CBS Airs Most of Trump Speech Despite Backlash Over Election Integrity Coverage– www.newsbusters.org News Source
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When CBS made waves Thursday as the only broadcast network to not only carry (most of) President Trump’s address on election integrity, it was only a matter of time Status founder and deranged partisan Oliver Darcy would take to his newsletter site and cry about it. So, that missive came down on Monday as he whined it went against what they had told Democrats hours earlier and further “inject[ed] politics into the way people evaluate the network[.]”
Darcy was dripping with hate, right from the subhead: “The Bari Weiss-led network privately indicated it would snub Donald Trump’s primetime address last week, Status has learned, only to reverse course at the last minute and air the speech.”
Darcy began by pointing out Tony Dokoupil ended Thursday’s CBS Evening News by encouraging those wanting to hear the speech to check out their streaming platform, CBS News 24/7. Ostensibly, that would mean CBS itself wouldn’t be carrying it.
White House Labels CNN ‘The Enemy of the People’ Over Trump Address Censorship– www.westernjournal.com News Source
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The network that bills itself as “The Most Trusted Name in News” thinks that you trust it so much that you don’t even need to see what the president says, just their summary of it.
CNN was alone among cable news outlets in refusing to air President Donald Trump’s prime-time remarks on Thursday night regarding election integrity.
CNN’s John King admitted that they were “not going to take it live” because “this president, sadly, has a history of misleading,” so they would summarize it in their preferred bullet points. I believe this is known as “censorship” in other contexts, particularly if you’re a cable news network and the only real news being made on Thursday night is the president addressing the nation.
The White House shot back with its own assessment of CNN’s position. “FAKE NEWS CNN IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!” President Donald Trump’s team wrote on X, along with a shot of all the other cable news networks that let America hear what Trump had to say:
How China Can ‘Hack’ US Elections Without Hackers– thefederalist.com News Source
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One of the biggest revelations from President Donald Trump’s declassified election document dump on Thursday night was a report indicating the Chinese Communist Party acquired and exploited American voter data to influence the 2020 election.
One FBI information report released alleged China manufactured tens of thousands of fraudulent drivers’ licenses using data harvested “from millions of TikTok accounts” to ensure noncitizen “Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic” to the authoritarian regime could send mail-in votes for Joe Biden in 2020.
The allegation is alarming, but not as alarming as the fact that, over the next few decades, China could hack U.S. elections without ever breaking a law, risking punishment, or even raising the eyebrows of the intelligence community.
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s recent birthplace citizenship ruling, the CCP doesn’t need to manufacture fake IDs to sway votes in favor of Democrats. All China has to do to take advantage of America’s elections is to use the birth tourism industry to manufacture babies who are entitled to real American IDs as soon as they are born in the U.S.
Trump’s speech may focus on 2020 election. Here’s a primer on foreign interference, voting security– www.politifact.com News Source
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President Donald Trump is set to address the nation July 16 with an expected primetime focus on election integrity.
Trump’s comments and news reports show he will focus on the 2020 election that he lost.
The administration has been cagey about offering further details, saying Americans will need to tune in.
Trump alluded to the speech’s topic July 14; when a reporter asked whether his remarks would be about “election machines’ integrity,” Trump said, “It will concern that subject.”
“Our country has to shape up,” Trump said, adding, “it doesn’t get bigger because without free and fair elections, you don’t have a country.” MS NOW, citing unnamed White House officials, had reported that Trump will talk about newly declassified intelligence reports about foreign nations’ plans to interfere in the 2020 election.
Trump has made unprovenstatements about elections and voting by mail for a decade. He has used those falsehoods to push for changing election laws and recently called on Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, a bill that would tighten voter registration and voter ID requirements.
President Donald Trump delivered a Prime Time Speech this past Thursday night that failed to deliver rumored smoking guns but hinted at ones to come. In addition to calling for a DOJ investigation of alleged voter fraud in Michigan in 2020, the President also identified vulnerabilities in the election system that put them at risk of foreign influence, including from China. He also claims China affected the 2020 election. China has already denied the claims.
The speech’s main moment came with Trump’s claim that a set of documents “proves that for many years, Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot counting systems. They’re vulnerable, and they’re easily compromised, and people within our government knew that.”
Trump Calls on FBI to Investigate ‘Significant Evidence of Fraud’ in Michigan 2020 Election– www.breitbart.com News Source EXCERPT:
President Donald Trump has called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate alleged voter fraud in Michigan during the 2020 election, revealing during his Thursday night address that the FBI uncovered criminal activity in a probe that was “killed” by the Biden administration.
Trump’s evening speech focused heavily on election integrity, culminating in a renewed request for Congress to finally pass the SAVE America Act. As the president delivered his remarks, the White House dropped a series of declassified documents showing that government agencies were aware of alleged attempts to influence the results of the race between Trump and former President Joe Biden.
