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The address follows a White House briefing on findings from the administration\u2019s probes into the loss the president never accepted.<\/strong><\/p>

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President Donald Trump delivers a televised address from the Oval Office in 2020. (Jabin Botsford\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

President Donald Trump is planning a prime-time address Thursday that will use findings from reexamined government files to argue that the country\u2019s election infrastructure has vulnerabilities, according to two people briefed on the plan.<\/p>\n

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday that the speech would concern elections but declined to elaborate. \u201cIt will concern that subject, and we\u2019ll have a couple of other things to say, also,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019d rather save it. But it\u2019s really big news.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president could use the address to press his long-standing allegations of foreign interference in the 2020 election, the results of which he has never accepted. The speech, in part, will highlight claims that China accessed U.S. voter data, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a plan that has not been made public. Trump is also expected to discuss findings related to Venezuela, they said.<\/p>\n

It was not clear Tuesday whether the major broadcast networks would provide airtime for the speech. As of late morning Tuesday, the White House had not made a request for air time.<\/p>\n

The plans are fluid and could change. \u201cAnonymous sources are speculating about what President Trump will say during his speech on Thursday evening,\u201d White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. \u201cThe truth is, nobody knows yet what President Trump will ultimately say, which is why everyone should tune in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plan came after a confidential White House briefing on Monday to review findings from the Trump administration\u2019s broad reexamination of old <\/b>FBI <\/b>records, <\/b>including from the 2020 election, <\/b>one of <\/b>the people said. Trump then announced the speech on social media, without specifying the subject.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, FBI Director Kash Patel has dispatched hundreds of agents to help the bureau\u2019s Atlanta field office review 700 files by July 17, according to an internal FBI obtained by The Washington Post. Trump has long argued that he unfairly lost the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County, Georgia, which includes Atlanta, and, despite a lack of evidence, the FBI field office has been investigating those claims.<\/p>\n

Trump is making the prime-time <\/b>announcement at the urging of advisers including Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, and John Solomon, a former conservative <\/b>journalist who temporarily joined the White House to help review government records for release. Solomon has long questioned investigations surrounding Trump and has pushed for the release of FBI investigatory files related to alleged election interference.<\/p>\n

Since Trump returned to office, multiple federal agencies have pursued allegations of tampering with the 2020 vote that had <\/b>previously been <\/b>investigated and rejected.<\/p>\n

U.S. intelligence agencies concluded<\/a> in March 2021 that there was no foreign interference that altered votes or manipulated machines in the presidential election. The agencies said Russian and Iranian spies did try to influence Americans. They also said China considered but did not go through with efforts to try to affect the outcome of the election, a finding that was the subject of internal dispute at the time.<\/p>\n

In Trump\u2019s second term, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, under Tulsi Gabbard until last month, has taken steps including examining voting machines used in Puerto Rico looking for cybersecurity vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n

In January, the FBI and Justice Department seized 2020 ballots<\/a> that were preserved by a court order in Fulton County. Investigators also obtained<\/a> records including ballot images from the Republican-led Arizona Senate\u2019s review of the 2020 results in that state\u2019s largest county. And the FBI in recent months interviewed<\/a> current and former election officials about the 2020 election in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

Trump lost all three of those swing states in 2020. Recounts and court reviews have upheld those results, even as Trump has spent years falsely claiming the election was rigged.<\/p>

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The Arizona and Georgia investigations came at the instigation of Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who worked on Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn the 2020 results at the time and advised him in the White House in 2025.<\/p>\n

Trump has taken a series of actions in recent months aimed at influencing how elections are carried out. Most have been blocked in court or otherwise stymied.<\/p>\n

Last week Trump disbanded<\/a> a bipartisan commission that helps states and localities administer elections. He also recently signed executive orders designed <\/b>to limit mail ballots<\/a> and to require states to verify voters\u2019 citizenship with federal data. Those orders <\/b>have been halted in court. Judges noted the Constitution gives the power to run elections to the states and Congress, not the president.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department has sued to get copies of state voter rolls but so far has lost those cases. And the administration\u2019s efforts to allow states to check voter eligibility in a massive federal database has been severely hampered in a separate case.<\/p>\n

Trump has demanded that Congress <\/b>pass a law to require proof of citizenship and ID to vote in this year\u2019s midterms, but Senate Republicans say they lack enough votes. To escalate the pressure, Trump refused to sign a bipartisan bill aimed at making housing more affordable, allowing the legislation to become law without his signature.<\/p>\n

Election officials and voting rights advocates have been bracing for months for the administration to release information that purports to cast doubt on how elections are conducted.<\/p>\n

\u201cFew things can be more predictable than this coming,\u201d said Lawrence Norden, vice president of elections and government at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, a voting rights organization that has sued the administration over some of its election policies.<\/p>\n

Any electronic system has vulnerabilities, but states are vigilant about making sure their outcomes are correct using \u201clayered defenses,\u201d Norden said. States conduct audits and recounts to ensure accuracy, and 98 percent of votes in the midterm elections will be on paper ballots that can be reviewed, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless you have that context of the security that\u2019s already in place, I think some of the kind of things that they\u2019re throwing against the wall can be very confusing to the public,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Some Trump White House officials in 2020 believed China favored Joe Biden in that year\u2019s election and doubted<\/a> the intelligence assessment that the country would not seek to interfere and had no preference, according to a former official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter\u2019s sensitivity.<\/p>\n

That view was shared by then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who is currently serving as CIA director.<\/p>\n

Ratcliffe \u201cdisagreed with the established analytic line on China, insisting \u2018we are missing China\u2019s influence in the US and that Chinese actions ARE intended to affect the election.,\u2019\u201d according to a January 2021 report to Congress from an analytic ombudsman for the intelligence community.<\/p>

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Warren Strobel and Scott Nover contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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