Good evening. Before we begin, I'm proud
to report that our country is safer,
stronger, and far wealthier than it has
ever been before. We are doing great.
Less than two years ago, we inherited an
economic and social disaster after the
worst inflation in 48 years. The wide
open borders with millions and millions
of people pouring in from all over the
world, including criminals of all types
and 11,888
murders, many of whom killed more than
one person. We had transgender for
everybody, men and women sports, crime
ravaging our cities, and the whole world
was laughing at us as a nation. But not
anymore. Two years ago, our country was
dead. Now we are the hottest country
anywhere in the world. America is
respected like we have never been
respected before. We have more money
being invested in the United States than
at any time in the history of our
country. More Americans are working
today than ever before. This week it was
announced that inflation saw the largest
monthly decline in more than six years.
Just happened was just given out. The
media reported it and we accepted the
best in six years. The tax cuts in our
great big beautiful bill are saving
hardworking families thousands and
thousands of dollars like with the
provisions. No tax on tips, no tax on
overtime, and no tax on social security
for our great seniors along with the
interest deduction on a loan used to
purchase a car. but only if that car is
made in America and a 100% expensing for
our job creating businesses. Our stock
markets are at their highest point in
many years, but we can actually say of
all time, and your 401ks, pensions, and
retirement accounts are setting records
every single day, the highest in
history. For years, we paid the highest
price for prescription drugs anywhere in
the world. Now, we pay the lowest price
under my most favored nation's policy
because I was able to get the rest of
the world and the pharmaceutical
companies to act responsibly.
Drug prices are coming down by 70, 80,
and 90%.
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This will ultimately reduce the cost of
health care. You have to go to
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and take advantage of it. But the cost
of health care is coming way down
because of what we've done with
prescription drugs. And with Trump
accounts, every child in America now has
access to a tax-free investment account
to save for their future. Billions and
billions of dollars are being invested,
put in by companies and individuals to
take care of our children so that at age
18 they will have potentially hundreds
of thousands of dollars in their account
and they'll get off to a great start in
life. So for that, go to
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and sign up your child or any child
you'd like to sign up. Our previously
wide open borders have been transformed
into the most secure borders in the
history of our country with zero illegal
aliens being admitted to the United
States in the past 14 months. That is
zero. Nobody thought it was possible. We
had the worst border in the history of
our country. And now we have the best.
Crime is plummeting nationwide with the
murder rate at its lowest level since
1900
or more than 125 years ago. We're making
a record investment in our armed forces
and we have the strongest and most
powerful military by far anywhere in the
world. I built it during my first term
and unfortunately we're forced to use it
now. We won in Venezuela, which is now
working with us to produce millions and
millions of barrels of oil. We are
likewise winning big in Iran, and you
will see the fruits of that labor very,
very shortly. America is back and doing
really well. But we still have a major
challenge that must be urgently
addressed because no country can be
great without fair and honest elections.
You have to trust your country because
if there can be no trust, there can be
no greatness. And that's very simple. No
trust, no greatness. For many years,
I've called for bold, swift, and
decisive action to protect the integrity
of America's elections. 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.
Unfortunately, the system we have today
falls catastrophically short of that
standard. Tonight, I'm announcing the
immediate declassification and release
of critical intelligence, revealing
shocking vulnerabilities in our election
infrastructure.
This evidence shows that the election
system we have dangerously exposes
and really exposes like levels never
thought possible the hacking,
exploitation, and foreign interference.
Just as disturbingly this vital
information has for many years been
covered up and hidden from you, the
American people, our beautiful, our
great American people. But that all
changes right now. The documents we will
release starting tonight have been
gathered by the White House Government
Transparency Task Force, a great group
of people along with the staff of the
president's intelligence advisory board
supported by our top intelligence agency
chiefs who have all personally reviewed
the findings. We are presenting this
evening and fully confirmed their
authenticity.
You can see these documents for yourself
at white house.gov.
That's whitehouse.gov.
Go check it out. Our purpose in
disclosing this information is not to
weaken confidence in election, but to
earn that confidence by confronting
vulnerabilities and correcting them very
very quickly. And that's what we're
doing. The documents cover five major
areas of concern. First, they show that
over a period of years, starting during
the 2020 election cycle, the People's
Republic of 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 US voter files. That information
includes names, addresses, phone
numbers, political party preferences,
and other sensitive data that would be
needed to register to vote and engage in
other nefarious activities, which is
exactly what was happening. This data
loss presents an unprecedented election
security nightmare. The intelligence
even shows that China signed a data
exploitation unit specifically to this
new project. Compounding the travesty,
the second set of documents we are
releasing reveals that members of the
deep state, very very famous group of
people, many cases in our intelligence
agency work to actively suppress and
downplay information about the extent of
China's sinister election meddling,
covering it up from both the president
and the American people like nobody
thought was possible. US 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. Yet those responsible for
sounding the alarm instead kept the
information secret and hidden. They did
not disclose to me as president or to
anyone else and to the best of our
knowledge. They did not inform Congress.
