This claim originates with FBI Director Kash Patel, who turned a document that suggested interference by China over to Senator Chuck Grassley and shared the document on X.
According to the Washington Examiner, Grassley “is requesting additional documentation from the FBI to verify … and is urging the FBI to do its due diligence to investigate why the document was recalled, who recalled it, and inform the American people of its findings.”
Fox News reports that the document alleges:
“In late August 2020, the Chinese government produced a large number of fraudulent United States driver’s licenses that were secretly exported to the United States. These licenses would have allowed tens of thousands of Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party to vote for U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, despite not being eligible to vote.”
However, the same article notes the claim’s shaky origins: “The source obtained the information from an identified sub‑source, who claimed they obtained it from unidentified PRC government officials.”
This report is currently under review by the Senate Judiciary Committee and has not been confirmed—contrary to the claim's suggestion that its allegations are settled fact.
It's important to note that no credible evidence of widespread or systemic voter fraud in the 2020 election has ever been found, despite repeated allegations from former President Trump and his allies. A 2021 National Intelligence Council report stated that “China did not deploy interference efforts and considered but did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.”
Related coverage can be found on Newsweek and NBC News.
