Source: Orange County Register
by Steven Greenhut
“After providing his red-carpeted welcome to Vladimir Putin in Alaska last month to discuss ending the Ukraine war, President Donald Trump oddly and approvingly quoted the Russian leader’s advice for the United States. The American Nobel Peace Prize-seeker didn’t seem too concerned about the fairness of any potential deal to carve up Ukraine at Russia’s behest. But Trump was fixated on the supposed lack of fairness of U.S. elections, even though he won two of them (and claims to have won three). In an interview with Fox News, Trump echoed Putin’s words: ‘He said: ‘Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting. … It’s impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.’ … Given that Russia stepped up its Ukraine attacks shortly after Trump boarded Air Force One, he might have realized that Putin might not be an honest broker — let alone a font of electoral wisdom.” (09/05/25)