This speech was kept close to the vest, and now President Trump has revealed what the “really big news” was, teasing it earlier this week. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH), who glanced at a copy, said it was the most important address since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The president started his much-anticipated address by saying we are safer, stronger, and wealthier than ever before. We overtook a nation in disrepair, including battling the worst inflation in 48 years, men in women’s sports, and being laughed at around the world. We were considered a dead nation, but now economic investment is soaring, more Americans are working than ever before, and inflation experienced its largest monthly decline in six years.
BREAKING: Sen. Moreno reveals he’s been briefed on Trump’s speech tonight & that it “may be the most important Oval Office address since the Cuban Missile Crisis.”
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) July 16, 2026
EXCLUSIVE: President Trump is expected to reveal at least 278,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in US federal elections during his primetime speech tonight on election security.
— Caitlin Doornbos (@CaitlinDoornbos) July 16, 2026
JUST IN - U.S. Department of Homeland Security says it found more than 250,000 non-citizens on voter rolls across four states, according to a draft press release. California accounted for the bulk with 190,832, followed by New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania — Politico pic.twitter.com/TLQyZ3oDE5
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 16, 2026
The president then elaborated on Trump accounts, border security, and rebuilding our military. Trump said we’ll be seeing the “fruits of that labor” in Iran shortly.
Trust in the country leads to greatness, and our elections play a big role in that.
The system we have falls catastrophically short of that standard. Trump announced a massive declassification of documents showing how exposed our election system is to hacking and foreign interference. Top White House aides and intelligence agency chiefs have all reviewed and authenticated the documents.
The documents highlight major areas of concern. Starting in 2020, Beijing carried out the largest-ever compromise of election data. Some 220 million American voters' files were meddled with by Chinese intelligence services. China signed a data exploitation unit for this project.
Members of the Deep State within the IC worked to suppress and downplay the scope and impact of China’s election interference. U.S. spy agencies discovered that the voter data breach in 18 states was bought, stolen, or hacked by China. That breach was kept hidden; Trump, who was still president at the time, was not informed, nor was Congress. The line was that the 2020 election was the most secure in history.
🚨BREAKING: President Trump announces that China engaged in the LARGEST election security breach in U.S. history:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 17, 2026
"During 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, resulting in… pic.twitter.com/s6SWL54D0f
CIA reported in mid-2018 that the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements opposed to Trump. In mid-2019, China’s approach was to undermine domestic confidence during the first Trump presidency. The Chinese government aimed to identify anti-Trump reporters and pay them large sums of money to produce stories that cast Trump in a negative light.
🚨President Trump drops a BOMBSHELL, alleging that members of the Deep State suppressed and downplayed information relating to China's election meddling:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 17, 2026
"They did not disclose to me as president or to anyone else, and to the best of our knowledge they did not inform Congress.… pic.twitter.com/ELZv6kalPG
🚨President Trump alleges that the Chinese Communist Party was ALL-IN on doing everything they could to undermine him during his first term:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 17, 2026
"The documents we are releasing show that CIA reporting explicitly stated that, in mid 2018, the Chinese Communist Party’s policy was to… pic.twitter.com/PQchLqXRWM
🚨President Trump says China PAID American JOURNALISTS to fabricate negative stories about Trump during his first term:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 17, 2026
"The Chinese government sought to identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. president and pay them large sums of money to write more… pic.twitter.com/vylgoh5VUa
TRUMP: "The Chinese government wanted U.S. president to lose the next election and the reason they wanted me to lose is because they knew I was wise to them." pic.twitter.com/QoiUYFCSNK
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 17, 2026
🚨BREAKING🚨
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 17, 2026
President Trump states the FBI found China was helping Joe Biden in 2020:
"It gets even worse. Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020, yet buried by rogue bureaucrats, stated that China’s activities, even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots… pic.twitter.com/GX68qYaV4N
The FBI obtained raw intelligence indicating that China’s activities included efforts to produce illegal ballots for Joe Biden. These were kept out of the presidential briefing. One analyst admitted to intentionally downplaying Chinese election activities. Another official stated she was running a shadow government to keep intelligence on China’s election interference away from the media and the White House. Numerous burn bags have been found.
