How Trump is using his office to try to undermine US confidence in elections

Per The Guardian, President Trump claimed in a Thursday White House address that China had acquired voter information on two hundred twenty million Americans and interfered in his two thousand twenty campaign, with intelligence officials allegedly suppressing the information. The outlet notes that voter data is legally available for purchase in many states, though Trump did not explain how China obtained it. The Guardian characterizes the address as aimed at undermining public confidence in elections before November's midterms.

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