President Donald Trump used a prime-time address to the nation Thursday evening to announce the declassification of intelligence documents related to the 2020 election. In his speech, Trump alleged that US intelligence officials suppressed information about Chinese activity targeting American voter data.
As Trump began speaking from the East Room of the White House, the administration launched a new website titled “Election Integrity,” publishing document collections covering alleged vulnerabilities in electronic voting systems, China’s acquisition of voter information, a Michigan voter-registration investigation and noncitizens appearing on state voter rolls.
The president said that the declassified documents “show that over a period of years, starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files.”
Trump said the records had been assembled by the White House Government Transparency Task Force and staff of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, with support from senior US intelligence officials who personally reviewed the findings.
The president claimed the newly released material showed that members of what he called the “deep state” inside American intelligence agencies “worked to actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China’s sinister election meddling.”
Trump said that American spy agencies “began learning about the compromise of voter registration files in 2020,” alleging that information was concealed from both him and the American public.
Trump also said the declassified records demonstrate that foreign adversaries possess the capability to compromise election infrastructure.
Ahead of the address, Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, said he had received a White House briefing and urged Americans to watch.
“This may be the most important Oval Office address since the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Moreno wrote on X, invoking President John F. Kennedy’s nationally televised 1962 announcement of a naval quarantine around Cuba.
“The time for complacency with China is over,” Moreno added.
Trump concluded his speech by calling on Congress to pass the Save America Act.
“Addressing this crisis of election security demands that Congress must pass the Save America Act! How easy is that to do? Unless you want to cheat, the only reason you wouldn’t do it is you want to cheat because your policies are so bad, and your candidates are so pathetic that you can’t get away or can’t get elected any other way,” he said.
Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader in the US Senate responded by saying that the legislation will be “dead on arrival” in the Senate.
“Not now. Not ever. The SAVE Act is dead on arrival in the United States Senate,”
Rep Claudia Tenney posted a screenshot of the file adding “China attempted to manufacture fake ballots for Joe Biden.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, called the president “a feeble, unhinged conspiracy-peddling 80-year old failed President.”
Related files on Vulnerabilities in Electronic Voting and Ballot-Counting Systems
China’s Acquisition and Exploitation of American Voter Data
Related files on Michigan Voter-Registration Investigation
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