Former Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf ordered alterations to a report detailing foreign attempts to interfere in the 2020 election which downplay Russian efforts on behalf of former president Donald Trump — and also delayed release of the report — because it made Mr Trump “look bad,” according to a newly-released report by the department’s inspector general.
The report found that an “intelligence product” drafted by a DHS analyst who monitored Russian state media who’d “noticed an uptick in Russian state media efforts to question candidate Joseph Biden’s mental health” in April 2020 was changed to include material “describing overt efforts by Chinese and Iranian influence actors to promote unsubstantiated narratives” regarding Mr Trump’s mental health in a “tone box” which highlighted the part about Mr Trump.
