TRUMP DROPS ELECTION BOMBSHELL: Declassified Files Show Massive Chinese Interference, Hundreds of Thousands Illegals on Voter Rolls and and Deep State Covered it Up

Trump Addresses Nation, Declassifying Troves of Election Information Highlighting China Effort to Impact Elections

President Trump just declassified and released US intelligence files proving that 2020 was breached by the Chinese and coverwd up by the Deep State, voter fraud in Michigan was ignored, hundreds of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote, and so much more.

CHINA CREATED FAKE DRIVER’S LICENSES TO GET FRAUDULENT MAIL-IN BALLOTS FOR JOE BIDEN pic.twitter.com/osa9EQ76vj

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 17, 2026

President Trump: First, they 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 US voter files. 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, which is exactly what was happening. 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 (Rapid Response).

220 million U.S. voter files were stolen by the People’s Republic of China and says the intelligence was deliberately covered up by deep state actors within the U.S. government.

What’s to be done?

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: THIS is why the networks were terrified to air Donald Trump's address tonght

"Hundreds of millions of U.S. voter files are in the hands of foreign governments."

"Our machines and ballot counting systems are exposed to hacking and manipulation and corruption."… pic.twitter.com/urtunHFCvQ

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 17, 2026

🚨 Other declassified emails show the NSA omitted reports on Chinese efforts to interfere in the 2020 election from President Trump’s Presidential Intelligence Daily Brief. https://t.co/60NIvuCA5u pic.twitter.com/EM65D2A25E

— Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) July 17, 2026

From the White House’s new release: Members of the Deep State in our 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. U.S. spy agencies began learning about the compromise of voter registration files in 2020, when they discovered that tens of millions of voters’ data in 18 states had been bought, stolen, or hacked by China. Yet those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information hidden (White House).

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump exposes that never-before-seen CIA files confirm that CCP ACTIVELY meddled in US elections to block Trump specifically from being reelected in 2020 — and it was covered up

They even got involved in the 2018 MIDTERMS.

Whoever held this back committed… pic.twitter.com/BCqGoTwQrA

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 17, 2026

Former NSA Robert C. O’Brien: MSNBC tried to discredit my accurate briefing to the American people on China’s election interference. An apology would be nice but I am not expecting one. Thank you President @realDonaldTrump for declassifying the evidence (O’Brien).

Via Media Research Center:

Trump went off, calling for the broadcasting licenses of these companies to be revoked. “They and others in the media are part of a plot. They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. They want to keep it going. They want to protect the radical left,” Trump said.

“Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses.”

In a rare move, NBC and ABC Fake News have both said that they would not cover this speech —they knew what it was about— because of the fact that they don’t like the topic Because they know how corrupt our system is, and they don’t want to reveal it.

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They and others in the media are part of a plot. They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. They want to keep it going. They want to protect the radical left. They can’t have a great country, and that’s true. You can’t have a great country without free and fair elections. Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses.

They use our public multi-billion-dollar-in-value airwaves for absolutely no money. They pay nothing. All we want is honesty in our elections and honesty in reporting. They pay nothing for multi-billion-dollar assets. Great damage has been done to our country. Our elections were left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen, and the trust of the American people was lost. This cannot be allowed to continue.

Trump further revealed during his speech about China’s massive influence in the 2020 and 2018 elections that, “The Chinese government sought to identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. president and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him, as many as they could, and they didn’t care what they said.”

“The Chinese government wanted US president to lose the next election, and the reason they wanted me to lose is because they knew I was wise to them, charging them billions and billions of dollars worth of tariffs, and built the strongest military anywhere in the world,” Trump said.

Trump reveals that 278,000 ILLEGAL ALIENS were registered to vote in US elections.

Additionally, over 250,000 non-citizens were also registered to vote in US elections.

Remember when Democrats kept telling us this never happens??? pic.twitter.com/92oSAZuxkQ

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 17, 2026

🚨 THIS IS INSANE: The 250,000+ FOREIGN VOTERS DHS discovered were just in FOUR STATES

They still have 46 OTHER STATES to comb through.

This is a MASSIVE problem in the months leading up to the 2026 election.

