Day: July 17, 2026

US President Donald Trump has delivered a primetime address in which he accused China of interfering in the 2020 election and alleged “shocking vulnerabilities” in American voting systems.

Trump, who spoke from the White House on Thursday, has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud and foreign meddling in the 2020 election which he lost to Joe Biden.

In the half-hour speech, delivered three months before the midterm elections, he said he had declassified hundreds of intelligence files which supported his claims that Beijing had tried to sway the election in Biden’s favour.

The US intelligence community has previously concluded China did not interfere in the 2020 election.

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President Donald Trump called for stricter voting laws Thursday at the White House as Oregon’s secretary of state defended election security.

TRUMP VS CHINA LIVE | WARNING ISSUED! Trump Fires Back at Beijing, Orders Declassification
In a dramatic 25-minute primetime address from the White House, President Donald Trump has ordered the immediate declassification and release of highly sensitive intelligence records, accusing the People’s Republic of China of executing what he termed the largest compromise of election data in history. Trump asserted that Beijing illicitly acquired 220 million U.S. voter records—including names, addresses, phone numbers, and political affiliations—starting during the 2020 election cycle. Launching a fierce attack on what he termed ‘deep state’ actors within the intelligence community, Trump accused officials of deliberately suppressing dozens of CIA and NSA reports regarding Chinese targeting. He directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI, and the CIA to launch a sweeping investigation into the alleged cover-up. The President used the declassification to demand that congressional Republicans immediately pass the stalled SAVE America Act to enforce strict voter ID and citizenship verification before the critical November 2026 midterm elections. While critics and independent analysts point out that these claims contradict established intelligence assessments showing no vote manipulation, the move has triggered a massive political storm and threatens to severely escalate diplomatic tensions between Washington and Beijing.
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