Trump calls mail-in voting ‘cheating’ after casting mail ballot over weekend

President called practice ‘mail-in cheating’ at Monday event after voting in Florida House race via mail on Saturday

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Donald Trump has described voting by mail as “cheating” at an event in Memphis, Tennessee, just two days after casting a mail‑in ballot himself.

“Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all,” the US president said on Monday, in remarks to a roundtable on his administration’s crime taskforce.