President Trump revealed that at least 278,000 foreigners are illegally registered to vote in American elections during his major primetime address on foreign election interference on Thursday.
In addition to the massive Chinese voter data breach, affecting 220 million US voters, China’s massive influence campaign, manipulation of voting machines, and a complicit deep state intelligence community, Trump announced the results of a Department of Homeland Security investigation into states’ voter rolls.
“According to the DHS review, state voter rolls, and public records, they identified approximately 278,000 non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections,” Trump said.
“Since Democrat states refuse to share their voter files, the real number is actually much higher than that. 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 so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it.”
The President continued, “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 ID, no proof of citizenship, and tens of millions of ballots floating aimlessly through the mail.”
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Trump: Finally, to reveal just how vulnerable our elections continue to be, we are releasing the results of a stunning investigation by the Department of Homeland Security. According to the DHS review, state voter rolls, and public records, they identified approximately 278,000 non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections.
Since Democrat states refuse to share their voter files, the real number is actually much higher than that. 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 so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it.
It is not defensible. 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 and corruption. 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 ID, no proof of citizenship, and tens of millions of ballots floating aimlessly through the mail.
According to one of the documents released by DHS, the 278,000 illegal voters were found across just four states that provided the public data files to federal officials.
Additionally, “In the short time that the enhanced SAVE system has been available to states, 10 have states processed their full voter lists,” the report states. “As of June 22, 2026, a total of 25 different states processed more than 68 million registration records through the SAVE system,” and DHS has found over 400,000 deceased registrants and over 28,000 non-citizens were discovered
“There is an undeniable pattern emerging as DHS begins to unravel the horrific damage done by the open border policies of the Biden administration. States that have adopted alien-first policies instead of American-first policies have a disproportionate number of non-citizens on their voter rolls,” the report states.
The Department of Homeland Security announced last week that states could be eligible for a Homeland Security Grant Program funding opportunity if they “use the reliable and free U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system to verify the citizenship status of everyone listed in the state voter registration database.”
The report further reads,
As demonstrated by the sample data to the right, these states are serious about ensuring that only US citizens vote in US elections. DHS applauds their efforts to prevent non-citizens from registering and to remove ineligible registrants who unlawfully register.
Several other proactive state officials have also signed Memoranda of Agreement with USCIS to utilize the SAVE system and have processed portions of their state voter rolls. Unfortunately, due to the actions of the activist Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, many of the enhancements to this service of USCIS have been suspended pending appeal. As a result, US citizens are at risk of having their votes diluted by ineligible alien voters.
UNAMBIGUOUS CONTRAST: There is an undeniable pattern emerging as DHS begins to unravel the horrific damage done by the open border policies of the Biden administration. States that have adopted alien-first policies instead of American-first policies have a disproportionate number of non-citizens on their voter rolls.
“State election officials in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada have been notified of this serious threat to national security and DHS stands ready to support their efforts to identify and remove ineligible registrants. The investigation is expanding to include multiple additional states,” the report further notes. “In addition, DHS will support the Department of Justice’s review of voter files obtained pursuant to their enforcement authority under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002.”
The declassified files are now live at whitehouse.gov/election-integrity/.
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Watch: Trump Reveals ‘Shocking’ Election Vulnerabilities Including 278,000 Fraudulent Voters
Update (2110ET): Trump has released several major election-related findings:
- Mass declassification event – The White House just released previously classified Intelligence Community assessments and reports on election infrastructure spanning January 2020 through June 2026.
- Adversary capability finding – A quoted IC assessment states Russia, China, Iran, North Korea “at a minimum,” plus non-state groups, have the capability to compromise U.S. election infrastructure.
- Weakest-link identification – Centralized data repositories (voter registration databases, pollbooks, official election websites) are assessed as the systems most vulnerable to exploitation and disruption.
- Venezuela proof-of-concept – CIA reporting allegedly detailed a Maduro-regime plot to digitally rig Venezuela’s 2020 elections using methods that could alter vote totals undetectably “even with an audit.”
- China’s 220 million voter files – The PRC allegedly acquired 220 million U.S. voter files beginning in the 2020 cycle – framed as the largest election-data compromise in history – and assigned a dedicated data exploitation unit to it.
- Alleged intelligence cover-up – The document claims IC officials (“Deep State”) suppressed knowledge of the China compromise from both the President and the public, despite the IC discovering it in 2020 across 18 states.
- Michigan registration fraud files – FBI documents allegedly show canvassers for a Democrat GOTV operation in Muskegon admitted forging registrations, registering nonexistent people, and receiving gift cards tied to application volume after a 2020 Michigan State Police raid.
- Enforcement directive – The release asserts the Biden DOJ slow-walked the Michigan case for years; FBI Director Patel is now directed to complete the investigation and pursue prosecutions with DOJ.
