Putin shares the view that allowing voters to send in ballots by mail undermines the validity of elections, Trump has told a US private TV broadcaster.
"Vladimir Putin, smart guy, said you can't have an honest election with mail-in voting," Trump told Fox News Channel's "Hannity" after the two leaders met in Alaska. "He said there's not a country in the world that uses it now."
In fact, nearly 36 countries, including Germany, allow some form of postal vote, while Trump himself has voted by mail in some previous elections and urged his supporters to do so in 2024, when he won the White House again.