Trump to assert voting machine vulnerabilities in Thursday speech
Source: Reuters
July 13, 2026 5:08 PM EDT Updated 6 hours ago
July 13 WASHINGTON,(Reuters) - President Donald Trump will give a national address on Thursday night about newly declassified intelligence on investigations into U.S. elections and what the White House says are voting machine vulnerabilities, an administration official told Reuters on Monday.
The Republican president could use his televised speech to again press his false claim that he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden due to massive fraud.
Numerous courts, ballot audits and his first-term Justice Department found no evidence of such fraud, including vote-machine rigging. The federal cybersecurity watchdog joined other federal, state and local officials in declaring the vote "the most secure in American history."
Propelled by Trump's repeated claims that U.S. elections are rigged, the administration has for over a year sought to increase federal oversight of election administration and reshape the way Americans vote an effort that legal experts say would take power away from states in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-give-speech-about-foreign-interference-2020-election-ms-now-reports-2026-07-13/
johnnyfins
(4,233 posts)Way to normalize this horseshit.
Good job Reuters!
Vinca
(54,660 posts)The only "problem" happened in 2020 when he lost. If voting machines were rigged, as he claims, wouldn't all Republicans lose? And why wouldn't we rig them in 2024?
purr-rat beauty
(1,792 posts)He doesn't take, he thinks he already owns
He is a locust
A president who hates our voting rights and process is not a president....he's a threat to our democracy.
aggiesal
(11,079 posts)pwb
(12,836 posts)and always have. Look over there, not at us?
MorbidButterflyTat
(5,127 posts)Totally, completely.
Ritabert
(2,945 posts)10,000 spoiled ballots in Duval County due to bad instructions. 9000 spoiled ballots in Palm Beach county due to the butterfly ballot. Police checkpoint on the way to the polls in Gadsden County where there's a large Black population.
everyonematters
(4,335 posts)If I remember correctly, there was a hand recount on the Georgia election in 2020.
Justice matters.
(10,305 posts)LisaL
(48,336 posts)Got it.
Escape
(590 posts)for the grand Republican plan to declare the results of November's election null and void (in races they lose).
Well into 2027 there will be key empty seats and endless lawsuits.
Native
(7,397 posts)underpants
(198,086 posts)The states have to confirm the elections as you know. Each state will have a decision. They really dont have a decision but hes making one for them.
SamuelTheThird
(1,630 posts)We are on the cusp of a very perilous time
WmChris
(838 posts)Maybe hoping to open the door for more hacking be Elmo and his merry band fraudsters.
GCG
(144 posts)And those wonderful intelligence agencies are going to help him do it!
If things ever make sense again every government agency has to be purged of those who went along to get along...the QUISLINGS of the Executive and Judicial branches need to go...some need to be fired, some need to face trials and are hopefully convicted and incarcerated!!!
lostincalifornia
(5,730 posts)white house.
Wonder Why
(7,586 posts)conversation with Lindsey Graham last night, acing the IQ test and being the first person to have spelled IQ correctly. From that lofty point, it will go quickly downhill. As he reads the teleprompter, he forgets what he just read so he adrepugs (Def: adrepug - similiar to an adlib but just lies) so expect to hear more about the Ayatollah of Japan and President Putin of Greenland as well his recent discussions with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt at Mount Rushmore when they told him he was the greatest President since Lenin.
hunter
(41,021 posts)... maybe even brilliant.
lostincalifornia
(5,730 posts)and 2024.
nwduke
(537 posts)As an absolute dilusional worldwide clown!
azureblue
(2,792 posts)He's trying to ramp up an excuse to nullify the vote..
Harker
(18,390 posts)Another call to arms.
He's getting out ahead of his White House fortification work.
AverageOldGuy
(4,454 posts)I didnt take the time to Google details so Im doing this from memory.
1. After the 2020 election, one of Trumps favorite claims was that Venezuela owned Dominion Voting Systems and, thus, Venezuela had rigged Dominion voting equipment to vote for Biden or some such bullshit. The claims were universally debunked.
2. Trump now has former Venezuelan President Maduro in custody.
3. Dominion Voting Systems was recently sold to a Republican billionaire.
So on Thursday night, Trump will reveal:
1. Maduro has confessed to rigging the election through rigging Dominion machines.
2. The new owner of Dominion will reveal his investigation has shown that, sure enough, the machines were rigged.
Ray Bruns
(7,098 posts)
twodogsbarking
(20,137 posts)MarcoZandrini
(239 posts)..was a gelding.
twodogsbarking
(20,137 posts)FakeNoose
(43,449 posts)... and yet he has no faith in the "rigged" voting machines either. Why does he want Americans to use the voting machines and not the mailed ballots? None of this makes any sense.
