‘China stole 220 million voter files, largest compromise’: Trump’s claims on US election fraud | World News
2 min readUpdated: Jul 17, 2026 08:42 AM US President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that China carried out “the largest compromise of election data in hory” during the 2020 US Presidential election.
In a White House address, the US President alleged that Beijing was involved in undermining his adminration and the 2020 campaign. He said China “illegally acquired” 220 million US voter files, which included voter’s data, identity and election preferences.
Calling the alleged breach an “unprecedented election security nightmare”, Trump said that the purpose of releasing the documents was “not to weaken confidence, but earn that confidence “confronting vulnerabilities and correcting them.”
Here are the major allegations on US election vulnerabilities made Trump:
220 million US voter files involved: Trump said that since 2020 election, where he lost to Democrat Joe Biden, China carried out “illicit acquisition” of 220 million voter files. The information, according to Trump, included names, addresses, contact, political party preferences and other sensitive data.
‘Deep state’ involved: Trump claimed some “very famous group of people” were involved to “actively suppress and downplay information” about China’s election meddling. He said that the information regarding these members of the deep state would be revealed in the second group of documents.
