Trump asserts voting machines are 'easily compromised,' contradicting documents he declassified

In the primetime address, President Trump said Americans had been 'blatantly lied to' about election infrastructure security and that electronic voting machines and ballot-counting systems are 'vulnerable' and 'easily compromised,' mocking his own administration's 2020 CISA statement that the election was 'the most secure in American history.' Fact-checkers noted that the January 2020 National Intelligence Council memorandum released with his remarks actually concluded election systems 'would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to alter the election outcome,' that voting systems 'are not connected to the Internet or to each other,' and that post-election audits 'very likely would uncover' manipulation attempts. The January 7, 2021 Intelligence Community Assessment, also in the release, found 'no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections.' Officials from both the Biden and Trump administrations said there was no intelligence indicating voting machines or vote totals were changed.