Anyone who gave the benefit of the doubt to Postmaster Louis DeJoy and his cost-cutting at the Postal Service has been proven to be a sucker. On Thursday, the President made it clear that he's deliberately hampering the mail to affect the November election.
The President is refusing to add to Post Office funding specifically to keep the USPS from being able to handle mail-in ballots.
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| Now you see it... One PO Box in our own neighborhood was removed this week. |
"[House Democrats] want $25 billion for the post office. Now, they need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots," Trump told Fox Business News' Maria Bartiromo. "Now in the meantime, they aren't getting there."
It's unclear why Trump has been fighting mail-in ballots to begin with. Many Republicans are older voters who already vote by mail. Democrats have called for expanded mail-in voting so that people who fear picking up COVID-19 won't have to go in person to the polls.
Trump has been claiming for months that mail-in voting creates the opportunity for rampant fraud, even though mail-in voting gets high marks for its reliability, and fraud has not been a big factor in U.S. national elections to date.
DeJoy's innovations at the post office have included juggling executives to put them in positions that some say do not suit their expertise, literally removing postal sorting machines from the premises of post offices, restricting the number of times in a day that postal workers can deliver mail, and refusing overtime for any reason.
Trump's machinations through Louis DeJoy show that the President has indeed found a way to create rampant fraud in mail-in balloting: Mess with the Postal Service.
How can Americans stop Trump from committing election fraud? Will Trump get away with what is clearly an illegal and corrupt act? Trump is harming a Federal Agency in an attempt to retain power - that is abuse of his office. How can Americans ensure that the vote is clean?
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