Posted on 07/17/2026 6:48:27 AM PDT by Twotone
President Donald Trump in his primetime speech on Thursday is alleging vulnerabilities exist in American election systems, using a large trove of newly declassified documents as evidence to suggest future elections could be at risk of foreign interference, particularly by China.
Though the documents are newly declassified, they largely discuss vulnerabilities that have been known for years and election officials around the country have tried to address.
None of the declassified information supports the claim that any previous election results — including the 2020 presidential contest that Trump lost — were manipulated by foreign interference or fraud in a way that would’ve changed the outcome.
Instead, White House officials have framed the disclosures not as an attempt to re-litigate past elections, but rather as an attempt to correct vulnerabilities ahead of November’s midterm elections. That’s despite the fact that the second Trump administration has shuttered many federal organizations that were tracking and publicizing foreign influence campaigns.
And White House officials suggested the information, some of which has been known for years, was withheld from senior top elected US officials, including Trump, for political purposes.
Among the points Trump plans to discuss:
– Claims that there are major vulnerabilities with US voting machines
– Claims that China has obtained voter data on millions of Americans
– Claims about systemic voter registration fraud by Democrats in Michigan
– Claims there are far more non-citizens on voter rolls than known before
There are indeed some new revelations in the hundreds of pages of documents declassified Thursday. But it appears, based on CNN’s review, that a decent chunk of the documents rehash information that has already been public and widely understood in the US intelligence community.
The documents are part of an attempt by the Trump administration to make the case...
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Nothing is going to change. The dog barks, the caravan moves on.
No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot!
CNN
Stopped reading right there.
Strictly factual. Presented without bias.
Perhaps so, but the speech last night was evidence-free.
So sad, so true.
It was Trump’s bid to urge passage of his “SAVE America Act.”
If the Trump administration ends prematurely, last night’s speech will take center stage in the history of our times as the beginning of the end.
Why should we believe anything CNN says about this? They didn’t even televise the speech. They probably have been culpable in some way in covering up the fraud.
Based on CNN’s review
aka cover up own work?.
Before the speech was even over, the lamestream press was reporting “Trump’s false claims about stolen elections and compromised voting rolls” - same people that said the 2020 election - and all others are “clean and fair.”
Glad to see Trump pointed out the recent corrupt election in Los Angeles - where counting for the June 2nd primary ended on July 10th, eliminating Spencer Pratt from the general election.
Anyone who believes there isn’t widespread fraud in American elections is a fool, the evidence is so blatant.
Hummm, What this article is saying is NOT what I heard.
This is (yawn) CNN
That Idiot in California that wants to vote by phone , Chinese phones ? LOL
“widely understood in the US intelligence community” is not exactly the standard when the US intelligence community was actively suppressing information it had in 2020 and kept from Presidential briefings. If CNN wants to be even remotely accused of practicing journalism, it needs to acknowledge that there is a bureaucratic “community” with an identifiable political orientation that works to directly counter the administration of executives it does not favor. That “deep state” opposition to Trump is rather obvious, generally, but particularly on this topic.
using a large trove of newly declassified documents as evidence to suggest future elections could be at risk of foreign interference, particularly by China.
Though the documents are newly declassified, they largely discuss vulnerabilities that have been known for years and election officials around the country
“Suggest”
+
” Known for years “
=
Legion media contradicting themselves with zero self awareness.
Or
Evident self admitting bullshiters.
Or both.
We know they lie, so what redeeming value is there in posting their lies here?
What?
Trump’s Declassified Docs Detail Massive Michigan Voter Registration Fraud
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4388304/posts
Republicans lost a senate seat to fraud in MI in 2024.
It rarely matches reality. What feral media doesn’t say is more important than what they do. I completely blow off feral media reporting now.
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