President Trump addressed the nation last night on election security, foreign interference, and media coverage. He claimed a major Chinese-linked hack of U.S. voter data had been covered up by elements of the FBI and CIA. Trump also accused several major networks of deliberately limiting coverage of the speech. NBC, ABC, and CNN did not air the address live (Fox News, NewsNation, and C-SPAN carried it in full).
15:55 ~ “Good evening…”
Transcript
Before we begin, I’m proud to report that our country is safer, stronger, and far wealthier than it has ever been before. Less than two years ago, we inherited an economic and social disaster—after the worst inflation in 48 years, and wide-open borders with millions of people pouring in from all over the world, including criminals of all types, and 11,888 murderers, many of whom killed more than one person. We had transgender for everybody, men in women’s sports, crime ravaging our cities, and the whole world was laughing at us as a nation. But not anymore.
Two years ago, our country was dead—now, we are the hottest country anywhere in the world. America is respected like we have never been respected before.
For many years, I have called for bold, swift, and decisive action to protect the integrity of America’s elections. Every American deserves to know that when they cast their vote, that vote will be counted accurately in a system that is secure—one where cheating and interference are not just difficult, but virtually impossible.
Unfortunately, the system we have today falls catastrophically short of that standard. Tonight, I am announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical intelligence revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure.
This evidence shows that the election system we have is dangerously exposed to hacking, exploitation, and foreign interference. Just as disturbingly, this vital information has for many years been covered up and hidden from you, the American People, and that changes right now.
The documents we will release starting tonight have been gathered by the White House Government Transparency Task Force, along with the staff of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board—supported by our top intelligence agency chiefs, who have all personally reviewed the findings we are presenting this evening, and fully confirmed their authenticity. You can see these documents for yourself at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/election-integrity/
Newly 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.
That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote, and engage in other nefarious activities.
This data loss presents an unprecedented election security nightmare. The intelligence even shows that China assigned a data exploitation unit specifically to this new project.
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Compounding the travesty, the second set of documents we are releasing reveals that members of the Deep State in our intelligence agencies worked to actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China’s sinister election meddling—covering it up from both the President and the American People.
U.S. spy agencies began learning about the compromise of voter registration files in 2020, when they discovered that tens of millions of voters’ data in 18 states had been bought, stolen, or hacked by China. Yet those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information hidden. They did not disclose it to me as president, and to the best of our knowledge, they did not inform Congress. In fact, all they kept saying is, “This is the most secure election in the history of our country.”
The coverup of this colossal security breach is even more disturbing in light of additional information showing that China engaged in other election-related activities to undermine my first administration and our 2020 campaign. They did not want Donald Trump to win, and for good reason.
As the documents we are releasing show, CIA reporting explicitly stated, “In mid-2018, the Chinese Communist Party’s policy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements that were opposed to the U.S. President in an effort to reduce the U.S. President’s votes and make him resign or prevent his re-election. Also in mid-2018, China was working to influence the results of the U.S. mid-term elections, and later, the results of the 2020 Presidential Elections.
Separately, in mid-2019, the Chinese Government’s strategy against the United States was focused on undermining domestic confidence in the U.S. president”—and they did everything possible to do so. Going on, it says “The strategy included efforts to use Chinese contracts with big U.S. companies to influence U.S. business leaders to turn against the U.S. President.
The Chinese government sought to identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. President, and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him. The Chinese Government wanted the U.S. president to lose the next election.” And the reason they wanted me to lose is because they knew I was wise to them, charged them billions of dollars’ worth of tariffs, and built the strongest military anywhere in the world.
These are exact quotes from CIA reporting—the name of the person doing the quote is under review. But it gets even worse. Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020, yet buried by rogue bureaucrats, stated that China’s activities even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden.
Documents show that during this period, dozens of significant CIA and NSA reports about China’s election targeting were kept out of the Presidential Daily Briefing. One email among intelligence analysts admitted they had ‘deliberately massaged’ the Presidential Daily Briefing to withhold information regarding Chinese activities related to the election.
Another official inside the FBI wrote that she was running ‘a shadow government’ to keep intelligence about China’s election meddling from becoming known. Other officials who witnessed such efforts perceived the motivations to be blatantly political.
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Today, I am asking the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA to investigate how and why such crucial information was hidden, to fire those involved in the coverup, and to file criminal charges, if appropriate, against them.
Yet concealing China’s meddling was only the beginning. The third set of documents we are releasing proves that for many years, Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot-counting systems. They are vulnerable, and they are easily compromised.
Tonight, we are publishing a series of previously-classified U.S. Intelligence Community Assessments and other reports proving that our government has long known these machines are extremely exposed to attack. As one assessment states: “We judge that U.S. adversaries, including at a minimum Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, as well as non-state groups, have the capability to compromise U.S. election infrastructure.”
