Congress cites Just the News reporting on China’s efforts to meddle in 2020 election that FBI buried

Congress on Wednesday cited Just the News's recent reporting about China’s alleged efforts to meddle in the 2020 election that the FBI buried out of fear of contradicted prior statements of then-Director Christopher Wray to Congress. 

The reference came in a congressional hearing held by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the U.S. Agency for Global Media – a federal agency that oversees publications such as the Voice of America, founded during World War II to combat Axis propaganda and used during the Cold War to distribute Western news behind the Iron Curtain. 

Congressman Abe Hamadeh used Just the News recent reporting to highlight the dangers of the Chinese Communist Party throughout the federal government.  

“We all know what happened with our elections in 2020 and 2022 and the technicals of the Chinese Communist Party which has just been reported by John Solomon and how they tried to impact the 2020 election,” Hamadeh said. "I know FBI Director Kash Patel is trying to get to the bottom of it.”

Earlier this month, Just the News reported Patel had shared a newly declassified intelligence report with Congress that raised concerns that China had mass-produced fake U.S. driver's licenses to carry out a scheme to hijack the 2020 election with fake mail-in ballots to benefit then-candidate Joe Biden. 

However, the intelligence report was recalled by other intelligence agencies before any investigation could be launched, mainly because the existence of possible foreign interference contradicted the testimony of then-FBI Director Christopher Wray months earlier senior officials told Just the News this week. 

Wray testified in September 2020 before both chambers of Congress and downplayed the potential for significant foreign meddling in the 2020 election, dismissed the possibility of foreign mail-in ballot fraud, and said he considered disinformation to be the biggest threat to the presidential election. 

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, Just the News also reported.