5 highlights from Trump's address to the nation: China threat to elections, voter fraud
1. Trump reveals China gained access to over '220 million US voter files'
The first area of concern Trump identified was China’s alleged orchestration of what he called "the largest compromise of election data in history,” beginning with the 2020 election cycle that enabled the U.S. adversary to gain access to “220 million U.S. voter files,” including information such as names, addresses, phone numbers and political party preferences.
The president warned that this information is needed “to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities.”
“This data loss presents an unprecedented election security nightmare,” he declared. “The intelligence even shows that China has assigned a data exploitation unit specifically to this new project.”
Another set of documents now available to the public reportedly shows how officials in the intelligence community, which Trump referred to as “the deep state,” worked to “actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China’s sinister election meddling.” He accused the deep state of “covering it up from both the president and the American people like nobody thought was possible.”
Trump said intelligence officials first discovered in 2020 that "tens of millions of voters' data in 18 states have been bought, stolen or hacked by China," adding that "those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden."
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
