Trump points to declassified memo on NSA holding back 2016 election threat report
Trump shares a Just The News report on a declassified 2020 memo describing an NSA deputy director blocking a delayed election-interference assessment over fears of a “deep state” label.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald Trump pointed his followers to a declassified memo that he said shows the National Security Agency withheld election threat reporting to avoid being tied to the “deep state.”
Here is the full post on truthsocial: “Intel Politics: NSA sat on election threat reporting over Trump “deep state” label, memo shows: https://justthenews.com/government/security/nsa-analyst-agency-sat-2016-election-interference-intel-avoid-trump-era” on August 23, 2026 at 10:51 PM ET.
This is Trump’s 10th message released today, and the last post was 2 minutes ago, and it is not part of a thread. On average, Trump produces 18 posts per day since his inauguration on January 20, 2025. The move fits a broader pattern in Trump’s recent messaging, with 7 of his 581 posts over the last 30 days classified as Deep State posts.
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The article Trump linked describes a March 2020 meeting in which the NSA deputy director blocked the release of a long-delayed report on foreign targeting of U.S. elections, according to justthenews. The memo says the deputy director feared the release would brand the agency as part of the “deep state” and damage its credibility, according to justthenews. The declassified document is a contemporaneous account by an NSA analyst of that meeting, dated March 13, 2020, according to justthenews. The White House Government Transparency Task Force released the memo Tuesday, according to justthenews.
Officials had proposed the report for release in December 2018, according to justthenews. It concerned foreign targeting of the United States that began in 2014, including activity related to the 2016 election, according to justthenews. Trump had criticized the intelligence community and questioned election security during that period, according to justthenews. Trump, who returned to the White House for a second term after his inauguration on January 20, 2025, mentioned the source (see justthenews) in his post.
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