The White House released the files while President Trump addressed the nation on Thursday.
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump released newly declassified documents July 16 related to foreign influence in U.S. elections, while others appear to demonstrate the prior administration’s attempts to downplay connections in intelligence reports.
The files, some of which are heavily redacted, were released on a new White House election integrity page, with subsections for China’s acquisition and exploitation of American voter data, vulnerabilities in electronic voting and ballot counting systems, the Michigan voter registration investigation, and non-citizens on state voter rolls.
Among other election-related challenges revealed, intelligence analysts reported the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was targeting top U.S. officials, acquiring hundreds of millions of Americans’ personal information, and attempting to sway public opinion.
According to a newly declassified CIA wire memo from July 2020, which included information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Security Agency, the Chinese Communist Party was targeting “personal e-mail accounts of senior US leadership, including officials in the Executive Office of the President and high-ranking officials in multiple Executive Branch organizations, Congress, and the federal judiciary.”
The report noted that CCP-related cyber actors were amassing election-related data from U.S. databases, polling companies, political organizations, and campaigns, among other nonprofit groups. Operatives collected more than 204 million Americans’ data, much of it coming from information that was “publicly available for download.”
A separate National Intelligence Council report found that “Beijing has expanded its cyber collection of data related to the 2020 US elections by carrying out opportunistic intrusions against US private-sector entities in efforts to collect information on US political candidates, campaigns, donors, and voter data.”
Intelligence analysts assessed that “Beijing’s efforts probably have included overt messaging, nascent online covert influence capabilities, diplomatic measures, and the use of economic leverage,” while noting the CCP held off from utilizing its “most aggressive options for influencing or interfering in the election, [redacted] because Beijing wants to minimize the risk of blowback and hopes to stabilize the relationship after the election.”
A raw intelligence report from the FBI described a source’s revelations that the CCP produced tens of thousands of fraudulent U.S. driver’s licenses and exported them to the United States for the purpose of allowing “Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party to vote for US Presidential Candidate … Joe Biden.”
Several documents in the tranche show intelligence officials discussing efforts to minimize reporting on the election issues.
“This is a really good example, but far from the only one, of what I’ve been raising since the summer, that the [intelligence community] is deliberately avoiding mentioning a connection to elections for non-substantive reasons,” one unnamed intelligence officer wrote in an email after evidence surfaced that “China has been caught conducting election influence.”
Investigations revealed attempts to influence American politics by stirring up tensions and creating racial and socio-economic divides by promoting immigration and anti-government protests.
“The Chinese … had assessed … that racial conflict would be a large factor in the election, … government-affiliated Chinese technology company employees were assisting … with a campaign, … to covertly incite violence and protests against the US Government,” a newly released National Intelligence Council report reads.
Efforts to influence the public were deployed to “project themes” across social media platforms, including TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, among others, according to one of the documents.
No direct links to the CCP were uncovered, but intelligence analysts assessed “that elements of the government were, at a minimum, aware of and condoned the campaign, and may have directed or conducted it.”
Other reports mention foreign adversaries, including China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela, among others, and their potential ability to compromise U.S. election systems.
“For years Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure,” Trump said during a nationally televised event before releasing the files.
Documents related to voter registration investigations in Michigan include FBI files related to a 2020 raid in Muskegon, following allegations of fraudulent registrations. Trump is directing further federal reviews and prosecution if crimes were committed.
The Department of Homeland Security reviewed voter rolls from cooperating states and identified approximately 278,000 individuals who are potentially non-citizens.
Election officials in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada were put on notice that allowing non-citizens to vote is a “serious threat to national security,” according to one document.
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Election Integrity
Ensuring the integrity of our elections is fundamental to preserving trust in American democracy. Following the 2020 presidential election, concerns about potential irregularities prompted detailed examinations of voting processes, data security, and registration practices across multiple states. Below, you can download documents and reports addressing key areas of election integrity.
Vulnerabilities in Electronic Voting & Ballot-Counting Systems
China’s Acquisition and Exploitation of American Voter Data
Michigan Voter-Registration Investigation
Noncitizens on State Voter roles
Vulnerabilities in Electronic Voting and Ballot-Counting Systems
For years Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot-counting systems. We are releasing a series of previously-classified U.S. Intelligence Community Assessments and other reports proving that our government has long known these machines are extremely exposed to attack. As one assessment states: “We judge that U.S. adversaries, including at a minimum Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, as well as non-state groups, have the capability to compromise U.S. election infrastructure.” The documents also state: “We assess that centralized election-related data repositories, such as voter registration databases, pollbooks, and official election websites, are most vulnerable to exploitation, and adversaries could use access to these systems to disrupt election processes.” Tonight, we are releasing all of these findings, spanning from January 2020 to June 2026. This is a cyber threat aimed at the very heart of our democracy.
Many people have questioned whether it could actually be possible to electronically manipulate vote totals or change election results. Today, we are releasing documents that show the CIA obtained reporting of a specific plot by the Maduro regime in Venezuela to do exactly that—conspiring to digitally rig their own country’s elections in 2020. This reporting included precise details about methods the regime developed to digitally alter vote totals in ways that could not be detected even with an audit. This intelligence underscores why we must take urgent action to ensure that our own systems can never be hacked or compromised.
Vulnerabilities in Electronic Voting & Ballot-Counting Systems
China’s Acquisition and Exploitation of American Voter Data
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. 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. This data loss presents an unprecedented election security nightmare. The intelligence even shows that China assigned a data exploitation unit specifically to this new project.
Members of the Deep State in our intelligence agencies worked to actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China’s sinister election meddling—covering it up from both the President and the American People. U.S. spy agencies began learning about the compromise of voter registration files in 2020, when they discovered that tens of millions of voters’ data in 18 states had been bought, stolen, or hacked by China. Yet those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information hidden.
China’s Acquisition and Exploitation of American Voter Data
Michigan Voter-Registration Investigation
Even when significant evidence of fraud has been detected, it has been buried and covered up. Among the disclosures 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 in Muskeegon, and were so concerned by what they found, that they contacted the FBI in Detroit. The documents state that some 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 gift cards tied to the number of applications they produced. The FBI agents working on the case believed that crimes were committed—yet the Biden Department of Justice slow-walked the investigation for years. Director Patel is being directed to ensure that the matter is fully investigated, and to work with the Department of Justice to prosecute those responsible for any crimes.
Michigan Voter-Registration Investigation
Noncitizens on State Voter Rolls
According to a D.H.S. review of state voter rolls and public records, they identified approximately 278,000 non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections. Since Democrat states refused to share their voter files, the real number is actually much higher—yet even this limited analysis found more than a quarter of a million foreigners illegally registered to vote.
Put together, these disclosures reveal an election system so broken and vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it. Hundreds of millions of U.S. voter files are in the hands of foreign governments, our machines and ballot-counting systems are exposed to hacking and manipulation, China and other countries have been trying to meddle in our elections, evidence of fraud has been buried, hundreds of thousands of non-citizens and dead people are listed and active on the voter rolls—and yet, we still have elections with no Voter I.D., no Proof of Citizenship, and tens of millions of ballots floating aimlessly through the mail.
