Overview
- President Trump, speaking Thursday night, accused China of carrying out what he called the largest theft of U.S. electoral data — about 220 million voter records — and announced immediate declassification of related intelligence.
- The White House posted an 'Election Integrity' website and published hundreds of pages it says document 'shocking vulnerabilities' in voter registration and data handling.
- Beijing rejected the claims as 'pure inventions' and major U.S. networks refused or limited live broadcast of the speech, prompting the president to attack their licenses.
- Journalists and intelligence experts who reviewed the released pages say many items are cautious, some unrelated to U.S. voting systems, and none prove that votes were changed or that the 2020 result was altered.
- Mr. Trump used the address to push the SAVE America Act, a federal voting overhaul that would add photo ID and citizenship checks for registration, a change critics say could reduce turnout for marginalized voters and reshape how elections are run.