White House declassified emails showing that NSA members deliberately hid intel assessments from President Trump in 2020 that China was trying to influence the election in favor of Biden:
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 17, 2026
"Deliberately massaged our one pending Presidential Daily Briefing." pic.twitter.com/YqfW0xSXlM
🚨PRESIDENT TRUMP: "One official inside the FBI wrote that she was running 'A SHADOW GOVERNMENT,' to keep intelligence about China’s election meddling from becoming known and to keep it away from the honorable– other officials who witnessed such efforts perceived the motivations… pic.twitter.com/7FgfBi5Ci4
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 17, 2026
TRUMP: "Recently, we found significant numbers of burn bags, and this is a group of bags that were used to destroy information given by President Barack Hussein Obama to be burned." pic.twitter.com/EAkABNX9Hf
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 17, 2026
TRUMP: "For many years, Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot counting systems. Dishonest, almost all. They are vulnerable and easily compromised, and people within our government knew… pic.twitter.com/5EOxHvxaAH
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 17, 2026
Americans were lied to about the security of our election systems, including voting machines. They’re highly susceptible to attack. Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and non-state actors have the ability to compromise our election infrastructure.
Michigan police raided a Democrat GOTV organization and were so concerned they contacted the FBI in Detroit. The documents state that canvassers signed voter registration forms in other people’s names, registered nonexistent individuals, and got paid based on the number of applications they produced. The FBI believed crimes were committed, but the Biden DOJ slow-walked and suppressed the case.
Trump also said they’re releasing a report from the Department of Homeland Security, where they found 270,000 noncitizens are enrolled to vote in our elections. The real number is likely higher since blue states refused to turn over their voter rolls.
From an August 2020 declassified document from the National Intelligence Council:
— Cameron Arcand (@cameron_arcand) July 17, 2026
"Ahead of the 2020 US elections, foreign states
will continue to use covert and overt influence
measures in their attempts to sway US voters'
preferences and perspectives, shift US policies,…
“It is not defensible,” said Trump. Our machines and ballot counting systems are vulnerable to hacking, fraud has been buried, with noncitizens and dead people likely participating in our elections. Voter ID is still not a national law.
President Trump uses the 2026 California gubernatorial election and Los Angeles mayoral election to highlight the vulnerabilities of our elections:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 17, 2026
"California’s recent election for mayor of L.A. and governor was held on June 2nd, long time ago, but it was just completed a few… pic.twitter.com/EXgN5Osxub
🚨President Trump alleges that Biden's DOJ KNEW about a 2020 election fraud ring in Michigan and ACTIVELY KILLED the investigation:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 17, 2026
"In 2020, Michigan State police raided a Democrat get-out-the-vote organization, a corrupt group, in Muskegon, and were so concerned by what they… pic.twitter.com/MQrRc4iuLD
TRUMP: "The CIA obtained reporting of a specific plot to do a big number in favor of the corrupt Maduro regime in Venezuela, and that’s exactly what happened: conspiring to digitally rig their own country’s elections in 2020, and that’s what they did. This reporting included… pic.twitter.com/iKxNEpHTe8
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 17, 2026
Trump then criticized NBC and ABC for not airing his speech, claiming that they knew about the issue and didn’t want to broadcast documents revealing the scheme. He later called for their broadcasting licenses to be revoked.
“Great damage has been done to our country,” said Trump. “The trust of the American people has been lost.”
Everyone should agree that we should have the most secure election system in the world. It should be a bipartisan issue, the president said.
“We should be united, not divided,” said Trump. The president said his administration will be working and contacting states whose voter rolls have been hacked by the Chinese.
The goal is to never be bought or hacked ever again. The president urged Americans to pick up their phones and urge their members of Congress to pass the SAVE America Act immediately.
You can read the documents at WhiteHouse.gov.
JUST IN - Trump releases documents reportedly exposing election interference in U.S..https://t.co/4rxe5dxadc pic.twitter.com/irHsgfFSDq
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 17, 2026
Before the address, there were numerous leaks about its contents, mostly indicating that some part would involve election integrity material. During Thursday’s press briefing with Karoline Leavitt, she stayed silent on the details, asking the press to watch the speech and noting the many inaccurate stories about the address.
CNN's Kaitlan Collins: "Regarding the president's speech tonight, he's been in office over 540 days now. If what he says tonight is backed up by evidence, why hasn't anyone been charged?"
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 16, 2026
Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt: "He hasn't revealed it yet. He hasn't declassified the… pic.twitter.com/VU6SocKWCl
.@PressSec fires back at reporter accusing Trump of being unable to let the 2020 election go 🔥
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 16, 2026
"First of all, Garrett, I think part of the problem is that the media has refused to acknowledge that tens of millions of Americans across the country share the concerns of this… pic.twitter.com/sXu50J4jlf
Editor's Note: The Democrats are doing everything in their power to undermine the integrity of our elections.
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