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China 2020 Election Interference Allegations

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President Trump declassified intelligence documents alleging China acquired 220 million U.S. voter files and conducted election influence operations in 2020. Trump directed investigations into alleged concealment by U.S. intelligence officials. Intelligence assessments found no evidence foreign interference altered the election outcome.

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2026-08-15 to 2026-11-12 · UTC publication dates

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  1. Trump directs federal agencies to investigate alleged suppression of Chinese election interference intelligence

    President Trump directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA to investigate how information about alleged Chinese election meddling was concealed from him and the American people. Trump called for firing officials involved in the cover-up and filing criminal charges where appropriate.

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  2. Trump declassifies documents alleging Chinese acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files

    President Trump declassified and released intelligence documents alleging that China illicitly acquired 220 million U.S. voter files during the 2020 election cycle, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and political party preferences. Trump described this as the largest compromise of election data in history. The documents were released on whitehouse.gov alongside a presidential address on election integrity.

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  3. Trump alleges FBI intelligence showed China attempted to manufacture illegal ballots for Biden

    Trump claimed that raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020 indicated China attempted to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden. Trump alleged this intelligence was buried by what he described as rogue bureaucrats within the federal government.

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  4. Trump alleges U.S. intelligence officials deliberately concealed Chinese election interference from president and Congress

    Trump alleged that members of the intelligence community actively suppressed and hid information about China's alleged election meddling. He claimed that U.S. spy agencies discovered in 2020 that tens of millions of voter data in 18 states had been stolen or hacked by China but failed to disclose this to him as president or inform Congress, instead repeating that the 2020 election was the most secure in history.

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  5. Trump alleges China conducted operations to influence 2018 midterm and 2020 presidential elections

    Trump released declassified CIA reporting alleging that China's Communist Party sought to influence the 2018 U.S. midterm elections and the 2020 presidential election by leveraging domestic and foreign actors opposed to Trump. The documents claimed China worked to undermine confidence in Trump and attempted to influence U.S. business leaders and journalists to write negative articles about him.

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