- 278,000 noncitizen registrants – A DHS review of voter rolls and public records allegedly identified ~278,000 noncitizens registered for federal elections, with the White House asserting the true number is higher because Democrat-led states withheld their files.
- Policy endgame and rolling campaign – The four pillars converge into an argument for Voter ID, proof of citizenship, and curtailing mail ballots, with a mailing list promising “new findings, new filings, and next steps” – signaling a serialized release-and-enforcement campaign rather than a one-time disclosure.
The White House has published election integrity findings built around four pillars, accompanying a presidential address and a declassification of Intelligence Community assessments spanning January 2020 through June 2026. The pillars: (1) IC findings that Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and non-state actors have the capability to compromise U.S. election infrastructure, with centralized data repositories – registration databases, pollbooks, election websites – assessed as most vulnerable; (2) an alleged CIA-reported Maduro-regime plot to digitally rig Venezuela’s 2020 elections using methods undetectable “even with an audit,” offered as proof-of-concept that electronic vote manipulation is possible; (3) China’s alleged acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files beginning in 2020 – framed as history’s largest election-data compromise, complete with a dedicated exploitation unit – which the document claims “Deep State” intelligence officials concealed from both the President and the public; and (4) FBI files on a 2020 Muskegon, Michigan raid of a Democrat GOTV operation where canvassers allegedly admitted forging registrations for pay, a case the Biden DOJ purportedly slow-walked and which FBI Director Patel is now directed to investigate and prosecute. A DHS review claiming roughly 278,000 noncitizens on federal voter rolls rounds out the disclosures.
The findings describe foreign-held voter data, hackable machines, buried fraud evidence, and noncitizen (and “dead people”) registrations against a system with no voter ID, no proof of citizenship, and mass mail balloting – while a mailing list promising “new findings, new filings, and next steps” signals a serialized campaign with litigation or enforcement actions queued behind the document drops.
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Administration Expands Election Integrity Campaign
The address comes as the Trump administration and congressional Republicans intensify their efforts to change federal election policy before the midterms.
Earlier in July, Trump fired members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission, the federal agency that assists state and local election officials and oversees the certification of voting systems. The administration has also pursued the creation of a nationwide database of eligible voters and expanded citizenship-verification efforts. Several of those initiatives have encountered resistance in federal court. On June 25, a federal district judge in Massachusetts sided with states challenging the administration’s voter-list initiative, ruling that the Constitution leaves states with significant authority over elections. Meanwhile, a federal judge in Washington blocked an updated citizenship-verification database the following day, finding that the program conflicted with federal privacy and Social Security laws.
Then on July 7, a federal judge in Georgia quashed Justice Department subpoenas seeking information about election workers involved in Fulton County’s administration of the 2020 election.
Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, has also sent letters to election officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The letters warned that officials could face criminal liability if they knowingly allow ineligible noncitizens to remain on voter rolls.
Democrats, Of Course, Freak Out
Democratic lawmakers are of course in full-on panic mode over the 2020 claims, suggesting that Trump could use the address to revive disputed allegations about the 2020 election or justify new federal intervention in the midterm election process.
Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, questioned whether the administration could possess significant new intelligence that had not previously been provided to congressional overseers. Warner told the Epoch Times; “having been deeply involved with the intelligence community for the last decade plus, I would be shocked if there was some major new piece of intelligence that never was shared.” He also warned against using questionable or selectively presented intelligence as the basis for government action affecting elections.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said Democrats were preparing for several possible scenarios involving the address and the administration’s next steps.
Sperry separately reported that the White House had encountered resistance from the three major broadcast television networks over requests to carry the address live. He attributed the hesitation to concerns that the speech might repeat claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
The networks’ plans and the White House’s reported discussions with them had not been publicly confirmed.
Trump has described the forthcoming announcement as “really big news.” Whether the address produces verifiable new evidence – or intensifies the existing partisan conflict over election administration – will likely depend on the contents, sourcing, and independent authentication of any documents released by the government.
SAVE America Act Remains Stalled
Trump has repeatedly called on Congress to approve the Republican-backed SAVE America Act, which would require documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote and photo identification when casting a ballot.
The legislation passed the House but has stalled in the Senate, where most bills need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. Republican leaders have considered incorporating similar provisions into a third budget-reconciliation package. The reconciliation process would allow legislation to pass the Senate with a simple majority, although provisions must comply with rules requiring them to have a direct effect on federal spending or revenue.
The Senate parliamentarian previously determined that certain SAVE America provisions did not comply with those restrictions. House Republicans released a $95 billion framework for the reconciliation package on July 15. The proposal could include federal funding to help states establish voter-identification requirements.
The House Budget Committee scheduled a markup of the legislation for July 16. Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington of Texas said the package would help protect the integrity of U.S. elections.
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