Trump reveals China stole voter registration data from 220M Americans

President Trump revealed that China stole the voter registration data of 220 million Americans as part of his primetime speech on Thursday.“This data loss presents an unprecedented election security nightmare,” Trump said.Some government officials reportedly knew China stole at least some voter registration data — ranging from names and addresses to party affiliations and Social Security numbers — as early as 2020, but didn’t tell Trump about it before the election that year.There have been multiple reports of Beijing accessing US voter registration data, and an intelligence report declassified in 2022 found that “Chinese officials analyzed multiple US states’ election voter registration data,” but the number of affected Americans has never before been reported.Sen.Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) earlier confirmed Thursday that Trump’s speech would have to do with election security and China in a post to X.“I was just briefed by the White House on what to expect this evening.

I would encourage every American to tune in tonight to the President’s speech,” he said.“This may be the most important Oval Office address since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The time for complacency with China is over.”The president has long alleged that widespread voting fraud cost him the 2020 election.However, evidence has yet to be presented suggesting fraud was committed on the scale necessary to deny Trump a second consecutive term.Trump has railed against mail-in ballots, “inaccurate” voting machines and delays in the vote-counting process since his loss to Joe Biden in 2020.The president has signed multiple election integrity-focused executive orders in his second term aimed at pressuring states into providing better security for their elections and tightening absentee-ballot rules.Trump has also deployed law enforcement and intelligence agencies to re-investigate claims about the collection and tallying of votes in 2020, specifically in Georgia, which narrowly w...