In fact, all they kept saying is this is
the most secure election in the history
of our country. a standard very pat line
that was divvied out to say the cover up
of this colossal security breach is even
more disturbing in light of the
additional information showing that
China engaged in other election related
activities to undermine my first
administration and our 2020 campaign.
They did not not want and they just
didn't want it. They fought like hell
not to have it. Donald Trump to win and
for good reason. As the documents we are
releasing show, CIA reporting explicitly
stated, and I quote, "In mid 2018, the
Chinese Communist Party's policy was to
leverage all domestic and foreign
elements that were opposed to the US
president in an effort to reduce the US
president's votes and make him resign or
prevent his reelection." Isn't that
nice? Also, in mid 2018, China was
working to influence the results of the
US midterm elections and later the
results of the 2020 presidential
election itself. Separately, in mid
2019, the Chinese government's strategy
against the United States was focused on
undermining domestic confidence in the
US president. They wanted to just make
you sound like your president wasn't so
hot when actually your president has
done a great job and they did everything
possible to do exactly that. Going on
this document says, and this is by the
CIA, the strategy included efforts to
use Chinese contacts with big US
companies to influence US business
leaders to turn against the president of
the United States of America.
The Chinese government sought to
identify US journalists who had reported
negatively on the US president and pay
them large sums of money to write more
negative articles about him as many as
they could and they didn't care what
they said. The Chinese government wanted
US president to lose the next election
and the reason they wanted me to lose is
because they knew I was wise to them.
charged them billions and billions of
dollars worth of tariffs and built the
strongest military anywhere in the
world. We have the strongest military
anywhere in the world. These are exact
quotes from the CIA reporting. The name
of the person doing the quote is now
under review. But it gets even worse.
Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in
2020, yet buried by rogue bureaucrats,
stated that China's activities even
included an attempt to manufacture
illegal ballots for Joe Biden. Documents
show that during this period, dozens of
significant CIA and NSA reports about
China's election targeting were kept out
of the presidential briefing. These were
briefings I would get almost every day.
Everything was kept out that was of
importance. One email among intelligence
analysts admitted that they had quote
deliberately massaged the presidential
daily briefing to withhold information
regarding Chinese activities related to
the election. Another official inside
the FBI wrote that she was running quote
a shadow government unquote to keep
intelligence about China's election
meddling from becoming known and to keep
it away from the honorable press. Other
officials who witnessed such efforts
perceive the motivations to be blatantly
political. Recently we found significant
numbers of burn bags in formation. And
this is a group of bags that were used
to destroy
information given by President Barack
Hussein and Obama to be burned. It was
supposed to be burned. These bags were
supposed to be at a different level by
different people incinerated and
checked. But it never happened. Maybe we
got lucky. We believe this was not done
on purpose, but rather through gross
incompetence of the people that were
supposed to burn the bags. But the
findings are stunning. Today, I'm asking
the office of the Director of National
Intelligence, the Department of Justice,
the FBI, and the CIA to investigate how
and why such crucial information was
hidden, to fire those involved in the
cover up, and to file criminal charges,
if appropriate, against these people.
Yet, concealing China's meddling was
only the beginning. The third set of
documents we are releasing proves that
for many years Americans were blatantly
lied to about the security of our
election infrastructure, including
electronic voting machines and ballot
counting systems. Dishonest almost all.
They're vulnerable and they're easily
compromised and people within our
government knew that. Tonight, we're
publishing a series of previously
classified US intelligence community
assessments and other reports proving
that our government has long known these
machines are extremely exposed to
attack. As one assessment states, we
judge that the United States
adversaries, including at a minimum
Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, as
well as non-state groups, have the
capability to compromise US election
infrastructure.
That's unquote, but that's some
statement, isn't it? Made by supposedly
great patriots of our country. The
document goes on to further state that
quote, "We assess that centralized
election related data repositories such
as voter registration databases, poll
books, and other official election
websites are most vulnerable to
exploitation and adversaries could use
this access to these systems to disrupt
election processes within the United
States of America." Tonight, we're
releasing all of those findings and
spanning from January 2020 to June 2026.
This is a cyber threat aimed at the very
heart of our democracy.
Many people have questioned whether it
could actually be possible to
electronically manipulate vote totals or
change election results on these
terrible machines. Today we are
releasing documents that show the CIA
obtained reporting of a specific plot to
do a big number in favor of the corrupt
Maduro regime in Venezuela.
And that's exactly what happened.
Conspiring to digitally rig their own
country's elections in 2020. And that's
what they did. This reporting included
precise details about methods to regime
develop to digitally alter vote totals
in ways that could not be detected even
with an audit no matter how deep they
went. This intelligence underscores why
we must take urgent action to ensure
that our own system can never ever be
hacked or compromised like it was in the
past. The fourth set of documents
reveals that even when significant
evidence of fraud has been detected, it
has been buried and covered up. Among
the disclosures tonight are FBI files
detailing evidence of alleged fraud by a
large-scale voter registration operation
in Michigan. In 2020, Michigan State
Police raided a Democrat get out the
vote organization, corrupt group in
Moskegan
and were so concerned by what they
found. They were just so concerned, they
couldn't believe it, actually that they
contacted the FBI in Detroit. The
documents state that some canvasers
admitted to FBI agents that they signed
voter registration forms and other
people's names, submitted fraudulent
registration for people who did not
exist, and received gift cards tied to
their number of applications that they
produced. In other words, it was pay,
play, and cheat. The FBI agents working
on the case believe that crimes were
committed. Yet, the Biden Department of
Justice slowwalked the investigation and
killed it. Tonight, I'm asking the FBI
director to ensure that the matter is
fully investigated and to work with the
Department of Justice to prosecute those
responsible for any crimes. Finally, to
reveal just how vulnerable our elections
continue to be, we are releasing the
results of a stunning investigation by
the Department of Homeland Security.
