Trump alleges China meddled in 2020 election and questions voting security ahead of midterms - BBC News

China said Trump's claims were fabricated and US Democrats said he was paving the way to undermine November's elections.

Image source, EPAByBernd Debusmann Jr, White House reporter and Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondentPublished17 July 2026US President Donald Trump has delivered a primetime address in which he accused China of interfering in the 2020 election and alleged "shocking vulnerabilities" in American voting systems.

Trump, who spoke from the White House on Thursday, has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud and foreign meddling in the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden.

In the half-hour speech, delivered three months before the midterm elections, he said he had declassified hundreds of intelligence files which supported his claims that Beijing had tried to sway the election in Biden's favour.

The US intelligence community has previously concluded China did not interfere in the 2020 election.

In response to his speech, China's foreign ministry strongly denied the allegations of Chinese meddling in the 2020 presidential election, saying they were "entirely fabricated".