{"id":45357,"date":"2020-05-20T13:20:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45357"},"modified":"2020-07-10T08:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:10:28","slug":"blackmail-trump-threatens-american-voters-in-scheme-to-suppress-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45357","title":{"rendered":"BLACKMAIL: Trump Threatens American Voters in Scheme to Suppress Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every recent national poll is showing Joe Biden with a significant lead over Donald Trump (for instance<\/a><\/strong>). Biden is even leading in most of the crucial swing states (Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Arizona, and Florida). That’s obviously bad news for Trump. However, the best indication that Trump is scared witless of losing the upcoming election is his frenzied and feeble attempts to prevent the American people from exercising their right to vote.<\/p>\n

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Trump knows that the more people who vote, the less likely it is that he – or his Republican confederates – will prevail in November. So his only option is to try to prevent voters from casting ballots. That’s a particularly complicated endeavor this year with the coronavirus making many people nervous about exposing themselves to infection at in-person polling sites. The obvious solution to that problem is to expand mail-in voting across the country.<\/p>\n

Consequently, Trump and the GOP (Greed and Oppression Party) are committed to prohibiting this safe and secure method of voting. They are bellowing about imaginary election fraud as the reason for their obstructionism. But, try as they may, they’ve been pitifully unable to make that case with any factual evidence to back up their wild claims. And in the absence of proof, Trump is now posting Twitter rants that are flagrantly untrue. Trump tweeted…<\/p>\n

Breaking<\/a>: Michigan sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election. This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path! [NOTE: Trump deleted this tweet and reposted<\/a> adding the word “applications” after “absentee ballot.”]<\/em><\/p>\n

State of Nevada<\/a> \u201cthinks\u201d that they can send out illegal vote by mail ballots, creating a great Voter Fraud scenario for the State and the U.S. They can\u2019t! If they do, \u201cI think\u201d I can hold up funds to the State. Sorry, but you must not cheat in elections. @RussVought45 @USTreasury<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, Trump is lying about absentee ballots being sent out. What has been sent is only applications for absentee ballots that voters can fill out and return. Trump is also lying about this being illegal. The states have every right to do this and to conduct their elections as they see fit. The federal government has no jurisdiction over this whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Worst of all is Trump’s brazen threat to withhold federal funds from states that choose to permit mail-in voting. That’s the same sort of blackmail that Trump tried to impose on Ukraine in order to get them to dig up dirt on Joe Biden. That’s what got him impeached. What’s more, Trump doesn’t even have any legal authority to withhold such funding. Congress would have to do it, and it’s a pretty safe bet that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t cooperate with Trump’s extortion plot. Also it is distinctly repulsive that Trump would even consider denying critical funds during a raging pandemic. That would only increase the suffering and the death toll.<\/p>\n

It’s notable that Trump’s threat was narrowly cast only at states with Democratic governors. That’s an observation that was made by the woman who Trump snidely referred to as Michigan’s “rogue Secretary of State.”<\/em> In response to his blatantly partisan tantrum, she tweeted…<\/p>\n

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Hi! ?? I also have a name, it\u2019s Jocelyn Benson. And we sent applications, not ballots. Just like my GOP colleagues in Iowa, Georgia, Nebraska and West Virginia. https:\/\/t.co\/kBsu4nHvOy<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jocelyn Benson (@JocelynBenson) May 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n