According to the DHS review, state voter
roles, and public records, they
identified approximately 278,000
non-citizens who are registered to vote
in federal elections. Since Democrat
states refuse to share their voter
files, the real number is actually much
higher than that. Yet, even this limited
analysis found more than a quarter of a
million foreigners illegally registered
to vote.
Put together these disclosures reveal an
election system so broken and so
vulnerable that no one can possibly
defend it. It is not defensible.
Hundreds of millions of US voter files
are in the hands of foreign governments.
Our machines and ballot counting systems
are exposed to hacking and manipulation
and corruption. China and other
countries have been trying to meddle in
our elections. Evidence of fraud has
been buried. Hundreds of thousands of
non-citizens and dead people are listed
and active on the voter roles. And yet
we still have elections with no voter
ID, no proof of citizenship, and tens of
millions of ballots flown aimlessly
through the mail. As one example of the
insanity California's recent election
for mayor of LA and governor, was held
on June 2nd, long time ago, but it was
just completed a few days ago on July
10th. Think of that. Much more than one
month. took a month to count the votes.
I wonder what they were doing. This is
worse than any third world country.
There's no third world country that has
elections like we have. In a rare move,
NBC and ABC fake news have both said
that they would not cover this speech.
They knew what it was about because of
the fact that they don't like the topic
because they know how corrupt our system
is and they don't want to reveal it.
They and others in the media are part of
a plot. They want to continue this fraud
for whatever reason. They want to keep
it going. They want to protect the
radical left. They can't have a great
country. And that's true. You can't have
a great country without free and fair
elections. Fraud like this should mean a
revocation of their licenses. They use
our public multibillion dollar in value
airways for absolutely no money. They
pay nothing.
All we want is honesty in our elections
and honesty in reporting. They pay
nothing for multi-billion
dollar
assets. Great damage has been done to
our country. Our elections were left
vulnerable to being rigged and stolen
and the trust of the American people was
lost. This cannot be allowed to
continue. So every American, whether
you're a Republican, Democrat,
independent, or otherwise, should be
able to agree that we deserve the most
secure, honest, and fair election system
anywhere in the world. Secure election
should be a partisan really should just
we should be together, Democrats,
Republicans, independents, everybody.
And it should not be a partisan issue.
It should cause to unite us, not to
divide us. This should be a cause. We
should be united, not divided. In light
of the brand new and irrefutable
information I have revealed tonight, my
administration is in the process of
notifying the states whose election data
was compromised by the People's Republic
of China and many others. We will be
working closely to mitigate any harm and
we're taking swift action to ensure that
sensitive voter data is better protected
so we can never be bought, we can never
be hacked, and we can never watch a
stolen election again. Tomorrow, the
Secretary of Homeland Security will hold
a briefing to outline his department's
recent work, confirming cyber
vulnerabilities in our electronic voting
systems. They are bad. We're in the
process of informing governors,
senators, and members of Congress of
potential issues in their states.
If you look at voting today, it's in
such bad shape in so many states, and we
are committing to fix it. And we're also
committing to be working with those
states and local jurisdictions to help
them fix and patch known technical
vulnerabilities before the midterm
elections. We have very important
elections coming up. We want those
elections to be honest. I've also
ordered DHS to notify every state about
non-citizens on their voter roles and
direct them to remove all ineligible
voters from the lists immediately. But
most importantly, addressing this crisis
of election security demands that
Congress must pass the Save America Act.
How easy is that to do unless you want
to cheat?
The only reason you wouldn't do it is
you want to cheat because your policies
are so bad and your candidates are so
pathetic that you can't get away or
can't get elected any other way. This
landmark bill requires that all voters
must show photo voter ID. How simple is
that? Could I have your photo, please?
Photo voter ID. All voters must provide
proof of citizenship.
Are you a citizen of our country,
please? And hopefully there will be no
corrupt mail-in ballots, which if you
watched California and so many other
places, mail-in ballots are inherently
corrupt.
So you would have no mail-in ballots
except for illness, disability, military
deployment, or travel if you're going
away on business or vacation. These
reforms are urgently needed to stop the
vulnerabilities that I've mentioned. To
all Americans, I ask you to pick up your
phone tomorrow, call your
representatives in the House and Senate,
and demand that they pass the Save
America Act without delay. Together, we
will restore faith and confidence in our
country, and we will be bigger, better,
and stronger than ever before. Thank
you. God bless you. God bless our great
military and God bless America. Thank
you very much.