Donald Trump accuses China of US election hack and cites CIA report on Venezuelan vote manipulation

President Donald Trump delivered a televised address in which he claimed that the Chinese government illegally obtained data on more than 220 million American voters and used it to undermine the 2020 U.S. election. He announced the declassification of documents that he says show vulnerabilities in the U.S. voting system and warned of foreign exploitation.

In the same speech Trump cited a recently released CIA assessment that describes a Venezuelan capability to manipulate electronic voting. The report names the DGCIM, SEBIN and the CNE as parts of a system that could shift up to 1.5 million votes, but it also notes that the documents do not prove fraud in every election. Analysts stress that the CIA findings do not confirm large‑scale fraud in the 2020 Venezuelan vote.

Venezuelan interim president Delcy Rodríguez rejected Trump’s suggestion of turning Venezuela into a U.S. “state 51,” emphasizing the country's two‑century history of independence and sovereignty.