Rigged elections... Mail-in ballots... Fraudulent voting machines... Where did Trump get that idea? We don't know, but we do know who reinforced the idea for him... FactCheck reported...
At a press briefing with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office later in the day, Trump said he was working on an executive order “to end mail-in ballots because they’re corrupt. And you know that we’re the only country in the world, I believe, I may be wrong, but just about the only country in the world that uses it because of what’s happened, massive fraud all over the place.”During an Aug. 15 interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump also said that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him during their summit meeting in Alaska, “‘Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting. … No country has mail-in voting.'”We don’t know what Putin might have told Trump about mail-in voting in other nations. But we do know that many countries besides the United States utilize mail-in voting in their elections.
Wait a minute... Trump is taking advice from the authoritarian Putin?
Free and fair elections in 2026 could be at stake.Brennan Center for JusticeMichael WaldmanAugust 19, 2025After his Friday meeting with Vladimir Putin, President 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 yesterday, 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.”
You know, when you stop and think about it... Trump believes Putin!
Attempting to implement any of these policies via executive order would be flagrantly illegal and flatly unconstitutional — a power grab. Already, earlier this year, Trump tried to seize control of elections with an executive order requiring Americans to produce a passport or another citizenship document to register to vote using the federal form. The Brennan Center and others sued, and judges blocked the worst part of that move. The new threatened executive order, too, could turn out to be vapor, essentially a malevolent press release.
Yep. It was shot down, and then shot down again by the appeals court. But you know Trump... he's taking it to the Supreme Court. The thing is, there are only 76 days until North Carolina's in-person early voting starts on Oct. 15, 2026.
AP NewsBy LINDSAY WHITEHURSTJuly 27, 2026The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clear the way for an executive order from President Donald Trump that could dramatically change mail-in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections.The Justice Department asked the justices to halt for now lower court decisions blocking the sweeping changes in nearly half the country.The request comes shortly after Trump delivered a primetime address elevating his yearslong push to raise doubts about the legitimacy of elections, and could be one of several voting-related challenges before the court ahead of the high-stakes midterm contest.Trump ordered the government in March to create a “state citizenship list” of eligible voters and deliver mail ballots only to people on that list.
So that is where we stand right now!
The odds are that the will refuse to hear the case saying that it was too close to the elections.
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