Ensuring the integrity of our elections is fundamental to preserving trust in American democracy. Following the 2020 presidential election, concerns about potential irregularities prompted detailed examinations of voting processes, data security, and registration practices across multiple states…
Is back and doing really well,
but we still have a major challenge that must be urgently addressed
because no country could be great without fair and honest elections.
You have to trust your country because
if there can be no trust,
there can be no greatness. And that's very simple.
No trust,
no greatness.
For many years, I've called for a 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,
and that is to make that system 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'm 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 dangerous ly exposes
and really exposes like levels never thought possible
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, our beautiful, our great American people.
But that all changes right now. The documents we will release
starting tonight have been gathered by the White House government
transparency task force, a great group of people,
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 whitehouse.gov.
That's whitehouse.gov.
Go check it out.
Our purpose in disclosing this information is not to weaken confidence in election,
but to earn that confidence
by
confronting vulnerabilities
and correcting them very,
very quickly, and that's what we're doing.
The documents cover five major areas of concern.
First,
they show that
over a period of years, starting during the twenty twenty 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
220,000,000
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, which is exactly what was happening.
This data loss presents an unprecedented election security nightmare.
The intelligence even shows that China signed a data exploitation
unit specifically
to this new project.
Compounding
the travesty,
the second set of documents we are releasing
reveals that members of the deep state, very,
very famous group of people, many cases,
in our intelligence agency work 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 like nobody thought was possible.
US spy agencies began learning about the compromise of voter registration files in 2020
when they discovered that tens of millions of voter data
think of that tens of millions
of voters' data
in 18 states have been bought,
stolen,
or hacked by China.
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. In fact,
all they kept saying is this is the most secure election in the history of our country. A standard, very pat line that was divvied out to say,
the cover up of this colossal security breach is even more disturbing in light of the additional information showing that China engaged in other election related activities to undermine
my first administration
in our 2020 campaign.
They did not not want, and they just didn't want it. They fought like hell not to have a Donald Trump
to win,
and for good reason.
As the documents we are releasing show, CIA reporting
explicitly stated, and I quote,
in mid twenty eighteen,
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 US president's votes and make him resign or prevent his
reelection.
Isn't that nice?
Also,
in mid twenty eighteen, China was working to influence the results of the US midterm elections
and later the results of the twenty twenty
presidential election itself.
Separately, in mid twenty nineteen, the Chinese government's strategy against The United States
was focused on undermining domestic confidence in the US president.
They wanted to just make you sound like your president wasn't so hot when actually your president has done a great job,
and they did everything possible to do exactly that.
Going on, this document says, and this is by the CIA,
the strategy included efforts to use Chinese contacts
with big US companies to influence US business leaders to turn against the president of The United States Of America.
The Chinese government sought to identify US journalists who had
reported negatively
on the US president
and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him,
as many as they could, and they didn't care what they said.
The Chinese government wanted US 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 and billions of dollars worth of tariffs,
and built the strongest military anywhere in the world. We have the strongest military
anywhere in the world.
These are exact quotes from the
CIA reporting.
The name of the person doing the quote
is now 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
briefing.
These were briefings I would get almost every day. Everything was kept out. That was of importance.
One email among intelligence analysts admitted that they had, quote,
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, quote, a shadow government,
unquote,
to keep intelligence about China's election meddling from becoming known and to keep it away from the honorable press.
Other officials who witnessed such efforts perceived the motivations to be blatantly
political.
Recently, we found significant
numbers of burn bags in formation,
and this is a group of bags
that were used to destroy
information
given by president
Barack Hussein Obama
to be burned. It was supposed to be burned.
These bags were supposed to be
at a
different level by different people incinerated
and checked,
but it never happened.
Maybe we got lucky.
We believe this was not done on purpose, but rather through gross incompetence of the people that were supposed to burn the bags.
But the findings are stunning.
Today, I'm 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 cover up, and to file criminal charges, if appropriate, against these people.
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
dishonest
almost all.
They're vulnerable and they're easily
compromised,
and people within our government knew that.
Tonight, we're publishing a series of previously classified US 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
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.
That's, unquote,
but that's some statement, isn't it, made by supposedly
great patriots of our country.
The document goes on to further state that, quote, we assess
that centralized election related data repositories
such as voter registration databases,
poll books, and other official election websites
are most vulnerable to exploitation,
and adversaries
could use this access to these systems to disrupt election processes within The United States Of America.
Tonight, we're releasing all of those findings and 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 on these terrible machines.
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.
