President Donald Trump is set to deliver a primetime address to the nation Thursday night, focused on elections, voting machine security and the latest intelligence on the rigged 2020 election.
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Trump said earlier this week that he would be making “really big news.”
“It’s really, really big news,” he told reporters in the Oval Office, Tuesday. “And our country has to shape up. But that’s what we’re going to be talking about Thursday… it doesn’t get bigger, because without free and fair elections, you don’t have a country.”
Cyber security experts have warned for years that U.S. voting systems are vulnerable to fraud and foreign interference.
Over the past year, the Department of Justice has been aggressively investigating alleged election fraud in several swing states, including Georgia and Arizona.
The FBI raided the Fulton County election hub building in January and seized over 600 boxes of 2020 election records.
The Justice Department served to Fulton County in April requesting the contact information of all workers who participated in the 2020 election, suggesting they were lining up witnesses to testify.
A federal judge recently quashed the subpoena, stating that “an investigation of alleged criminal conduct of anyone that may have led to the certification of the 2020 Election in Georgia would not be a legitimate use of the Grand Jury and its subpoena power.”
Earlier this year, the Justice Department also moved to obtain past election records from two other critical swing states, Michigan and Arizona.
A federal grand jury issued a subpoena to Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen last March, seeking materials tied to the audit of the 2020 election conducted by the Cyber Ninjas, including ballot images, absentee envelopes, vote tallies, hard drives, videos, and documents from the review.
Additionally, the US Treasury Department has targeted Venezuelan officials aligned with Nicolás Maduro for obstructing a competitive and inclusive presidential election process and violating civil and human rights. These officials were involved in the Maduro-aligned National Electoral Council (CNE) and the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ), who impeded a transparent election process.
Venezuelan whistleblowers have played a crucial role in exposing election fraud in Venezuela and around the globe. Their testimonies have highlighted election tampering using the voting machine company Smartmatic.
While speaking before the Independent Women’s Forum’s Awards Gala in Washington, DC back in May, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said that she believes “we’re going to find out” President Trump actually won many of the swing states he supposedly lost to Biden in 2020.
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A few days later, Trump highlighted a five-year-old video on Truth Social of constitutional attorney Matt DePerno alleging 2020 election rigging in Antrim County, Michigan.
During her White House press briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump’s speech will “shock” some, but the “American people will be relieved to hear what they hear from Trump tonight on elections.”
According to investigative reporter Paul Sperry, Trump will announce that China interfered in the 2020 election to help Joe Biden win, “including hacking into state voter registration databases and stealing information on tens of thousands of voters ostensibly to manufacture mail-in ballots for Biden.”
The Trump administration, Sperry reported on X, Thursday, will release declassified documents on Friday, detailing “alarming vulnerabilities” in the nation’s election infrastructure.
Four sets of documents were recently unearthed from hidden FBI, CIA and ODNI records, Sperry reported.
Last month, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that he had located and declassified a trove of documents related to potential election fraud during the rigged 2020 election, “including allegations of interference by the CCP” [Chinese Communist Party].
The buried intelligence amounts to a “massive cover-up of Beijing’s hacking capabilities and influence operations aimed at supporting Biden,” Sperry said.
“I’m told forthcoming declassified docs will prove foreign penetration of 2020 election was deeper than anything the Russians were alleged to have done in 2016,” Sperry wrote. The crimes reportedly include hacking into state voter rolls, as well as ID and ballot fraud.
According to Semafor’s Shelby Talcott, Trump will also discuss the alleged Maduro plot to manipulate Venezuela’s elections and argue that it exposed risks to the US system.
“POTUS may also be declassifying a number of reports dating from 2020 to 2026 related to election security,” Talcott posted on X.
Trump is also expected to discuss why the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, better known as the SAVE Act, is needed to prevent non-citizens from illegally voting in US elections.
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The president will address the nation at 9 p.m. ET.
Stay tuned for live video and updates.
