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During an address to the nation on Thursday night, President Donald Trump announced new measures regarding election integrity to make future cheating and interference “virtually impossible.”
“Tonight, I’m announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical intelligence revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure,” said President Trump.
During the primetime address, the president highlighted his new government website, on which he claimed that intelligence documents detailing these election integrity issues were published.
He also noted that the evidence gathered by the White House Government Transparency Taskforce and released Thursday will expose supposed hacking, exploitation and foreign interference in American elections.
Likewise, President Trump added that the released documents cover five major areas of concern, including the People’s Republic of China carrying out the “largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files.”
According to the president, China’s acquisition includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences and voter registration data.
“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,” he added.
Another area of concern surrounded members of the “deep state” allegedly suppressing China’s election meddling, with U.S. spy agencies supposedly learning about the compromise of voter registration files in 2020—as voter data in 18 states was reportedly bought, stolen, or hacked by China—with officials keeping this hidden during President Trump’s first term in office.
All of China’s efforts, he argued, were done in order to prevent him from winning reelection in 2020.
“The reason they wanted me to lose was because they knew I was wise to them, charged them billions and billions of dollars worth of tariffs, and built the strongest military anywhere in the world,” he said.
Another slew of documents the president vowed to release pertained to the unreliability and reported dishonesty of electronic voting machines and ballot-counting systems.
Moreover, he announced that the Department of Homeland Security found that over a quarter of a million non-citizens were registered to vote in federal elections.
“According to the DHS review, state voter rolls and public records, they 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.”
He continued, “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.”
