On Thursday, President Donald Trump intensified his efforts to throw doubt on the US elections by declassifying material that he said revealed fraud and foreign meddling, even though independent studies and intelligence assessments refuted many of his assertions.
Throughout the first half of 2026, Trump has claimed that the 2020 elections were "rigged" more than 100 times. He has used these accusations to pressure Congress to enact the SAVE America Act, a restrictive voter ID law that would place stringent requirements on voters and seek more federal involvement in elections.
Despite passing the Republican-controlled US House of Representatives multiple times with a simple majority, the SAVE America Act lacks the 60 votes necessary to break a filibuster in the Republican-led Senate.

According to Trump, the White House is disclosing a wealth of classified documents that reveal flaws in the US electoral system, including assertions that:
China Aimed to Help Democrats Win Recent Elections
In an attempt to hurt his fellow Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections and jeopardize his chances of winning reelection in 2020, Trump accused the Chinese government of manipulating elections. He also claimed that Beijing had compromised voter data in the United States.
An earlier US intelligence report reached a different result. According to a 2021 assessment, China contemplated but ultimately chose not to carry out influence operations intended to alter the results of the 2020 election. John Ratcliffe, who was Trump's director of national intelligence at the time and is currently his director of the CIA, oversaw its execution.According to the intelligence assessment, China has been gathering data on US voters, public opinion, and political parties at least since 2008. China did not use the voter data it acquired to tamper with elections, nor was it confidential.
ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES WERE MANIPULATED BY VENEZUELA
Trump claimed that US voting equipment were susceptible to hacking, citing CIA papers about alleged election-rigging by former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. He said that vote totals may be digitally altered by Maduro's regime.
According to a CIA dossier that summarized intelligence reports from 2004 to 2020, the Venezuelan regime was capable of manipulating ballots online.Trump did not claim that these tactics were employed in any US election, and there is no proof that such vote-rigging has taken place in US elections. Trump supporters have generally refuted a hypothesis that the Maduro administration hacked US election equipment in 2020.
Voter registration is high among non-citizens
According to Trump, a Department of Homeland Security review found that over 278,000 foreign nationals are registered to vote in federal elections in defiance of US law. Such allegations have been frequently promoted by Trump and his supporters in an effort to impose stricter voting regulations.
In an effort to identify and delete alleged non-citizens from their voter lists, a number of Republican-led states have voluntarily provided the Trump administration with private voter data.

Non-citizen voting is uncommon, according to independent research. Only 0.04% of cases were discovered to be non-citizens when states attempted to confirm the eligibility of their voters, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center. Election experts have expressed worry that widespread purges of state voter rolls may deprive qualified voters of their right to vote.