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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

At home and abroad US policy chaos has one constant: Trump’s self-interest

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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin pose for photos during a US-Russia summit on Ukraine in Anchorage, Alaska, on 15 August. Photograph: Gavriil Grigorov/AFP/Getty Images

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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