Kash Patel Reveals China May Have Plotted To Flood U.S. With Fake Mail-In Ballots In 2020

FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Tuesday that the FBI had uncovered documents pertaining to an “alleged Chinese plot to create fake mail-in ballots” ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

Patel shared a screenshot of a headline from Just the News that read, “FBI gives Congress intel on alleged Chinese plot to create fake mail-in ballots in 2020” — along with his own comment confirming that the FBI had, in fact, turned such information over to Congress for additional scrutiny.

“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,” Patel posted.

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

According to the report published by Just the News, the alleged scheme involved the mass production of fake American driver’s licenses. The intelligence reports that raised the concern were from August of 2020 — and have now been declassified by Patel and turned over to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

Grassley knew of the intelligence reports, and had been concerned that they had never been properly investigated at the time. Instead, after President Joe Biden took office in January of 2021, his newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines declassified an intelligence report in March stating that there had been no attempt by Communist China to interfere in the outcome of the election.

That report, declassified on March 10, 2021, stated in part, “We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results.”

With regard to China, the report said, “We assess that China did not deploy interference efforts and considered but did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US Presidential election.”

The report also determined that Iran had made attempts to influence the election in Biden’s favor, but had not been successful in doing so.