Donald Trump questions past election results on prime time TV

US President Donald Trump used a 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 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.

He claimed that electronic voting machines are "easily compromised," and that "Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, as well as non-state groups have the capability to compromise US election infrastructure."

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.

Trump's fixation on his loss to Democrat Joe Biden six years ago and the long-debunked theories he's circulated about it are things he still brings up regularly when discussing other subjects.

But elevating the deeply political and conspiratorial topics to a presidential primetime address underscores the lengths to which Trump has used his second term to both blow past norms and fixate on old grievances.

Trump also called on Congress to pass the SAVE America Act in his speech Thursday evening on election security.

The bill to require proof of citizenship for voters is stalled in the Senate, where it doesn't have enough votes to pass. Trump has pressured Senate Republicans to scrap the filibuster to eliminate the need for Democratic votes, but there aren't enough votes to do that, either.