Putin views 2020 US elections as 'rigged' due to mail-in voting, says Trump

ISTANBUL

US President Donald Trump on late Friday said that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin told him that he believed the 2020 US election was "rigged" because of the mail-in voting.

In an interview with Fox News after his meeting with Putin on Friday, Trump said: “Vladimir Putin said something – one of the most interesting things. He said: ‘Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting … No country has mail-in voting. It’s impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.’

“He (Putin) said, 'you won that election by so much.”

"He said, and if you would have won, we wouldn't have had a war, you'd have all these millions of people alive now instead of dead," Trump added.