Trump huffs and puffs, but his campaign is built of strawmen

[Zorro]

Opinion by Dana Milbank

My head I'd be a-scratchin'
While my thoughts are busy hatchin'
If I only had a brain.
— The Scarecrow

President Trump’s man at the post office, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, gives perverse new meaning to the old U.S. Postal Service slogan: We deliver for you.

Thanks to some brilliant reporting by The Post’s Aaron C. Davis, Amy Gardner and Jon Swaine, we now know that DeJoy appeared to use his former business, the felicitously named New Breed Logistics, as an exotic animal in the pay-to-play jungle of political influence peddling. He allegedly left employees feeling pressured to give donations to political candidates, reimbursed them with bonuses, then used the influence he gained to secure favors and appointments for his wife and himself. Now, DeJoy is abusing his new office to help Trump’s campaign.

It’s up to authorities to decide whether DeJoy did something illegal at his former company but, from appearances, DeJoy seems to have been running a classic straw-donor operation. As Davis et al. described the practice, “Known as a straw-donor scheme, the practice allows donors to evade individual contribution limits and obscures the true source of money used to influence elections.”

Perfect! Of course Trump installed a guy allegedly versed in straw donations as his postmaster general. Now, DeJoy is contributing strawmen to a Trump reelection campaign that has all the heft of a house of straw. For it to work, Trump is counting on the electorate displaying a level of brainlessness not seen since Dorothy happened upon the Scarecrow.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/07/trump-huffs-puffs-his-campaign-is-built-strawmen/

[lagomorph777]

1. "counting on the electorate displaying a level of brainlessness not seen since Dorothy..."

Trump thinks everybody is as stupid as he is. Fortunately, he is very wrong. Only his 35% fecal base are as stupid as he is.