This is all because he can never admit he LOST the election in 2020.
Of course he lost, he's the WORST President ever in our history!
mdbl
(9,153 posts)twodogsbarking
(20,137 posts)Bayard
(30,931 posts)And of course, so was President Biden. The 200+ FBI agents that have been working on this, "investigation," under Patel will have found dirty rotten cheating by Dems.
I may have to watch this hootenanny with the sound off, and CC on.
aggiesal
(11,079 posts)bucolic_frolic
(56,546 posts)OCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder!
Botany
(78,473 posts)access to via firmware patches and his D.T.C. Starlink network. Also in 2024 @ least 1/2 a million mail
in votes were rejected because of signature matching problems (pure bullshit there is a bar code on the
bottom of the ballot), another million votes were discarded because of problems with the U.S.P.S., voter
caging resulted in @ least 3 million voters being removed from voter rolls (true the vote), and other rat
fucking of the vote such as the removal of millions of registered nationwide.
* Trump: Elon Musk knows 'those vote counting computers' January 25, 2025
Trump is still pissed off about Georgia 2020 because even with all of his and others
election interference he still lost.
jmbar2
(8,319 posts)Initech
(109,852 posts)It could be massive!. No it couldnt. They tried this already.
electric_blue68
(28,211 posts)AverageOldGuy
(4,454 posts)Initech
(109,852 posts)hamsterjill
(18,109 posts)He doesn't care how much money or time or manpower he throws at something he wants. He has no limits. He just keeps going back and going back.
The problem with his repeated attempts is that each one wears down the ability for the opposition to fight back. Because each opposition DOES have a limit to time and money and manpower. He keeps hoping that will happen and he will get a better outcome. If it's only a glimmer of something that he can use for another attack, then he would consider it well worth the time and money and manpower, and continue to attack again.
He learned this from Putin because it has been Putin's MO from the start.
Talitha
(8,295 posts)To give credit where credit's due though, Dump learned a LOT from Roy Cohn. (I had no idea who the guy was when watching 'Angels In America' but wow, Al Pacino aced the role.)
hamsterjill
(18,109 posts)I've not seen "Angels in America", but I will look it up. I need something to watch today. Thanks.
MarcoZandrini
(239 posts).its you cant fix stupid.
hamsterjill
(18,109 posts)The Republicans in power who enable him are not stupid. They are conniving, willing to cheat, soul-less assholes, but they are not stupid.
His followers? Couldn't find their ass with a map.
thought crime
(1,859 posts)This is a central false narrative to create doubt and hysteria among republicans, promoting victimhood and grievance.
johnnyfins
(4,233 posts)Fine. You won. Just one problem. You can't be elected more than twice per the US Constitution. You must, therefore, RESIGN immediately!
MarcoZandrini
(239 posts).wed have Just Dumb Vance.
electric_blue68
(28,211 posts)thought crime
(1,859 posts)randr
(12,668 posts)annielion
(118 posts)And those vulnerabilities still exist. They are a problem for the midterms. Trump is walking on eggshells here, something I don't think he is good at doing. He might slip and tell us all about the voting machine vulnerabilities.
2na fisherman
(416 posts)If there are no more commissioners responsible for voter security and the certification of voting systems, then the election results will be challenged and no elected Dems will be seated during a protracted time of "investigations" that will be conducted by partisan hacks in the Justice Department. So if voting systems used in blue states are not certified, they can just throw out the results counted by those systems not certified. Even if this is not successful, he will have sown seeds of doubt and chaos about the validity of the elections as he has done before. He seems to be publicly orchestrating a obvious conspiracy to commit fraud upon the electorate. All the people involved must someday be charged for such crimes. In addition to this, he will also say that confessions made (under duress) by the kidnapped President Maduro about a widespread campaign of foreign interference in elections makes our voting systems unreliable. This is his last stand and he will do or say anything, no matter how insane, to try and alter the results of the 2026 midterm elections.
Wiz Imp
(11,085 posts)Every single seat in the House is up for election. Meaning all 435 seats are technically vacated at the same time prior to the new Congress being seated (even those who were reelected). Therefore there will be no elected Republican to block Democratic electees from being seated. All 435 (including those reelected) will then be seated at the same time.
