The declassified intelligence documents released by the White House during President Donald Trump's speech on Thursday night do not support his claims of fraud in the 2020 elections: none of them conclude that the elections were manipulated or that the electoral outcome was altered, according to a report by the EFE agency.
One of the documents released on the official White House website reaches a conclusion that contradicts what Trump asserted in his approximately 25-minute speech from the East Room: “We believe that vote counting systems would be difficult to manipulate on a scale large enough to compromise election results.”
Trump announced during his speech the immediate declassification of what he described as crucial intelligence information regarding the country's electoral security.
Tonight I announce the declassification and immediate publication of crucial intelligence information, revealing alarming vulnerabilities in our electoral infrastructure," stated the leader, who maintained that the U.S. electoral system is "dangerously exposed" to cyber attacks and foreign interference.
The most forceful accusation of the speech pointed directly at China: Trump claimed that the Chinese government carried out what he described as the largest electoral data breach in history, stealing 220 million voter records with names, addresses, phone numbers, and political affiliations.
However, the official assessment from the U.S. intelligence community, published in March 2021, stated that China "considered but did not deploy interference efforts" to change the outcome of the 2020 elections.
That same document concluded that "there was no evidence that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 U.S. elections, including voter registration, the casting of votes, vote counting, and the reporting of results."
The Chinese embassy in Washington categorically rejected Trump's accusations through its spokesperson Liu Chang: "China has never interfered and will never interfere in the U.S. presidential elections. Elections in the U.S. are an internal matter of that country, and their outcome is determined by the votes of the American people."
Trump's accusations of irregularities in the 2020 elections have also not been supported by evidence over the years, and dozens of courts rejected his legal team's lawsuits due to lack of evidence.
The speech had a clear political dimension: it took place less than four months before the midterm elections on November 3, 2026, in which all 435 seats in the House and about 35 in the Senate are at stake.
NBC News polls show a challenging scenario for Republicans: 50% of Americans would prefer a Democratic Congress compared to 42% who prefer a Republican one.
Trump took the opportunity in his speech to urge the Senate to pass the Save America Act, a law that would require photo identification and proof of citizenship to register as a voter, and would nearly eliminate mail-in voting.
The initiative, however, was blocked in the Senate in March 2026, and senators from the Republican Party itself acknowledged that it has no real chances of passing in the upper chamber.
In June 2026, the Supreme Court halted part of Trump's electoral offensive by supporting states that allow counting mail-in votes received after the deadline.
Biden won the 2020 elections by more than seven million votes, a result that none of the documents declassified by the White House this Thursday calls into question.
Related videos:
Filed under: