US President Donald Trump has ordered a new investigation into alleged Chinese interference in US elections, announcing the declassification of intelligence documents that he says reveal major vulnerabilities in the country's voting systems.
Speaking from the White House on Thursday, Trump claimed that China had carried out what he described as "the largest compromise of election data in history." He alleged that Beijing obtained access to information from 220 million US voter files over a period beginning during the 2020 election cycle.
Trump said he had directed the Director of National Intelligence and the FBI to investigate the allegations and determine the full extent of the reported data breach.
Trump says election systems 'exposed to manipulation and corruption'
The president argued that the case demonstrates that "the US electoral system is exposed to manipulation and corruption." He added that federal authorities are in the process of notifying states whose election data may have been compromised.
