{"id":46539,"date":"2020-09-03T13:10:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T20:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46539"},"modified":"2020-09-03T13:10:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T20:10:30","slug":"throwback-trump-if-you-told-a-republican-to-vote-twice-theyd-get-sick-at-the-thought-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46539","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Trump: If You Told a Republican to Vote Twice They&#8217;d Get Sick at the Thought of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday Donald Trump&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46526\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">desperation and fear<\/a><\/strong> drove him to suborn felony voter fraud by telling his cult followers to vote twice this November. That would not only be a crime for anyone who tried it, it&#8217;s also a crime for Trump to make the solicitation. An honest Justice Department would indict him immediately, but the Justice Department of the Trump administration is nobody&#8217;s idea of honest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-grimmace-red.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Red Face\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42423\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Trump has had fluid opinions on this subject that change whenever he perceives the opposite opinion to be more to his benefit. Or maybe he&#8217;s just to cognitively challenged to recall his own views from one moment to the next. He <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1301528521026744322\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">doubled down<\/a><\/strong> on these felonious solicitations Thursday morning on Twitter. But last May he was interviewed by Senior Fox News Trump-Fluffer Maria Bartiromo and he told her that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The level of dishonesty with Democrat voting is unbelievable. If you told a Republican to vote twice, they&#8217;d get sick at even the thought of it. And you have people that vote numerous times. What&#8217;s happening is crazy. So now they want to send out vote-by-mail. Who knows who&#8217;s signing this stuff?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ParkerMolloy\/status\/1301540686521667585<\/p>\n<p>If what Trump said then was true, there are a lot of sick Republicans running around the country right now. Well &#8230; more than usual. And that isn&#8217;t even counting those with the coronavirus (which <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46387\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump thinks you can get from voting<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Due to the complicity of Trump&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46377\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">traitorous Attorney Genuflect, Bill Barr<\/a><\/strong>, and the Senate GOP, Trump appears to be getting away with his crimes again &#8211; for now. But the record is clear and will be preserved for the next attorney general to investigate and prosecute. As is often the case, Trump documents his criminality on national television. <em>\u201cLet them send it in and let them go vote,&#8221;<\/em> Trump said to the press. <em>&#8220;And if their system\u2019s as good as they say it is, then obviously they won\u2019t be able to vote. If it isn\u2019t tabulated, they\u2019ll be able to vote.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yeah, Donald Trump just called for his supporters to mail in their ballots and then to vote in-person. He&#39;s encouraging his supporters to commit voter fraud.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5a7lrzl6My\">pic.twitter.com\/5a7lrzl6My<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/briantylercohen\/status\/1301284245449576453?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s babbling about how mail-in votes would be tabulated before in-person voting is pure nonsense. In some states that process doesn&#8217;t even begin until after the polls close. Anyone who takes Trump&#8217;s advice will be in a heap of trouble. This isn&#8217;t a gray area. Both state and federal statutes unambiguously state that even attempting to vote twice is against the law. And every reputable law enforcement official will affirm that. For instance&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Karen Brinson Bell, Executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections:<\/strong> It is illegal to vote twice in an election &#8230; Attempting to vote twice in an election or soliciting someone to do so also is a violation of North Carolina law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Michigan Attorney General Nessel:<\/strong> Don\u2019t try this at home. I will prosecute you [&#8230;] Let me be perfectly clear: voting twice is illegal, no matter who tells you do to it. The president\u2019s idea is a great one for people looking to go to jail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Ellen L Weintraub, Federal Elections Commissioner:<\/strong> It is illegal in all 50 states and under federal law to vote twice. As any federal officeholder or law enforcement official should know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, any federal officeholder or law enforcement official other than Barr. In an interview with CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer, Barr staggered around awkwardly as he tried to avoid contradicting his boss. He trotted out diversions about the point he thought Trump was trying to make, and absurd claims about not knowing state laws. Eventually, Blitzer had to educate him:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I don&#39;t know what the law in the particular state says&quot; &#8212; Wolf Blitzer has to explain to the Attorney General of the United States that it&#39;s actually illegal to vote twice <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ytDfzZoZV6\">pic.twitter.com\/ytDfzZoZV6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1301299333938151424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump was right about one thing. This is <em>&#8220;crazy.&#8221;<\/em> It&#8217;s so crazy, in fact, that it should trigger an indictment and his immediate removal from office. Or at least the 25th Amendment and a straitjacket. Unfortunately, Trump&#8217;s GOP confederates are as crazy as he is and wouldn&#8217;t hear of it. So we&#8217;ll just have to wait until November (actually January 20) to rid the White House of this madness. If we survive that long.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday Donald Trump&#8217;s desperation and fear drove him to suborn felony voter fraud by telling his cult followers to vote twice this November. That would not only be a crime for anyone who tried it, it&#8217;s also a crime for Trump to make the solicitation. An honest Justice Department would indict him immediately, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[42,554,1140,33,1112,1220,1364,400],"class_list":["post-46539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-fox-news","tag-maria-bartiromo","tag-voter-fraud","tag-william-barr","tag-wolf-blitzer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-grimmace-red.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-c6D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51085,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51085","url_meta":{"origin":46539,"position":0},"title":"Trump Frantically Reminds Republicans Not to Vote if &#8216;SCAM&#8217; Election Fraud &#8216;Is Not Fixed&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/29\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Two weeks ago Donald Trump released a bizarre and self-defeating statement regarding the likelihood of his obsession with non-existent voter fraud hampering voter turnout among disgruntled Republicans. 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