U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about evidence of Chinese interference in U.S. elections at the White House East Room, 9:00 p.m. on the 16th (10:00 a.m. on the 17th, Korea Standard Time). [AP=Yonhap News]

"Declassified Documents on White House Website"... Evidence of China's U.S. Election Interference Revealed for the First Time

"China Created a New Department to Defeat Trump... Selected U.S. Reporters and Paid Huge Kickbacks"

Targets Left-leaning Networks NBC, ABC, etc... Criticizes "Fake News Licenses Should Be Revoked"

"Information Compiled, Verified, and Confirmed by the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, Including Government Transparency Task Force and Intelligence Chiefs"

"China Has Been Committing the Largest Election Manipulation in U.S. History Since the 2020 Election"

"Unprecedented Election Security Nightmare Unfolded as U.S. Voter Data Was Handed Over to China"

"Deep State Personnel Within U.S. Intelligence Agencies Actively Ignored Information on China's Interference"

"Misled the Public by Claiming 'Our Elections Were Safe' Without Reporting to the President or Congress"

CIA Report: "Illegal Ballots Manufactured for Joe Biden... Covered Up by Rogue Bureaucrats"

"Dozens of CIA and NSA Intelligence Reports Concealed and Manipulated to Keep Them Off the President's Daily Briefing"

"Obama Ordered the Destruction of 'Burn Bags' Containing Cover-up Documents... It Was Lucky They Weren't Destroyed"

"Reports Discovered on Election Interference by Hostile Nations Including China, North Korea, and Maduro's Electronic Voting Machines"

"Approximately 278,000 Non-Citizens Registered on Federal Voter Rolls"

U.S. Elections Worse Than Third-World Countries... "Ruined by Radical Left-Protecting Broadcast Networks"

"We Must Unite Beyond Partisanship When It Comes to Election Security"... Urges Passage of the SAVE Act

U.S. President Donald Trump announced unexpectedly at 9:00 p.m. on the 16th (10:00 a.m. on the 17th, KST) that he had "secured evidence that China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election through systematic election manipulation."

In an address to the nation from the White House in Washington, D.C., President Trump stated, "China created and assigned a separate election manipulation department to execute a project to defeat President Trump (in his reelection bid)."

He added, "Starting this evening, declassified documents will be released on the White House website."

At the beginning of his address, President Trump emphasized, "I am announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical information that reveals the shocking vulnerabilities of U.S. election infrastructure. These declassified secrets are authentic information that has been collected by the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, which gathered the review opinions of intelligence agency heads including the Government Transparency Task Force, and subsequently inspected and fully verified."

He continued, "The reason for releasing this information, which can be searched on the White House website, is not to undermine confidence in the election, but a step to gain that confidence. This evidence shows how much our election system was at risk and exposed to actual hacking exploitation and foreign interference at a level no one could have predicted."

He noted, "These documents are listed in five major concerns, the first of which is that China has been committing what is considered the largest election manipulation in U.S. history since the 2020 election cycle."

President Trump pointed out, "China obtained files on 220 million American voters, including addresses, cell phone numbers, party preferences, and other sensitive information, and engaged in other nefarious activities. The handover of this data led to an unprecedented election security nightmare."

He also confirmed that "the second stage of the released declassified documents concerns members of the 'deep state' (a shadow government that effectively holds global dominance based on financial leverage, etc.)," and that "U.S. intelligence departments infiltrated by them actively worked to ignore information regarding China's evil election interference."

* President Trump was the first U.S. president to officially mention the deep state around the time of his first administration's inauguration. [Editor's Note]

He lamented, "U.S. intelligence agencies identified the vulnerability and theft of voter registration data. Tens of millions of voting records were leaked, traded by China across 18 states, stolen, and hacked. Yet, those responsible for raising the alarm instead covered up the information and, rather than reporting to the President and Congress, only repeated that 'our elections were the safest in U.S. history.'"

President Trump said, "It is shocking that they covered up the election security breach, considering there is additional information that China committed other acts with the intention of undermining the Trump administration and the 2020 campaign. They did not want Trump to be elected and fought like hell to stop Trump's victory."

Specifically, he stated, "The CIA documents released this time cite that 'in mid-2018, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leveraged all domestic and foreign elements that bothered the U.S. President to decrease his support, make him resign, or stop his reelection.' Around this time, China focused on weakening trust in the President within the U.S. to influence the U.S. midterm elections (selecting the Senate and House) and the 2020 presidential election."

