'Trump warns presidential election result may not be known for 'years,' as allegations grow he's undermining the USPS to rig the election

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• On Saturday, President Donald Trump suggested that knowing the result of the presidential election could take "years" as he continued to sow doubts about mail-in voting. 
• "You know what? You're not going to know this — possibly if you really did it right — for months or for years," said Trump at a press briefing in Bedminster, New Jersey. 
• Democrats have accused Trump of seeking to stitch-up the election by refusing to provide funding for the USPS to cope with an expected surge in mail-in votes. 
• The president claims mail-in voting is exposed to widespread fraud, a claim dismissed by many election officials and experts. 
• Trump currently trails the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in the polls. 
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President Donald Trump, in remarks to reporters, said that knowing the result of this year's presidential election could take "months" or "years," as he continued to cast doubt on mail-in votes ahead of an expected surge in the number of Americans casting their ballot by post.

"Usually at the end of the evening, they say 'Donald Trump has won the election, Donald Trump is your new president,'" Trump said during the remarks at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey.

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• Barack Obama accuses Trump of attempting to 'actively kneecap' the US Postal Service to suppress mail-in votes
• Donald and Melania Trump requested mail-in ballots for elections in Florida, despite Trump's insistence the system is rigged
• Trump says the USPS is too poorly funded to handle mail-in voting — while opposing additional funding for it

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