"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."
"That an American president might take advice on how to run elections from a Russian dictator who wins sham polls in a landslide while his opponents disappear or die would have been unimaginable a decade ago. But it was not so surprising from Trump, who has made a habit of blurring the boundary between domestic policy grievances and foreign policy goals."
Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump that the 2020 presidential election was rigged through mail-in voting. Three days later Trump said lawyers were drafting an executive order to eliminate mail-in balloting, a method used by nearly a third of Americans and not credibly linked to fraud. Trump routinely blurs domestic and foreign policy, viewing national and international affairs through a prism of self-interest and making him vulnerable to manipulation. Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes said Trump centers actions on his own interests with no ideological consistency. Trump’s foreign engagements and domestic policies often serve immediate political advantages.
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