US President Donald Trump has made a very shocking claim in his address to the country from the White House. He has made serious allegations against China and said that during the 2020 US presidential election, the biggest theft of election data in the history of the country took place. Trump has also said that members of our intelligence agency had supported China to carry out this data theft. In his address, he also explained how the incident of election data theft was carried out.
According to Trump’s claim, China had illegally stolen the files and sensitive information of about 22 crore (220 million) American voters. The US President has called it the biggest data theft in history. He announced the immediate declassification of intelligence documents because they reveal weaknesses in the election system that were kept hidden for years.
Claim of data theft of 22 crore American voters
President Trump said in his address, “These documents include five key areas of concern. They reveal that over the course of several years, starting with the 2020 election cycle, China conducted the largest election data breach in history, illegally obtaining the files of 220 million American voters. This information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data. This loss of data is a threat to election security. Creates an unprecedented crisis.
Trump told how the data theft happened
“The intelligence also shows that China created a data exploitation unit specifically for this new project. Worse yet, the second set of documents we are releasing shows that members of the ‘deep state’ – in many cases very well-known people within our intelligence agencies – actively worked to suppress and downplay information about China’s dangerous election interference. This thing was hidden from both the public, which no one had even thought was possible.”
Intelligence agency members supported China: Trump
President Donald Trump added, “The name of the person who quoted is still under review, but the matter is even more serious. Raw intelligence received by the FBI in 2020 – which was suppressed by some arbitrary bureaucrats – said that China’s activities also included an attempt to cast illegal ballots for Joe Biden. During this period,” the documents show, “several important CIA and NSA reports related to China’s efforts to influence the election” Not included in the ‘Presidential Daily Briefing’.
“An email conversation between intelligence analysts revealed that she ‘deliberately altered’ the Presidential Daily Briefing to conceal information about China’s election-related activities. An FBI official wrote that she was running ‘a shadow government’ (secret parallel government) to prevent information about China’s election interference from being revealed.”
Trump made a big claim by taking the name of Barack Obama
Referring to Barack Obama’s tenure, Trump said, “To other officials who have observed such efforts, the motives behind them appeared to be entirely political. Recently, we received a large number of ‘burn bags,’ that is, bags containing information that President Barack Hussein Obama had directed to be burned. These bags were supposed to be burned, but that never happened. We believe this was not done intentionally, but due to a lack of capability.”
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