In this regard, he revealed, "According to these documents, the strategy included China influencing U.S. patents to force major U.S. corporations to oppose the President, or selecting U.S. reporters who wrote negative articles about the U.S. President and paying them huge sums of money."

He also added, "They wanted Trump to lose the next election because I imposed billions of dollars in global tariffs and maintained strong U.S. military power worldwide. Although hundreds were involved in drafting the citations (in the CIA report), this fact was buried by rogue bureaucrats who attempted to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden."

He further disclosed, "During the period (when bureaucrats showed such behavior according to the CIA documents), dozens of CIA and NSA reports targeting Chinese election interference did not even make it into the President's Daily Briefing. One intelligence agency email discovered recently confessed that the Daily Briefing (content) was 'massaged' (an intelligence term meaning to alter the substance in favor of the manipulators, including intentional omission, cover-up, or fabrication) to deliberately delay briefings on China regarding the election."

Furthermore, he noted, "Another email included complaints from other officials who witnessed a female bureaucrat involved in the shadow government gradually losing her sense of impartiality, blaming it on blatant political motives. Recently, we have discovered a large number of 'burn bags,' and these information bags were ultimately misused to destroy intelligence."

* President Trump referred to bags containing evidence related to 2020 election fraud, which were first discovered and disclosed by then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard at a White House cabinet meeting in August 2025, as "burn bags," meaning they were meant to be burned but were not destroyed in time. [Editor's Note]

U.S. President Donald Trump publicly questions Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard about the discovery of bags containing evidence related to the 2020 election fraud during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington on August 26 of last year. / Captured from White House live. Regarding this, he officially identified Barack Obama as the one who wanted them burned.

President Trump assessed, "Because President Barack Obama said to burn them, if they had been burned as instructed and if others at different levels had confirmed their incineration, that would have been that, but it didn't happen. I think we were lucky." He added, "It is more accurate to view that (the fact they were not burned) was not due to will, but due to the unspeakable incompetence of those responsible for burning them. Finding (the burn bags) in the end was a surprise."

He continued, "I am requesting today that the DNI, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA investigate how such important information could be covered up. Firing those involved in covering up China's interference and holding them criminally responsible is just the beginning."

Along with this, he pointed out, "The third set of documents we are releasing concerns the blatant and overt lies and dishonesty told to Americans about the security of election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and electronic tabulating systems. We (the second Trump administration) also know that they were easily influenced and compromised."

President Trump then promised further declassification regarding China, North Korea, etc. He said, "Tonight, we will release analysis and assessment reports from the U.S. intelligence community (collectively referring to 18 intelligence agencies) that were previously classified, as well as other reports proving that these (electronic) machines were extremely exposed to attacks and that even our (Trump 2nd) administration was aware of that fact." He introduced, "These are reports that include hostile nations of the U.S. that could disrupt America's (election) infrastructure, at least Russia, China, North Korea, and nonstate groups."

More specifically, he revealed with evidence, "Tonight, we will release all analysis results on cyber threats targeting the heart of democracy from January 2020 to June 2026. While many have questioned whether it is actually possible to electronically manipulate these terrible machines or change election results, we are releasing reports obtained by the CIA regarding a specific conspiracy supporting Venezuela's corrupt Maduro regime."

President Trump asserted, "Conspiring to re-tally America's 2020 election digitally (electronically) is what they have been doing. This report provides precise and detailed analysis of methods for changing vote totals that could not be detected even through audits or deep inspections. Ultimately, this information shows why urgent measures must be taken so that the U.S. (election) system is not hacked or compromised as it was in the past."

He also said, "The fourth set of documents proves that they buried and covered up evidence of significant (election) fraud even after detecting it. Included in the documents released tonight is detailed evidence from the FBI regarding large-scale voter registration fraud in Michigan." He continued, "In 2020, Michigan state police raided the Democratic Party's 'Get Out the Vote' organization, and it contained findings we were truly concerned about. Some (Democratic organization) campaign workers admitted to the FBI's Detroit office that they signed other people's names on registration forms, registered non-existent people fraudulently, and received gift cards for the number of falsely created registrations. In other words, they paid for it, executed it, and committed fraud."

President Trump ordered, "FBI agents who investigated this case believe that the Biden DOJ committed the perfect crime by using methods to slow down the investigation to bury this issue. I am requesting tonight that FBI Director (Kash Patel) cooperate with the Department of Justice to investigate this case thoroughly and prosecute those responsible for participating in the crime."

He continued, "According to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) analysis and Michigan voter and public records, we confirmed about 278,000 non-citizens registered for federal elections, and the actual figures (of fraudulent registrations) are higher than what is known because the (Democrat-controlled Michigan) state government refused to share voter information. Even with only this limited information, we have determined that the voting system could not detect when non-citizen aliens exceeded one-quarter of registered voters."

He lamented the reality that the voter ID bill (Save America Act) remains stalled in the federal legislature, stating, "Hundreds of millions of U.S. voter information files have ended up in the hands of foreign governments, and U.S. (election) machines and ballot counting systems have been hacked, manipulated, and corrupted, and while China and other countries have been trying to interfere in U.S. elections, evidence of fraud has been buried in the end. Hundreds of thousands of non-citizens (not qualified to vote in the U.S. presidential election) were registered on voter rolls and active, yet the U.S. has reached a point where tens of millions of ballots are drifting aimlessly through the mail without even requiring voter ID or proof of U.S. citizenship."

He also pointed out, "The recent California gubernatorial and LA mayoral elections are one example of insanity; even though they were held long ago on June 2nd, they were only finished a few days ago on July 10th, well over a month later. One cannot help but wonder what they were doing during that month of counting votes. It is a situation worse than third-world countries, and there isn't even a third-world country that has elections like the U.S."

A broadcast of U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement regarding evidence of China's U.S. election interference at 9:00 p.m. on the 16th (10:00 a.m. on the 17th, KST) is being transmitted to the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. [AFP=Yonhap News] Then he attacked the radical left-wing broadcasting networks.

President Trump directly criticized, "Fake news NBC and ABC both said they would not report on this address. That is because they knew what this address was and didn't like the topic. These broadcasters know how corrupt the U.S. (election) system is but don't want to reveal it. For whatever reason, those broadcasts and others in the station want to continue the (election) fraud."

He continued, "It is a fact that these broadcasters cannot enjoy a great nation because they want to protect the radical left. Without free and fair elections, you cannot have a great nation, and such fraud means the licenses of those broadcasters should be revoked."

He also emphasized, "These broadcasters use public airwaves (referring to public goods) worth billions of dollars in assets without paying any cost. The only thing we want is honest elections and honest reporting."

He further referred to the wrongdoings of broadcasters that protect election manipulation forces, appealing, "Our country has suffered great damage, our elections have been biasedly influenced, rigged, and stolen, causing them to lose the trust of the American people. Whether Republican, Democrat, independent, or any other party affiliation, all Americans, wherever they are in the world, should be able to agree that they deserve the most secure, honest, and fair election system."

Regarding this, he repeatedly stressed, "When it comes to the issue of election security, it should result in one party (a non-partisan issue). We must be together. Whether you are a Democrat, Republican, or independent, it should not be a partisan issue; it should lead us to unite rather than divide us. We must not be divided, we must unite."

President Trump pledged, "In light of the brand-new and irrefutable information released tonight, the federal government is simultaneously notifying states that U.S. election data has been leaked by the People's Republic of China and others. We will work closely to mitigate any damage and ensure that swift measures are taken to better protect sensitive voter information."

Along with this, he added, "We will ensure that it can never be bought or sold, is unhackable, and never becomes a stolen election again. Tomorrow, the DHS Secretary will brief on the overview of work done up to recently regarding concerns about cyber vulnerabilities and electronic voting systems," pointing once again to the subversive interference of election manipulation forces.

He said, "A very important election is coming up, and I want those elections to be held honestly. I have instructed the DHS to immediately notify each state of non-citizen information on voter rolls and delete all foreign national voters, but the most important thing is that the federal legislature must pass the 'Voter ID Bill.' Wouldn't it be easy to do that if you didn't want to commit fraudulent elections?"

He also asked, "However, the reason they don't is because their policies are so nonsensical or their candidates are so miserable that they cannot be elected any other way. Such a groundbreaking bill requires all voters to present a photo ID or proof of citizenship. It is asking if you are a U.S. citizen. I hope corrupt mail-in ballots disappear. If you look at California alone, mail-in voting has its own corrupt characteristics."

President Trump said, "Except for illness, disability, military deployment, or travel, there will be no mail-in voting. Even when traveling or on vacation, system improvement is urgent to prevent election vulnerabilities." He added, "Starting tomorrow, all Americans should pick up their phones, call their Senators and Representatives, and demand that they pass the 'Voter ID Bill' without delay. We will restore faith and trust in America and build a bigger, improved, and stronger nation than ever before. May God bless the great United States and the U.S. military."

Updated: 1:51 p.m. on the 17th

Targets Left-leaning NBC & ABC Broadcasts... "Fake Broadcast Licenses Should Be Revoked"

U.S. President Donald Trump announced unexpectedly at 9:00 p.m. on the 16th (10:00 a.m. on the 17th, Korea Standard Time) that he had "secured evidence that China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election through systematic election manipulation."

In an address to the nation from the White House in Washington, D.C., President Trump stated, "China created and assigned a separate election manipulation department to execute a project to defeat President Trump (in his reelection bid)."

He added, "Starting this evening, declassified documents will be released on the White House website."

At the beginning, President Trump emphasized, "I am announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical information that reveals the shocking vulnerabilities of U.S. election infrastructure. These declassified secrets are authentic information that has been collected by the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, which gathered the review opinions of intelligence agency heads including the Government Transparency Task Force, and subsequently inspected and fully verified."

He continued, "The reason for releasing this information, which can be searched on the White House website, is not to undermine confidence in the election, but a step to gain that confidence. This evidence shows how much our election system was at risk and exposed to actual hacking exploitation and foreign interference at a level no one could have predicted."

He noted, "These documents are listed in five major concerns, the first of which is that China has been committing what is considered the largest election manipulation in U.S. history since the 2020 election cycle."

President Trump pointed out, "China obtained files on 220 million American voters, including addresses, cell phone numbers, party preferences, and other sensitive information, and engaged in other nefarious activities. The handover of this data led to an unprecedented election security nightmare."

He also confirmed that "the second stage of the released declassified documents concerns members of the 'deep state' (a shadow government that effectively holds global dominance based on financial leverage, etc.)," and that "U.S. intelligence departments infiltrated by them actively worked to ignore information regarding China's evil election interference."

* President Trump was the first U.S. president to officially mention the deep state around the time of his first administration's inauguration. [Editor's Note]

He lamented, "U.S. intelligence agencies identified the vulnerability and theft of voter registration data. Tens of millions of voting records were leaked, traded by China across 18 states, stolen, and hacked. Yet, those responsible for raising the alarm instead covered up the information and, rather than reporting to the President and Congress, only repeated that 'our elections were the safest in U.S. history.'"

President Trump said, "It is shocking that they covered up the election security breach, considering there is additional information that China committed other acts with the intention of undermining the Trump administration and the 2020 campaign. They did not want Trump to be elected and fought like hell to stop Trump's victory."

Specifically, he stated, "The CIA documents released this time cite that 'in mid-2018, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leveraged all domestic and foreign elements that bothered the U.S. President to decrease his support, make him resign, or stop his reelection.' Around this time, China focused on weakening trust in the President within the U.S. to influence the U.S. midterm elections and the 2020 presidential election."

In this regard, he revealed, "According to these documents, the strategy included China influencing U.S. patents to force major U.S. corporations to oppose the President, or selecting U.S. reporters who wrote negative articles about the U.S. President and paying them huge sums of money."

He also added, "They wanted Trump to lose the next election because I imposed billions of dollars in global tariffs and maintained strong U.S. military power worldwide. Although hundreds were involved in drafting the citations (in the CIA report), this fact was buried by rogue bureaucrats who attempted to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden."

He further disclosed, "During the period (when bureaucrats showed such behavior according to the CIA documents), dozens of CIA and NSA reports targeting Chinese election interference did not even make it into the President's Daily Briefing. One intelligence agency email discovered recently confessed that the Daily Briefing (content) was 'massaged' (an intelligence term meaning to alter the substance in favor of the manipulators, including intentional omission, cover-up, or fabrication) to deliberately delay briefings on China regarding the election."

Furthermore, he noted, "Another email included complaints from other officials who witnessed a female bureaucrat involved in the shadow government gradually losing her sense of impartiality, blaming it on blatant political motives. Recently, we have discovered a large number of 'burn bags,' and these information bags were ultimately misused to destroy intelligence."

* President Trump referred to bags containing evidence related to 2020 election fraud, which were first discovered and disclosed by then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard at a White House cabinet meeting in August 2025, as "burn bags," meaning they were meant to be burned but were not destroyed in time. [Editor's Note]

Regarding this, he officially identified Barack Obama as the one who wanted them burned.

President Trump assessed, "Because President Barack Obama said to burn them, they were burned as instructed, and others at different levels should have confirmed their incineration, but that didn't happen, so I think we were lucky." He added, "It is more accurate to view that (the fact they were not burned) was not due to will, but due to the unspeakable incompetence of those responsible for burning them. Finding (the burn bags) in the end was a surprise."

He continued, "I am requesting today that the DNI, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA investigate how such important information could be covered up. Firing those involved in covering up China's interference and holding them criminally responsible is just the beginning."

