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“He’s losing. He knows it. And in his mortal terror, the only place where he can still muster bravado is Twitter.”
Trump’s hamfisted attempt to sabotage the Postal Service may be the worst self-inflicted wound of his flailing campaign
Trump’s malignant narcissism makes it difficult for him to understand that things impact other people. It’s a trait that makes him uniquely unqualified to govern, and is presently leading him down a potentially disastrous path with his clumsy scheme to undermine the Postal Service in order to make it unable to handle a surge in absentee ballots. We can’t know what’s going on in Trump’s head, but it seems likely that he simply does not understand that he can’t sabotage the Postal Service’s ability to deliver ballots in a timely manner–and stick it to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in retaliation for The Washington Post’s reporting–without also screwing over active service-members, rural communities, people waiting for their Social Security checks and medications, etc.
Trump’s committing this crime with with his trademark subtlety. He installed a wingnut Republican donor and party activist who holds investments in companies that compete with the USPS as Postmaster General. That donor, Louis DeJoy , has overseen new measures to limit overtime, removed hundreds of mail sorting machines from processing centers, cut Post Office hours and pulled up mailboxes in various states. And this has become one of the rare stories of Trump’s corruption that’s getting sustained attention from the press.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tr...iling-campaign/?utm_source=push_notifications
Yep, it's starting to look like Trump's war against the United States Postal Service has blown up in his face.
Trump officials could face criminal charges for USPS sabotage — and the president may not be able to pardon them
Members of the Trump administration could face legal jeopardy over efforts to sabotage U.S. Postal Service operations to interfere with the 2020 presidential elections.
“Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) made a criminal referral to the New Jersey Attorney General on Friday night, asking him to impanel a grand jury to look at possible breach of state election laws by President Trump, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and others for ‘their accelerating arson of the post office,’ he said. Alarming headlines have emerged in recent days as many states prepare to facilitate widespread mail balloting due to the coronavirus pandemic. President Trump openly admitted he was withholding federal aid from the postal service to prevent mail-in voting, and USPS has notified 46 states and D.C. that it will struggle to deliver some mail ballots on time,” The Daily Beast reported Friday.
If DeJoy or others were charged in New Jersey for state crimes, Trump could not pardon them as his power only applies to federal crimes.
And New Jersey isn’t the only state investigating the possible violations of the law.
In Arizona, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs on Friday wrote a letter to state Attorney General Mark Brnovich, asking him to investigate whether crimes have been committed.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tr...the-president-may-not-be-able-to-pardon-them/
Two dozen former Republican lawmakers come out against Trump on first day of GOP convention
Two dozen former Republican lawmakers on Monday came out to endorse Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on the first day of the 2020 Republican National Convention.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tw...gop-convention/?utm_source=push_notifications
‘Trump is scared’ and ‘literally does not appear to understand’ what is going on around him: White House reporter
White House correspondent Brian Karem says that President Trump is losing the “strength and vigor” that carried him to an election win in 2016, especially in the wake of recently being “eviscerated” by Chris Wallace of Fox News and Jonathan Swan of Axios.
The interviews “not only exposed how unprepared Trump is for the long-interview format, but how unfamiliar and unrelatable he remains to facts,” Karem writes. “He literally does not appear to understand them.”
There was a time when a blusterous Trump would pick fights with reporters, but now he can “barely muster the get-up-and-go to turn the page on the briefing notes that he pretty obviously hasn’t looked at before lumbering to the podium,” Karem writes.
What happened? According to Karem, Trump is scared.
“He’s losing. He knows it. And in his mortal terror, the only place where he can still muster bravado is Twitter.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tr...house-reporter/?utm_source=push_notifications
And then there's this
‘A total wipeout’: Former senior Trump officials see no path to victory in November
According to a report at Politico, former officials who held senior positions in Donald Trump’s White House are privately — and not so privately — stating that they don’t see him winning re-election in November, with one going so far as to say the president may be facing a “total wipeout.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/a-...officials-see-no-path-to-victory-in-november/
Trump allies worry re-election campaign is low on cash as advertising pulled in key states: report
“The Trump campaign is expected to increase television spending next week, but several Republicans said that Bill Stepien, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager since July, was taking a cautious approach after the former leadership spent huge sums on television and digital ads earlier this year, to no discernible effect,” the report states. “The light television spending and advertising blackouts in some key states have mystified allies, raising questions about how much cash the campaign has in the bank.”
Adding to Trump’s woes is his inability to reach voters outside of his base with the Times reporting, “Mr. Trump’s campaign advisers maintain that their private surveys are more encouraging than public polling. But while Mr. Trump’s swerve toward a strident law-and-order message has helped him consolidate conservative support, his rhetoric about rioting in a handful of cities does not appear to have swayed moderates, strategists in both parties said.”
“Allies of Mr. Trump believe there is virtually no chance that he can win the popular vote, and they have seen some states on his victorious 2016 map shift markedly away from them. They are particularly pessimistic about Michigan, which Mr. Trump narrowly won four years ago, and are looking to flip Nevada, which has many white voters without college degrees, and especially Minnesota, the state he lost by the closest margin four years ago and the site of weeks of unrest following the police killing of George Floyd,” the Times notes.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/tr...h-as-advertising-pulled-in-key-states-report/
What this article fails to mention is that Trump has stolen millions from his re-election campaign and used it for his own personal legal expenses.
Trump is a criminal with lots and lots of sexual harassment, sexual assault and corruption scandals surrounding him. He's taken almost $60 million from election campaign funds and spent it on lawyers to try and keep his ass out of prison.
What this article fails to mention is that Trump has stolen millions from his re-election campaign and used it for his own personal legal expenses.
Trump is a criminal with lots and lots of sexual harassment, sexual assault and corruption scandals surrounding him. He's taken almost $60 million from election campaign funds and spent it on lawyers to try and keep his ass out of prison.