President Donald Trump used a primetime address to allege the “deep state” suppressed Communist Party of China attempts to meddle in the 2020 election.As Trump made the allegations of election interference from the White House‘s East Room, he declassified intelligence documents presented to him by his White House Government Transparency Task Force and members of his White House Intelligence Advisory Board, claiming they supported his accusations and publishing them on his administration’s official website, whitehouse.gov.“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 U.S. voter files,” he said.
“Compounding the travesty, the second set of documents we are releasing reveals that members of the deep state — very, very famous group of people, many cases 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.”There have been more than 60 legal challenges regarding the 2020 election, where judges, including those appointed by Trump and other Republican presidents, dismissed the cases, including after considering their merits.“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,” he said. “We’re in the process of informing governors, senators, and members of Congress of potential issues in their states.”Regardless of the criticism he has received from Democrats, Trump claimed he was not making the allegations to create a glide path to challenge this November’s midterm elections, with many major news outlets, including ABC and NBC, declining to cover his remarks live.“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,” he said.Here are Trump’s three main allegations.Chinese interference and the deep state
