CBS News' 'Fact-Checks' of Trump's Address Ignore the Facts

Yesterday, President Trump told the nation that China has seriously compromised American election data, and that the voter files of some 220 million Americans have been meddled with by Chinese intelligence services.

Back in 2018, the CIA warned that China would 'leverage all domestic and foreign elements' to oppose President Trump, and the following year, China's approach was to undermine domestic confidence during the first Trump administration. The Chinese government specifically targeted anti-Trump reporters and reportedly paid them large sums of money to produce negative stories about the President.

Before his speech, Democrats were already panicking, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez telling networks they had a moral obligation not to air the President's address.

President Trump also announced that pages and pages of documents were declassified and made those things available online. As our Cameron Arcand covered here, there is some pretty hard evidence to back up the claims made by the President.

But now CBS is getting absolutely bodied for their pathetic 'fact-checks' of the President's address.

President Trump alleged voting machines and ballot-counting systems are "extremely exposed to attack," pointing to intelligence that was declassified and released by the White House — following years of similar claims about voting machines.

FACT CHECK RATING: Lacks evidence.… pic.twitter.com/UG8j79aQJk
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 17, 2026

"Some of the newly released documents are tied to a company that largely isn't used in the United States, and experts say voting machines are subject to intense controls," CBS wrote.

President Trump claimed "mail-In ballots are inherently corrupt," while advocating for his SAVE America Act, which would ban mail-in voting, except in certain cases.

FACT CHECK RATING: False.

There is no evidence of widespread mail-in ballot fraud or corruption in states where… pic.twitter.com/eExtt5QMPI
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 17, 2026

CBS added, "There is no evidence of widespread mail-in ballot fraud or corruption in states where no-excuse absentee or universal vote-by-mail is offered. The Brookings Institute found an “average total mail voting fraud percentage across the 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 general elections of only 0.000043%, or about four cases of mail voting fraud out of every 10 million mail votes."

But even The New York Times reported issues with errors and fraud in absentee voting.

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— Jim Verdi (@jjverdi) July 17, 2026

Is The New York Times lying, too, CBS?

Statement of Logic on Election Integrity:

1) Proof of election integrity is not a secondary or optional feature; it is a primary logical requirement for any system that claims democratic legitimacy.

2) The transparent demonstration that an election is accurate and secure… https://t.co/VEZJcXD4FU
— TimOnPoint (@TimOnPoint) July 17, 2026

They even got blasted by the Rapid Response 47 X account.

FACT: Voting by mail increases the risk of fraud.

FACT: The bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform warned that voting by mail is “likely to increase the risks of fraud and of contested elections,” that “absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter… https://t.co/4m5j5R8jFt
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 17, 2026

Here's what they wrote:

FACT: The bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform warned that voting by mail is “likely to increase the risks of fraud and of contested elections,” that “absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud,” and that “vote buying schemes are far more difficult to detect when citizens vote by mail.”
FACT: A 2012 New York Times investigation revealed that “votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth.”
FACT: In 2024, the House Republican Policy Committee found that mass mail-in voting “increases opportunities for error in fraud in states that do not maintain clean voter rolls” and “brings about an inherent set of risks that jeopardize the integrity of American elections and create absurdities that dampen faith in our electoral system.”
FACT: The MIT Election Data + Science Lab argued “[E]ven many scholars who argue that fraud is generally rare agree that fraud with [voting by mail] voting seems to be more frequent than with in-person voting.”
FACT: A 2023 Heartland Institute/Rasmussen poll found that 21% of mail-in-voters admitted to at least one form of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
FACT: A 2020 report by the Heritage Foundation described widespread absentee and early voting as “vulnerable to being misdirected, stolen, forged, and altered,” with voters susceptible to intimidation, unlawful assistance, or pressure from campaigns and activists.
FACT: In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court, citing absentee ballot fraud in an Indiana primary, affirmed that “not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that it could affect the outcome of a close election.”

CBS also said President Trump's claims that China compromised voter information was 'misleading.'

President Trump says documents reviewed by White House officials show that "starting in the 2020 election cycle, the People's Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history."

220 million U.S. voter files containing… pic.twitter.com/RUOpirgZrY
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 17, 2026

"It’s not clear how China accessed the data nor what they did with it once they obtained it.

What a shock you didn't hear the speech and now you're covering for foreign governments that colluded and rigged the 2020 election

I can't wait for you people to be prosecuted
— J (@JayTC53) July 17, 2026

It's clear who CBS favors, and it's not the American people.

The media that spent two years constantly, religiously talking about Russian election interference wouldn’t broadcast Trump’s speech and won’t take 10 minutes to look through the declassified documents.

We probably have the worst media in the entire world.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 17, 2026

We truly do.

Oh, and here's over 20 minutes of Democrats warning our elections are 'easily hackable' and connected to the Internet.

MUST WATCH🚨 20 minutes of prominent Democrats, computer science professors, and election security experts warning that America's elections are connected to the internet and easily hackable.pic.twitter.com/9HZOkQ1GsV https://t.co/GGpRkZXJSM
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) July 17, 2026

We notice CBS hasn't run any fact checks on this.

That must be (D)ifferent.

Editor's Note: The Democrats are doing everything in their power to undermine the integrity of our elections.

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