In prime-time address, Trump claims nearly 250,000 non-citizens were registered to vote in several states and China stole voter registration data from 220M Americans | 16 July 2026 | President Trump revealed that China stole the voter registration data of 220 million Americans as part of his primetime speech on Thursday. “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,” Trump said in remarks from the East Room of the White House. “That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities, which is exactly what was happening,” the president continued. The president highlighted “raw intelligence” obtained by the FBI in 2020 that he asserted detailed China’s “attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden.” Trump claimed the Chinese election interference plots were “buried by rogue bureaucrats” and, during his first term, kept out of his daily presidential briefings.