Beijing's response was immediate Donald Trump who in his speech to the nation – during the night – had denounced “the largest breach of electoral data in history” carried out in 2020 by Beijing which would have “illegally acquired the data of 220 million US voters”, raising an alarm on the Midterm voteChina's Foreign Ministry called Trump's claims "pure fabrications and malicious slanders that have long since been proven to be groundless." In an analysis published on its website, Reuters says the US president's renewed accusations could complicate his fragile truce with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, just two months before the summit scheduled in Washington.
Trump Speech: Midterm Vote Behind Attack on China
"The US elections are vulnerable to fraud and the risk that they will be stolen." US President Trump denounced this during his speechbear to the nation, assuring Americans that he will work with local authorities to secure the November midterms from the “shocking weaknesses” that have emerged.
In front of the cameras, the president briefly mentioned theIran and to the economy. Wall Street “is advancing from record to record” and “the latest inflation figure was the best in six years,” he noted. On the American campaign in Middle East he simply said: “We won in VenezuelaWe are winning in Iran and soon you will see the fruits of this work.”
Then he devoted all the time available to him to talk about votingTo continue to have a country, "we must have a secure and reliable voting system. The one we have now is weak and far from meeting security standards," he said, announcing his intention to declassify new documents that could demonstrate the system's vulnerabilities, including those to foreign interference. Trump cited the cases of Venezuela and China as examples. The CIA, he reported, obtained information on a plot linked to the Nicolas Maduro regime to rig the 2020 US elections. China, on the other hand, is responsible for "what is believed to be the largest breach of election data in history" starting in 2020., through which it "illegally acquired the data of 220 million American voters." China "did not want Trump to win the election," he added, stressing that Beijing wanted to help Joe Biden and also tried to "fabricate illegal ballots" for the former president. However, no one has spoken about this case: the members of the "Deep State they tried to suppress” the information but “I have directed the relevant agencies to investigate the cover-up of Chinese interference,” he said.
In his all-out attack on the electoral system a few months before the midterm voteTrump lashed out at vote-counting machines that are "vulnerable to attack" and at the more than 278.000 people who are not US citizens but are registered to vote. In his speech, Trump repeatedly referenced the 2020 election, which has been an obsession of his for years. His theories about stolen votes are behind the assault on Congress on January 6, and many fear that his new attack on the electoral system just months before the election is an attempt to get their hands on the electoral system and federalize it or create the conditions to declare an emergency shortly before the November vote, which his party is expected to lose.
Trump's speech: Here's who didn't broadcast it
"Election fraud is extremely rare, and almost always committed by American citizens," California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, immediately responded after Trump's address to the nation. The president's claims also raised concerns. FoxHis reporters explained that they were unable to “corroborate the president’s statements” about the vote. Fox It is one of the networks that broadcast the president's speech live on TV. Others have decided not to do it on TV but only on other platforms because they are not convinced of the relevance of the speech and are worried about the possibility of spreading lies.Trump lashed out against the media that decided to boycott him during his speech.ABC e nbc "They decided not to broadcast it" because "they know how corrupt the system is and they are part of the conspiracy. They want to protect the left," he attacked before threatening them in front of millions of Americans with the revocation of their licenses.
Trump's obsession with the 2020 election
Trump then accused the "Deep State" of having intentionally withheld information on this Chinese interference and declared that he had asked theFBI, Co., the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice to investigate what it called a “cover-up” operation by U.S. officials. In reality, according to reports fromAdnkronos, documents released by the White House on Thursday evening revealed heated internal debates within the administration over how to define and evaluate Chinese initiatives. But no evidence of cover-ups.
Throughout it all, Trump's obsession with the 2020 election – which he lost by about 7 million votes during the coronavirus pandemic – has been a recurring theme in the 2024 campaign. Yet, over the years, No public evidence has ever emerged to support the Republican and his allies' claims of foreign interference. – neither in the voting nor in the counting phase – in the 2020 elections or in other recent consultations, nor even regarding widespread fraud involving paper ballots.
Some of Trump's top officials from his first term – including the Attorney General William P. Barr – declared, in the aftermath of the 2020 defeat, that there was no evidence of large-scale fraud. And even the evidence provided this Thursday, so far, doesn't seem to have changed the reality: there was no fraud in the American elections.
