Washington.- The documents released by the White House during U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech on Thursday night, in which he alleged fraud in the 2020 elections, do not conclude that they were manipulated or that the electoral result was altered.
Democratic politicians and experts from across the political spectrum point to a lack of evidence in the documents made public on the White House website that Trump claims reflect vulnerabilities in the electoral system.
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“The only thing I can acknowledge is what the intelligence information shows. I only know—and Intelligence has absolutely no proof—that a foreign power altered the outcome of the voting in 2020, 2022, or 2024,” declared John Solomon himself, conservative journalist and advisor to Trump, in last night’s speech.
In some of the documents, the opposite conclusion is reached: “We consider that vote counting systems would be difficult to manipulate on a scale large enough to compromise election results.”
In addition to those vote counting errors, Trump claimed during his speech that he had reports that would prove that, since 2020, there had been “the greatest breach of electoral data in history,” which would have allowed China to “illicitly obtain” the records of 220 million American voters.
The president focused his accusations on China, overlooking Iran and Russia, even though one of the documents provided by the White House, produced by the National Intelligence Council (NIC), states that the country that made the greatest efforts to influence the 2020 elections was Russia.
In another 2021 report, also from the NIC, it concluded with “high confidence” that China did not attempt to influence the election outcome, and that attempts to oppose Trump’s reelection occurred through social media and public statements, but not through interference or direct action.
“It considered, but did not implement, influence efforts with the intent to alter the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. We have full confidence in this conclusion,” the document stated.
Attorney Ben Ginsberg, who has served as national legal counsel for several Republican presidential campaigns, stated on CNN after Trump’s speech that it struck him that “there is still no evidence that the result of any election is incorrect.”
Democratic Party politicians criticized Trump’s intervention, considering that it not only calls into question the United States electoral system, but also attempts to pressure members of the Republican Party to pass the Save Act, a bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.
The proposal has already been approved by the House of Representatives, but it still has to pass through the Senate where it faces opposition from the Democrats.
“Tonight Trump made a pathetic attempt to deny what we all know is true: he lost the 2020 election,” denounced Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.
California Governor Gavin Newsom went further and pointed out in a message on the social network X that the United States had witnessed “the ramblings of a mad king” and denounced that the goal of the speech was to attempt to influence the midterm elections on November 3rd.
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“Before a single vote has been cast, he is already laying the groundwork to manipulate this election and convince you not to trust the results if they don’t go his way,” wrote Newsom, who added, “Organize. Mobilize. Show up and vote in November!”.
