President Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Pursue CRIMINAL CHARGES Over Deep State Coverup

President Trump has delivered on his promise to drop some “very, very big news” related to election integrity tonight.

As expected, he revealed some jaw-dropping facts about foreign meddling in U.S. elections during his address to the nation.

Most notably, he announced the declassification of a trove of never-before-seen election intelligence — many files of which are now live on the White House website.

We covered that further here:

BREAKING: President Trump Declassifies Election Intelligence — First Files Are Live!

This already huge news.

But, perhaps even bigger is the fact that Deep State officials within our nation’s own CIA knew about the election interference all along.

Yet, they hid it from both the president and the American public.

In other words, it was one of the biggest cover-ups in U.S. history.

And now, President Trump is demanding accountability and justice.

During his prime-time address to the nation, President Trump ordered the DOJ, FBI, CIA, and ODNI to start exploring criminal charges against those involved in the Deep State cover-up.

Watch that moment here:

🚨 NOW: President Trump has immediately ordered DNI and DOJ to explore CRIMINAL CHARGES after it was confirmed CIA and Deep State officials withheld crucial info that China meddled in our elections

"Today, I'm asking the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the… pic.twitter.com/3jCDnXqLlE

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 17, 2026

NOW: President Trump has immediately ordered DNI and DOJ to explore CRIMINAL CHARGES after it was confirmed CIA and Deep State officials withheld crucial info that China meddled in our elections

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“Today, I’m asking the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA to investigate how and why such crucial information was hidden, to fire those involved in the cover-up and defile criminal charges if appropriate against these people.”

“Yet concealing China’s meddling was only the beginning. The third set of documents we are releasing proves that for many years Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot-counting systems dishonest almost all.”

Here’s a longer clip, so you can get the full context:

.@POTUS: Compounding the travesty, the second set of documents we are releasing reveals that members of the Deep State in our intelligence agencies worked to actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China’s sinister election meddling—covering it up from both… pic.twitter.com/uFl4D39HaL

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 17, 2026

.@POTUS: Compounding the travesty, the second set of documents we are releasing reveals that members of the Deep State in our intelligence agencies worked to actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China’s sinister election meddling—covering it up from both the President and the American People.

U.S. spy agencies began learning about the compromise of voter registration files in 2020, when they discovered that tens of millions of voters’ data in 18 states had been bought, stolen, or hacked by China. Yet those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information hidden. They did not disclose it to me as president, and to the best of our knowledge, they did not inform Congress. In fact, all they kept saying is, “This is the most secure election in the history of our country.”

The coverup of this colossal security breach is even more disturbing in light of additional information showing that China engaged in other election-related activities to undermine my first administration and our 2020 campaign. They did not want Donald Trump to win, and for good reason.

As the documents we are releasing show, CIA reporting explicitly stated, “In mid-2018, the Chinese Communist Party’s policy was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements that were opposed to the U.S. President in an effort to reduce the U.S. President’s votes and make him resign or prevent his re-election. Also in mid-2018, China was working to influence the results of the U.S. mid-term elections, and later, the results of the 2020 Presidential Elections.

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Separately, in mid-2019, the Chinese Government’s strategy against the United States was focused on undermining domestic confidence in the U.S. president”—and they did everything possible to do so. Going on, it says “The strategy included efforts to use Chinese contracts with big U.S. companies to influence U.S. business leaders to turn against the U.S. President. The Chinese government sought to identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. President, and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him. The Chinese Government wanted the U.S. president to lose the next election.” And the reason they wanted me to lose is because they knew I was wise to them, charged them billions of dollars’ worth of tariffs, and built the strongest military anywhere in the world.

These are exact quotes from CIA reporting—the name of the person doing the quote is under review. But it gets even worse. Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020, yet buried by rogue bureaucrats, stated that China’s activities even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden.

Documents show that during this period, dozens of significant CIA and NSA reports about China’s election targeting were kept out of the Presidential Daily Briefing. One email among intelligence analysts admitted they had ‘deliberately massaged’ the Presidential Daily Briefing to withhold information regarding Chinese activities related to the election. Another official inside the FBI wrote that she was running ‘a shadow government’ to keep intelligence about China’s election meddling from becoming known. Other officials who witnessed such efforts perceived the motivations to be blatantly political.

Recently, we found significant numbers of burn bags, information given by President Barack Hussein Obama to be burned. These bags were supposed to be incinerated, but it never happened. We believe this was not done purposely, but rather through incompetence. But the findings are stunning.

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Today, I am asking the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA to investigate how and why such crucial information was hidden, to fire those involved in the coverup, and to file criminal charges, if appropriate, against them.