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Giles Snyder· Host0:14

Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump used his primetime speech to cast doubt on the integrity of the country's elections.

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Every American deserves to know that when they cast their vote, that vote will be counted accurately in a system, and that is to make that system secure, one where cheating and interference are not just difficult, but virtually impossible. Unfortunately, the system we have today falls catastrophically short of that standard.

Giles Snyder· Host0:48

Trump claimed elections in the US are vulnerable, declassifying intelligence he said exposed fraud and foreign interference. He accused China of interference in the 2020 election that he lost to former President Joe Biden, contradicting US intelligence findings. During his speech, President Trump said that the networks that did not broadcast his remarks should have their licenses revoked. ABC, NBC, and CNN put the speech on their streaming services. CBS and MS now cut away before he finished. Fox News carried it in its entirety. President Trump's businesses made more than two billion dollars last year, an unprecedented windfall for a sitting US president. But some swing voters in