“Two months into her post-prison life, election denier Tina Peters traveled to Washington for high-level meetings this week with Trump administration officials, pitching her plan to invoke emergency powers and assert unprecedented federal control over elections before the November midterms,” CNN reports.

“The DC trip – where Peters met Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the chief of the Justice Department’s civil rights division — was her latest stop in a national tour promoting her vision to overhaul U.S. elections.”

“She has used her newfound freedom after her prison sentence was cut short in June to spread her usual false claims about voting machines rigging elections, speaking at conferences and hitting the right-wing podcast circuit.”

Axios: “Trump, citing newly released ‘raw’ intelligence, claimed that China carried out ‘the largest compromise of election data in history’ during the 2020 election — obtaining 220 million U.S. voter files (there weren’t quite that many registered voters in the U.S. then) and creating ‘ballots for Biden.'”

“One catch: Voter rolls listing names and addresses are readily available in nearly every state. Some even post them online to promote transparency. Having such information isn’t akin to affecting an election.”

New York Magazine: Trump alleges wild election conspiracy in White House speech.

Rick Hasen: “Donald Trump gave a national address where he made some recycled claims (‘burn bags,’ anyone?) about supposed voting machine vulnerabilities, about thousands of supposed noncitizens registered to vote, alleged voter registration fraud in Michigan, and about a cover-up concerning interference from China in the 2020 election. Among his biggest claims was that China had access to millions of American voting records. He said that there will be newly-declassified documents to back them up.”

”What Trump did NOT do was even purport to show a single ineligible voter voted in the 2020 election, or that any voting machines were actually compromised, voting machines or voter registration databases breached, or election results inaccurately reported.”

”Overall, this was an underwhelming announcement delivered with low energy that changes nothing about how state and local election administrators should run elections.”

“President Trump made at times outlandish claims about the safety of American voting systems in a White House address on Thursday night, drawing 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,” the New York Times reports.

”Mr. Trump, who has in recent months increasingly pressed his yearslong and unsubstantiated argument that the outcomes of U.S. elections have been ‘rigged’ by various forces, also laid out a purported effort by the Chinese government to undermine him in 2019. But the documents posted by the White House, although heavily redacted, were far more guarded in their conclusions.”

“President Donald Trump is planning a primetime address Thursday that will use findings from reexamined government files to argue that the country’s election infrastructure has vulnerabilities,” the Washington Post reports.

“Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday that the speech would concern voting machines but declined to elaborate.”