JAKARTA - US President Donald Trump has accused China of stealing 220 million US voter files since the 2020 election cycle in the "largest election data breach in history".
In a televised speech, Thursday, July 16, local time, Trump announced the disclosure of intelligence data that he said proved massive foreign interference and severe vulnerabilities in the US election system.
Citing CIA data, Trump said that in mid-2018, or during his first term as president, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established a policy to "exploit all domestic and foreign elements" to fight against it.
This, according to Trump, was done so that the number of votes that chose him to return in the 2020 presidential election would be reduced, so that he would resign, or so that he would not be re-elected.
He said dozens of important reports from the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA) regarding China's interference in the US election at that time were not disclosed to him.
Trump accused the Chinese government of trying to find US journalists who made bad reports about him and tried to give them financial rewards to continue doing so.
"As an assessment, we conclude that US opponents, including at least Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and other non-state groups, have the ability to disrupt US election infrastructure," he said, quoted by ANTARA from Anadolu, Friday, July 17.
The US president claimed this revelation showed the electoral system was "so broken and so vulnerable" that no one could defend it.
"Hundreds of millions of US voter files are currently in the hands of foreign governments," Trump said.
He then said that even though hundreds of thousands of non-citizens and those who have died have not been removed from the voter list, there is still no national regulation requiring US citizenship identity or proof for elections.
"Tomorrow, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin will hold a briefing to outline the results of his department's work confirming the cyber vulnerabilities in our electronic voting systems," he said.
He said the department would also convey potential problems in their respective regions to governors, senators, and members of the US House of Representatives.
"But most importantly, in dealing with an election security crisis like this, Congress should pass the 'Save America Act'," Trump said, referring to a bill requiring proof of citizenship for voters but stalled in the US Congress.
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