In a prime-time address, President Trump unveiled hundreds of declassified documents purporting to expose foreign threats to American election infrastructure, framing the release as urgent preparation for November's midterms. The vulnerabilities described — from voting machine access to vast Chinese data collection — are real, documented, and largely familiar to the security community. Yet the release arrives wrapped in a paradox: an administration sounding the alarm on election integrity while having dismantled the very federal bodies charged with defending it. What the documents confirm is n