President Donald Trump delivered shocking new disclosures about potential threats to American elections in a primetime address to the nation from the White House on Thursday – including major revelations about vulnerabilities in the 2020 election.
As the president explained, the White House is releasing a trove of freshly declassified documents gathered by the White House Government Transparency Task Force. The documents, which are now available on whitehouse.gov, fall into four broad categories: “vulnerabilities in electronic voting and ballot-counting systems”; “China’s acquisition and exploitation of American voter data”; “Michigan voter-registration information”; and “noncitizens on state voter rolls.”
“This evidence shows that the election system we have dangerously exposes – and really exposes – like levels never thought possible to hacking, exploitation, and foreign interference,” Trump said. “Just as disturbingly, this vital information has for many years been covered up and hidden from you, the American people.”
Trump built his speech around several major disclosures, each of which should be considered a major bombshell in its own right.
First, Trump revealed that “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 America’s chief geopolitical rival was able to access such a large number of private voter data is itself shocking – but the fact that such a breach was kept hidden from the American people for years is an even greater outrage. Democrats and liberal elites have long denied that any foreign adversaries had such sweeping access to American voter data.
Second, senior officials within the government, including in intelligence agencies, intentionally tried to bury the truth about China’s theft of American voter data. “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,” Trump said. “Yet those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden. They did not disclose to me as president or to anyone else, and to the best of our knowledge, they did not inform Congress.”
Notably, this cover-up occurred as many of these same individuals publicly insisted that the 2020 election was the “most secure” in history.
In perhaps the biggest bombshell of the speech, Trump also revealed that “China’s activities even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden.” This revelation lends more credibility to the theory that Beijing interfered in the 2020 election with the express purpose of tipping the scales against Trump, who was then engaged in high-stakes negotiations with Chinese leaders over tariffs and trade policy.
Third, Trump delivered a major vindication of election integrity advocates who have long insisted that electronic voting machines are shockingly insecure. “They’re vulnerable, and they’re easily compromised, and people within our government knew that,” Trump said.
According to one U.S. intelligence report that Trump quoted, “The United States’ adversaries, including at a minimum Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, as well as non-state groups, have the capability to compromise US election infrastructure.”
“Many people have questioned whether it could actually be possible to electronically manipulate vote totals or change election results on these terrible machines,” Trump continued. “Today, we are releasing documents that show the CIA obtained reporting of a specific plot to do a big number in favor of the corrupt Maduro regime in Venezuela – and that’s exactly what happened – conspiring to digitally rig their own country’s elections in 2020, and that’s what they did.”
Fourth, Trump revealed that hundreds of thousands of non-citizens and dead people are still active on voter rolls – a shocking new confirmation of something election integrity advocates have long suspected.
Trump’s solution to address these glaring vulnerabilities in America’s election system was simple: pass the SAVE America Act. This landmark election integrity bill, which has been stuck in the Senate for months, would require voters to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote. It also mandates strict Voter ID for casting ballots and limits mail-in voting.
Trump and many Republican voters have urged the Senate GOP to institute a “talking filibuster” to bypass the upper chamber’s requirement that most legislation have 60 votes to pass. Thus far, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and a few other Republicans have refused to budge.
“How easy is that to do unless you want to cheat?” Trump said of passing the SAVE America Act. “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.”
While the media and elected Democrats have predictably dismissed Trump’s speech as nothing but more baseless conspiracy theories, their frantic reaction betrays serious concern about the facts that Trump has now placed before the American people. Virginia Senator Mark Warner, long one of the most hysterical liberal opponents of any election integrity measures, has spent the last several days claiming that nothing Trump says is true – even before he knew what Trump was going to say. Former Vice President Kamala Harris similarly posted on X hours before the speech that it would be full of “lies and conspiracy theories.”
The corporate media was also quick to issue bogus “fact checks” of Trump’s speech – and CNN, ABC, and NBC blacked out the address entirely. CBS and MSNBC cut away from it. Only NewsNation, Fox, and C-SPAN covered it in full. Trump called out NBC and ABC in his remarks for their censorship, blasting them as being “part of a plot.”
“They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason,” Trump said. “They want to keep it going.”
The disclosures in Trump’s address should not be dismissed along partisan lines. At minimum, they reveal serious vulnerabilities, troubling failures of transparency, and a government establishment far too willing to keep the public in the dark.
Congress now has a responsibility to investigate these claims, secure voter data, strengthen election systems, and pass basic safeguards such as proof of citizenship and voter identification – via the SAVE America Act. Americans deserve elections that are not merely declared secure, but that can be independently verified as secure.
The debate over election integrity is far from over—but your voice can help shape what happens next. Click here to instantly send a message or make a phone call to your U.S. Senators and urge them to pass the SAVE America Act to strengthen election security and restore confidence in our elections.
Shane Harris is the Editor-in-Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
