President Trump drew selectively from documents his aides published online to insinuate that U.S. elections have been compromised for years and that government officials had suppressed the evidence.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin at a Friday press conference said election officials that don’t make changes based on “information they need to secure their elections” will be held accountable.

The President’s presentation may have been a rhetorical win for his base, but it was a fact-checker’s minefield—and may end up backfiring bigly.

Mullin insisted that the president was not relitigating the 2020 election, “although he definitely could at this point.”

Read the requests, demands and orders the president delivered to executive agencies during Thursday’s primetime address.

BBC Verify has reviewed these documents, although some of them have been heavily redacted.

President Donald Trump tried to convince Americans in a primetime address that their elections are vulnerable to fraud. CNN annotated the speech with context and analysis.

Get live updates and the latest news as Trump delivers a speech alleging the U.S. elections system is vulnerable to manipulation and the U.S. strikes bridges and other infrastructure in Iran.

Repeated investigations and audits have debunked claims by the president and his allies of widespread fraud or manipulation in 2020 or other elections.

The Trump administration is escalating its attacks on election officials in key battleground states, with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin doubling down Friday on claims that hundreds of thousands of non-citizens are illegally registered to vote – claims that the agency has quietly acknowledged aren’t fully vetted.

The White House released 269 pages documents—many newly declassified—as part of an election-security review.