Biden Camp: Trump Sabotaging USPS Is Desperate Man's 'Assault On Democracy'
Source: Talking Points Memo
President Donald Trump suggested on Thursday that he was intentionally blocking additional funding for the US Postal Service in an effort to disrupt attempts to expand mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic — an effort that the Biden campaign has called a desperate man’s “assault on democracy.”
Biden campaign rapid response director Andrew Bates told TPM in a statement that Trump’s effort to deny a Democratic proposal for additional funding for the USPS amounted to a selfish move to deprive Americans of their fundamental right to vote safely.
“Even Donald Trump’s own campaign has endorsed voting by mail, and his own administration has conclusively refuted his wild-eyed conspiracy theories about the most secure form of voting,” Bates said in the statement. “This is an assault on our democracy and economy by a desperate man who’s terrified that the American people will force him to confront what he’s done everything in his power to escape for months — responsibility for his own actions.”
Trump suggested as much during a White House press conference Wednesday, implying that perhaps without the additional funding, his woes about vote-by-mail, which he is convinced will hurt him in November, will just disappear.
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trump?!
Thank you for enlightening.
As I recall, many Dems, including Pelosi worked on the impeachment during the recess in 2019
But then again, I'm not bending over backwards to ignore what doesn't fit a narrative that veteran, accomplished, effective Democratic leaders are uninterested or unable to do anything but "writing strongly worded letters." From what I hear from many of these people is that getting into angry, strongly worded arguments with fact checkers is what real movers and shakers do. Rage seems to be the thing that distinguishes the "real" leaders from those who AREN'T DOING ANYTHING.
And she certainly was doing a lot more than watching movies and getting facials when she was in San Francisco this spring, which is all some people seem to think she's capable of accomplishing outside of DC:
Live From Her Kitchen, Pelosi Works to Counter Trump’s Coronavirus Show
Over the past three weeks, the speaker has sat for 25 television interviews, up from her typical one or two a month. On Monday, she told the “Late Late Show” host James Corden that Mr. Trump was “in denial” and called his push to swiftly reopen the country “really scary.” On Tuesday, she issued a blistering letter calling Mr. Trump an incompetent liar who had caused “unnecessary deaths and economic disaster,” and went on MSNBC to talk about it. On Wednesday, she appeared on CNN, calling Mr. Trump’s move to put his name on government stimulus checks “shameful.”
Live From Her Kitchen, Pelosi Works to Counter Trump’s Coronavirus Show
But unless "her ass" is in DC, she's "on vacations' and "refusing to fight fascism," according to some who want to blame her for not making Trump stop, like she's some fairy godmother or has some magic beans or something and not the Speaker of the House that's subject to the constitutional balance of power.
Looks like some people need a scapegoat for their overwhelming emotional anxiety in response to how what is going on in the WH is affecting them PERSONALLY, something many white straight men are very privileged to be unfamiliar with, until now.
They are very used to things working to their benefit, and in a familiar way to them. Now things are disturbingly not resolving in a satisfactory way, they are convinced that those who are supposed to be working in their interests are INCOMPETENT or JUST DON'T CARE that THIS IS AFFECTING ME PERSONALLY NOW, and this is UNACCEPTABLE.
The manager is clearly slacking off.
Link to tweet
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg878.pdf
And before you decide to post Don Winslow's tweet as an OP, he is a fiction writer - who apparently didn't research this before authoring this rant about Pelosi. Fiction is the only place where Barr would fail to protect anyone in Trump's administration Trump orders him to from legal prosecution, or from serving time for a conviction even when they pleaded guilty - Twice.
Yeah, sure Madame Speaker can subpoena, and then press charges for non-compliance but they have to refer prosecution to.... U.S. Attorney General Barr. The thing is, she knows her shit, so she knows it would be an utter fools errand to subpoena with the intent to arrest for non-compliance, despite the numerous armchair quarterbacks out there who are foaming at the mouth at her with such rage that they don't comprehend - and apparently won't listen when told - that they have not clue one as to the rules of the game. WHY IS THE COACH LETTING THEM LEAVE THE FIELD HALFWAY THROUGH THE GAME??? WHY THE HELL HAVE THEY QUIT? FIRE THAT COACH!!!!!
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45653
