Trump Posts FBI File Claiming China Created ‘Thousands’ of Bogus US Drivers Licenses to Pad Biden’s 2020 Votes

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China’s communist government created “tens of thousands” of fake drivers licenses to help Chinese nationals vote for then-candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, President Donald Trump’s White House claimed.

The claim was made in a document included in a trove the Trump Administration shared after the president’s speech on Thursday night, accusing the Chinese government of stealing voter registration data of 220 million Americans.

“In late August 2020, the Chinese government had produced a large amount of fraudulent United States drivers licenses that were secretly exported to the United States,” the FBI file said. “The fraudulent drivers licenses would allow tens of thousands of Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party to vote for US Presidential Candidate USPER Joe ((Biden)), despite not being eligible to vote in the United States.”

The file said its information came from a “collaborative source with indirect access.” The source obtained the info from an “identified sub-source” who claimed they received the information from Chinese government officials, the file said.

China orchestrated the scheme by collecting user data from millions of TikTok users, allowing the Chinese government to use the identities of real Americans to create bogus licenses, according to the FBI document. The file said names and addresses were part of the stolen TikTok data, as well as which devices the users accessed TikTok on.

“The fraudulent drivers licenses were to include true ID number and true address of US citizens, making them difficult to detect,” the FBI file added. “China planned to use the fraudulent drivers licenses to account for tens of thousands of mail-in votes.”

Trump’s White House posted the file after it was initially shared by the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2025, but received little coverage aside from outlets like Fox News.

ABC and NBC opted to not air Trump’s address to the nation on Thursday night, and CNN’s Jake Tapper ripped Trump before the speech for his repeated claims the 2020 election was “rigged.”

“He keeps pushing this notion that there’s this grand conspiracy that denied him the election in 2020, and it’s not true,” Tapper said in a video posted to X. “It’s false, it’s a delusion, it’s a fever dream, it’s a lie.”

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