There was a prime-time gabfest last night, with the president talking about himself, of course, and about our country and others. The gist of it, after he got past the chest-thumping, was that our elections aren't safe and won't be unless Congress passes the SAVE America Act.
I removed the chest-thumping, in the interest of everyone's sanity, and added commentary; you know I can't help myself, and if you didn't want commentary, you wouldn't be here.
But we still have a major challenge that must be urgently
addressed, because no country can be great without fair and honest elections.
You have to trust your country because, if there can be no trust, there can be
no greatness.
And that's very simple — no trust, no greatness. For many
years I've called for bold, swift and decisive action to protect the integrity
of America's elections. And, of course, he's called the 2020 election rigged zillions of times. In fact, he said even months before the 2020 election that the only way he could lose was if it was rigged; he did lose, so it must have been rigged. And he's said that basically every election where anyone he endorses doesn't win is rigged. They are all rigged; just ask him! Every American deserves to know that, when they cast
their vote, that vote will be counted accurately in a system, (and, despite my best efforts, a good number of people still believe that's the case) and that is to make that system secure. One where cheating and interference are not just difficult,
but virtually impossible. Unfortunately, the system we have today falls
catastrophically short of that standard. That is absolutely not true. Even the Heritage Foundation's data says so. Tonight, I'm announcing the immediate
declassification and release of critical intelligence, revealing shocking
vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure. 'Shocking vulnerabilities' and verified 'cheating and interference' are vastly different things.
This evidence shows that the election system we have
dangerously exposes and really exposes, like levels never thought possible, to
hacking, exploitation, and foreign interference. Just as disturbingly, this
vital information has for many years been covered up and hidden from you, the
American people — our beautiful, our great American people. I wonder, does that include 'the enemy from within (Dems like Adam Schiff), and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries," the haters and losers, the Dumocrats, and all the other terms he's used to disparage anyone who doesn't agree with him?
But that all changes right now. The documents we will release starting tonight have
been gathered by the White House Government Transparency Task Force, a great
group of people, along with the staff of the president's Intelligence Advisory
Board, supported by our top intelligence agency chiefs who have all personally
reviewed the findings we are presenting this evening and fully confirmed their
authenticity.
You can see these documents for yourself at whitehouse.gov,
that's whitehouse.gov, go check it out. Our purpose in disclosing this
information is not to weaken confidence in elections, but to earn that
confidence by confronting vulnerabilities and correcting them very, very
quickly, and that's what we're doing. Um, no, that's not what's happening. You're identifying potential vulnerabilities, but you don't address them with your signature solution.
The documents cover five major areas of concern. 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. American voter data is readily available for a variety of reasons.
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. No evidence of nefariousness was presented. 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. The information may present an 'election security nightmare,' but it is readily available in most states. And no evidence was presented that a security lapse or breach occured.
Compounding the travesty, the second set of documents we are
releasing reveals that members of the Deep State — a very, very
famous group of people, in many cases (and I can't WAIT to see who these famous people are! — in our intelligence agency, 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.
US spy agencies began learning about the compromise of voter
registration files in 2020, when they discovered that tens of millions of voter
data — think of that, tens of millions of voters’ data — in 18 states have
been bought, stolen or hacked by China. Yet those responsible for
sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden. Bought, stolen, or hacked - which is it? And if it was obtained illegally, why no threat or warning to President Xi Jinping? Maybe some new tariffs like the ones he's threatened to place on Canada for their border-hopping wildfire smoke?
They did not disclose to me as president or to anyone else. As widely reported at the time, he was notoriously uninterested in briefings and didn't even read his President's Daily Brief. Was this information hidden, or wasn't it on the list of things he liked to hear about? 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 — a standard, very pat line that was divvied out to
say. And dozens of audits, performed by Rs and Ds alike, in states red, blue, and purple, have uncovered no significant fraud in the 2020, 2022, or 2024 elections.
