Donald Trump claims China rigged election with ‘vital information’ hidden | World | News
US President Donald Trump claimed that China played a role in rigging the 2020 elections, losing both the electoral college and popular votes to Joe Biden.
“This evidence shows that the electoral system we have has dangerously exposed, and indeed exposed, levels of hacking, exploitation, and foreign interference never thought possible,” he said.
“Just as disturbingly, this vital information has been concealed and hidden from you for years.”
Trump said China illegally accessed voter information in the United States.
“This information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data necessary to register to vote and participate in other nefarious activities. That’s exactly what happened,” Trump said. he said.
Voter information is publicly accessible public records in most states.
Trump said before his speech that it would include “really big news” regarding election security.
“It won’t grow because you don’t have a country without free and fair elections,” he told reporters on Tuesday.
Trump has been claiming for years that Biden’s loss was due to voter fraud.
Biden won the election with 306 delegate votes and 51.3% of the national popular vote. Trump received 232 delegate votes and 46.8% of the popular vote.
In January 2021, US intelligence produced a report concluding that there was no foreign interference in the 2020 elections. This was made public by the Biden administration in March of the same year.
“We have no indication that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 U.S. elections, including voter registration, voting, vote tabulation, or reporting of results,” the report, released under the Trump administration, said.
“We assess that it would be difficult for a foreign actor to manipulate election processes on a large scale without being detected through intelligence collection from the actors themselves, physical and cyber security monitoring around nationwide voting systems, or post-election audits,” the statement said.
