Trump's China Conspiracy: A Midterm Distraction The latest salvos in Donald Trump's campaign to delegitimize American democracy have been fired, and they're not being aimed at Beijing as much as they are at his own country's electoral system.
The President's attacks on the "deep state," intelligence officials, and election data are a smokescreen for a more pressing concern: the midterm elections in November.
Trump's remarks were not merely the ramblings of a paranoid leader; they were a calculated attempt to shift attention away from his party's faltering prospects and onto a convenient scapegoat.