Trump plans government order to ban mail-in voting after Putin recommendation

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President Trump advised Brian Glenn of the conservative Actual America’s Voice that he didn’t wish to reply his query as a result of it was "off-topic" as he stood there with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders.

Then he proceeded to reply it at nice size.

The concept, it seems, started with Vladimir Putin, who has a little bit of expertise at maintaining himself in energy, which isn’t all that arduous if you happen to’re a dictator.

My supply? Donald Trump .

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President Trump's Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, reportedly advised him "it is unattainable to have mail-in voting and have sincere elections." (Picture by SERGEY BOBYLEV/POOL/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

He stated Putin advised him that "it is unattainable to have mail-in voting and have sincere elections," in an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity. He stated Putin advised him he received the 2020 election "by a lot," as Trump has lengthy claimed, "and also you misplaced it due to mail-in voting. It was a rigged election."

Music to the president’s ears.

So Trump was prepared when a pleasant reporter requested the query.

Trump slammed mail-in ballots as "corrupt" when requested by a reporter, a place he is maintained since his re-election defeat in 2020. (AP Picture/Seth Wenig, File)

"Mail-in ballots are corrupt," he declared. "Mail-in ballots, you may by no means have an actual democracy with mail-in ballots, and we as a Republican Get together are going to do every part attainable that we do away with mail-in ballots. We'll begin with an government order that is being written proper now by one of the best legal professionals within the nation to finish mail-in ballots as a result of they're corrupt."

He was simply warming up.

And, you realize, that we're the one nation on this planet, I imagine I could also be improper, however nearly the one nation on this planet that makes use of [mail-in ballots] due to what's occurred, massive fraud in every single place. The opposite factor we wish, change of the machines. For all the cash they spend, it is roughly 10 occasions dearer than paper ballots. And paper ballots are very refined with the watermark paper and every part else, we might get safe elections. We get a lot sooner outcomes, the machines, I imply, they are saying we will have the ends in two weeks with paper ballots. You've gotten the outcomes that night time. Most individuals virtually have, however most individuals in lots of nations use paper ballots. It is essentially the most safe type."

Slightly fact-checking is so as.

As Axios factors out, many nations all over the world have some type of mail-in voting. And thousands and thousands of Individuals who reside abroad, akin to navy households, are eligible for mailing of their ballots.

Trump truly doesn’t have the facility to do that. Whereas he says the states are an "agent" of the feds, the Constitution says the mechanics of holding elections "shall be prescribed in every State by the Legislature thereof." However Congress can change these necessities. May the president get this by means of the slender majorities in each chambers?

"It’s a fraud," Trump stated, including: "It is time that the Republicans get robust and cease it as a result of the Democrats need it, it is the one manner they'll get elected."

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Trump even invoked Jimmy Carter. In 2004, a fee arrange by the previous president and ex-Reagan aide James Baker III concluded that "absentee ballots stay the biggest supply of potential voter fraud."

In 2020, Trump went all-out in favor of mail-in ballots, arguing that they might assist Republicans. In fact, he may have been attempting to make one of the best of the instruments already in place. No occasion believes in unilateral disarmament.

However his enthusiasm for mail-in ballots in that election stands in stark distinction to his present stance that they're corrupt and ought to be banned.

Trump wound up telling Brian Glenn, who's courting Marjorie Taylor Greene, "I’m glad you requested that query."

In 2020, Trump favored mail-in ballots beneath the impression they'd assist Republicans – a far cry from his present stance. (Getty Photographs)

The president doesn’t let himself be tied down by the principles of consistency that almost all standard politicians should obey. Till final Friday, he was insisting on a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine as a precondition for any peace settlement. After the Alaska summit, he dropped the cease-fire concept that Zelensky had been demanding, provided that his nation is being bombarded day-after-day, with vital civilian casualties, and adopted the Putin stance of permitting the struggle to proceed to additional freeze his navy positive aspects within the essential Donbas area.

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However that flexibility – what critics name flip-flopping – has put the president within the place the place he has a shot at hammering out a peace settlement, although main obstacles stay.

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So I anticipate we’ll hear much more about how mail-in ballots are horrible and evil within the coming months, although whether or not he can get his Hill allies to go alongside may be very a lot an open query.

Howard Kurtz is the host of FOX Information Channel's MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 AM-12PM/ET). Primarily based in Washington, D.C., he joined the community in 2013 and frequently seems on Particular Report with Bret Baier and The Story with Martha MacCallum amongst different packages.