US, July 17 -- President Trump argued that the US election system is dangerously exposed to hacking and manipulation, adding that it falls "catastrophically short" of the security Americans deserve.

In his address to the nation on Thursday, he backed the claim with long-disputed allegations about his 2020 loss to former President Joe Biden, arguing that without major changes, November's midterms are vulnerable to being "rigged and stolen."

The "disclosures reveal an election system so broken and so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it. It is not defensible," Trump said in his primetime address to the nation, arguing that the electoral system is fundamentally flawed.

Trump described the current voting and mail-in system as "not...