Along with this, he pointed out, "The third set of documents we are releasing concerns the blatant and overt lies and dishonesty told to Americans about the security of election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and electronic tabulating systems. We (the second Trump administration) also know that they were easily influenced and compromised."

President Trump then promised further declassification regarding China, North Korea, etc. He said, "Tonight, we will release analysis and assessment reports from the U.S. intelligence community (collectively referring to 18 intelligence agencies) that were previously classified, as well as other reports proving that these (electronic) machines were extremely exposed to attacks and that even our (Trump 2nd) administration was aware of that fact." He introduced, "These are reports that include hostile nations of the U.S. that could disrupt America's (election) infrastructure, at least Russia, China, North Korea, and nonstate groups."

More specifically, he revealed with evidence, "Tonight, we will release all analysis results on cyber threats targeting the heart of democracy from January 2020 to June 2026. While many have questioned whether it is actually possible to electronically manipulate these terrible machines or change election results, we are releasing reports obtained by the CIA regarding a specific conspiracy supporting Venezuela's corrupt Maduro regime."

President Trump asserted, "Conspiring to re-tally America's 2020 election digitally (electronically) is what they have been doing. This report provides precise and detailed analysis of methods for changing vote totals that could not be detected even through audits or deep inspections."

He also said, "The fourth set of documents proves that they buried and covered up evidence of significant (election) fraud even after detecting it. Included in the documents released tonight is detailed evidence from the FBI regarding large-scale voter registration fraud in Michigan." He continued, "In 2020, Michigan state police raided the Democratic Party's 'Get Out the Vote' organization, and it contained findings we were truly concerned about. Some (Democratic organization) campaign workers admitted to the FBI's Detroit office that they signed other people's names on registration forms, registered non-existent people fraudulently, and received gift cards for the number of falsely created registrations. In other words, they paid for it, executed it, and committed fraud."

President Trump ordered, "FBI agents who investigated this case believe that the Biden DOJ committed the perfect crime by using methods to slow down the investigation to bury this issue. I am requesting tonight that FBI Director (Kash Patel) cooperate with the Department of Justice to investigate this case thoroughly and prosecute those responsible for participating in the crime."

He continued, "According to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) analysis and Michigan voter and public records, we confirmed about 278,000 non-citizens registered for federal elections, and the actual figures (of fraudulent registrations) are higher than what is known because the (Democrat-controlled Michigan) state government refused to share voter information. Even with only this limited information, we have determined that the voting system could not detect when non-citizen aliens exceeded one-quarter of registered voters."

He lamented the reality that the voter ID bill remains stalled, stating, "Hundreds of millions of U.S. voter information files have ended up in the hands of foreign governments, and U.S. (election) machines and ballot counting systems have been hacked, manipulated, and corrupted, and while China and other countries have been trying to interfere in U.S. elections, evidence of fraud has been buried in the end. Hundreds of thousands of non-citizens were registered on voter rolls and active, yet the U.S. has reached a point where tens of millions of ballots are drifting aimlessly through the mail without even requiring voter ID or proof of U.S. citizenship."

He also pointed out, "The recent California gubernatorial and LA mayoral elections are one example of insanity; even though they were held long ago on June 2nd, they were only finished a few days ago on July 10th, well over a month later. One cannot help but wonder what they were doing during that month of counting votes. It is a situation worse than third-world countries, and there isn't even a third-world country that has elections like the U.S."

Then he attacked the radical left-wing broadcasting networks.

President Trump directly criticized, "Fake news NBC and ABC both said they would not report on this address. That is because they knew what this address was and didn't like the topic. These broadcasters know how corrupt the U.S. (election) system is but don't want to reveal it. For whatever reason, those broadcasts and others in the station want to continue the (election) fraud."

He continued, "It is a fact that these broadcasters cannot enjoy a great nation because they want to protect the radical left. Without free and fair elections, you cannot have a great nation, and such fraud means the licenses of those broadcasters should be revoked."

Updated: 12:50 p.m. on the 17th

"Including Maduro's Electronic Voting Machines... Reports on Interference by China, North Korea, etc. Released"

U.S. President Donald Trump announced unexpectedly at 9:00 p.m. on the 16th (10:00 a.m. on the 17th, Korea Standard Time) that he had "secured evidence that China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election through systematic election manipulation."

In an address to the nation from the White House in Washington, D.C., President Trump stated, "China created and assigned a separate election manipulation department to execute a project to defeat President Trump (in his reelection bid)."

