Trump official interfered in report on Russian election meddling – watchdog

Chad Wolf, then acting homeland security secretary, demanded changes and delayed report, risking perception of politicisation

Chad Wolf, Donald Trump's acting secretary of homeland security, interfered with a report on Russian interference in the 2020 election by demanding changes, delaying its dissemination and creating a risk the report might be seen as politicised, a government watchdog said.

Eventually declassified in March 2021, the report was a summary of foreign election interference into the 2020 election. It found that, as one headline put it, Russia tried to help Trump in 2020, Iran tried to hurt him and China stayed out of it".