US President Donald Trump delivered an address to the nation on Thursday evening, arguing that potential vulnerabilities exist in American election systems.

Axar.az reports, citing CNN, he began his remarks with stark rhetoric casting doubt on the nation’s election security, claiming it “falls catastrophically short” and sought to rally support for his stalled federal elections overhaul legislation.

The Trump administration also unveiled a trove of newly declassified documents. However, none of the new information suggests any previous election counts — including the 2020 presidential contest that Trump lost — were directly affected by foreign interference or fraud.

Here were the top lines from the president tonight:

- Trump opened his address by highlighting his administration’s economic agenda and immigration policies. He pointed to the latest inflation report, promoted his Trump Accounts initiative and his prescription drug site TrumpRx, and barely mentioned the war with Iran.

- The release of declassified documents related to election integrity is not meant to “weaken confidence” in US elections, Trump said, despite years of insisting there have been irregularities in elections. Instead, its purpose is to “earn that confidence by confronting vulnerabilities and correcting them very, very quickly.”

- Trump said China illegally acquired 220 million US voter files, including names, contact information and party preferences. He also suggested China worked to “undermine my first administration and our 2020 campaign,” and influence the 2018 midterm elections. China has repeatedly denied past allegations related to election interference.

- China wanted him to lose: Trump claimed China sought to meddle in the 2020 election to prevent him from winning, even though US intelligence agencies concluded in a report declassified in 2021 that China chose not to try to influence the outcome of the election out of fear of upsetting US-China relations. That conclusion was repeated in documents the Trump administration declassified ahead of the speech.

- Information showing “an unprecedented election security nightmare” was not disclosed to him or Congress, Trump said. He also claimed US spy agencies knew about compromised voter registration files in 2020 and chose to keep “the information secret and hidden.”

- Trump said his Department of Homeland Security uncovered approximately 278,000 non-citizens in state voter rolls. But the data-matching program Trump cited is known to present an inflated number of suspected non-citizens, in part because naturalized citizens are often flagged wrongly as non-citizens.

- The president claimed an alleged fraud scheme around voter registration in Michigan in 2020 was covered up by federal officials and asked the FBI to investigate. Michigan’s secretary of state pushed back against the “baseless” accusations and reiterated that the state’s elections are secure.

- Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin will hold a briefing tomorrow “to outline his department’s recent work confirming cyber vulnerabilities in our electronic voting systems,” Trump said.