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Asesores debaten el discurso electoral de Trump en medio de temores de que continúe la campaña para sembrar desconfianza

By CNN

Se espera que el presidente de EE.UU. Donald Trump aproveche su discurso en horario estelar del jueves para insistir en lo que él presentará como nueva información sobre los esfuerzos extranjeros para influir en las elecciones estadounidenses; lo último en lo que los observadores electorales han advertido que es una campaña para sembrar desconfianza e intentar socavar su derrota de 2020.

El contenido del discurso de Trump se ha mantenido en estricta reserva, y los asesores han debatido intensamente qué debería incluirse, según personas familiarizadas con los planes.

Junto con el discurso de Trump, la Casa Blanca ha estado sopesando si publicar un conjunto de documentos relacionados, entre otros temas, con China y su papel en las elecciones de EE.UU., dijeron las personas.

Algunos de los materiales provienen de inteligencia recopilada durante el primer mandato de Trump, que él y otros funcionarios alegarán que fue suprimida, dijeron las personas.

También se espera que Trump hable sobre supuestas vulnerabilidades en la infraestructura electoral, incluidas las máquinas de votación.

El presidente dijo esta semana que el discurso incluiría un anuncio importante relacionado con la seguridad electoral. Trump ha enfrentado críticas por intentar socavar la confianza en las elecciones y negar los resultados, y funcionarios electorales estatales dijeron a CNN que están observando de cerca, temerosos de que pueda usar el espacio en horario estelar para hacerlo de nuevo.

“No hay nada más grande, porque sin elecciones libres y justas, no hay país”, dijo Trump. “También hablaremos de otras cosas, pero va a ser un anuncio muy grande”.

En las últimas semanas se ha puesto en marcha un gran esfuerzo dentro del Gobierno para localizar información de inteligencia que pudiera respaldar las afirmaciones de Trump sobre un fraude e interferencia electoral generalizados. Un grupo de trabajo, bajo la dirección del escritor conservador John Solomon, ha trabajado para identificar documentos que puedan desclasificarse y hacerse públicos, dijeron personas familiarizadas con el asunto.

Sin embargo, no todos los funcionarios de la administración están de acuerdo con esta labor. Algunos temen que desclasificar amplias franjas de información pueda ofrecer una imagen confusa de la seguridad del voto en Estados Unidos y socavar la confianza en las elecciones. Y otros temen que la información pueda poner en riesgo métodos de recopilación de inteligencia.

La supuesta intromisión de China en las elecciones de EE.UU. no es del todo nueva. El secretario de Estado Antony Blinken dijo en 2024 que EE.UU. había visto evidencia de intentos chinos de “influir y, posiblemente, interferir” en las próximas elecciones de EE.UU., pese a un compromiso previo del líder Xi Jinping de no hacerlo.

Pero cuando se trata de las elecciones de 2020 — que Trump ha afirmado repetida y falsamente que ganó — la comunidad de inteligencia de EE.UU. publicó un informe que evaluó que el Gobierno ruso intervino con una campaña de influencia “denigrando” al presidente Joe Biden y “apoyando” a Trump. El informe dijo que China no interfirió y que “consideró, pero no desplegó, esfuerzos de influencia destinados a cambiar el resultado de la elección presidencial de EE.UU.”.

Esa evaluación contradijo comentarios de Trump y de miembros de su administración, incluidos el exsecretario de Justicia William Barr y el ex asesor de Seguridad Nacional Robert O’Brien, quienes sugirieron que China interfería en la elección de manera más agresiva que Rusia o Irán.

La negación de Trump de los resultados de las elecciones de 2020 ha sido tan vehemente que quienes trabajan para él son reacios a comentar sobre los resultados.

Jay Clayton, su designado para desempeñarse como director de inteligencia nacional, en particular dudó en una audiencia de confirmación el miércoles al decir que Joe Biden ganó la elección presidencial de 2020, un hecho que Trump niega.

En los momentos finales de la audiencia, Clayton reconoció ante el vicepresidente Mark Warner, un demócrata de Virginia, que Biden había sido “elegido de manera justa y debida bajo nuestro proceso”.

Cuando el presidente pronuncie sus comentarios la noche del jueves, varios funcionarios electorales estatales —incluidos de los estados clave de 2020 que fueron los principales objetivos de la ira de Trump— asistirán a una cena en Mount Rushmore como parte de una conferencia anual de verano de la Asociación Nacional de Secretarios de Estado (NASS, por sus iniciales en inglés). Algunos dicen que les preocupa que Trump pueda sembrar dudas sobre futuras elecciones.

Los asistentes a la conferencia compartieron teorías sobre lo que él podría alegar, mientras planificaban cómo podrían responder.

“Estamos muy nerviosos, porque no sabemos qué va a decir”, dijo a CNN el secretario de Estado de Washington Steve Hobbs, un demócrata que asumirá como presidente de la NASS a finales de la semana. “Quiero decir, podemos suponer que va a decir ciertas cosas locas”.

El secretario de Estado de Iowa, Paul Pate, dijo a CNN que esperaba poder ignorar el discurso durante la cena, pero añadió: “Estamos entrando en un período en el que debo advertir a quienes desean cambios importantes en el proceso electoral que, en mi opinión, esto genera más problemas”.

