2026-07-14T16:58:36.590Z / 《华盛顿邮报》
据两名了解该计划的知情人士透露，总统唐纳德·特朗普正计划周四发表一场黄金时段演讲，他将利用重新审查的政府文件结论，辩称美国选举基础设施存在漏洞。
特朗普周二在椭圆形办公室对记者表示，此次演讲将涉及投票机，但拒绝详细说明。他说：“这将关乎这个主题，我们还有其他几件事要说。不过我宁愿先保密。但这确实是重大新闻。”
这位总统可以借助这场演讲，重申他长期以来关于外国干预2020年大选的指控——他至今仍不承认大选结果。知情人士称，演讲将部分聚焦于所谓中国获取美国选民数据的说法，这些人士因讨论尚未公开的计划而要求匿名。他们还表示，特朗普预计也将谈及与委内瑞拉相关的调查结果。
周二尚不清楚美国主要广播电视网是否会为这场演讲提供播出时段。截至周二上午晚些时候，白宫尚未提出播出时段申请。
相关计划仍在变动，可能会有所调整。白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特表示：“匿名消息源正在猜测特朗普总统周四晚间演讲的内容。事实上，目前无人知晓特朗普总统最终会发表什么言论，因此所有人都应该收看。”
其中一名知情人士透露，该计划出台前，白宫周一举行了一场秘密简报会，回顾特朗普政府对旧联邦调查局档案的全面重新审查结果，其中包括2020年大选相关档案。随后特朗普在社交媒体上宣布了这场演讲，但未说明主题。
据《华盛顿邮报》获得的联邦调查局内部文件显示，近几周来，联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔已派遣数百名特工协助该局亚特兰大分局在7月17日前审查700份档案。特朗普一直声称自己在佐治亚州富尔顿县（包含亚特兰大）的2020年总统选举中被不公平地击败，尽管缺乏证据，该联邦调查局分局仍一直在调查相关指控。
特朗普此次发表黄金时段演讲是在包括代理国家情报总监比尔·普尔泰和前保守派记者约翰·所罗门在内的顾问敦促下进行的。所罗门曾短暂加入白宫，协助审查拟公开的政府档案。长期以来，所罗门一直质疑围绕特朗普的调查，并推动发布与所谓选举干预相关的联邦调查局调查档案。
特朗普重返白宫以来，多个联邦机构一直在追查此前已被调查并驳回的2020年选票舞弊指控。
美国情报机构2021年3月得出结论称，不存在改变选票或操纵投票机的外国干预行为。这些机构表示，俄罗斯和伊朗间谍确实试图影响美国民众，还称中国曾考虑但并未实施影响大选结果的行动——这一结论当时在情报机构内部引发了争议。
在特朗普的第二任期内，由图尔西·加巴德（上月离任）领导的国家情报总监办公室采取了一系列举措，包括检查波多黎各使用的投票机，寻找网络安全漏洞。
今年9月，合同公司莫哈韦研究公司为国家情报总监办公室完成了一份报告，该报告基于对从波多黎各获取的数字投票软件的取证分析。据两名熟悉该报告的知情人士透露，报告得出结论称，软件漏洞使投票机极易遭到黑客攻击。这些人士表示，莫哈韦的分析师未发现任何黑客攻击行为的证据。
知情人士称，白宫推迟了该报告的发布，但报告可能于本周公开。
今年1月，联邦调查局和司法部查获了根据法院命令保存的富尔顿县2020年选票。调查人员还从亚利桑那州参议院共和党领导的对该州最大县2020年选举结果的审查中获取了包括选票图像在内的记录。近几个月来，联邦调查局还就密尔沃基市2020年大选询问了现任和前任选举官员。
特朗普2020年在这三个摇摆州均告失利。重新计票和法院审查均维持了选举结果，尽管特朗普多年来一直 falsely 声称大选存在舞弊。
亚利桑那州和佐治亚州的调查是由律师库尔特·奥尔森发起的，他曾在特朗普推翻2020年大选结果的行动中效力，并于2025年在白宫为特朗普提供建议。
近几个月来，特朗普采取了一系列旨在影响选举实施方式的行动。其中大多数已被法院阻止或以其他方式受阻。
上周，特朗普解散了一个协助各州和地方开展选举管理的两党委员会。他最近还签署了行政命令，旨在限制邮寄选票，并要求各州通过联邦数据核实选民的公民身份。这些命令已被法院叫停。法官指出，宪法将选举管理权赋予各州和国会，而非总统。
司法部已提起诉讼，要求获取州选民登记册副本，但迄今均以败诉告终。此外，政府在另一桩案件中推行的允许各州在大型联邦数据库中核查选民资格的举措也严重受阻。
特朗普已要求国会通过一项法律，要求今年中期选举的选民提供公民身份证明和身份证件，但参议院共和党人表示缺乏足够票数。为加大施压力度，特朗普拒绝签署一项旨在提高住房负担能力的两党法案，使该法案在他未签署的情况下直接生效。
选举官员和投票权倡导者数月来一直在警惕政府发布旨在质疑选举实施方式的信息。
纽约大学布伦南司法中心（一个就部分选举政策起诉特朗普政府的投票权组织）负责选举与政府事务的副总裁劳伦斯·诺登说：“这件事的发生几乎是必然的。”
诺登表示，任何电子系统都存在漏洞，但各州都在警惕通过“多层防御”确保选举结果准确无误。他说，各州会进行审计和重新计票以确保准确性，中期选举中98%的选票将使用可复查的纸质选票。
“如果不了解现有安保措施的背景，我认为他们抛出的一些言论会让公众非常困惑，”他说。
据一名因此事敏感性而要求匿名的前官员透露，2020年特朗普政府的一些官员认为中国在当年大选中支持乔·拜登，并质疑美国情报机构关于中国不会寻求干预、且对大选结果无偏好的评估。
时任国家情报总监约翰·拉特克利夫也持这一观点，他目前担任中央情报局局长。
美国情报社区一名监察专员2021年1月提交给国会的报告显示，拉特克利夫“不同意关于中国的既定分析立场，坚称‘我们忽视了中国对美国的影响，中国的行动确实旨在影响选举’”。
沃伦·斯特罗贝尔和斯科特·诺弗对本文亦有贡献。
Trump plans prime-time speech on 2020 election allegations
2026-07-14T16:58:36.590Z / The Washington Post
President Donald Trump is planning a prime-time address Thursday that will use findings from reexamined government files to argue that the country’s election infrastructure has vulnerabilities, according to two people briefed on the plan.
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday that the speech would concern voting machines but declined to elaborate. “It will concern that subject, and we’ll have a couple of other things to say, also,” he said. “But I’d rather save it. But it’s really big news.”
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.
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.
The plans are fluid and could change. “Anonymous sources are speculating about what President Trump will say during his speech on Thursday evening,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “The truth is, nobody knows yet what President Trump will ultimately say, which is why everyone should tune in.”
The plan came after a confidential White House briefing on Monday to review findings from the Trump administration’s broad reexamination of old FBI records,including from the 2020 election,one of the people said. Trump then announced the speech on social media, without specifying the subject.
In recent weeks, FBI Director Kash Patel has dispatched hundreds of agents to help the bureau’s 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.
Trump is making the prime-time announcement at the urging of advisers including Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, and John Solomon, a former conservative 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.
Since Trump returned to office, multiple federal agencies have pursued allegations of tampering with the 2020 vote that had previously been investigated and rejected.
U.S. intelligence agencies concluded 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.
In Trump’s 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.
In September, the contract firm Mojave Research completed a report for the national intelligence director’s office based on forensic analysis of digital voting software obtained from Puerto Rico. The report concluded that software vulnerabilities made the machines highly vulnerable to hacking, according to two people familiar with the report, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss findings that have not been made public. The Mojave analysts found no evidence that exploitation took place, they said.
The report’s release had been delayed by the White House, the people said, but it could come this week.
In January, the FBI and Justice Department seized 2020 ballots that were preserved by a court order in Fulton County. Investigators also obtained records including ballot images from the Republican-led Arizona Senate’s review of the 2020 results in that state’s largest county. And the FBI in recent months interviewed current and former election officials about the 2020 election in Milwaukee.
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.
The Arizona and Georgia investigations came at the instigation of Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who worked on Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 results at the time and advised him in the White House in 2025.
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.
Last week, Trump disbanded a bipartisan commission that helps states and localities administer elections. He also recently signed executive orders designed to limit mail ballots and to require states to verify voters’ citizenship with federal data. Those orders have been halted in court. Judges noted the Constitution gives the power to run elections to the states and Congress, not the president.
The Justice Department has sued to get copies of state voter rolls but so far has lost those cases. And the administration’s efforts to allow states to check voter eligibility in a massive federal database has been severely hampered in a separate case.
Trump has demanded that Congress pass a law to require proof of citizenship and ID to vote in this year’s 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.
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.
“Few things can be more predictable than this coming,” 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.
Any electronic system has vulnerabilities, but states are vigilant about making sure their outcomes are correct using “layered defenses,” 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.
“Unless you have that context of the security that’s already in place, I think some of the kind of things that they’re throwing against the wall can be very confusing to the public,” he said.
Some Trump White House officials in 2020 believed China favored Joe Biden in that year’s election and doubted 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’s sensitivity.
That view was shared by then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who is currently serving as CIA director.
Ratcliffe “disagreed with the established analytic line on China, insisting ‘we are missing China’s influence in the US and that Chinese actions ARE intended to affect the election.,’” according to a January 2021 report to Congress from an analytic ombudsman for the intelligence community.
Warren Strobel and Scott Nover contributed to this report.
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