Donald Trump has made a prime-time White House address on election security. He announced the release of declassified intelligence documents on alleged vulnerabilities in the voting infrastructure. Trump accused China of carrying out a massive breach of American voter data. He also alleged that members of the "Deep State" within US intelligence agencies suppressed information about China's election meddling.
China says it has never interfered in U.S. elections and has no interest in doing so. President Donald Trump accused Beijing of meddling in the 2020 election. China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian called the allegations fabricated and aimed at vilifying China. Trump visited Beijing in mid-May and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump invited Xi to visit the United States in September.
ABC, NBC and CNN will not broadcast Trump's election security speech live on their primary channels on Thursday. The networks have the right to do so, but they have to be careful not to legitimize the administration's agenda. Pete Hegseth wants to test the testosterone levels of every service member over 30.
Trump's speech on election interference in 2020 failed to deliver, but for his followers it was a success. Conspiracy theorists claim the speech would provide the basis for Trump to enact the Insurrection Act, a law that could allow the president to deploy the military to the polls in November. Election officials and voting experts are angry.
President Trump promises to give a speech on election security on Thursday night. Instead, he promotes his second-term agenda in a primetime address to the nation. Democrats are hoping to retake the House and Senate in the midterms. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer accuses Trump of fear-mongering about the coming election.
Democrats have a chance to wrest control of the election-integrity issue from Donald Trump, but they risk squandering it by overreacting to his speech. They need to focus on the policy rather than on the rhetoric and the outrage. They also need to make sure they don't let Trump claim election integrity as an issue he is the driving force behind.
The Chinese government denies any election interference in the United States. President Trump announced on Thursday that his administration would declassify documents about the integrity of American elections. The Chinese Communist Party has been accused of election meddling throughout the free world. In Canada, the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections task force identified “coordinated and malicious activity” by accounts linked to the Chinese government targeting the general election. In Australia, a prominent senator was caught taking money from a Chinese regime-linked billionaire.
Friday marks the halfway point of the 60-day window established under the June 17 memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran. The first half of that period has been marked by repeated Iranian attacks on commercial vessels, hundreds of strikes on Iranian military targets and retaliatory missile and drone attacks across the region. The administration is relying on military and economic pressure in an effort to bring Iran back to substantive negotiations before the window closes.
Trump used a primetime address to the nation to raise doubts about the legitimacy of US elections and dispute his 2020 loss in an appeal for more restrictive voting laws ahead of the midterms. The speech presented allegations of interference and influence in ways that lacked key context and did not produce evidence that votes had been manipulated or the election outcome had been altered.
Donald Trump has made a prime-time White House address on election security. He announced the release of declassified intelligence documents on alleged vulnerabilities in the voting infrastructure. Trump accused China of carrying out a massive breach of American voter data. He also alleged that members of the "Deep State" within US intelligence agencies suppressed information about China's election meddling.
China says it has never interfered in U.S. elections and has no interest in doing so. President Donald Trump accused Beijing of meddling in the 2020 election. China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian called the allegations fabricated and aimed at vilifying China. Trump visited Beijing in mid-May and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump invited Xi to visit the United States in September.
ABC, NBC and CNN will not broadcast Trump's election security speech live on their primary channels on Thursday. The networks have the right to do so, but they have to be careful not to legitimize the administration's agenda. Pete Hegseth wants to test the testosterone levels of every service member over 30.
Trump's speech on election interference in 2020 failed to deliver, but for his followers it was a success. Conspiracy theorists claim the speech would provide the basis for Trump to enact the Insurrection Act, a law that could allow the president to deploy the military to the polls in November. Election officials and voting experts are angry.
President Trump promises to give a speech on election security on Thursday night. Instead, he promotes his second-term agenda in a primetime address to the nation. Democrats are hoping to retake the House and Senate in the midterms. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer accuses Trump of fear-mongering about the coming election.
Democrats have a chance to wrest control of the election-integrity issue from Donald Trump, but they risk squandering it by overreacting to his speech. They need to focus on the policy rather than on the rhetoric and the outrage. They also need to make sure they don't let Trump claim election integrity as an issue he is the driving force behind.
The Chinese government denies any election interference in the United States. President Trump announced on Thursday that his administration would declassify documents about the integrity of American elections. The Chinese Communist Party has been accused of election meddling throughout the free world. In Canada, the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections task force identified “coordinated and malicious activity” by accounts linked to the Chinese government targeting the general election. In Australia, a prominent senator was caught taking money from a Chinese regime-linked billionaire.
Friday marks the halfway point of the 60-day window established under the June 17 memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran. The first half of that period has been marked by repeated Iranian attacks on commercial vessels, hundreds of strikes on Iranian military targets and retaliatory missile and drone attacks across the region. The administration is relying on military and economic pressure in an effort to bring Iran back to substantive negotiations before the window closes.
Trump used a primetime address to the nation to raise doubts about the legitimacy of US elections and dispute his 2020 loss in an appeal for more restrictive voting laws ahead of the midterms. The speech presented allegations of interference and influence in ways that lacked key context and did not produce evidence that votes had been manipulated or the election outcome had been altered.