Putin: The previous US elections were rigged.
The President of Russia claimed that fraud was committed in the last US elections due to postal voting.
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on Tuesday that the last US election was rigged due to postal voting.
“In the United States of America, the results of previous elections were distorted by postal voting…they bought ballots for $10, filled them out, and dropped them into mailboxes without any oversight from observers,” Putin said.
In the statements of the President of Russia published in the international media, it is not specifically mentioned which American election he is referring to; Despite this, Putin’s words are in line with the claim made by former US President Donald Trump about the November 2020 presidential election.
After the announcement of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump, who was the incumbent president of the United States at the time, began unprecedented efforts to prove election fraud and change the election result. Members of Trump’s campaign, his political allies, and many of his supporters supported these efforts.
Trump’s most controversial argument was that the result of the election was stolen from him due to malfunctions of voting machines and fraud in the voting process, especially postal voting.
He pressured the officials of the Ministry of Justice to challenge the election results and declare that the elections were rigged. However, the US Attorney General, the Director of National Intelligence, and the head of the US Cybersecurity Agency all denied Trump’s claims.
American media have also reported that after the election result was determined, Trump called Doug Ducey, the governor of Arizona, and tried to pressure him to change the result.
According to the Washington Post, Trump said that if enough fraudulent votes can be found, he can change the result in this state, which is in favor of Joe Biden by a small margin, in his favor.