Donald Trump claims China rigged election and 'vital information' hidden from public

US President Donald Trump has claimed China played a role in rigging the 2020 election, when he lost both the electoral college and popular vote to Joe Biden.

“This evidence shows that the election system we have dangerously exposes and really exposes like levels never thought possible to hacking, exploitation, and foreign interference,” he said.

“Just as disturbingly, this vital information has for many years been covered up and hidden from you.”

Trump said China illicitly gained access US voter information.

“That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities. Which is exactly what was happening,” Trump said.

Voter information is generally accessible public record in most states.

Trump said before his address that it would contain “really big news” about election security.

He told reporters on Tuesday: “It doesn’t get bigger, because without free and fair elections, you don’t have a country.”

For years, Trump has claimed the loss to Biden was a result of voter fraud.

Biden won the election with 306 electoral votes and 51.3% of the national popular vote. Trump secured 232 electoral votes and 46.8% of the popular vote.

In January 2021, US intelligence produced a report that concluded there was no foreign interference in the 2020 election. This was made public by the Biden administration in March of the same year.

“We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results,” the report, issued under Trump, said.

“We assess that it would be difficult for a foreign actor to manipulate election processes at scale without detection by intelligence collection on the actors themselves, through physical and cyber security monitoring around voting systems across the country, or in post-election audits,” it said.