He added, "Starting this evening, declassified documents will be released on the White House website."

At the beginning, President Trump emphasized, "I am announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical information that reveals the shocking vulnerabilities of U.S. election infrastructure. These declassified secrets are authentic information that has been collected by the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, which gathered the review opinions of intelligence agency heads including the Government Transparency Task Force, and subsequently inspected and fully verified."

He continued, "The reason for releasing this information, which can be searched on the White House website, is not to undermine confidence in the election, but a step to gain that confidence. This evidence shows how much our election system was at risk and exposed to actual hacking exploitation and foreign interference at a level no one could have predicted."

He noted, "These documents are listed in five major concerns, the first of which is that China has been committing what is considered the largest election manipulation in U.S. history since the 2020 election cycle."

President Trump pointed out, "China obtained files on 220 million American voters, including addresses, cell phone numbers, party preferences, and other sensitive information, and engaged in other nefarious activities. The handover of this data led to an unprecedented election security nightmare."

He also confirmed that "the second stage of the released declassified documents concerns members of the 'deep state' (a shadow government that effectively holds global dominance based on financial leverage, etc.)," and that "U.S. intelligence departments infiltrated by them actively worked to ignore information regarding China's evil election interference."

* President Trump was the first U.S. president to officially mention the deep state around the time of his first administration's inauguration. [Editor's Note]

He lamented, "U.S. intelligence agencies identified the vulnerability and theft of voter registration data. Tens of millions of voting records were leaked, traded by China across 18 states, stolen, and hacked. Yet, those responsible for raising the alarm instead covered up the information and, rather than reporting to the President and Congress, only repeated that 'our elections were the safest in U.S. history.'"

President Trump said, "It is shocking that they covered up the election security breach, considering there is additional information that China committed other acts with the intention of undermining the Trump administration and the 2020 campaign. They did not want Trump to be elected and fought like hell to stop Trump's victory."

Specifically, he stated, "The CIA documents released this time cite that 'in mid-2018, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leveraged all domestic and foreign elements that bothered the U.S. President to decrease his support, make him resign, or stop his reelection.' Around this time, China focused on weakening trust in the President within the U.S. to influence the U.S. midterm elections and the 2020 presidential election."

In this regard, he revealed, "According to these documents, the strategy included China influencing U.S. patents to force major U.S. corporations to oppose the President, or selecting U.S. reporters who wrote negative articles about the U.S. President and paying them huge sums of money."

He also added, "They wanted Trump to lose the next election because I imposed billions of dollars in global tariffs and maintained strong U.S. military power worldwide. Although hundreds were involved in drafting the citations (in the CIA report), this fact was buried by rogue bureaucrats who attempted to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden."

He further disclosed, "During the period (when bureaucrats showed such behavior according to the CIA documents), dozens of CIA and NSA reports targeting Chinese election interference did not even make it into the President's Daily Briefing. One intelligence agency email discovered recently confessed that the Daily Briefing (content) was 'massaged' (an intelligence term meaning to alter the substance in favor of the manipulators, including intentional omission, cover-up, or fabrication) to deliberately delay briefings on China regarding the election."

Furthermore, he noted, "Another email included complaints from other officials who witnessed a female bureaucrat involved in the shadow government gradually losing her sense of impartiality, blaming it on blatant political motives. Recently, we have discovered a large number of 'burn bags,' and these information bags were ultimately misused to destroy intelligence."

* President Trump referred to bags containing evidence related to 2020 election fraud, which were first discovered and disclosed by then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard at a White House cabinet meeting in August 2025, as "burn bags," meaning they were meant to be burned but were not destroyed in time. [Editor's Note]

Regarding this, he officially identified Barack Obama as the one who wanted them burned.

President Trump assessed, "Because President Barack Obama said to burn them, they were burned as instructed, and others at different levels should have confirmed their incineration, but that didn't happen, so I think we were lucky." He added, "It is more accurate to view that (the fact they were not burned) was not due to will, but due to the unspeakable incompetence of those responsible for burning them. Finding (the burn bags) in the end was a surprise."

He continued, "I am requesting today that the DNI, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA investigate how such important information could be covered up. Firing those involved in covering up China's interference and holding them criminally responsible is just the beginning."

Along with this, he pointed out, "The third set of documents we are releasing concerns the blatant and overt lies and dishonesty told to Americans about the security of election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and electronic tabulating systems. We (the second Trump administration) also know that they were easily influenced and compromised."

