Five claims Trump made in primetime address not backed up by evidence

The brief

Donald Trump offered a litany of misleading and false claims during his Thursday speech on threats to US elections, and released previously classified documents to try to support his specious assertions. In some cases, those were not supported by the documents. Here is a look at some of the key statements that could mislead the American public. Claim: China hacked voter files Trump claimed in his speech China had illicitly acquired the voter information of 220 million US voters beginning in 2020. “That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities,…