But that won’t stop him from finding ways to make chaos.
By Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic
The idea, it seems, came from the Russian president. “Vladimir Putin, smart guy,” Donald Trump told the Fox News television host Sean Hannity following the summit between the two leaders in Anchorage, Alaska. Putin, Trump reported, had told him, “You can’t have an honest election with mail-in voting.” And that, apparently, spurred the president to act—sort of.
Days later, Trump posted on Truth Social that he would ban “MAIL-IN BALLOTS” in an “EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.” He expanded on his plan during an Oval Office press conference ostensibly about the war in Ukraine, sitting next to a studiously blank-faced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “We’re going to end mail-in voting,” the president declared. “It’s a fraud.”
