Russia has denied accusations that it has meddled in U.S. elections.
“We reject all accusations, we reject them resolutely,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on July 17.
“Russia has never interfered in the internal affairs of others, and we expect that no one will try to interfere in our internal affairs.”
Peskov’s denial was in response to the United States’ inclusion of Russia on a list of countries attempting to influence U.S. elections.
Previously classified documents that the White House posted on its website on July 16 indicate that China and Russia targeted former President Joe Biden’s campaign during the 2020 election.
“Over a period of years, starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files,” he said.
“That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences.”
China gained access to voter roll data across 18 states, according to an accompanying transparency report from the White House.
A declassified document reviewed by The Epoch Times is about a China-linked actor’s alleged use of commercial websites to get voter data from six U.S. states.
Trump accused members of the intelligence community of hiding data on China’s attempt to influence American elections.
“These disclosures reveal an election system so broken and so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it. It is not defensible,” Trump said.
“Tens of millions of voters’ data in 18 states have been bought, stolen, or hacked by China. Yet those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden.”
Trump, citing reporting from the CIA, talked about what he said was a multi-year influence campaign by China during his first term targeting American companies and journalists.
“The cover-up of this colossal security breach is even more disturbing in light of the additional information showing that China engaged in other election-related activities to undermine my first administration and our 2020 campaign,” he said.
“The Chinese government sought to identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. president and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him—as many as they could.”
Additionally, Trump called out networks for not airing his speech.
“In a rare move, NBC and ABC fake news have both said they would not cover this speech,” he said, adding, “Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses.”
CNN also did not broadcast the speech. MS NOW cut in halfway through it.
An ABC News spokesperson said on July 16 that the network would run the speech on its ABC News Live streaming platform and ABC News Radio, but not on its broadcast channel.
NBC News aired the speech on its streaming platform. The network did not return a request for comment by press time.
The Epoch Times has reached out to CNN and MS NOW for comment.