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The world’s oldest president left for a ‘brief stay’ in Europe. He hasn’t returned in two months

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(CNN) — When Paul Biya won his first presidential election in Cameroon in 1984, Nformi Bime was 23 and still a student.Bime is now 65 and retired from teaching. Biya is 93 – and still president. Last year, he won a disputed eighth term that could keep him in office until he is nearly 100.“The best is yet to come,” Biya said before the election, which his opponents called fraudulent and was marred by deadly clashes between protesters and police.For the past two months, however, the man who has ruled Cameroon since 1982, when as prime minister he assumed power following the resignation of the sitting president, has been thousands of miles away. He left on June 7 for what his office called a “brief private stay in Europe” — now his longest uninterrupted absence from the Central African nation in years.Last week, government spokesman René Emmanuel Sadi told French radio RFI that Biya was in Geneva, Switzerland and was not hospitalized, but did not give more detail on his whereabouts.A president who is rarely seenBiya is Cameroon’s second president since independence in 1960 and one of the world’s longest-serving leaders. He first won office in 1984 under a one-party system, then won six more elections after multiparty politics was introduced.He has spent extended periods abroad during his presidency. But his latest absence has revived questions about his health and who is running the country while he is away.Rumors about Biya’s health and whereabouts have long been part of public life in Cameroon, where he is rarely seen in public. His office has repeatedly had to push back against speculation that he was seriously ill or had died. In 2024, the government banned media discussions about his health, calling them a national security matter.Biya’s long rule also reflects a wider contrast across Africa. The continent has the world’s youngest population, but several countries are still led by aging leaders whose political careers began decades ago, including former liberation figures now governing in a different era.For millions of Cameroonians, Biya is the only president they have ever known.Bime’s children are among them. His oldest is 32, and his youngest is 18.Abit Riassai Acha, a 26-year-old doctoral student and community youth leader at the University of Yaoundé II, belongs to the same generation.“Growing up, President Biya was the only president I knew, so his presidency has been part of my entire experience of Cameroon,” said Acha, who voted for the first time in last year’s presidential election, backing the youthful opposition candidate Samuel Hiram Iyodi, 38.After more than four decades under the same president, questions about his leadership have only grown.“Because this has happened repeatedly over the years, many Cameroonians have become used to it,” Acha said of Biya’s long absences. “But becoming accustomed to something does not necessarily mean that people should stop asking questions about how the country is being governed.”Iyodi, who finished eighth in last year’s presidential election, which several candidates, including one of Biya’s main challengers, were barred from contesting, has called on parliament to ask Cameroon’s Constitutional Council to consider whether Biya’s absence amounts to a vacancy in the presidency. But such a move is unlikely to succeed, given the dominance of Biya’s ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement.Despite being away, Biya has continued to make key decisions from abroad, including a major military reshuffle announced earlier this month. Yet questions about his prolonged stay overseas have left officials publicly assuring Cameroonians that their president is still alive.Government spokesman Sadi dismissed concerns about a power vacuum, telling RFI that “President Paul Biya is alive” and “will soon return.”From hope to frustrationBime is old enough to remember when Biya was the change. He first heard Biya’s name in the 1970s, when he served as secretary-general of the presidency under Cameroon’s first president after independence, Ahmadou Ahidjo. After Ahidjo resigned in 1982, Biya took over.When Biya first appeared on the ballot two years later, Bime saw him as a “representation of hope,” he said. “We believed he was young and dynamic – handsome too. He meant so much to Cameroonians.”Few imagined that the man they saw as a new beginning would remain in power for decades. For his critics, the disappointment is not just about how long Biya has stayed in office, but what they see as his failure to improve the lives of ordinary Cameroonians.Political analyst Collins Molua Ikome, a Cameroonian based in Germany, said he saw some of the country’s problems firsthand when he visited Cameroon in April.“Roads in Cameroon are extremely bad. I even witnessed a fatal accident,” he told CNN.Ikome also pointed to frequent power cuts, corruption and a lack of jobs for young people.Wilson Tamfuh, a public and international law professor at the University of Dschang in West Cameroon, said the country has institutions that can keep the government running when the president delegates responsibilities. Key duties, he said, can be handled by the prime minister, the secretary-general at the presidency and ministers.But the bigger question, Tamfuh said, is whether the government is solving the country’s longstanding problems.“People want the Anglophone crisis resolved, standards of living ameliorated, more good roads, fewer people on the streets with degrees, and more,” he told CNN, referring to the years-long separatist conflict in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions.Whenever Biya eventually leaves office, his successor will inherit a country also facing attacks by Boko Haram militants in the north and deep economic frustration among young people.Healthcare is another concern. Ikome said access to quality healthcare remains out of reach for many Cameroonians.“Life expectancy in the country is below 70 years. However, Biya has far outlived that due to access to medical healthcare abroad, which the ordinary Cameroonian cannot access due to poverty,” Ikome said.The divide is not unique to Cameroon. Across Africa, political elites have often sought healthcare or maintained homes abroad, even as public services at home struggle.For Bime, the question is more personal: Will he live to see another president?After decades of waiting for change, he worries he may not – and that Biya could outlive him and many others who are not part of the country’s elite.“Anytime they have a cold, they run overseas and are taken care of, but the other Cameroonians are dying because of lack of care,” he said.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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