Donald Trump has launched his latest attack on America’s elections, vowing to sign an executive order to end what he referred to as the “corrupt” practice of mail-in voting.
“You can never have a real democracy with mail-in ballots,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday. Earlier in the day, the president also falsely stated on social media that the United States was “the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting.”
Following those remarks, Nicolle Wallace offered a fact-check of Trump’s baseless claims about U.S. elections. After Wallace played a short clip of Trump’s comments, she told viewers, “We’re going to just cut it right there, because all of that is completely false,” noting that the “United States is one of many countries that uses mail-in voting, including Canada, the U.K., Germany, Australia and Switzerland.”
The “Deadline: White House” host also pointed out that the president himself has voted by mail in past elections.
Wallace also took issue with Trump’s repeated false claims about widespread voter fraud in U.S. elections, which she said he had “zero evidence” to back up. Wallace rebuked Trump for spending time during a “high-stakes diplomacy” meeting talking about “one of his longest-standing and most dangerous, unfounded delusions that he didn’t actually lose the 2020 presidential election.”
But Wallace didn’t stop there, pointing out a major hole in the president’s plan to end mail-in voting by executive order.
“Another fact-check,” she continued, “Trump literally does not have the power to do any of this. According to the Constitution, the power to set the ‘Times, places and manner’ of elections lies with the states, and only Congress has the ability to override state laws on voting.”
You can watch Wallace’s fact-check in the clip at the top of the page.