FBI Director Kash Patel has declassified documents showing Chinese Communist Party involvement in a 2020 mail-in ballot fraud scheme, revealing the bureau buried the intelligence under former Director Chris Wray.
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FBI Director Kash Patel announced Monday the declassification of intelligence documents that allegedly detail a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) scheme to manufacture fraudulent mail-in ballots for the 2020 presidential election. The documents, located by the FBI and released to Congress, reportedly outline plans to use fake driver’s licenses and false voter registrations to facilitate widespread ballot fraud.
The revelations, which Patel shared via X, implicate the CCP in election interference operations that date back to at least August 2020. According to Patel, these foreign efforts were not aimed at helping then-President Donald Trump. Rather, they were driven by the Chinese regime’s deep animosity toward Trump’s aggressive economic policies and sanctions targeting Beijing’s global influence.
“The FBI has located documents which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by the CCP,” Patel wrote in his announcement. “I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over to Chairman Grassley for further review.”
The FBI has located documents which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by the CCP.
I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over to the Chairman Grassley for further review. pic.twitter.com/sBVNUgN2BJ
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) June 17, 2025
As reported by Just the News, the declassified intelligence highlights a plan by the Chinese government to smuggle counterfeit driver’s licenses into the United States, a strategy designed to enable illegal registration of non-existent voters and the casting of fraudulent mail-in ballots.
These claims were originally documented in August 2020, but internal FBI communications reveal that then-Director Chris Wray opted not to pursue the investigation further. The intelligence was reportedly withdrawn from agency workflows and never made public, even as Wray testified before Congress that there were “no known plots” of foreign interference affecting the 2020 election outcome.
“The newly declassified intelligence reports from August 2020 weren’t corroborated or fully investigated and instead were recalled from intelligence agencies,” a senior official told Just the News.
The documents were provided to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who had previously questioned the FBI’s handling of 2020 election intelligence. Patel credited Grassley’s ongoing oversight efforts with helping bring the material to light.
“Thanks to the oversight work and partnership of Chairman Grassley, the FBI continues to provide unprecedented transparency at the people’s Bureau,” Patel said. “Specifically, these include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver’s licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots—allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public.”
According to Patel, the material was immediately declassified upon its rediscovery and turned over for further review by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The developments raise renewed concerns about the scope of foreign interference in the 2020 election and the FBI’s response under prior leadership. Critics argue that had the allegations been publicly vetted in 2020, it may have altered the trajectory of the election or at least public understanding of its vulnerabilities.
As of now, the documents remain under congressional review.