Trump to assert voting machine vulnerabilities in Thursday speech

[BumRushDaShow]

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]

1. What an absolutely pathetic headline.

Way to normalize this horseshit.
Good job Reuters!

[Vinca]

2. Well, apparently there was nothing wrong with voting machines in 2016 when he won or in 2024 when he won.

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]

4. It's only theft if you claim the other took it

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]

25. Throwing a yellow flag, for making too much sense. n/t

[pwb]

3. I believe the red states cheat

and always have. Look over there, not at us?

[MorbidButterflyTat]

54. Agree

Totally, completely.

[everyonematters]

5. Do a hand count on all elections. That would be fine with me.

If I remember correctly, there was a hand recount on the Georgia election in 2020.

[Justice matters.]

46. There was one (an illegal one) in Arizona and Biden ended up with more legit votes...

[LisaL]

6. So we can't vote by mail, and we can't vote in person.

Got it.

[Escape]

7. This sets the stage...

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]

9. Beat me to it. He always sets the stage.

[underpants]

27. Yep. A state by state loyalty test.

The states have to confirm the elections as you know. Each state will have a decision. They really don’t have a decision but he’s making one for them.

[SamuelTheThird]

45. They will seize ballots and machines

We are on the cusp of a very perilous time

[WmChris]

65. This after crippling the committee who oversees voting machines.

Maybe hoping to open the door for more hacking be Elmo and his merry band fraudsters.

[GCG]

8. Trump plans to lie!

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]

10. There are some people that are truly evil, and one of those is the piece of garbage in the

white house.

[Wonder Why]

11. Actually, it will be about electric sharks, his many peace prizes, total victory in Iran, his phone

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]

14. And the oligarch owned press will treat his demented ranting as if it's perfectly normal...

... maybe even brilliant.

[lostincalifornia]

12. It is bulllshit, but if the psycopath wants to pursue that garbage, then we won in 2016 and

and 2024.

[nwduke]

13. This will only increase his creds

As an absolute dilusional worldwide clown!

[azureblue]

15. another pile of lies from the pedo in chief

He's trying to ramp up an excuse to nullify the vote..

[Harker]

16. Here we go.

Another call to arms.

He's getting out ahead of his White House fortification work.

[AverageOldGuy]

17. This is what Trump will reveal

I didn’t take the time to Google details so I’m doing this from memory.

1. After the 2020 election, one of Trump’s 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]

18. So his speech will sound like this?

[twodogsbarking]

21. Get up Lindsey.

[MarcoZandrini]

48. Lindsey.....

…..was a gelding.

[twodogsbarking]

61. For Sure. No balls and a horse's ass. Someone put that one on his grave stone.

[FakeNoose]

23. He needs to explain why "vote by mail" is a complete fraud...

... 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]

19. If Dump is saying it, just believe the opposite.

[twodogsbarking]

20. It's a re-run of a prior episode in the neverending saga of a loser.

[Bayard]

22. He plans to claim Senators Osoff and Warnock were illegitimately elected,

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]

24. Then let's go back to 2016, because I believe the Russians exploited those voting machine vulnerabilities n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

26. Trump OCD - he didn't lose the election he lost, all over again!

OCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder!

[Botany]

28. It wasn't the voting machines that were the problem in 2024 it was the central tabulators* that Musk had

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]

29. Prebunking...

Link to tweet

[Initech]

31. Benny Johnson is such a fucking tool.

“It could be massive!”. No it couldn’t. They tried this already.

[electric_blue68]

62. TY for the reminder 👍

[AverageOldGuy]

67. Please stop confusing things by introducing facts.

[Initech]

30. They tried this already and they failed miserably.

[hamsterjill]

34. But persistence is Trump's super power.

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]

42. Wish I had five dollars for every time I've said this on DU...

"Straight out of Putin's playbook."


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]

47. I know. Some of us understand the Putin fascination, and if it's not more than fascination (and you know what I mean!!!)

I've not seen "Angels in America", but I will look it up. I need something to watch today. Thanks.

[MarcoZandrini]

49. Nah.....

….its “you can’t fix stupid.”

[hamsterjill]

53. Stupid describes his followers.

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.

[johnnyfins]

32. Let him have the 2020 election.

Fine. You won. Just one problem. You can't be elected more than twice per the US Constitution. You must, therefore, RESIGN immediately!

[MarcoZandrini]

50. Then....

….we’d have Just Dumb Vance.

[electric_blue68]

63. But at least Vance has very little following

[randr]

33. He would know after he and Elon stole the last election

[2na fisherman]

35. Trump Fired Election Commissioners And Got Maduro Confessions. Now He Can Claim No Voter System Security

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]

60. It doesn't work that way.

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]

64. What If Congress Just Stops Doing All Business?

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]

66. What part don't you understand?

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.

[Ray Bruns]

36. Well since E. Jean Carroll just got her money, I imagine the subject matter has changed.

[maxsolomon]

37. He will not give one piece of evidence. He will make generalized assertions.

It will be BULLSHIT from President BULLSHIT.

[Dethhogan]

38. There's a rumor that ....

He might nullify the elections of Georgia's senators. Probably untrue but let's see Thursday.

[Dulcinea]

43. He has no power to do that.

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]

58. Nope. He may want to do that, but has no power to do so.

The State of Georgia certified the elections. Case closed. Can't be reversed.

[sakabatou]

39. So he's going with the election lie

FFS...

[Jack Valentino]

40. OH--- so the two times he 'won' maybe were 'rigged'?

'THANK YOU for your attention to this matter', Donald....

[annielion]

70. Yes. The two times he won were rigged.

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]

41. That goes both ways slobfather

If they're vulnerable may it's you election that was fake.

[GiqueCee]

44. If the demonic creature in the Trump suit...

... 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]

51. Well he did say

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]

52. The 2020 voting machines in Georgia were bought by....................

Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp. Yes, Kemp has been governor of Georgia the last eight years.

[hamsterjill]

55. Always remember...

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]

56. Which is why I keep suggesting that Democrats call their bluff

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]

59. It's an impossible Catch-22

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]

57. Piggy knows he's going to lose bigtime so he's scared shitless

[twodogsbarking]

68. He seems to be admitting to knowing how to do it and, well, did.

[bluestarone]

69. Remember everyone WE have the power Thursday night!! WE do NOT have to listen to his LIES

FUCK him and his LIES!!