According to Trump, that set of documents “proves that for many years, Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot counting systems.”
“They’re vulnerable, and they’re easily compromised, and people within our government knew that,” he continued, before sharing that an intelligence assessment showed that adversaries of the United States, “including at a minimum Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, as well as non-state groups,” have the capability to compromise American elections.
A portion of the declassified materials released by the White House revealed that the Michigan State Police uncovered fraudulent activity within a large-scale Democrat get-out-the-vote effort, and that the case was being investigated by the FBI. It is unclear who might have been prosecuted as a result.
“Even when significant evidence of fraud has been detected, it has been buried and covered up,” Trump said. “Among the disclosures tonight are FBI files detailing evidence of alleged fraud by a large-scale voter registration operation in Michigan. In 2020, Michigan State Police raided a Democrat get-out-the-vote organization — a corrupt group in Muskegon — and were so concerned by what they found.”
He continued, “They were just so concerned they couldn’t believe it, actually, that they contacted the FBI in Detroit.”
According to the newly released files, canvassers admitted to FBI agents that they signed voter registration forms in other people’s names, submitted fraudulent registrations for people who did not exist, and received commission based on the number of applications that they produced in the form of monetary gift cards.
“In other words, it was pay, play, and cheat,” Trump stated. “The FBI agents working on the cases believe that crimes were committed, yet the Biden Department of Justice slow-walked the investigation and killed it.”
“Tonight, I’m asking the FBI director to ensure that the matter is fully investigated, and to work with the Department of Justice to prosecute those responsible for any crimes,” the president added.
The Michigan State Police first stated that it was examining “irregularities in voter registration forms” in Muskegon in October 2020, the Detroit News reported.
Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Curtis Hertel criticized Trump’s speech on social media, writing, “I liked this speech better when it was between a crematorium and an adult book store.”
He later released an official statement via the state party’s X account, calling Trump’s claims “reckless and unfounded conspiracy theories.”
“In Michigan, Republicans at every level have lined up behind Trump’s attempt to undermine our elections and disenfranchise voters,” Hertel wrote. “While Republicans attack voting rights, Michigan Democrats remain steadfast in our commitment to protecting Michigan’s elections and ensuring they remain secure, fair, and free.”
The FBI has yet to release a statement regarding Trump’s call for renewed attention on Michigan.
Olivia Rondeau is a politics reporter for Breitbart News based in Washington, DC. Find her on X/Twitter and Instagram.
In their book Regime Change, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan offer a telling account of the way President Donald Trump deals with a bad news cycle this term: As the White House debated how to manage the fallout from its chaotic slashing of the federal government last year, they determined that they needed “distractions.” There were two proposals: they could release videos of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with a confused Joe Biden. Or they could announce the grand opening of camps in Guantánamo Bay to detain migrants.
“They opted for announcing Guantánamo,” Haberman and Swan wrote. “There was no better counter for a screwup than an outrage.”
Thursday night, Trump dipped back into the formula. With his approval rating stalled at record lows, the war with Iran escalating and the cost of living continuing to weigh on voters, he used a 24-minute address from the White House’s East Room to revive his favorite political grievance: the 2020 election he lost.
Trump spent the opening minutes ticking through his administration’s claimed accomplishments. “We are doing great,” he said, sounding hoarse. Then, after a deep exhale, sounding as though he were about to leap from a diving board, Trump announced the release of declassified intelligence that he said exposes “shocking vulnerabilities” in American elections.
President Donald Trump told the nation from the White House Thursday that the Chinese government has interfered with American elections and gained access to “sensitive” voter data of tens of millions of Americans.
Trump also accused deep-state bad actors of “deliberately massag[ing]” his daily briefings and even of attempting to run a “shadow government” during his first term to keep the information about “China’s election meddling” from him, other lawmakers, the media, and the American public.
Trump reiterated his demand that Congress pass the SAVE America Act and accused Democrats of stalling on the bill because it would keep them from cheating in elections.
The president said evidence of his claims are available for review at the White House website.
“The documents … show that over a period of years, starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history — resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files,” said the president.
During a primetime election integrity speech to the nation on Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that the Department of Homeland Security had identified at least 278,000 non-U.S. citizens who were illegally registered to vote in federal elections.
The speech covered what Trump called “five major areas of concern” regarding election security, primary among them being China compromising American election data.
However, there was also the allegation that over a quarter of a million illegal non-citizen voters were on the rolls, according to a DHS investigation.
“We are releasing the results of a stunning investigation by the Department of Homeland Security,” Trump said.
.@POTUS: To reveal just how vulnerable our elections continue to be, we are releasing the results of a stunning investigation by @DHSgov — which conducted a review of state voter rolls and public records and identified approximately 278,000 non-citizens who are registered to vote… pic.twitter.com/MOaF80HARD
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 17, 2026
