Admits to his scheme to slow or stop USPS service
(Supports his fraud claims and way to win)
Trump intentionally slowing mail delivery to aid his
reelection bid by hampering mail-in ballot processing.
This is my introduction
to the post that follows:
The new American heroes during this horrible pandemic are all
the medical personnel. The next new heroes will be the Postal Workers who hopefully
will demand that they be allowed to do their jobs and that is: To deliver all
the mail no matter what in a timely, safe, and secure manner that they have for
over 200 years.
The only villain in both cases is the same and it’s not the
virus or a lack of postal workers – it’s: Donald J. Trump.
Trump
today (CNBC)
(August 13) in his own words and on live TV – astonishing news and a full
confession on his part – to purposely slow the mail and cause delay in mail-in
voting which will greatly increase in the troubling time and people elect to
vote by mail and no in person for their health concerns – he said:
§ Negotiations for additional
coronavirus relief funding are at an impasse “…because Democrats want to give billions of dollars to support the USPS
and mail-in voting.”
§ “If
we don’t make a deal, that means they don’t get the money that means they can’t
have universal mail-in voting. They just can’t have it.”
§ Democrats worry that a slew of recent
operational changes made by the new postmaster general, * Louis DeJoy (GOP and
Trump campaign donor) will affect the 2020 election.
* Critical News: DeJoy & his wife have investments between $30
million and $75 million in private mail contractors.
Thus at this rate, he gets USPS
downgraded to nothing, gets private mail haulers to take over (also a long-time
GOP goal), and bingo: He becomes an instant billionaire.
This single piece of
official financial news may be cause for his immediate removal from office
Specifically Trump said that negotiations for new coronavirus
relief funding are at an impasse in large part because Democrats want to give
billions of dollars to support the USPS and mail-in voting efforts.
Trump then called into Fox Business
Report and said: “They need that money in order to have the
Post Office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. But
if they don’t get those two items that means you can’t have universal mail-in
voting, because they’re not equipped to have it. If we don’t make a deal, that
means they don’t get the money, and that means they can’t have universal
mail-in voting. They just can’t have it. Sort of a crazy thing. Very
interesting.”
I insert: Crazy and interesting that is full public
confession and coming from Trump at this moment in history is truly astonishing
but that’s his M.O. = duck, dodge, deceive, deflect, delay, and deny.
Trump had
been asked what specifically was causing a breakdown in communication between
the White House and Democrats on Capitol Hill. He has repeatedly has claimed
that the 2020 election will be “rigged
and rife with fraud if an expected surge of mail-in ballots is allowed to
take place.”
Trump’s
most-recent comments suggest that he believes he can quash expanded mail-in
voting plans and the Postal Service’s ability to accommodate them if he refuses
to agree to fund those efforts.
Democrats worry that a slew of recent operational
changes made by DeJoy – a major donor to the GOP and to Trump 2020 committees, could
harm the integrity of the election.
Additionally,
many members of both parties have called on DeJoy, to
reverse his sweeping changes, which have been blamed by mail workers’
advocates for widespread mail delays.
For example, Mark Dimondstein,
president of the American Postal Workers Union said in an interview with CNBC: “We’re
getting complaints across the board of a slowdown in mail deliveries. Anything
that slows down the mail is the opposite of what the people in this country
want and deserve.”
Democrats,
as part of their $3 trillion Covid-19 relief proposal, want to include a $25
billion infusion for the Post Office, which has hemorrhaged
billions of dollars during this pandemic.
Their stimulus
package also included $3.6 billion for election funding, which House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said is partly to ensure there are enough polling places
and that they are spaced out and open long enough to mitigate the spread of the
virus and she added: “It’s a health issue. You shouldn’t have to choose between
your health and the ability to cast your vote. The president is undermining the
health of our democracy by refusing to put up money for absentee voting or the
Postal Service.”
She concluded that talks between Democratic leaders and the
White House have broken off, as the two sides remain miles
apart on a deal for more relief funding.
As for
Trump, his remarks to Fox Business expanded on his prior claims that mail-in
voting is impossible if he doesn’t approve the funding saying dramatically: “They’re
admitting that they want $3.5 billion, and they’re not going to do a deal
that’s good for the American people. Therefore, they’re not going to get the
$3.5 billion. Therefore, they can’t do the universal mail-in vote. It’s very
simple. How are they going to do it if they don’t have the money to do it?”
(All
part of his August 12 remarks during his House press briefing).
My 2 cents: As I said we need heroes in this horrible
time – the medical personal were those heroes from day-one and now the postal
works may step forward to be our new heroes. Hopefully they will.
Plus, now based on the news of DeJoy’s private mail
delivery investments if proven true (cite above), Congress must move swiftly to stop DeJoy’s
rules and if possible take this directly to the Supreme Court, and have him
removed from office ASAP.
This issue is a matter of national security and a
blatant constitutional crisis issue: A direct violation and infringement on the
people’s right to vote.
Time is running out on this slick Trump plan: That is
to delay and call the election a fraud without mentioning that he is the guilty
culprit.
Thanks for stopping by.
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