FBI Director Kash Patel handed Congress a cache of documents alleging a Chinese plot to interfere in the 2020 election—one that involved thousands of fake U.S. driver’s licenses.
The details are hazy. But according to a confidential source, Beijing’s scheme aimed to funnel fraudulent mail-in ballots to boost then-candidate Joe Biden, Patel’s spokesperson told The Post.
Federal authorities reportedly got wind of the operation in August 2020—but the intelligence reports were suddenly pulled, and no one seems willing to explain why.
US Customs and Border Protection seized almost 20,000 fake licenses around that time.
“The FBI has located documents which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by the CCP,” Patel revealed on X.
“I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over to the Chairman Grassley [sic] for further review.”
The FBI has located documents which detail alarming allegations related to the 2020 U.S. election, including allegations of interference by the CCP.
I have immediately declassified the material and turned the documents over to the Chairman Grassley for further review. pic.twitter.com/sBVNUgN2BJ
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) June 17, 2025
“Thanks to the oversight work and partnership of Chairman Grassley, the FBI continues to provide unprecedented transparency at the people’s Bureau,” Patel told Just the News, which first reported on this story. “To that end, we have located documents Chairman Grassley requested.”
“Specifically, these include allegations of plans from the CCP to manufacture fake driver’s licenses and ship them into the United States for the purpose of facilitating fraudulent mail-in ballots — allegations which, while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public.”
“Chairman Grassley is in receipt of an FBI document responsive to a request he made based on legally protected whistleblower disclosures. The document alleges serious national security concerns that need to be fully investigated by the FBI,” a Grassley spokesperson told The New York Post.
