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Here’s just a taste of the opposition indignation about the president’s address last night, with the California governor setting the tone.

Responding to the president’s primetime attack last night, China’s Foreign Ministry has just said the allegations have no factual basis.

It adds that Beijing adheres to the principle of non-intervention in other state’s affairs and has no interest in influencing U.S. elections.

Earlier, the Chinese Embassy in Washington told Reuters that China “has never and will never interfere in the presidential elections.”

President Trump’s elections speech, which alleged widespread vulnerabilities in the U.S. voting system, could be just the beginning, according to one Democratic senator.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin fears the president’s repeated claims that elections are unsafe could be a prelude to sending the military to the polls, which could intimidate voters or local officials.

“The president refuses to rule out, as does his cabinet, sending in uniformed military,” Slotkin, a former CIA analyst, told MS Now of the possibility, which has inspired her to propose legislation barring such a step.

“What if they don’t have a warrant?” she added. “These are some really scary kind of tabletop exercises [and] things that we’re having here because the president has made clear this is not a joke to him…He’s willing to really do anything to ‘win’ in November.”

A conservative journalist just inadvertently punctured a hole in President Trump’s claims that documents show a sprawling Chinese conspiracy to steal American elections.

“All I can acknowledge is what the intelligence shows,” Just the News founder John Solomon, who is part of a White House elections task force on the subject, told MS Now on Thursday. “I only know the intelligence community has zero evidence that a foreign power flipped a vote in 2020, ‘22, and ‘24.”

“I’m still researching,” he added.

The White House claims it has discovered evidence of hundreds of thousands of non-citizens who are illegally registered to vote, part of a series of explosive election-related claims it has made alongside President Trump’s speech tonight.

“According to a D.H.S. review of state voter rolls and public records, they identified approximately 278,000 non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections,” reads a White House webpage detailing the allegations. “Since Democrat states refused to share their voter files, the real number is actually much higher—yet even this limited analysis found more than a quarter of a million foreigners illegally registered to vote.”

Meanwhile, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has been a bit more measured, perhaps wary of how his predecessor was slammed for making unfounded claims about immigration issues.

On X, he wrote that DHS “has identified over 250,000 potential non-citizens illegally registered to vote in just 4 U.S. states.”

What the administration has not shown, however, is that wrongly registered people have actually voted en masse or changed the outcome of elections.

Countless reviews of the 2020 election have shown that the results were valid, and actual voter fraud is an extremely rare crime that has not been shown to sway elections.

The Independent is actively reviewing the trove of documents the Trump administration released on Thursday to support its claims of wide-ranging vulnerabilities in U.S. election systems and a 2020 interference campaign by China.

If you want to take a look for yourself, here’s a link to the White House portal with the documents.

Democrats and Republicans alike are asking the same question right now: If China really did compromise 2020 elections, as President Trump claims, what is the White House going to do about it?

One answer, according to right-wing influencer and conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, is to launch stepped-up tariffs on Beijing.

“This was an attack on our democracy,” Posobiec told former Trump adviser Steve Bannon in an interview on Thursday. “This was the greatest attack on our republic since 9/11, and it was done so by the Chinese Communist Party. And so as such, we should start by seeing an immediate ratchet up to 100 percent, 1000 percent on all Chinese goods.”

“That should happen tomorrow,” he added. “President Trump drops that down, drops the hammer on the Chinese Communist Party, then you watch how fast things change.”

President Donald Trump has spent more than a decade spreading false and inflated claims about election outcomes and how the nation’s elections are run. His primetime address on Thursday was no exception.

But it appears much of the newly declassified material he announced Thursday evening echoes or reinterprets previously disclosed information that was already known to intelligence officials, including during his first administration.

Importantly, nothing in the materials supports any allegations that any votes were manipulated by fraud or foreign actors to have changed election outcomes.

Alex Woodward has the story.

No one wants a multi-million dollar defamation suit on their hands.

As news networks sought to cover President Trump’s major elections speech tonight, they issued careful disclaimers about the Republican’s statements.

After all, 2020 election conspiracies on air helped lead to Fox News paying out a whopping $787 million in a defamation suit.

So, as the big networks again had to wade into the waters of 2020 election info, they tread carefully.

On CBS News, anchor Tony Dokoupil acknowledged the president’s penchant for false claims about the election.

”Much of what the president had said on this topic has been false,” Dokoupil said. “Most notably, of course, the claim that he won the 2020 election, when of course he did not.”

Fox News, meanwhile, had words of caution about Trump’s claims that voting machines could have major vulnerabilities.

“Fox News has not seen that evidence yet [and] is not in a position to evaluate the accuracy of the president’s statement and claims,” one anchor said.