2na fisherman
(416 posts)I wonder if Speaker Maga Mike Johnson can gum up the works with slow walking the seating of all members of Congress because of some Trumped-up voter irregularities that require investigations.
Wiz Imp
(11,085 posts)Johnson's term ends January 3, 2027. He has no power or authority to do anything to prevent the new Congress from being seated. The clerk, a non-partisan position conducts all business until a Speaker is elected.
It is impossible for Johnson or anyone else to "gum up the works". PERIOD.
2na fisherman
(416 posts)Thanks for pointing out that Speaker Johnson cannot gum up the works as I put it. But you also say it is impossible for "anyone else" to do that as well. So are you saying that Trump and/or his allies in and out of government do not have possible plans to interfere in the 2026 midterm elections? Marc Elias of Democracy Docket documents numerous ways Trump and his agents are actively seeking to interfere with these elections. He also describes ways to fight back against such attacks. It seems to be a fact shared by others far more informed than me that there is, and will be, some considerable chaos surrounding the midterm elections and the counting of the results.
Wiz Imp
(11,085 posts)Obviously Trump is trying to and some Republican states may try as well. My point was strictly that Republicans can't stop elected Democrats from being seated in the House. Keep in mind approximately half the seats in the House represent states with Democratic governors. Also, the vast majority of attempts to interfere will not work. The one thing with the best chance of working to some degree is voter suppression . Overwhelming turnout will nullify those efforts.
2na fisherman
(416 posts)This may be some reason to be hopeful. If even a fraction of the electorate who usually does not bother to vote turns out in vast numbers we may overcome Trumpism and turn the tide with a big blue wave.
Ray Bruns
(7,098 posts)maxsolomon
(39,590 posts)It will be BULLSHIT from President BULLSHIT.
Dethhogan
(5 posts)He might nullify the elections of Georgia's senators. Probably untrue but let's see Thursday.
Dulcinea
(10,569 posts)That authority belongs to the states. Per Article I, Section 5: The Constitution states that each house of Congress is the sole "Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members."
The Expulsion Process: Removing a sitting senator requires a two-thirds vote by the Senate.
Wiz Imp
(11,085 posts)The State of Georgia certified the elections. Case closed. Can't be reversed.
sakabatou
(46,633 posts)FFS...
Jack Valentino
(5,434 posts)'THANK YOU for your attention to this matter', Donald....
annielion
(118 posts)He didn't win 2020 because so many people voted by mail (due to the pandemic) and votes by mail go directly to the county. The in-person votes are manipulated when the totals are sent my cellular modem from the precinct to the county. This apparently involves a satellite. Hmmm.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(139,495 posts)If they're vulnerable may it's you election that was fake.
GiqueCee
(5,283 posts)... opens its mouth, there is the 100%, iron-clad certainty that it will lie though its dentures. It is congenitally incapable of discerning the truth, let alone telling it.
dweller
(29,121 posts)In the run up to the 2024 election that we would never have to vote again
just this one last time for him , then never again
✌🏻
NGeorgian
(141 posts)Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp. Yes, Kemp has been governor of Georgia the last eight years.
hamsterjill
(18,109 posts)They accuse everyone else of doing what they are actually doing. My understanding from my "QAnon Facebook friend" is that he is going to say that George Soros is behind all of the voting machine rigging.
Big surprise, right? Huge!!!! LOL
LiberalLovinLug
(14,793 posts)Say that they want to join the rest of the Democratic world and use hand counted ballots for federal elections. Not only to quell my own suspicions of how hackable these machines are. But to silence the conspiracy theorists....from both sides. Sure they'll still find some angle to scare people with if things don't go their way. But its the one way to stop that excuse.
But I guess State rights etc. to handle their own elections. Unless some new amendment is passed.
BumRushDaShow
(174,483 posts)They will then insist that the "hand-counted" ballots were miscounted and/or included bullshit characterizations of "A GREAT MANY" forged or fake ballots.
All of this to sow doubt in the elections process in order to justify a coup.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(139,495 posts)twodogsbarking
(20,137 posts)bluestarone
(22,686 posts)FUCK him and his LIES!!
rickyhall
(5,532 posts)oldmanlynn
(891 posts)thought crime
(1,859 posts)This is just a campaign speech with the same old BS wrapped with a new bow. Republicans don't have to believe it but they're happy to repeat it and act upon it, as long as it helps them rig the next election.
The purpose is to create doubt in order to undermine election results.