China hacked voter registration data in multiple states before the 2020 election.
Your government knew – and said nothing.
Now the report they buried is out, and the people who hid it have a serious problem.
The Memo They Made Disappear
In January 2020, the National Intelligence Council issued a classified warning: foreign adversaries had the capability to compromise America's voting infrastructure, and voter registration databases were sitting targets.
The warning was serious enough that top CIA, FBI, and Homeland Security officials personally briefed President Trump at the White House in February 2020.
Then the memo vanished.
Not misplaced – erased.
Whistleblower Christopher Porter, who served as the National Intelligence Officer for Cyber, says that after Trump was reelected, the CIA claimed the report had never been declassified.
The record of its declassification had been scrubbed from the system entirely.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just forced it back into the light.
What Beijing Actually Did
The January 2020 memo wasn't hypothetical.
It was a preview.
That spring, China successfully penetrated American voter registration data spanning multiple states – accessing the exact databases the NIC had flagged as vulnerable.
Iran did the same.
The Iranian breach didn't become public until November 2021, when federal prosecutors finally indicted the hackers.
The Chinese penetration wasn't officially acknowledged until March 2026, when Just the News obtained the first declassified documents confirming it.
American voters went through an entire presidential election, an entire term, and most of a second term before their government admitted a foreign adversary had been inside the data that determines who gets to vote.
Beijing also sent fake driver's licenses to the United States in a bid to help Joe Biden win.
That's not a conspiracy theory.
That's what the declassified documents say.
The 2016 vs. 2020 Rulebook
Here is what makes this story worse than it already sounds.
In 2016, intelligence agencies documented Russian interference – and that report was released, amplified, and turned into a four-year political weapon against Donald Trump.
In 2020, intelligence agencies documented Chinese and Iranian interference.
That report got buried, and the man who wrote it was retaliated against.
Porter says that when he raised concerns about the suppression, the CIA, ODNI, and even the Inspector General stripped his ability to communicate with Congress on election security.
The rule was simple: findings that hurt Trump got amplified.
Findings that complicated the 2020 narrative got buried.
Adam Schiff spent four years as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee calling every election integrity question a threat to democracy.
He had every reason to know this report existed.
He now sits in the United States Senate.
Someone Is Going to Answer for This
Intelligence Community Inspector General Christopher Fox has opened a full investigation into whether Porter's concerns were suppressed and whether he was punished for raising them.
That investigation leads directly back to the agencies that decided the American public didn't need to know China was inside their voter rolls.
Gabbard isn't done declassifying.
Fox isn't done investigating.
And Adam Schiff – who built his career on telling you Russian interference was the only election story worth knowing – is going to have to explain why his committee never asked a single question while Beijing was harvesting the data of American voters.
Sources:
- John Solomon, "U.S. intel flagged major 2020 election vulnerabilities, including voter data, memo shows," Just the News, April 2026.
- "Foreign Threats to the 2020 U.S. Federal Elections," Office of the Director of National Intelligence, declassified March 16, 2021.
- "New Evidence Uncovers Obama-Directed Creation of False Intelligence Report," Office of the Director of National Intelligence, press release, July 2025.
- John Ratcliffe, "ODNI Primarily Concerned with China, Iran, Russia Seeking to Compromise 2020 Election," Fox News, August 2020.
