Watch: President Trump’s televised speech to America from the White House
In a televised address, Donald Trump repeated unsubstantiated claims regarding 2020 election fraud and alleged Chinese interference in US voting data. The speech was criticized by experts as a repackaging of debunked theories and an attempt to undermine public trust in electoral systems.
Why it matters
The rhetoric continues to influence political discourse and public perception of election integrity in the United States.
US President Donald Trump has revived sweeping and unsupported claims of voter fraud and Chinese meddling – firing a clear warning shot ahead of midterm elections that many expect him to dispute.
In a White House address, Trump portrayed the US electoral system as dangerously exposed and urged lawmakers to adopt new restrictions on voting, despite scant appetite for the measures even within his own Republican Party.
“We can never watch a stolen election again,” Trump said, referencing his 2020 presidential election defeat by Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump said he was declassifying huge amounts of intelligence data that showed, among other things, that superpower rival China had illicitly acquired 220 million US voter files.
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