"No Trust, No Greatness" - Trump Addresses the Nation | 7.17.26

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President Trump addresses the nation in a rare primetime speech about threats to our elections.

**Donald Trump** (0:39)
Tonight, I'm announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical intelligence, revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure.

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**Georgia Howe** (2:53)
President Trump gave a rare prime time address last night.

**John Bickley** (2:56)
As he signaled early in the week, the president focused most of that speech on the issue of election integrity. Joining us now to discuss is Cabot Phillips, host of Wired In. Thanks for coming on. So a lot of hype heading into this speech from the White House.
What did we hear from the president last night?

**Cabot Phillips** (3:12)
Well, we were told that he would focus on threats to our elections, particularly from China. And that is exactly what we got. The president started off by comparing the state of the nation under his leadership versus the disaster that Joe Biden handed him, including out-of-control legal immigration, radical gender ideology and crime.
He then touted the economic turnaround that he says has taken place since his inauguration. But what he came to talk about and what he really brought the receipts for was our elections, specifically a campaign by China to undermine him in 2020 The speech focused on what he called five main areas of concern, which he made clear from the beginning, were not intended to weaken confidence in our elections, but ultimately to strengthen it. First, and perhaps most shocking, he announced for the first time that the US intelligence community had identified a sweeping election interference plot by the Chinese Communist Party, which he says ultimately culminated in the wide-scale hacking of US voter rolls.

**Donald Trump** (4:08)
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 US 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, which is exactly what was happening.

**Cabot Phillips** (4:44)
The president announced that all of the documents related to this plot would be posted on WhiteHouse.gov, though it's worth noting folks will notice many are heavily redacted. From there he outlined what the CIA believed to be the goals of this Chinese interference.