Day: July 16, 2026

With 110 days remaining until voters decide the balance of power in the next Congress, President Donald Trump used a rare primetime address — which many major TV networks declined to air live — to accuse unnamed national security officials of hiding information about the security of America’s elections and alleged Chinese efforts to interfere in the election he lost nearly six years ago.

Speaking from the East Room of the White House, Trump said he was releasing “critical intelligence” showing “shocking vulnerabilities” in America’s election system in a bid to pressure the current Republican-led Congress to pass partisan voting restriction legislation he has deemed essential to helping his party retain control of the House and Senate.

Citing no hard evidence, the president claimed American elections are vulnerable “to hacking, exploitation, and foreign interference” and accused the People’s Republic of China of carrying out “the largest compromise of election data in history” by acquiring election data — much of which is commercially available for purchase by political campaigns and other interested parties.

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

He further accused the so-called “deep state” within the U.S. government of working 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.”

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