US President Donald Trump on Thursday declassified documents and reports accusing Beijing of meddling in the US elections and compromising voter data.While addressing the nation, Trump said that the data loss presented an unprecedented election security nightmare.Here are the top quotes from his address
- 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 US 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.
- US 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.
- 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 US 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 US mid-term elections, and later, the results of the 2020 Presidential Elections.
- 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.
- Recently, we found significant numbers of burn bags, information given by President Barack Hussein Obama to be burned. These bags were supposed to be incinerated, but it never happened. We believe this was not done purposely, but rather through incompetence. But the findings are stunning.
- To reveal just how vulnerable our elections continue to be, we are releasing the results of a stunning investigation by homeland security — 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.
- 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.
