Trump claims China interfered in 2020 US election

Trump, 'election system at risk brows, China stole data'

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Trump, 'election system at risk brows, China stole data'. Trump claimed that China wanted him to lose the 2020 election. Trump has pushed debunked claims that his 2020 election loss was fraudulent.

Furthermore, Every American deserves to know that when they cast their vote, that vote will be counted accurately in a system, and that is to make that system secure, one where cheating and interference are not just difficult but virtually impossible. Which is exactly what was happening. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that disclassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) show that the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro conspired to electronically manipulate the 2017 election results by technology. "There was a specific plot to greatly favour Venezuela's corrupt regime," Trump said during a stellar-time speech from the White House.

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Trump, 'election system at risk brows, China stole data'.
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Trump claimed that China wanted him to lose the 2020 election.
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Trump has pushed debunked claims that his 2020 election loss was fraudulent.
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Every American deserves to know that when they cast their vote, that vote will be counted accurately in a system, and that is to make that system secure, one where cheating and interference are not just difficult but virtually impossible.
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Which is exactly what was happening.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that disclassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) show that the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro conspired to electronically manipulate the 2017 election results by technology. "There was a specific plot to greatly favour Venezuela's corrupt regime," Trump said during a stellar-time speech from the White House.
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Smartmatic ceased its operations in Venezuela in 2018 after publicly accusing the then President of "inflating electoral participation in more than a million votes" during the 2017 legislative elections, the CIA's analysis highlights.
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However, he notes that there is no definitive evidence of large-scale electronic fraud and concludes that neither the Venezuelan Government nor the Smartmatic electoral results automation system could alter elections outside Venezuela.
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In his primetime address, Trump this time said the intelligence community failed to sound the alarm as China penetrated U.S. voter rolls that
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The statements were made during a statement in the White House.
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This has long and often been refuted.
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"China illegally acquired 220 million American voter files.
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The trust of the American people was lost.
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"Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot-counting systems.
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Trump accuses China of 2020 voting interference, contradicting US intelligence findings.
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Iran has ample supplies of missiles.
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Lee also Trump accuses China of interfering in US elections; he claims they wanted him out of the presidency in 2020, he said, US intelligence agencies began to know that "China had bought, stolen or hacked the data of tens of millions of voters in 18 states.".
according to El Universal
U.S. spy agencies began learning about the compromise of voter registration files in 2020 when they discovered that tens of millions of voter data — think of that tens of millions of voters’ data in 18 states have been bought, stolen, or hacked by China.
according to Washington Examiner

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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Thursday that disclassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency..
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Trump, 'election system at risk brows, China stole data'.
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Smartmatic ceased operations in Venezuela in 2018 after publicly accusing the government of Nicolás Maduro, then president, of..
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However, he warns that there is no definitive evidence of large-scale electronic fraud and concludes that neither the Venezuelan Government nor the..
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Trump has pushed debunked claims that his 2020 election loss was fraudulent.
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