PASS SAVE AMERICA NOW! pic.twitter.com/hY2fwsVEVu

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 17, 2026

Compounding the travesty, the second set of documents we are releasing reveals that members of the Deep State in our 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.

U.S. spy agencies began learning about the compromise of voter registration files in 2020, when they discovered that tens of millions of voters’ data in 18 states had been bought, stolen, or hacked by China. Yet those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information hidden. They did not disclose it to me as president, and to the best of our knowledge, they did not inform Congress. In fact, all they kept saying is, “This is the most secure election in the history of our country.”

The coverup of this colossal security breach is even more disturbing in light of additional information showing that China engaged in other election-related activities to undermine my first administration and our 2020 campaign. They did not want Donald Trump to win, and for good reason.

As the documents we are releasing show, CIA reporting explicitly stated, “In mid-2018, the Chinese Communist Party’s policy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements that were opposed to the U.S. President in an effort to reduce the U.S. President’s votes and make him resign or prevent his re-election. Also in mid-2018, China was working to influence the results of the U.S. mid-term elections, and later, the results of the 2020 Presidential Elections.

Separately, in mid-2019, the Chinese Government’s strategy against the United States was focused on undermining domestic confidence in the U.S. president”—and they did everything possible to do so. Going on, it says “The strategy included efforts to use Chinese contracts with big U.S. companies to influence U.S. business leaders to turn against the U.S. President. The Chinese government sought to identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. President, and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him. The Chinese Government wanted the U.S. president to lose the next election.” And the reason they wanted me to lose is because they knew I was wise to them, charged them billions of dollars’ worth of tariffs, and built the strongest military anywhere in the world.

These are exact quotes from CIA reporting—the name of the person doing the quote is under review. But it gets even worse. Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020, yet buried by rogue bureaucrats, stated that China’s activities even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden.

Documents show that during this period, dozens of significant CIA and NSA reports about China’s election targeting were kept out of the Presidential Daily Briefing. One email among intelligence analysts admitted they had ‘deliberately massaged’ the Presidential Daily Briefing to withhold information regarding Chinese activities related to the election. Another official inside the FBI wrote that she was running ‘a shadow government’ to keep intelligence about China’s election meddling from becoming known. Other officials who witnessed such efforts perceived the motivations to be blatantly political.

Recently, we found significant numbers of burn bags, information given by President Barack Hussein Obama to be burned. These bags were supposed to be incinerated, but it never happened. We believe this was not done purposely, but rather through incompetence. But the findings are stunning.

Today, I am asking the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA to investigate how and why such crucial information was hidden, to fire those involved in the coverup, and to file criminal charges, if appropriate, against them.

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Trump reveals China stole voter registration data from 220M Americans in primetime speech
By Caitlin Doornbos, Victor Nava and Steven Nelson, NY Post, July 16, 2026:

President Trump revealed that China stole the voter registration data of 220 million Americans as part of his primetime speech on Thursday.

“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 in remarks from the East Room of the White House.

“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, which is exactly what was happening,” the president continued. “This data loss presents an unprecedented election security nightmare.

Donald Trump speaking from a podium with the Seal of the President of the United States.
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President Trump revealed that China stole the voter registration data of 220 million Americans as part of his primetime speech on Thursday.
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“The intelligence even shows that China assigned a data exploitation unit specifically to this new project.”

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Some government officials reportedly knew China stole at least some voter registration data as early as 2020, but didn’t tell the president about it before the election that year, according to the president.

“Members of the deep state – a very,very famous group of people – in many cases in our 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 like nobody thought was possible,” Trump said.

There have been multiple reports of Beijing accessing US voter registration data, and an intelligence report declassified in 2022 found that “Chinese officials analyzed multiple US states’ election voter registration data,” but the number of affected Americans has never before been reported.

Trump further revealed the Chinese government’s strategy against the United States dating back to mid-2019, which he said “was focused on undermining domestic confidence in the US president.”

“They wanted to just make you sound like your president wasn’t so hot, when actually your president has done a great job,” he said. “And they did everything possible to do exactly that.”

