"Smart Guy": Trump Says Putin Agrees With Him On Not Having Mail-In Voting

US President Donald Trump said on Friday his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agrees with him that letting voters send in ballots by mail puts honest elections at risk.

Bilateral meetings between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterparts were a regular occurrence early in his 25-year tenure.

When US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Helsinki in 2018, the pair alarmed allies with a friendly encounter where Trump sided with the Russian leader over his own intelligence agencies on election interference.

President Donald Trump's repeated threats to impose his will on Washington has brought its unique status back into the spotlight.

US President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Vice President JD Vance is "most likely" to secure the Republican party nomination for president in 2028.

Donald Trump is pulling hard on the levers of power to strengthen Republicans through redistricting in Texas and other states, the latest offensive in escalating moves by both sides to shape the battlefield of US democracy for the midterm elections.

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Vice President JD Vance is "most likely" his heir apparent to serve as the Republican nominee in 2028, the furthest he has gone in backing Vance as a future presidential candidate.

The test is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2028 and will be known as FTI-X, short for Flight Test Integrated.

Billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Yass along with crypto industry donors helped President Donald Trump raise $236 million for his political operation in the first six months of 2025 - an unprecedented sum for a second-term president.

A former CIA official who led the intelligence assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election has slammed Tulsi Gabbard's claims of a "treasonous conspiracy" against Donald Trump, calling them false and uninformed.