Speech to the nation
Trump accuses China of election conspiracy
Updated July 17, 2026 – 7:23 a.mReading time: 3 minutes
Donald Trump has sharply criticized the US electoral system. Vulnerabilities would have made it easy for countries like China to steal data.
A few months before the midterm elections for the US Congress, President Donald Trump once again raised doubts about fair and free elections in our own country. In a speech to the nation, he spoke of “shocking vulnerabilities” in the United States’ electoral system. New intelligence information shows that US voting machines and vote counting systems are “vulnerable to hacking, manipulation and corruption.” The US President claimed this in his televised speech on Thursday.
Trump threw China a large-scale attempt to influence US elections. Beijing Starting in 2020, Trump said he carried out “probably the largest theft of election data in history.” Trump cited data from secret services that were published today as alleged evidence. However, this does not contain any information about China using data from electoral registers, some of which are publicly available, to exert influence.
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Trump: “Unprecedented nightmare for election security”
The incident led to China acquiring 220 million US voter data, Trump said. “This data loss represents an unprecedented nightmare for election security,” the US President continued. According to Trump, China is said to have set up a special data analysis unit specifically for the project, according to intelligence findings. In addition, China paid journalists for critical reporting about itself, the US President claimed.
China rejected President Trump’s claims and said it “never intervened in the presidential election.” USA The outcome of the election “will be determined by the votes of the American people,” said Liu Chang, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in China Washingtonin a statement.
Department of Homeland Security wants to present measures for the November election
The US President announced that he would publish documents that were previously classified as secret. These are intended to prove that the US vote counting systems are vulnerable to interference by China and Russia be.
The Department of Homeland Security will also present measures on Friday to make the upcoming congressional elections in November “honest.” To do this, the states should “immediately remove all people who are not eligible to vote from the voter rolls.”
Even years after the Democrat’s victory Joe Biden In the 2020 presidential election, Trump’s anger over his defeat at the time remains deep – to this day he does not acknowledge it. Instead, the 80-year-old adamantly claims that he was deprived of his election victory through fraud. This has long been refuted many times. Trump repeatedly suggests alleged major fraud through postal votes and voting machines. Trump said in his speech that we should never watch a “stolen election” again.