The president also highlighted “raw intelligence” obtained by the FBI in 2020 that detailed China’s “attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden.”

Trump claimed the Chinese election interference plots were “buried by rogue bureaucrats” and, during his first term, kept out of his daily presidential briefings.

“One email among intelligence analysts admitted that they had ‘deliberately massaged the presidential daily briefing to withhold information regarding Chinese activities related to the election,’” Trump said. “ Another official inside the FBI wrote that she was running ‘a shadow government’ to keep intelligence about China’s election meddling from becoming known.”

Indeed, a document in a batch of declassified files released by the White House shows that an FBI official named Nikki Floris wrote in a chat log to a colleague that “i’m basically running a shadow government across the FBI at this point” as the pair discussed preparing the president’s daily brief (PDB).

Floris, who lists Microsoft as her current employer on her LinkedIn page, mentioned that an intelligence information report on China was “recalled” when her counterpart, whose identity was redacted, asked for the document.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks from a podium with the Presidential Seal in the White House.

The date of the conversation is difficult to determine because the file bears a date of “9-28-25” when the context heavily suggests it came from before or shortly after the 2020 election — as the colleagues discussed an anticipated November-December “ghost town” and their own 2021 vacation plans.

Other files in the cache show disagreement on what to include in the PDB being presented to Trump at the time, as he was alleging election irregularities.

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A Nov. 20, 2020, email from an employee in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence noted “a Small update from NSA below. Their PDB isn’t going to tie to the election? The mind boggles.” An earlier email in the thread from an NSA official said: “We have deliberately massaged our one pending PDB to avoid any direct links to the election.”

An indignant DNI official wrote that they believe information “makes it clear China has been caught conducting election influence. At least that’s how it was described to us…. But as you scroll up, note that NSA is ‘deliberately massaged [sic] our one pending PDB to avoid any direct links to the election.’”

Trump said administration officials discovered some of the material in “burn bags” that were supposed to be destroyed.

“[T]he findings are stunning,” Trump marveled, before announcing that he was directing the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA to “investigate how and why such crucial information was hidden, to fire those involved in the cover-up, and to file criminal charges if appropriate against these people.”

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) earlier confirmed Thursday that Trump’s speech would have to do with election security and China in a post to X.

“I was just briefed by the White House on what to expect this evening. I would encourage every American to tune in tonight to the President’s speech,” he said. “This may be the most important Oval Office address since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The time for complacency with China is over.”

The president has long alleged that widespread voting fraud cost him the 2020 election.

Journalists in the James Brady Press Briefing Room watch President Donald Trump speak from the East Room of the White House on television.
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Journalists in the James Brady Press Briefing Room watch President Donald Trump speak from the East Room of the White House.
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However, evidence has yet to be presented suggesting fraud was committed on the scale necessary to deny Trump a second consecutive term.

China has emphatically denied allegations it has interfered in US elections.

“The relevant allegations by the US are entirely fabricated and aimed at vilifying China,” Lin Jian, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said Friday.

“We urge the US to stop making of an issue of China in its elections and do something conducive to China-US relations,” Lin said, two months before President Xi is set to visit Washington.

Trump has railed against mail-in ballots, “inaccurate” voting machines and delays in the vote-counting process since his loss to Joe Biden in 2020.

The president has signed multiple election integrity-focused executive orders in his second term aimed at pressuring states into providing better security for their elections and tightening absentee-ballot rules.

Trump has also deployed law enforcement and intelligence agencies to re-investigate claims about the collection and tallying of votes in 2020, specifically in Georgia, which narrowly went for Biden in 2020 before swinging back to Trump in 2024.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks into a microphone from the East Room of the White House.

More than 600 boxes of 2020 ballots were seized in the January search.

More recently, Trump has raised red flags about the results of last month’s primary elections in California, repeatedly pointing to how long it took officials to count the votes.

The president called the Los Angeles mayoral primary “rigged” and “crooked” after Republican candidate Spencer Pratt, who came in second-place on election night, was pushed into third-place and out of contention five days after polls closed.

The Trump-backed bill would require proof of US citizenship (such as a passport or birth certificate) to register to vote in federal elections, among other election reforms.