Análisis por Aaron Blake, CNN

El discurso que el presidente Donald Trump pronunció en horario estelar desde la Casa Blanca el jueves por la noche no fue noticia de gran relevancia.

Pero el discurso sobre las posibles vulnerabilidades del sistema electoral estadounidense podría ser uno que recordemos como un momento significativo, en particular como un anticipo de cómo Trump podría intentar socavar las elecciones de 2026.

Aquí les presento algunas ideas clave del discurso.

Al igual que su discurso en horario estelar sobre la guerra con Irán en abril, el del jueves probablemente podría haber sido una rueda de prensa diurna.

La gran revelación de Trump fue una serie de documentos recientemente desclasificados que, según él, le habían sido ocultados tanto a él como al pueblo estadounidense, y que demostraban que el sistema electoral estadounidense está “catastróficamente lejos” del estándar requerido.

Sin embargo, un análisis preliminar de los documentos realizado por CNN revela que en gran medida tratan sobre vulnerabilidades potenciales previamente conocidas en el sistema electoral estadounidense y sobre cuestiones que se incluyeron en una evaluación de 2021 de la comunidad de inteligencia de EE.UU.

Gran parte de la información recientemente publicada parece no haber sido examinada minuciosamente. De hecho, Trump, en un momento de su discurso, aludió a la “inteligencia bruta”.

Quizás de forma reveladora, antes de alegar este enorme encubrimiento, la primera gran prueba que supuestamente citó fue que China habría obtenido cientos de millones de archivos de votantes estadounidenses.

Pero esa evaluación de 2021 ya hacía alusión a esto. En ella se concluía que China “probablemente también continuó con sus esfuerzos de larga data para recopilar información sobre los votantes y la opinión pública estadounidenses; los partidos políticos, los candidatos y sus equipos; y los altos funcionarios del Gobierno”.

El informe concluyó que China había estado haciendo esto desde al menos 2008 para determinar cómo podía influir en la política estadounidense. Sin embargo, también concluyó que China no interfirió realmente en las elecciones de 2020.

En un momento dado, Trump también aludió a que China, en 2019, estaba “socavando la confianza interna” en él. Pero eso no es injerencia electoral.

De hecho, no hizo alusión a ninguna prueba de que algo hubiera influido realmente en los votos o cambiado los resultados de las elecciones.

Tras el discurso, el periodista conservador John Solomon, que colaboró ​​con la Casa Blanca en la publicación de los documentos, reconoció que la comunidad de inteligencia no tenía “ninguna prueba de que una potencia extranjera hubiera influido en una votación en 2020, 2022 o 2024”, una admisión bastante sorprendente si se compara con los años de afirmaciones de Trump.

Pero eso no significa que el discurso no fuera significativo. Lo es, como posible declaración de intenciones.

Dado el historial de Trump de afirmar falsamente que las elecciones que no le favorecen están amañadas, y la violencia que se produjo el 6 de enero de 2021, su decisión de pronunciar este discurso a menos de cuatro meses de unas elecciones que se presentan realmente difíciles para el Partido Republicano debería provocar escalofríos en la sociedad estadounidense.

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By CNN staff

(CNN) — President Donald Trump, in a primetime speech Thursday night, alleged vulnerabilities exist in American election systems, despite declassified documents released by his administration largely discussing vulnerabilities that have been known for years and that election officials around the country have tried to address.

Trump said the speech and release of documents are not meant to “weaken confidence” in US elections, though critics say he has done just that. For years, the US president has spread falsehoods about the 2020 election.

In the remarks, he addressed his economic agenda, immigration policies, election integrity, China, and more.

CNN reporters followed along the speech and reviewed the declassified documents. You can read highlights of the coverage below:

Declassified documents shed light on scope of Chinese hacking targeting Americans

From CNN’s Sean Lyngaas

Documents that the Trump administration released on Thursday shed new light on just how voracious Chinese intelligence services have been in collecting information on Americans.

Cyber espionage, or the use of hacking to collect sensitive information, and the use of cyberattacks to disrupt elections are two very different things. The documents show China doing the former, not the latter.

The documents show the lengths that Chinese hackers allegedly went to spy on senior US government officials and the 2020 presidential campaign of Joe Biden.

One Chinese hacking group was using techniques to track the email accounts of Biden campaign staffers, suggesting that “the Chinese operators are mapping out the target network for follow-on approaches, possibly including tasking campaign staffers’ e-mail accounts in the Chinese military’s signals intelligence system for collection,” one declassified intelligence report says.

Other reports in the collection of documents note that Chinese government actors have been downloading voter registration information in numerous states. In some cases, the information was already publicly available. But there is no mention of China actively exploiting the data on voters it collected or stole. There is instead intelligence analysis of what China could do with the data.

The personal information on Americans taken by one Chinese actor “could, in theory, be leveraged to carry out anything from future CNE (computer network exploitation) operations to election influence operations, although the actual motivations for collecting this information is unknown,” one intelligence report said.

The documents paint a picture of Chinese intelligence services that are collecting just about any information they can on hundreds of millions of Americans. That, in the aggregate, is not a new revelation. Between the 2015 hack of the Office of Personnel Management and subsequent hacks of American health care providers and other companies, US intelligence officials have long warned that Chinese spies have a detailed picture of tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of Americans.

Trump’s claim Venezuela hacked voting machines echoes allegations from an ex-Venezuelan spy

From CNN’s Maria Santana

The claim promoted by the White House tonight that Venezuela experimented with hacking its own voting machines echoes allegations made by former Venezuelan intelligence chief and convicted drug trafficker

CNN

By CNN staff

(CNN) — President Donald Trump, in a primetime speech Thursday night, alleged vulnerabilities exist in American election systems, despite declassified documents released by his administration largely discussing vulnerabilities that have been known for years and that election officials around the country have tried to address.

Trump said the speech and release of documents are not meant to “weaken confidence” in US elections, though critics say he has done just that. For years, the US president has spread falsehoods about the 2020 election.

In the remarks, he addressed his economic agenda, immigration policies, election integrity, China, and more.

CNN reporters followed along the speech and reviewed the declassified documents. You can read highlights of the coverage below:

Declassified documents shed light on scope of Chinese hacking targeting Americans

From CNN’s Sean Lyngaas

Documents that the Trump administration released on Thursday shed new light on just how voracious Chinese intelligence services have been in collecting information on Americans.

Cyber espionage, or the use of hacking to collect sensitive information, and the use of cyberattacks to disrupt elections are two very different things. The documents show China doing the former, not the latter.

The documents show the lengths that Chinese hackers allegedly went to spy on senior US government officials and the 2020 presidential campaign of Joe Biden.

One Chinese hacking group was using techniques to track the email accounts of Biden campaign staffers, suggesting that “the Chinese operators are mapping out the target network for follow-on approaches, possibly including tasking campaign staffers’ e-mail accounts in the Chinese military’s signals intelligence system for collection,” one declassified intelligence report says.

Other reports in the collection of documents note that Chinese government actors have been downloading voter registration information in numerous states. In some cases, the information was already publicly available. But there is no mention of China actively exploiting the data on voters it collected or stole. There is instead intelligence analysis of what China could do with the data.

The personal information on Americans taken by one Chinese actor “could, in theory, be leveraged to carry out anything from future CNE (computer network exploitation) operations to election influence operations, although the actual motivations for collecting this information is unknown,” one intelligence report said.

The documents paint a picture of Chinese intelligence services that are collecting just about any information they can on hundreds of millions of Americans. That, in the aggregate, is not a new revelation. Between the 2015 hack of the Office of Personnel Management and subsequent hacks of American health care providers and other companies, US intelligence officials have long warned that Chinese spies have a detailed picture of tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of Americans.

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CNN

By CNN staff

(CNN) — President Donald Trump, in a primetime speech Thursday night, alleged vulnerabilities exist in American election systems, despite declassified documents released by his administration largely discussing vulnerabilities that have been known for years and that election officials around the country have tried to address.

Trump said the speech and release of documents are not meant to “weaken confidence” in US elections, though critics say he has done just that. For years, the US president has spread falsehoods about the 2020 election.

In the remarks, he addressed his economic agenda, immigration policies, election integrity, China, and more.

CNN reporters followed along the speech and reviewed the declassified documents. You can read highlights of the coverage below:

Declassified documents shed light on scope of Chinese hacking targeting Americans

From CNN’s Sean Lyngaas

Documents that the Trump administration released on Thursday shed new light on just how voracious Chinese intelligence services have been in collecting information on Americans.

Cyber espionage, or the use of hacking to collect sensitive information, and the use of cyberattacks to disrupt elections are two very different things. The documents show China doing the former, not the latter.

The documents show the lengths that Chinese hackers allegedly went to spy on senior US government officials and the 2020 presidential campaign of Joe Biden.

One Chinese hacking group was using techniques to track the email accounts of Biden campaign staffers, suggesting that “the Chinese operators are mapping out the target network for follow-on approaches, possibly including tasking campaign staffers’ e-mail accounts in the Chinese military’s signals intelligence system for collection,” one declassified intelligence report says.

Other reports in the collection of documents note that Chinese government actors have been downloading voter registration information in numerous states. In some cases, the information was already publicly available. But there is no mention of China actively exploiting the data on voters it collected or stole. There is instead intelligence analysis of what China could do with the data.

The personal information on Americans taken by one Chinese actor “could, in theory, be leveraged to carry out anything from future CNE (computer network exploitation) operations to election influence operations, although the actual motivations for collecting this information is unknown,” one intelligence report said.

The documents paint a picture of Chinese intelligence services that are collecting just about any information they can on hundreds of millions of Americans. That, in the aggregate, is not a new revelation. Between the 2015 hack of the Office of Personnel Management and subsequent hacks of American health care providers and other companies, US intelligence officials have long warned that Chinese spies have a detailed picture of tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of Americans.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – A rollover car crash closed Castillo Street for 30 minutes after a sedan crashed into a parked vehicle, according to the Santa Barbara Police Department.

SBPD officers found the sedan on its roof and learned that the driver lost control and overturned the car after hitting the parked car.

The solo driver was not injured from the crash and alcohol is not believed to be a factor in the incident, according to the SBPD.

SBPD officers cleared Castillo Street 30 minutes after the crash and it is now open.

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