'Get Ready for Trump's 2026 Disinformation Deluge'

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(TPM, The Brief) - "Its Time to Flood the Zone With Shit Again"

"Trump announced Monday evening that he’s hauling out an old trick — the prime-time address — on Thursday at 9 p.m. What will the topic be? 'Just gonna be a speech like a lot of my speeches,' he told Hugh Hewitt on Monday. Indeed."

"MS Now reported last night that the president, joined by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte, FBI Director Kash Patel and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, is expected to advance a new set of allegations — or, more likely, warmed-over old ones — that foreign interference played a major role in the election in 2020. Axios was more hedged, saying the president would offer thoughts on 'a potpourri' of topics including Iran, the need to pass the SAVE Act and 'findings from his intelligence officials about the administration’s review of the 2020 election.' "

"That review is chugging forward, examining 'thousands of pages of classified intelligence and law enforcement documents' for 'irregularities,' per a separate MS Now report."

"The foreign interference conspiracy theories that will almost certainly make their return before the midterms are numerous, and often whimsical. A plot by Hugo Chavez to control U.S. voting machines; an intervention by Italian satellites; skullduggery by China, detectable only through bamboo fibers on ballots. We’ve heard these before, including in the days immediately after the 2020 election."

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