Donald Trump’s latest attempt to revive his election fraud narrative hit an awkward snag Thursday night when one of the very people tasked with investigating those claims admitted there’s no evidence to support them.
John Solomon, a conservative journalist who now serves on Trump’s election task force, conceded during an interview after Trump’s primetime speech that U.S. intelligence has found no evidence that foreign powers changed votes in any of the last three national elections.
MS NOW’s Vaughn Hill pressed Solomon directly.
“Can you acknowledge that there were no votes changed in 2020?” Hill asked.
“All I can acknowledge is what the intelligence shows,” Solomon replied. “I only know—the intelligence community has zero evidence that … a foreign power flipped the vote in 2020, ’22, or ’24.”
Hill then followed up by asking whether Solomon could also acknowledge that Venezuela had not tampered with voting machines in the United States.
“The intelligence is very clear: They did it on their own machines,” Solomon answered before quickly ending the exchange.
That admission directly undercut the message Trump had delivered just minutes earlier.
During his nationally televised speech, Trump claimed China had engaged in the “illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files” and alleged there was a “specific plot to do a big number in favor of the corrupt Maduro regime in Venezuela.” He argued that American elections would remain vulnerable unless Congress passed his restrictive SAVE America Act.
But even Solomon, a longtime Trump ally who has spent years promoting election conspiracy theories and now sits on the president’s own election task force, couldn’t offer any evidence to support those claims. Instead, he acknowledged that U.S. intelligence has found no proof that any foreign government altered votes in the 2020, 2022, or 2024 elections.
The contradiction is difficult to ignore. Trump spent his speech warning Americans that elections had been compromised, while one of his own hand-picked election investigators publicly admitted that the intelligence says otherwise.
The irony didn’t end there.
Alongside his address, Trump released newly declassified intelligence documents. Rather than validating his allegations of foreign vote manipulation, the records reaffirmed a familiar conclusion: Russia sought to influence the 2020 election through disinformation campaigns, including efforts to amplify claims about Hunter Biden and undermine confidence in mail-in voting—not by changing votes or manipulating voting machines.
Watch the clip below:
NEW: John Solomon acknowledges no votes were changed in the 2020, 2022 or 2024 elections. He also, when asked if the 2020 results showing Biden won the presidential election are accurate, said, “I'm researching.” And says no intell that Venezuela tempered with US voting machines. pic.twitter.com/nllLSKgPl7
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) July 17, 2026
