President Donald Trump made an unexpected pivot earlier this week after his diplomatic outreach and foreign policy meetings to attempt to end the Russia-Ukraine war. Amid talks of ceasefires, sanctions, tariffs, and other war resolution possibilities, the president brought up the topic of mail-in voting, claiming it was a fraudulent voting method and should be banned. An interesting tidbit is that Trump’s inspiration for this was a direct result of his diplomacy efforts, as, apparently, Russian President Vladimir Putin was the source of the renewed disdain toward mail-in voting.

“You know, Vladimir Putin said something — one of the most interesting things,” the president explained to Fox News host Sean Hannity. He said, ‘Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting.’ He said, ‘It’s impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.”