The cover-up of this colossal security breach is even more
disturbing in light of the additional information showing that China engaged in
other election-related activities to undermine my first administration and our
2020 campaign. And at the same time, Russia Russia Russia was trying to influence our election to ensure that Trump won; that wasn't mentioned during his remarks, but it's supported by the evidence.
They did not want — and they just didn't want it. They
fought like hell not to have it, Donald Trump to win, and for good reason. As
the documents we are releasing show, CIA reporting explicitly stated, and I
quote, in mid-2018, the Chinese Communist Party's policy was to leverage all
domestic and foreign elements that were opposed to the US president in an
effort to reduce the US president's votes and make him resign or prevent his
reelection. Is this a good time to mention the US government's efforts to influence elections in other countries, such as sending the Vice President to Hungary to personally urge voters to keep Viktor Orban in office? Or efforts by Rudy Giuliani and others to get Ukrainians to dig up dirt on Joe Biden?
Isn't that nice? Also, in mid-2018, China was working to
influence the results of the US midterm elections and later the results of
the 2020 presidential election itself. Separately, in mid-2019, the Chinese
government's strategy against the United States 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. His approval ratings tell a different story... And they did
everything possible to do exactly that. Going on this document says, and this
is by the CIA, the strategy included efforts to use Chinese contacts with big
US companies to influence US business leaders to turn against the president of
the United States of America. It would be hard to imagine this working; he maintained very strong support from business leaders throughout his first term.
The Chinese government sought to identify US journalists who
had reported negatively on the US 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 the US president to lose
the next election. You probably don't know this, but sometimes, I seek an hourglass figure... While the Chinese may have wanted to see more negative stories about Trump (as if there weren't enough of them flying around already), there's no confirmation they were successful in this alleged effort, just like there's no evidence I've been successful in my mission.
And the reason they wanted me to lose is because they knew I
was wise to them. Charged them billions and billions of dollars' worth of
tariffs and built the strongest military anywhere in the world. We have the
strongest military anywhere in the world. These are exact quotes from the CIA
reporting. The name of the person doing the quote is now 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 briefing. Raw intelligence, experts will tell you, is notoriously unreliable and often isn't shared until it can be validated.
These were briefings I would get almost every day;
everything was kept out that was of importance. One email among intelligence
analysts admitted that they had, quote, 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, quote, a
shadow government, unquote, to keep intelligence about China's election
meddling from becoming known and to keep it away from the honorable press. This is explained by Fox News, including that "The documents, however, do not establish Trump's broader allegation of a politically motivated conspiracy." Rather, it was a difference of opinion on intelligence matters.
Other officials who witnessed such efforts perceived the
motivations to be blatantly political. Recently, we found significant
numbers of burn bags information, and this is a group of bags that were used to
destroy information, given by President Barack Hussein Obama to be burned,
it was supposed to be burned. I have no idea what this even means, other than that three-name guy continues to live rent-free in the FOTUS' head.
These bags were supposed to be at a different level by
different people, incinerated and checked, but it never happened. Maybe we got
lucky. We believe this was not done on purpose, but rather through gross
incompetence of the people that were supposed to burn the bags. But the
findings are stunning.
Today, I'm 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 cover up and to file criminal charges, if appropriate, against
these people. It would be appropriate to investigate whether any crimes were committed; can we expect that the people in charge of those areas during Trump's first term will be among those investigated? And, of course, we don't have a DNI, and the guy who's been nominated has no intelligence experience. The qualifications of the FBI director are highly suspect as well, but yes, let's give it our best shot.
Yet concealing China's meddling was only the beginning. The
third set of documents we are releasing proves that for many
years, Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election
infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot counting
systems, dishonest, almost all. Hold please, while I put on my seatbelt for this part: our election infrastructure itself is 'dishonest'?
