign interference would likely not impact the upcoming presidential race, the officials told Just the News. And the FBI did not follow up on the claims in the FBI memo even after re-interviewing the originating source of the meddling allegations – because of the same concerns about undercutting Wray.
Wray testified in September 2020 before the House and Senate,…
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