President Donald Trump's primetime speech Thursday wasn't about rehashing claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told reporters Friday.

"What I want to start with is facts," Navarro told reporters outside the White House.

"There's a simple fact that the American people have lost a lot of confidence in our election system, and there is a deep, deep, deep division on whether the 2020 election was stolen. That's not what last night was about," he said.

Navarro said the effort was about "protecting future elections," adding that Americans remain divided over whether the 2020 election was stolen.

He said "the question" is: "Is the probability that that election was stolen higher today in people's minds than it was before we got the data?"

"And I would argue that, certainly, there's no question, whether you have a very low view of whether it was stolen, it's got to creep up a little bit because of what came out. If you have a high view, it's going to maybe pop to certainty and everything in between," he said.

Trump, during his speech, made a pitch for the SAVE America Act, which is stalled in Congress, and announced he had declassified a slew of documents he claims reveal vulnerabilities in America's election systems, election fraud, and interference in elections by China.

"America is back and doing really well, but we still have a major challenge that must be urgently addressed because no country can be great without fair and honest elections, you have to trust your country," Trump said.

"Because if there can be no trust, there can be no greatness, and that's very simple: no trust, no greatness."

Trump said he would immediately declassify the release of "critical intelligence, revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure."