Full Trump speech claims China ‘meddling’ in 2020 election, calls for investigation during address

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In a speech to the nation, Trump said Americans have for years been “blatantly lied to” about the security of election infrastructure including voting machines and ballot counting systems.. He accused the so-called “deep state” within the U.S. government of concealing information he claims showed China meddled in the 2020 election.

“Those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden,” Trump said in an extraordinary accusation against his own intelligence community when he was president in 2020. The president announced that documents supporting his claims would be released, too.