At home and abroad US policy chaos has one constant: Trump’s self-interest
by David Smith in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6ZH7K)
When Putin blamed the 2020 US election result on mail-in voting he bolstered a Trump obsession - just one example of the blurring of international goals and domestic grievances
It was a language he could understand. Donald Trump had lost the 2020 US presidential election, Russia's Vladimir Putin told him last Friday, because it was rigged through mail-in voting.
Three days later, the president announced that lawyers were drafting an executive order to eliminate mail-in balloting, a method used by nearly a third of Americans that has not been credibly linked to election fraud.
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