By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens
WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - If President Donald Trump repeats claims in a national address on Thursday that the 2020 election was stolen from him, as many experts expect, he would not just be rehashing old conspiracy theories.
He would, they say, be threatening the very integrity of forthcoming U.S. elections, including the November midterms.
Reuters reported earlier this week that Trump's forthcoming speech would cover purported voting machine vulnerabilities and that the White House was weighing whether to release controversial intelligence to do with China's intentions or abilities to disrupt the 2020 vote.
Both of those topics are staples of Republican conspiracy theories that Beijing or other foreign powers swung the election in favor of Trump's opponent, Democrat Joe Biden.
WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - If President Donald Trump repeats claims in a national address on Thursday that the 2020 election was stolen from him, as many experts expect, he would not just be rehashing old conspiracy theories.
He would, they say, be threatening the very integrity of forthcoming U.S. elections, including the November midterms.
Reuters reported earlier this week that Trump's forthcoming speech would cover purported voting machine vulnerabilities and that the White House was weighing whether to release controversial intelligence to do with China's intentions or abilities to disrupt the 2020 vote.
Both of those topics are staples of Republican conspiracy theories that Beijing or other foreign powers swung the election in favor of Trump's opponent, Democrat Joe Biden.
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