President Trump then promised further declassification regarding China, North Korea, etc. He said, "Tonight, we will release analysis and assessment reports from the U.S. intelligence community (collectively referring to 18 intelligence agencies) that were previously classified, as well as other reports proving that these (electronic) machines were extremely exposed to attacks and that even our (Trump 2nd) administration was aware of that fact." He introduced, "These are reports that include hostile nations of the U.S. that could disrupt America's (election) infrastructure, at least Russia, China, North Korea, and nonstate groups."

More specifically, he revealed with evidence, "Tonight, we will release all analysis results on cyber threats targeting the heart of democracy from January 2020 to June 2026. While many have questioned whether it is actually possible to electronically manipulate these terrible machines or change election results, we are releasing reports obtained by the CIA regarding a specific conspiracy supporting Venezuela's corrupt Maduro regime."

President Trump asserted, "Conspiring to re-tally America's 2020 election digitally (electronically) is what they have been doing. This report provides precise and detailed analysis of methods for changing vote totals that could not be detected even through audits or deep inspections."

Updated: 11:57 a.m. on the 17th

"China Paid Huge Kickbacks to American Reporters"

U.S. President Donald Trump announced unexpectedly at 9:00 p.m. on the 16th (10:00 a.m. on the 17th, Korea Standard Time) that he had "secured evidence that China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election through systematic election manipulation."

In an address to the nation from the White House in Washington, D.C., President Trump stated, "China created and assigned a separate election manipulation department to execute a project to defeat President Trump (in his reelection bid)."

He added, "Starting this evening, declassified documents will be released on the White House website."

At the beginning, President Trump emphasized, "I am announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical information that reveals the shocking vulnerabilities of U.S. election infrastructure. These declassified secrets are authentic information that has been collected by the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, which gathered the review opinions of intelligence agency heads including the Government Transparency Task Force, and subsequently inspected and fully verified."

He continued, "The reason for releasing this information, which can be searched on the White House website, is not to undermine confidence in the election, but a step to gain that confidence. This evidence shows how much our election system was at risk and exposed to actual hacking exploitation and foreign interference at a level no one could have predicted."

He noted, "These documents are listed in five major concerns, the first of which is that China has been committing what is considered the largest election manipulation in U.S. history since the 2020 election cycle."

President Trump pointed out, "China obtained files on 220 million American voters, including addresses, cell phone numbers, party preferences, and other sensitive information, and engaged in other nefarious activities. The handover of this data led to an unprecedented election security nightmare."

He also confirmed that "the second stage of the released declassified documents concerns members of the 'deep state' (a shadow government that effectively holds global dominance based on financial leverage, etc.)," and that "U.S. intelligence departments infiltrated by them actively worked to ignore information regarding China's evil election interference."

* President Trump was the first U.S. president to officially mention the deep state around the time of his first administration's inauguration. [Editor's Note]

He lamented, "U.S. intelligence agencies identified the vulnerability and theft of voter registration data. Tens of millions of voting records were leaked, traded by China across 18 states, stolen, and hacked. Yet, those responsible for raising the alarm instead covered up the information and, rather than reporting to the President and Congress, only repeated that 'our elections were the safest in U.S. history.'"

President Trump said, "It is shocking that they covered up the election security breach, considering there is additional information that China committed other acts with the intention of undermining the Trump administration and the 2020 campaign. They did not want Trump to be elected and fought like hell to stop Trump's victory."

Specifically, he stated, "The CIA documents released this time cite that 'in mid-2018, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leveraged all domestic and foreign elements that bothered the U.S. President to decrease his support, make him resign, or stop his reelection.' Around this time, China focused on weakening trust in the President within the U.S. to influence the U.S. midterm elections and the 2020 presidential election."

In this regard, he revealed, "According to these documents, the strategy included China influencing U.S. patents to force major U.S. corporations to oppose the President, or selecting U.S. reporters who wrote negative articles about the U.S. President and paying them huge sums of money."

He also added, "They wanted Trump to lose the next election because I imposed billions of dollars in global tariffs and maintained strong U.S. military power worldwide. Although hundreds were involved in drafting the citations (in the CIA report), this fact was buried by rogue bureaucrats who attempted to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden."

He further disclosed, "During the period (when bureaucrats showed such behavior according to the CIA documents), dozens of CIA and NSA reports targeting Chinese election interference did not even make it into the President's Daily Briefing. One intelligence agency email discovered recently confessed that the Daily Briefing (content) was 'massaged' (an intelligence term meaning to alter the substance in favor of the manipulators, including intentional omission, cover-up, or fabrication) to deliberately delay briefings on China regarding the election."