They're vulnerable and they're easily compromised and people
within our government knew that. Tonight, we're publishing a series of
previously classified US intelligence community assessments and other reports
proving that our government has long known these machines are extremely exposed
to attack. As one assessment states, we judge that the United States'
adversaries, including at a minimum Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, as well
as non-state groups have the capability to compromise US election infrastructure. If that's true, we should certainly try everything we can to limit that ability.
That's unquote but that's some statement, isn't it, made by
supposedly great patriots of our country? LOL! The people who support his allegations are "supposedly great patriots of our country?" The document goes on to further state
that, quote, we assess that centralized election-related data repositories,
such as voter registration databases, poll books, and other official election
websites are most vulnerable to exploitation, and adversaries could use
this access to these systems to disrupt election processes within the
United States of America. Centralized election-related data repositories are bad? Aren't the FOTUS and his minions demanding that states turn over all their voter information to the federal government, which would actually put it in a 'centralized election-related data repository' rather than allowing the states to control their own data? Aren't they threatening to withhold Congressionally apportioned funds from states that don't comply?
Tonight, we're releasing all of those findings and spanning
from January 2020 to June 2026. This is a cyber threat aimed at the very heart
of our democracy. Many people have questioned whether it could actually be
possible to electronically manipulate vote totals or change election results on
these terrible machines.
Today, we are releasing documents that show the CIA obtained
reporting of a specific plot to do a big number in favor of the corrupt
Maduro regime in Venezuela, and that's exactly what happened, conspiring to
digitally rig their own country's elections in 2020. And that's what they did.
This reporting included precise details about methods to regime develop, to
digitally alter vote totals in ways that could not be detected, even with an
audit, no matter how deep they went. Reporting suggests Maduro simply ignored what the machines showed and announced totals that differed from those recorded. This is more about a person acting badly than an 'election infrastructure' failure. And we have our own example of this happening right here in the US, right? "I just need to find 11,780 votes," the most memorable line from Trump's call with Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia Secretary of State, in which he sought to overturn the state's results.
This intelligence underscores why we must take urgent action
to ensure that our own system can never, ever be hacked or compromised like it
was in the past. Was it? Where's the evidence? Venezuela is not America (yet, anyway). The fourth set of documents reveals that even when significant
evidence of fraud has been detected, it has been buried and covered up. Among
the disclosures tonight are FBI files detailing evidence of alleged fraud by a
large-scale voter registration operation in Michigan.
In 2020, Michigan State Police raided a Democrat Get Out the
Vote Organization, corrupt group in Muskegon, and were so concerned by what
they found. They were just so concerned, they couldn't believe it, actually,
that they contacted the FBI in Detroit. The documents state that some
canvassers admitted to FBI agents that they signed voter registration forms in
other people's names, submitted fraudulent registration for people who did not
exist, and received gift cards tied to the number of applications that they
produced. Fraudulent voter registration is illegal in every state in America. Multiple investigations found no evidence that any fraudulent voter registrations were submitted or that any fraudulent votes were cast.
In other words, it was pay, play and cheat. The FBI agents
working on the case believe that crimes were committed, yet the Biden
Department of Justice slow-walked the investigation and killed
it. Actually, the Trump DOJ killed the investigation in September 2025, finding "no criminal violation or a priority threat to national security." Tonight, I'm asking the FBI director to ensure that the matter is
fully investigated and to work with the Department of Justice to prosecute
those responsible for any crimes.
Finally, to reveal just how vulnerable our elections
continue to be, we are releasing the results of a stunning investigation by the
Department of Homeland Security. According to the DHS review, state voter
rolls and public records, they identified approximately 278,000 alleged non-citizens
who are registered to vote in federal elections.
Since Democrat states refuse to share their voter files the
real number is actually much higher than that. Right - because there are allegations of non-citizens being registered to vote, there must be many more of them, because math... You know, like drug prices being 600%, 800%, or even 1500% lower under the current administration. Yet even this limited analysis
found more than a quarter of a million foreigners illegally registered to vote.
