President Donald Trump used a primetime address to the nation Thursday to release a trove of documents that he claimed prove his long-debunked allegations of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.
Speaking from the White House, he described shocking revelations, including Chinese meddling to undermine his failed candidacy in 2020 and a cover-up by the "deep state." He claimed "Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure."
However, a review by The Associated Press found no such confirmation in the documents. Many pages are heavily redacted, while others outline vulnerabilities that have been well-documented for years. There is no evidence that China or any other foreign entity manipulated the vote in 2020.
"The White House promised a bombshell, and they delivered a dud," said David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research. Despite efforts by administration officials, "there was absolutely nothing here that was news, nothing here that even calls into question past elections and certainly not the 2020 election."
Trump claimed that "China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China's illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files." However, there is no evidence that China actually used that information.
China's efforts to influence the 2020 campaign were already well-documented, and there was no assessment of any direct election interference. The released documents do not refute that conclusion but reveal internal intelligence community debates.