For several weeks Donald Trump has been accelerating his disinformation campaign to delegitimize mail-in voting. Never mind that it has been in practice since the Civil War, is used extensively by members of the military, and millions of people have voted safely for decades with only extremely rare incidents of misuse.
Nevertheless, Trump is obsessed with what he is falsely maligning as a process rife with fraud. He has zero evidence to support that claim, but facts were never very high among his priorities. Instead, he simply tweets his flagrant lies hoping that repetition (such as this and this and this and this and this) will persuade the dimmest of his cult followers to buy into his fictional narrative. Take this one tweet for example:
Republicans should fight very hard when it comes to state wide mail-in voting. Democrats are clamoring for it. Tremendous potential for voter fraud, and for whatever reason, doesn’t work out well for Republicans. @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 8, 2020
Notice that Trump is focused solely on the partisan argument that Republicans need to oppose mail-in voting. Ironically, he’s admitting that greater access to the ballot box is detrimental to the GOP, which is actually true. That’s the real reason that Trump and his confederates are so worried about it. They know that they must suppress the vote in order to win.
However, that doesn’t stop Trump from taking advantage of mail-in voting when he determines that it’s in his interest to do so. Recent fundraising letters sent out by his campaign explicitly encouraged his supporters to request mail-in ballots and use them. “For the FIRST TIME EVER,” it reads, “every single eligible voter can now request a primary ballot and safely vote for President Trump from the comfort of their own home.” Well, is that special? It’s safe and so convenient and free of any potential for fraud. What’s more, Trump himself appealed to his glassy-eyed disciples to “Make sure you mail in those ballots before election day..”
More proof @realDonaldTrump is lying about voting by mail being insecure or fraudulent: not only does he vote by mail himself, he has encouraged his supporters to do so.
If it is good enough for them, it should be good enough for all Americans. pic.twitter.com/7gxr1zcKn5
— Let America Vote (@LetAmericaVote) May 28, 2020
So it’s clear that Trump is a flaming hypocrite on this issue. He wants his Klan to vote by mail, but is working furiously to prohibit it for everyone else. His ludicrous claims that Democrats favor it because they intend to cheat fall apart in light of these remarks.
Equally ludicrous are his shills on Fox News who back his lies. On Monday morning Brian Kilmeade of Fox and Friends suggested that Trump add the words “in my opinion” to avoid making his lies about election fraud controversial. Huh? How does that in any way change the fact that he’s fear mongering about election fraud with allegations he’s made up from thin air?
Brian Kilmeade suggests that Trump could try adding "in my opinion" to his voter fraud lies to avoid a Twitter fact check. pic.twitter.com/uXmJLPCrsb
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 29, 2020
This is typical of the right-wing effort to suppress the vote and prevent Americans from exercising their most precious right as citizens. It’s what Republicans have been trying to do for decades. They know that the majority of the American people support progressive principles, and if they vote the GOP (Greedy One Percent) will suffer the consequences of their unpopular, self-serving, elitist agenda. But Trump cannot pretend that he’s ideologically opposed to voting by mail after having been caught promoting it. And we the people cannot let him forget that.
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Trumpler & all his sycophants are like doomed souls re-arranging deck chairs on Titanic: no matter how much fear-mongering, gerrymandering or outright fraud they try to perpetrate, none of it will avoid the disaster in November. The nation is finally fed up & now very angry, the people see what lack of moral & political leadership leads to (chaos) & they will vote the swamp creatures out, despite all the barriers the GOP tries to erect. Trump’s faithful minorities (moronic rednecks & corrupt millionaires) will not be enough to save him or themselves.
The protests we currently have happening in the streets over the death of George Floyd are more than just the preventable death of George Floyd and out of control police and their brutality, it’s also protesting against the thin skinned don and his divisive rhetoric and pent up frustrations with COVID-19. We have a lot of people who are out of work and have a lot of free time on their hands and if they are able to get out, they will go the the nearest protest rally.