In the long arc of democratic self-questioning, few wounds reopen as reliably as the integrity of the ballot. President Trump, addressing the nation in prime time, revived claims that China stole 220 million American voter files in 2020 and that intelligence agencies buried the evidence from him — assertions that collide directly with a 2021 unclassified assessment, conducted under his own intelligence director, finding no foreign alteration of that election's technical outcome. With November's midterms approaching, the revival of these claims is less a search for historical truth than a strat