Source: Brennan Center for Justice
by Michael Waldman
“After his Friday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump bragged that the dictator had backed one of his conspiracy theories. According to Trump, Putin said, ‘You can’t have an honest election with mail-in voting’. (You don’t need to be a former KGB agent to know how to woo our chief executive.) Then on Monday, perhaps emboldened by his encounter with a real-life autocrat, Trump announced a major effort to seize control of American elections. In a Truth Social post, he declared that he would sign ‘an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections’ and ‘lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS.’ We’ve all grown used to the president’s wild claims about elections. We might be tempted to roll our eyes now, but we shouldn’t. It’s appalling.” (08/21/25)
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/voting-power-grab-nod-putin