Who is Nikki Floris? Ex-FBI official behind Trump’s ‘shadow government’ rhetoric during election address
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- ▪Trump did not name Floris, but newly declassified FBI messages identify her as the author of the remark.
- ▪Ex-FBI official behind Trump’s ‘shadow government’ rhetoric during election address Judge blocks OMB from retroactively cutting grants based on new rules How China stole voter registration from 220 million US citizens, according to declassi
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Nikki Floris, a former senior FBI counterintelligence official who helped oversee election security in 2020, wrote that she was “basically running a shadow government across the FBI” as the bureau recalled a report alleging China was manufacturing fraudulent driver’s licenses for a mail-in ballot scheme.President Donald Trump invoked the same “shadow government” language during his primetime address on Thursday, when he accused federal officials of concealing intelligence about Chinese election interference from his administration. Trump did not name Floris, but newly declassified FBI messages identify her as the author of the remark.
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