The documents also state: “We assess that centralized election-related data repositories, such as voter registration databases, pollbooks, and official election websites, are most vulnerable to exploitation, and adversaries could use access to these systems to disrupt election processes.”
Tonight, we are releasing all of these findings, spanning from January 2020 to June 2026. This is a cyber threat aimed at the very heart of our democracy.
Many people have questioned whether it could actually be possible to electronically manipulate vote totals or change election results. Today, we are releasing documents that show the CIA obtained reporting of a specific plot by the Maduro regime in Venezuela to do exactly that—conspiring to digitally rig their own country’s elections in 2020. This reporting included precise details about methods the regime developed to digitally alter vote totals in ways that could not be detected even with an audit.
This intelligence underscores why we must take urgent action to ensure that our own systems can never be hacked or compromised.
Even when significant evidence of fraud has been detected, it has been buried and covered up. Among the disclosures tonight are FBI files detailing evidence of alleged fraud by a large-scale voter registration operation in Michigan.
The FBI agents working on the case believed that crimes were committed — yet the Biden DOJ slow-walked the investigation for years.
Tonight, I am asking FBI Director Kash Patel to ensure that the matter is fully investigated and to work with the DOJ to prosecute those responsible for any crimes.
“In a rare move, NBC and ABC Fake News have both said that they would not cover this speech… because of the fact that they don’t like the topic, because they know how corrupt our system is and they don’t want to reveal it. They and others in the media are part of the plot. They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. They want to keep it going. They want to protect the Radical Left. You can’t have a great country without free and fair elections. Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses—they use our public multi-billion-dollar in value airwaves for absolutely no money… all we want is honesty in our elections and honesty in reporting.”
To reveal just how vulnerable our elections continue to be, we are releasing the results of a stunning investigation by DHS — which conducted a review of state voter rolls and public records and identified approximately 278,000 non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections.
Since Democrat states refuse to share their voter files, the real number is actually much higher than that — yet even this limited analysis found more than 250,000 foreigners illegally registered to vote.
“Great damage has been done to our country—our elections were left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen, and the trust of the American People was lost. This cannot be allowed to continue.
Every American, whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, Independent, or otherwise, should be able to agree that we deserve the most secure, honest, and fair election system anywhere in the world.
Secure elections… should not be a partisan issue.”
Put together, these disclosures reveal an election system so broken and vulnerable that NO ONE can possibly defend it.
- Hundreds of millions of U.S. voter files are in the hands of foreign governments.
- Our machines and ballot-counting systems are exposed to hacking and manipulation.
- China and other countries have been trying to meddle in our elections.
- Evidence of fraud has been buried.
- Hundreds of thousands of non-citizens and dead people are listed and active on the voter rolls.
Yet, we STILL have elections with no Voter ID, no Proof of Citizenship, and tens of millions of ballots floating aimlessly through the mail.
In light of the brand new and irrefutable information I have revealed tonight, my administration is in the process of notifying states whose election data was compromised by the People’s Republic of China and others.
We will be working closely to mitigate any harm—and we are taking swift action to ensure that sensitive voter data is better protected, so it can never be bought, hacked, or stolen again.
Tomorrow, the Sec. Mullin will hold a briefing to outline his Department’s recent work confirming cyber vulnerabilities in our electronic voting systems. We are in the process of informing governors, senators, and members of Congress of potential issues in their states.
We are committed to working with states and local jurisdictions to help them fix and patch known technical vulnerabilities, before the midterm elections.
I have also ordered DHS to notify every state about non-citizens on their voter rolls, and direct them to remove all ineligible voters from the lists immediately.
Addressing this crisis of election security demands that Congress MUST pass the SAVE America Act. The only reason you wouldn’t want to do it is that you want to cheat.
This landmark bill requires that all voters must show proof of voter ID, all voters must provide proof of citizenship, and hopefully there will be NO corrupt mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military deployment, or travel.
These reforms are urgently needed to stop the vulnerabilities I have outlined.
To all Americans, I ask you to pick up the phone tomorrow, call your representatives in the House and Senate, and demand they PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT without delay.
Suzi’s Note: If it’s proven that Biden was never the legitimately and duly elected POTUS, what happens about his appointments and pardons is a very important question. It’s one of the biggest “what if” scenarios in constitutional law. If it were conclusively proven in court that Biden was never the legitimate President (i.e., the 2020 election results were invalid due to fraud on a decisive scale), then pardons issued by Biden would almost certainly be invalid. Many appointments (judges, cabinet officials, ambassadors, military promotions, etc.) would be in serious legal jeopardy, and many could be challenged or voided.
