White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany dodged Wednesday when asked what, exactly, was illegal about Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson sending out absentee voting applications to all registered voters in the state, after President Trump went after the state official on Twitter earlier in the day.
It was a threat pure and simple. AND if carried out illegal. The ACTUAL problem is the morons with guns who think it’s A-OK to storm the capital. I mean what could go wrong??? And what would the WH say THEN???
I have been voting by mail for 20 years. I can check to see if the county has received my ballot and whether it has been counted and if I have a question we can always look at the paper ballots. Hard to see any problem with the system unless 'donnie 'shortfingers shuts down the PO.
“There is evidence!” is like overhearing “is too!” in a preschool playground (EDIT: I guess there is evidence…Republicans commit voter fraud quite a bit)
(Back when we could have preschoolers in a playground…thanks Trump)
During the impeachment of President Trump, an expert witness called by Democrats floated a theoretical scenario involving the president threatening a state hammered by a natural disaster, to illustrate the corruption of Trump’s shakedown of Ukraine.
What would we think if Trump dangled federal disaster aid as leverage to force a governor to do his political bidding, asked Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan, adding: “Wouldn’t you know in your gut that the president had abused his office? That he betrayed the national interest?”
Somebody told Trump he’d lose the election if there was too much voting by mail. It’s not about fraud. It’s not about tradition. It’s about losing the election or, more importantly, building a great big steaming pile of excuses for why he lost the election, once he loses it. He will use that big steaming pile to fund raise off of (which I genuinely believe was his real plan in the last election, foiled by under-estimating Putin’s power over Facebook, etc.)