Putin Says 2020 Election Victory Was Stolen From Trump

Russian president Vladimir Putin has claimed that the 2020 US presidential election was “stolen” from Donald Trump.

He also said that if the outcome had been declared fairly, the Ukraine conflict might have been avoided. 

in an interview published on Friday by Russia 1 TV journalist Pavel Zarubin on Telegram, Putin said: “I cannot disagree with him that if he had been president, if his victory hadn’t been stolen in 2020, perhaps the crisis in Ukraine that arose in 2022 wouldn’t have happened”

Trump has long claimed that the conflict in Ukraine would not have happened under his watch, but this is the first time Putin suggested the same thing – while also repeating Trump’s claim that the 2020 US election was “stolen.”

RT reports: In 2023 Trump claimed to American radio host Hugh Hewitt that the Ukraine conflict would never have begun if the 2020 US elections hadn’t been “rigged” and Joe Biden hadn’t replaced him in there Oval Office. 

“[Putin] would have never done it if the election weren’t rigged, our election. It was rigged and stolen. If that election wasn’t rigged, if I were president, you would right now have millions of people living that are dead,” according to an interview transcript.

Trump has never admitted that he lost the 2020 election, despite courts failing to find evidence of widespread voter fraud. He eventually stepped down as president after a crowd of his supporters stormed the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, interrupting the certification of Biden’s victory.

The Democrats accused Trump of inciting the riot and impeached him in 2021. Trump has denied any wrongdoing, dismissing the accusations as a “witch hunt.”

He has consistently alleged the 2020 election was blighted by irregularities, and that he lost despite winning 10 million more votes than Biden.