U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agrees with him that letting voters send in ballots by mail puts honest elections at risk.

“Vladimir Putin, smart guy, said you can’t have an honest election with mail-in voting,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” after a nearly three-hour meeting between the leaders in Alaska. “He said there’s not a country in the world that uses it now.”

          • sad_detective_man@leminal.space
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            10 days ago

            there were, relatively speaking. but Anchorage is a really small place. the crowd that gathered there are a sadly stark minority, even as nice as it was to see them.

            however, the kind of civilian that tends to live in Alaska is generally a little unusual. if there would be an aspiring leftist assassin, it’s one of the only places that value the cultural norms that would create one. so it’s not entirely unpossible

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      … you think Trump asked him?

      At this point daddy Putin said here’s the marching orders and please for the love of god try to stay on script.