Friday, July 31, 2020

Trump Suggests Delaying Election To Avoid "A Great Embarrassment To The USA" (Claims Results Might Not Be Known Until "Years Later")


Here we go.

Donald Trump has brought up the possibility of postponing the November 3 election (something his own campaign laughed off as an incoherent conspiracy theory only two months ago).

Trump's (fake) reasons make no sense. He fears the results of an election with voting-by-mail will be delayed so he wants to delay the election until fewer people will vote by mail. In other words, he's suggesting doing the exact thing he doesn't want to happen. Obviously, his real reason is he is worried he will lose - and he wants to remain in power indefinitely.

Trump has tweeted numerous times about this issue. On July 30:
2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
Since dishonesty is Trump's default setting, in everything, that sound more like a promise than a warning.

Trump also claimed "votes from many weeks ago are missing" in New York State. "They have no idea what is going on. Rigged Election. I told you so."
"Mail-In Voting is already proving to be a catastrophic disaster. ... The Dems ... know that Mail-In Voting is an easy way for foreign countries to enter the race. Even beyond that, there's no accurate count!"

"Glad I was able to get the very dishonest LameStream Media to finally start talking about the RISKS to our Democracy from dangerous Universal Mail-In-Voting ..."

"Must know Election results on the night of the Election, not days, months, or even years later!"
Years later. What an dope.

Back in May, Jared Kushner, Trump's grifter son-in-law, told Time magazine that he wasn't certain whether the election would be held as scheduled in November. "I'm not sure I can commit one way or the other."

Trump said earlier this month that he believes expanded mail-in voting in many states "is going to rig the election" and he might not accept the results. Bill Barr, the US Attorney General, said he would leave office only if the election results were clear.

A senior administration official said Trump's comment about delaying the election was merely a suggestion, "simply raising a question".

Only Congress has the power to do anything about the election, but for some reason no reporter wants to remind Trump he has no power to alter the timetable of any election.
That's the 50th time Trump has mistakenly refers to the 1918 pandemic as happening in 1917.
Fun Fact: There were fewer than 130 million votes cast in 2016 (128,838,342).
10 Years Old is Being Kind
Update: 155,000 Dead
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