WASHINGTON —
President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Thursday night, focusing on election security and foreign influence.
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Trump used the primetime address to the nation Thursday to once again raise doubts about the results of past elections, reviving a subject he's long used to make unproven claims and deny his loss in the 2020 election.
Trump's speech presented allegations of interference and influence in ways that lacked key context, and did not produce evidence that votes had been manipulated or that the election outcome had been altered.
Trump began Thursday night with a stark warning about what he described as flaws in the voting system and said he was releasing previously classified documents related to the 2020 and 2018 elections, when he lost the presidential election and his party suffered losses.
No credible intelligence has emerged showing that the vote count in 2020 was manipulated by foreign actors. Repeated audits and reviews — many run by Republicans, including Trump's own then-attorney general -- have found no significant fraud occurred in 2020.
He did not raise doubts about his election wins in 2016 or 2024.
"America is back and doing really well, but we still have a major challenge that must be urgently addressed, because no country can be great without fair and honest elections," he said.
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