Members of the deep state in the United States concealed from the country’s leadership and the American people information about the scale of China’s alleged interference in the U.S. elections. This was stated on the evening of July 16 by U.S. President Donald Trump.

"The second set of documents that we will release shows that members of the deep state, a very well-known group of people, in many cases from our intelligence community, worked to actively conceal and downplay information about the extent of China’s insidious election interference, hiding it in an unthinkable way both from the president and from the American people," he said in a televised address to fellow citizens at the White House.