Put together, these disclosures reveal an election system so broken and so
vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it. It is not defensible. Where is the data showing how many of them voted? Where is the proof that these people are all non-citizens? Those are both important questions, the latter particularly so, because the Department of Homeland Security's SAVE database is inaccurate,
Hundreds of millions of US voter files are in the hands of
foreign governments. Our machines and ballot counting systems are exposed to
hacking and manipulation and corruption. China and other countries have been
trying to meddle in our elections. Evidence of fraud has been buried. Hundreds
of thousands of non-citizens and dead people are listed and active on the voter
rolls. Repeating these statements doesn't make them true, and the risk of tampering or other vulnerabilities does not mean that those vulnerabilities have been or will be exploited.
And yet we still have elections with no voter ID (this is false; even if voter ID is not required at the polling place, it is required to register, and signature verification is a valid form of ID - and frankly, harder to fake than an ID - just ask an under-age drinker), no proof
of citizenship, and tens of millions of ballots floating aimlessly through the
mail (Yes, aimlessly being potmarked hours away from the local post office where they're mailed, for example.) As one example of the insanity, California's recent election for mayor of
LA and governor, was held on June 2nd, long time ago, but it was just completed
a few days ago, on July 10th. Think of that, much more than one month.
Took a month to count the votes. I wonder what they were
doing. They counted in-person votes; they recieved over 8,423,000 ballots that were postmarked by Election Day and recieved timely per state law; they validated the signatures on the outside of the ballot with the signature on file BEFORE the ballots were opened; they mailed notices to anyone with a signature mismatch that there was an issue and provided details on how to 'cure' their ballot within ten days; they reviewed everytihng related to the cured ballots, then opened the ones that were attested to as being correct, and counted them. In short, they followed the law, and made sure that every legitimate vote was counted, which is what is supposed to happen. This is worse than any third-world country. There's no third-world country that has elections like we have. Right - they just make stuff up, or demand that people lie for them.
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. They and others in the media are
part of a plot. Yep - all the third-world leaders claim the press is against them, is an enemy of the people, and is fake news. Which is why the networks you're upset with all streamed the broadcast for anyone who wanted to watch.
They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. What? They
want to keep it going. They want to protect the radical left. Huh? They can't have a
great country um..? and that's true; you can't have a great country without free and
fair elections. We have those here in America, and we have laws to prosecute people who try to get around the laws. Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses. "Fraud like this" meaning the fake news you hate but love to criticize, denigrate, lie about, and sue, deciding to stream you rather than broadcast you? How is that fraud? They use our public multibillion dollar in value airways for absolutely no
money. Other than license fees, application fees, purchasing a station fees, and/or the FCC public auction fees... plus the cost of selling their souls to keep on the good side of whichever bully is in charge in DC.
They pay nothing. All we want is honesty in our elections
and honesty in reporting. Does that include fact-checking? 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. Actually, the American people's trust was stolen... This cannot be allowed to continue. The person who has single-handedly done more damage to American trust in our elections? Donald J. Trump, who has convinced people that the Democrats are so smart they could rig a presidential election but didn't bother to rig any races on the ballot. Donald J. Trump, who, knowingly on a recorded line, asked someone to find him just enough votes to win, and didn't care that he was being recorded. Donald J. Trump, he of the January 6th insurrection, who loved the people that were there, chanting to hang his vice president.
Every American, whether you're a Republican, Democrat,
independent or otherwise, should be able to agree that we deserve the most
secure, honest, and fair election system anywhere in the world. Secure
elections should be a partisan — really, should just, we should be together
Democrats, Republicans, independents, everybody, and it should not be a
partisan issue. It's not a partisan issue - we all want free and fair elections, and as far as any investigations have shown, for the most part we have them. Every state has laws to deal with various types of election fraud, and people are caught and prosecuted for violations - Democrats and Republicans alike. That is as it should be. And as far as anyone has determined, there is NO evidence of fraud sufficient to influence an election.
