US President Donald Trump stated that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, reportedly described the 2020 presidential elections as “rigged” due to mail-in voting.“Vladimir Putin stated your election was rigged as a result of you might have mail-in voting. He stated no nation has mail-in voting. It is unattainable to have mail-in voting and have sincere elections,” Trump stated in an interview with Fox Information on Friday.Trump additionally reiterated his declare that there wouldn’t have been a battle between Russia and Ukraine, and hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved if he received the 2020 elections.“And if in case you have received, we would not have had a battle. You’d have all these folks, hundreds of thousands of individuals, alive now as a substitute of useless,” Trump stated within the interview. Following a closed-door assembly with Putin in Alaska that lasted greater than three hours, Trump described the discuss as “heat” and stated that he agreed on a whole lot of factors with Putin and they’re fairly shut to creating a deal on the continuing battle.When requested for his recommendation to Kyiv, Trump strongly urged Ukraine to strike a deal, stressing the imbalance of energy between the 2 international locations. “Make the deal. Gotta make a deal. Yeah. Look, Russia is a really massive energy they usually’re not. They’re nice troopers they usually have nice. However, you already know, in addition they had the perfect gear. You understand, that they had our gear,” Trump stated.Putin has beforehand stated that the “disaster in Ukraine,” referring to Russia’s full-scale army offensive, won’t have occurred if Trump had been the US president at the moment.“I can’t however agree with him that if he had been president, if his victory hadn’t been stolen in 2020, then perhaps there wouldn’t have been the disaster in Ukraine that emerged in 2022,” Putin stated earlier this 12 months, as per a state TV reporter. Trump additionally beforehand criticised former president Joe Biden’s dealing with of the disaster as “not good”. “I all the time felt, so once I left, there wasn’t even an opportunity that this could occur. When Biden acquired concerned, I will not say whether or not or not he dealt with it correctly, however clearly it wasn’t good, as a result of the battle began,” Trump stated.“I believe if I did not win the election, he would have gotten all of Ukraine. I believe he would have taken all of Ukraine,” he added. Trump beforehand demanded the appointment of a particular prosecutor to look at the 2020 election, which he misplaced to Democrat Joe Biden, as soon as once more repeating an unfounded declare of widespread fraud.“Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a complete FRAUD!” he stated by means of a put up on social media. “The proof is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING. A Particular Prosecutor have to be appointed. This can’t be allowed to occur once more in the USA of America! Let the work start!”The cybersecurity division of the Division of Homeland Safety declared the election “essentially the most safe in American historical past,” reported Al Jazeera.
