White House releases fact-check of Trump's election security speech

The White House released a fact-check Friday of President Donald Trump's election security speech Thursday night, in which he presented new evidence detailing multiple security breaches in elections he said were concealed by a self-proclaimed "shadow government" and the Biden administration.

The president delivered the speech live from the White House, which included allegations that China illegally acquired voter information on millions of Americans and that approximately 278,000 non-citizens were found on voter rolls.

The White House acknowledged in the fact-check that the American public was already aware of foreign adversaries trying to interfere in U.S. elections, but that the point of the speech was to show the extent to which U.S. enemies were going.

"For example, President Trump exposed how China obtained the personal data of 220 million American voters — names, addresses, phone numbers, and party affiliations — during the 2020 election cycle, representing the largest known compromise of U.S. voter information in history," the White House said. "Intelligence agencies knew about this breach in at least 18 states and kept it hidden from the President and Congress."

Another portion emphasized that the president was betrayed by his own team during his first administration, asserting that "deep State elements within the government withheld important assessments from President Trump." 

"One analyst admitted to 'deliberately massaging' the President’s Daily Brief to keep election-related intelligence out, while an FBI official even described running 'a shadow government' to prevent this information from reaching the president," the White House noted.

A third section highlighted the hypocrisy of Democrats condemning China for obtaining similar and public information regarding British voters during the Biden administration, yet remaining silent when it happens to Americans under Trump.

"When China obtained similar data on British voters, the Biden Administration responded with sanctions and criminal charges," it said. "When Iran hackers obtained just 100,000 American voter files, the Biden Department of Justice brought indictments. Yet when China acquired data on 220 million Americans, these same officials stayed silent and covered it up — an indefensible double standard."

The White House additionally pointed out the vulnerabilities in mail-in voting and the American electoral process, highlighting that in Michigan, Democratic canvassers even allegedly admitted to the FBI that they forged voter registrations, submitted applications for nonexistent people, and received gift cards based on the number of fraudulent registrations they produced in the weeks leading up to the 2020 election.

"Despite the evidence, the Biden Justice Department slow-walked the investigation for years," the White House said.

The White House added that the president is seeking accountability for the failures to share critical intelligence with the president in his first term and is urging Congress to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.