It should cause to unite us, not to divide us. This should
be a cause, we should be united, not divided. In light of the brand new and
irrefutable information, I have revealed tonight my administration is in the
process of notifying the states whose election data was compromised by the
People's Republic of China and many others. Again, nothing has shown that the information was compromised, or even that enough information was obtained to allow it to be compromised.
We will be working closely to mitigate any harm and we're
taking swift action to ensure that sensitive voter data is better protected so
we can never be bought, we can never be hacked, and we can never watch a
stolen election again. That does NOT mean that all voter data should be provided to the Federal Government. One person who should know, at least as well as anyone, is the FOTUS, whose tax information was stolen and shared, along with the data of over 405,000 other individual and corporate taxpayers. Also, the voter information of everyone receiving a mail-in ballot certainly should NOT be shared with the US Postal Service, either.
Tomorrow, the Secretary of Homeland Security will hold a
briefing to outline his department's recent work confirming cyber
vulnerabilities in our electronic voting systems.
They are bad. We're in the process of informing governors,
Senators and members of Congress of potential issues in their states. If you
look at voting today, it's in such bad shape in so many states, and we are
committing to fix it and we're also committing to be working with those
states and local jurisdictions to help them fix and patch known technical
vulnerabilities before the midterm elections. Oh, the irony! This is the guy who just fired the Election Assistance Commission folks, the leaders of the very federal agency charged with assisting states with election security, after previously getting rid of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. You can't make this stuff up.
We have very important elections coming up. We want those
elections to be honest. I've also ordered DHS to notify every state about
noncitizens on their voter rolls and direct them to remove all ineligible
voters from the lists immediately. But most importantly, addressing this alleged crisis
of election security demands that Congress must pass the SAVE America Act.
How easy is that to do, unless you want to cheat. This is an absurd comment.
The only reason you wouldn't do it is you want to
cheat because your policies are so bad, and your candidates are so
pathetic that you can't get away or can't get elected any other way. Actually, those are the very reasons why a president would demand Texas redraw its Congressional districts off-cycle to gain him five more seats. And it's why other red states jumped on the redistricting bandwagon to curry favor with him. And why blue states foolishly fell for it, too. This
landmark bill requires that all voters must show photo voter ID. How simple is
that? Could I have your photo, please? Photo voter ID. He knows that is not what the bill asks for, and pretending that's all it is? It's a bald-faced lie. All voters must provide
proof of citizenship.
Are you a citizen of our country, please? And hopefully
there will be no corrupt mail-in ballots, which, if you watched California and
so many other places, mail-in ballots are inherently corrupt. Again, California ensured that the mailed-in ballots were NOT corrupt. So, you would
have no mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military deployment, or
travel if you're going away on business or vacation. And what about you? Which of those reasons applied to your mailed-in vote in Florida's primary?
These reforms are urgently needed to stop the
vulnerabilities that I've mentioned. He knows, everyone in DC knows, and anyone that has read the SAVE America Act knows that the bill does NOTHING to address voting machine vulnerabilities, foreign attempts to influence how Americans vote or who our candidates are, attempts to influece the press to report in a specific way about a candidate, individuals who make bad choices to earn bonuses or get gift cards, people who ignore actual vote tallies and use their own made-up numbers, people who try to get others to change vote totals, people who don't include things when they brief their bosses, selling or sharing voter data, or networks that don't put evyerthing the president wants on the air. To all Americans, I ask you to pick up
your phone tomorrow, call your Representatives in the House and Senate and
demand that they pass the SAVE America Act without delay. Together, we will
restore faith and confidence in our country, and we will be bigger, better and
stronger than ever before. The bill will NOT restore faith and confidence in our country, or in our elections,
Thank you. God bless you. God bless our great military. And
God bless America. Thank you very much. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY COMMENTS.