Furthermore, he noted, "Another email included complaints from other officials who witnessed a female bureaucrat involved in the shadow government gradually losing her sense of impartiality, blaming it on blatant political motives. Recently, we have discovered a large number of 'burn bags,' and these information bags were ultimately misused to destroy intelligence."

* President Trump referred to bags containing evidence related to 2020 election fraud, which were first discovered and disclosed by then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard at a White House cabinet meeting in August 2025, as "burn bags," meaning they were meant to be burned but were not destroyed in time. [Editor's Note]

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about evidence of Chinese interference in U.S. elections at the White House East Room, 9:00 p.m. on the 16th (10:00 a.m. on the 17th, Korea Standard Time). [AP=Yonhap News]Updated: 11:27 a.m. on the 17th

U.S. President Donald Trump announced unexpectedly at 9:00 p.m. on the 16th (10:00 a.m. on the 17th, Korea Standard Time) that he had "secured evidence that China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election through systematic election manipulation."

In an address to the nation from the White House in Washington, D.C., President Trump stated, "China created and assigned a separate election manipulation department to execute a project to defeat President Trump (in his reelection bid)."

He added, "Starting this evening, declassified documents will be released on the White House website."

At the beginning, President Trump emphasized, "I am announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical information that reveals the shocking vulnerabilities of U.S. election infrastructure. These declassified secrets are authentic information that has been collected by the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, which gathered the review opinions of intelligence agency heads including the Government Transparency Task Force, and subsequently inspected and fully verified."

He continued, "The reason for releasing this information, which can be searched on the White House website, is not to undermine confidence in the election, but a step to gain that confidence. This evidence shows how much our election system was at risk and exposed to actual hacking exploitation and foreign interference at a level no one could have predicted."

He noted, "These documents are listed in five major concerns, the first of which is that China has been committing what is considered the largest election manipulation in U.S. history since the 2020 election cycle."

President Trump pointed out, "China obtained files on 220 million American voters, including addresses, cell phone numbers, party preferences, and other sensitive information, and engaged in other nefarious activities. The handover of this data led to an unprecedented election security nightmare."

He also confirmed that "the second stage of the released declassified documents concerns members of the 'deep state' (a shadow government that effectively holds global dominance based on financial leverage, etc.)," and that "U.S. intelligence departments infiltrated by them actively worked to ignore information regarding China's evil election interference."

* President Trump was the first U.S. president to officially mention the deep state around the time of his first administration's inauguration. [Editor's Note]

He lamented, "U.S. intelligence agencies identified the vulnerability and theft of voter registration data. Tens of millions of voting records were leaked, traded by China across 18 states, stolen, and hacked. Yet, those responsible for raising the alarm instead covered up the information and, rather than reporting to the President and Congress, only repeated that 'our elections were the safest in U.S. history.'"

Updated: 10:49 a.m. on the 17th

[Breaking News] Trump: "China Interfered in 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Through Organized Election Manipulation"... First Official Announcement in U.S. History

"Election Security Nightmare Unfolded as Data Handed Over to China"

U.S. President Donald Trump announced unexpectedly at 9:00 p.m. on the 16th (10:00 a.m. on the 17th, Korea Standard Time) that he had "secured evidence that China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election through systematic election manipulation."

In an address to the nation from the White House in Washington, D.C., President Trump stated, "China created a separate election manipulation department to defeat President Trump."

He added, "Starting this evening, declassified documents have been released on the White House website."

He emphasized that it is "complete, authentic information collected by the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, which gathered the review opinions of intelligence agency heads including the intelligence task force," and noted, "These documents are classified into five areas, the first of which is that China has been committing the largest election manipulation in history since the 2020 election."

President Trump pointed out, "China obtained files on 220 million American voters, including addresses, cell phone numbers, and political preferences. The handover of this data led to an unprecedented election security nightmare."

Updated: 10:19 a.m. on the 17th

[Breaking News] Trump: "China Interfered in 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Through Organized Election Manipulation"... First Official Announcement in U.S. History

"Declassified Documents Released on White House Website"

"China Created Separate Department to Defeat Trump"

U.S. President Donald Trump announced unexpectedly at 9:00 p.m. on the 16th (10:00 a.m. on the 17th, Korea Standard Time) that he had "secured evidence that China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election through systematic election manipulation."

In an address to the nation from the White House in Washington, D.C., President Trump stated, "China created a separate election manipulation department to defeat President Trump."

He added, "Declassified documents have been released on the White House website."

This is the first time in U.S. history that a President has directly announced details regarding Chinese election manipulation, which had previously only been raised as suspicions.