often false claims about what he thought election vulnerabilities during that HE HAS A FACT CHECK. IT WAS A PRIMETIME ADDRESS FACING ON CONSPIRACY THEORIES THAT HIS OWN INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPEATEDLY HAVE EXAMINED AND REJECTED. MS NOW REPORTER BRITT Miller has a fact check. It was a primetime address filled with a few new twists on familiar yet false claims. Our elections were left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen.
For For about 30 minutes, President Trump dug deeper into his fixation of losing the 2020 election, announcing the declassification of documents he says show China election interference, vulnerable voting infrastructure and hundreds of thousands of non-citizens registered to vote. He began by claiming China’s meddling dates back to 2020. The People’s Republic of China carried out what CHINA’S ILLICIT ACQUISITION OF THE LARGEST COMPROMISE OF ELECTION DATA IN HISTORY, RESULTING IN CHINA’S ILLICIT ACQUISITION OF 220 MILLION U VOTER FILES, BUT AN INTELLIGENCE REPORT FROM 2021 FIND BEIJING DID NOT INTERFERE WITH ELECTION INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING VOTE TABULATION OR THE TRANSMISSION OF ELECTION RESULTS IN 2020, THAT DATA THAT GATHERED BEFORE TRUMP EVEN LEFT OFFICE. ELECTION LAW EXPERT MARK ELIAS SEIZING ON THAT POINT. THIS IS ADMINISTRATION.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW WHAT’S CRAZY ABOUT DONALD TRUMP IS THAT HE’S CONSTANTLY COMPLAINING ABOUT A DEEP STATE AND WHAT What he’s complaining about is people who he hired. Another claim by Trump, U .S. voting machines are compromised. Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure including electronic voting machines and ballot counting systems.
There is absolutely no evidence that there was hacked voting equipment. There was nothing that he presented that suggested a single THE DUE VOTE WAS AFFECTED IN THE 2020 ELECTION. AND TRUMP DIDN’T STOP THERE IN WHAT CRITICS CALL HIS QUEST TO PEDDLE DISINFORMATION. THEY IDENTIFIED approximately 278 ,000 non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections. Though no evidence is provided to back up that number.
And an analysis by the Bipartisan Policy Center found non-citizen voting is so rare, there were only 77 instances between 1999 and 2023. As Trump ended his speech with yet another push for Congress to pass his signature voting legislation, experts are worried this is only the beginning. But I think the main reason why he did this address, I think the main reason why he has done most of the attacks on elections that we have seen in recent weeks and months, is to lay the groundwork to undermine free and fair elections in 2026. And a defiant reaction from Democrats, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer saying they will quote FIGHT LIKE HELL TO MAKE SURE EVERY AMERICAN VOTER CAN CAST THEIR VOTE WITHOUT OBSTRUCTION OR INTERFERENCE FROM DONALD TRUMP. BACK TO YOU.