This reporting included precise details
about methods to
regime develop
to digitally alter vote totals in ways that could not
be detected even with an audit no matter how deep they went.
This intelligence
underscores why we must take urgent action to ensure that our own system can never ever be hacked or compromised like it was in the past.
The fourth set of documents reveals that 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.
In 2020, Michigan State Police raided a Democrat,
get out the vote organization,
corrupt group
in Muskegon.
And we're so concerned by what they found. They were just so concerned. They couldn't believe it, actually,
that they contacted the FBI in Detroit.
The documents state that some
canvassers admitted to FBI agents that they signed voter registration forms in other people's names,
submitted fraudulent registration for people who did not exist,
and received gift cards tied to their number of applications
that they produced.
In other words,
it was
pay,
play, and cheat.
The FBI agents working on the case believe that crimes were committed, yet the Biden Department of Justice slow walked the investigation
and killed it.
Tonight, I'm asking
the FBI director to ensure that the matter is fully investigated
and to work with the Department of Justice to prosecute those responsible
for any crimes.
Finally, to reveal just how vulnerable our elections continue to be, we are releasing the results of a stunning investigation by the Department of Homeland Security.
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 refused to share their voter files,
the real number is actually much higher than that.
Yet,
even this limited analysis found more than a quarter of a million foreigners illegally registered to vote.
Put together, these disclosures reveal an election system so broken and so vulnerable
that no one can possibly defend it. It is not defensible.
Hundreds of millions of US voter files are in the hands of foreign governments.
Our machines and ballot counting systems are exposed to hacking and
manipulation
and corruption.
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, and yet we still have elections with no voter ID,
no proof of citizenship,
and tens of millions of ballots floating aimlessly through the mail.
As one example of the insanity, California's recent election
for mayor of LA and governor
was held on June 2,
long time ago,
but it was just completed
a few days ago on July 10. Think of that much more than one month.
Took a month to count the votes. I wonder what they were doing.
This is worse than any third world country. There's no third world country
that has elections like we have.
In a rare move, NBC
and ABC fake news have both said that they would not cover this speech. They knew what it was about
because of the fact that they don't like the topic, because they know how corrupt our system is, and they don't wanna reveal it.
They and others in the media are part of a plot.
They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. They wanna keep it going.
They wanna protect the radical left. They can't have a
great country, and that's true. 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 multibillion
dollar in value airways for absolutely no money. They pay nothing.
All we want is honesty in our elections and honesty in reporting.
They pay nothing for multibillion
dollar
assets.
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 be
a partisan
really, should just we should be together,
Democrats,
Republicans,
independents,
everybody.
And it should not be a partisan issue.
It should cause to unite us, not to divide us. This should be a cause. We should be united,
not divided. In light of the brand new and irrefutable information
I have revealed tonight, My administration is in the process of of notifying
the states whose election data was compromised by the People's Republic
Of China and many others.
We will be working closely to mitigate any harm, and we're taking swift action to ensure that sensitive voter data is better protected
so we can never be bought,
we can never be hacked,
and we can never watch a stolen
election
again.
Tomorrow, the secretary of Homeland Security will hold a briefing
to outline his department's recent work
confirming
cyber vulnerabilities
in our electronic
voting systems. They are bad.
We're in the process of informing governors, senators, and members of congress of potential issues in their states.
If you look at voting today, it's in such bad shape in so many states,
and we are committing to fix it.
And we're also committing to be working with those states and local jurisdictions to help them fix and patch known technical
vulnerabilities
before the midterm elections. We have very important elections coming up. We want those elections, to be honest.
I've 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.
But most importantly, addressing this crisis of election security
demands that Congress must pass the Save America Act.
How easy is that to do unless you wanna cheat?
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.
This landmark bill requires that all voters must show
photo
voter
ID. How simple is that?
Could I have your photo, please?
Photo voter ID.
All voters must provide proof of citizenship.
Are you a citizen of our country, please?
And hopefully,
there will be no corrupt mail in ballots, which if you watched California and so many other places,
mail in ballots are inherently
corrupt.
So you would have
no mail in ballots except for
illness,
disability,
military deployment,
or travel if you're going away on business or
vacation.
These reforms are urgently needed to stop the vulnerabilities
that I've mentioned.
To all Americans, I ask you to pick up your phone tomorrow, call your representatives in the House and Senate, and demand that they pass the Save
America Act without delay.
Together, we will restore faith and confidence in our country,
and we will be bigger,
better,
and stronger than ever
before.
Thank you. God bless you. God bless our great military,
and God bless America. Thank you very much.