Trump loyalist Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe is holding up a mandated report to Congress on election interference – and wants to place a greater emphasis on China.
Amid the dispute over what to include, Ratcliffe is blowing past a Friday deadline, as intelligence agents comb over intel gleaned after the election.
The spat, first reported by Bloomberg News, revisits a pre-election tug of war over whether to stress Russian election interference – following Kremlin-backed interference in the 2016 elections, and threats from China.
It also comes as President Trump continues to claim the election was 'rigged' against him – despite the Electoral College meeting to make Joe Biden's win official and the Supreme Court declining to take up a challenge brought by the Texas attorney general.