Trump Suggests He’s Blocking USPS Emergency Funds To Hamper Mail-In Voting | Talking Points Memo

Hey, at least he’s being honest about it.

In two separate instances on Wednesday and Thursday, the President admitted that depriving the U.S. Postal Service of COVID-19 relief funds would hamper widespread mail-in voting. The President has attacked voting by mail for weeks, and is growing increasingly explicit in his threats to sabotage it.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1325797

We’re gonna need more prosecutors to work under Attorney General Yates…

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talk about job creation

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It’s another Lester Holt moment. All that said, I don’t think any of this postal service stuff will have the intended effect.

  • Official election mail is still prioritized over other mail

  • Trump is actually dissuading GOPers from using VBM which will reduce the overall load and reduce the risk of delay.

  • Dems will send their ballots in early.

  • Younger, able bodied folks will vote in person.

The delays to prescriptions and checks etc are politically unsustainable.

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†Я☭mp® .

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Trump Welcomes Coronavirus as Tool to Disrupt Election

Something like that should be the top story on most news outlets today.

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Dear Susan Collins,
He seems to have learned his lesson since you “exonerated “ him. Well done! Good luck in your next job!
Love,
An informed electorate.
Xoxo

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They’re all in
Blatantly
This boys and girls , moms and dads is what happens when Fascism comes to your neighborhood
This is why Mitch and his band of criminals have to go
They have no interest in stopping Trump or in Democracy

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We are reaching an increasingly fearful point: The Trump administration and the GOP are no longer even making the attempt to pretend to ‘play fair’. The fact that they no longer feel the need to keep up pretenses is really frightening.

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If you’re not scared
you’re not paying attention

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Putin allows all the votes to be cast and simply lies about the results. Apparently slobotus doesn’t (yet) have the confidence in his goons to do the same.

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Suggests???

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He did not suggest it. He admitted that he is blocking any Covid-19 relief package that includes funding for the Post Office. He also admitted his rationale was to prevent mail-in voting -period end of subject. Time for a hearing. Subpoena the Postmaster General.

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This message makes it clear… The villain is within the [White] house!

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Simple: Christmas mail volume is huge. If USPS can handle Christmas volume in normal times, and this funding is to insure big volume can be handled, then Donald Trump wants to harm Christmas mail. Why does Donald Trump hate Christmas mail?

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It is time to arrest the Postmaster General.
Google delayed mail.
He is in violation of the Postal Code and needs to be removed.

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If this fuck-wit strews the floor of my polling place with broken glass, I will crawl over it to vote him out.

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Once again the Republican are guilty of projection. What they claim the Democrats do, the Republicans are actually doing.

The Republicans are “WAGING A WAR ON CHRISTMAS!”

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The CHEAT is on…

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I don’t care what it takes. I am voting even if this old lady has to don her mask and wait in line to do so. i’ll even volunteer as a poll worker if necessary. I only wish I lived in a state where I could vote out a Republican. VOTE BLUE

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