Did China steal 2020 US election data, as Trump claims?

United States President Donald Trump has renewed a campaign to cast doubts on the 2020 elections that saw him lose to Joe Biden – this time painting China as a major adversary that helped “manipulate” the vote.

Speaking in a primetime address on Thursday, Trump claimed that newly declassified intelligence material exposed foreign interference. The US president’s insistence on debunked stolen election theories led to one of the country’s most serious political crises when his supporters led a violent attack on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, in the final days of his first term.

Trump repeated in recent months that the 2020 election results were manipulated at the same time that he sought to push Congress to pass a restrictive voter identification law, which its proponents have called the SAVE America Act.

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