Trump Points to China For Election Interference in 2020
President Donald Trump addressed the nation Thursday night to announce the release of documents he claims detail a Chinese effort to interfere in the 2020 election. He also alleged a cover-up by intelligence agencies.
When President Donald Trump hit the podium for his primetime address, he had one thing on his mind — call out China for meddling in the 2020 Presidential Election.
Trump spoke to the nation Thursday night when he claimed China wanted to stop him from being re-elected.
The president announced the release of documents that he claims detail a Chinese effort to interfere in the 2020 election. He also alleged a cover-up by intelligence agencies.
“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 U.S. voter files,” Trump said.
“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,” he continued. “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.”
Trump added U.S. intelligence agencies worked 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.”