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Trump Moves Openly to Steal the E******n: Democrats Should Impeach Him Again
2020 E******ns | Donald Trump
by Amanda Marcotte | May 22, 2020 - 7:31am
— from Salon
Despite his off-the-charts narcissism, Donald Trump knows on some level that the majority of Americans don't want him to be president and he cannot win in a f**r e******n. He didn't beat Hillary Clinton in the popular v**e in 2016 — she got nearly 3 million more v**es — and only won because of the outsize influence of smaller, rural states in the E*******l College. He has only grown less popular since then and is now well behind former Vice President Joe Biden in most national polls, usually by a margin of 5 to 8 points.
But Trump has had a plan to win in 2020, ever since his re-e******n campaign kicked off the second he was inaugurated: C***t like crazy.
Trying to c***t in the p**********l e******n is, of course, what Trump was impeached for in December, which no doubt feels like ancient history, due to the rising death tolls and exploding unemployment rate over which our "very stable genius" of a president has presided since then. So here's a refresher: Trump, anticipating (apparently correctly) that Biden would be his Democratic opponent, leveraged the power of the State Department in an effort to blackmail the Ukrainian president into publicly backing right-wing conspiracy theories about Biden, threatening to withhold military aid unless Ukrainian officials announced "investigations" into Biden. The idea was to create the 2020 version of "Clinton's emails" by using phony investigations and innuendo to paint Biden as corrupt, even though there's no evidence Biden did anything corrupt in his dealings with Ukraine.
Impeachment did a lot to shut down that scheme (though I have no doubt they'll keep trying), but that doesn't mean Trump has given up the hope that he can rig some kind of victory, even in an e******n when strong majorities of Americans oppose him. Since shamelessness and callousness are among Trump's central qualities, he's perfectly happy to exploit the c****av***s crisis to do it. Yep, that same crisis that he made exponentially worse with his negligence and open hostility to science — now he wants to use it to deprive American v**ers of their chance to kick him out on his keister in November.
For obvious reasons, a numerous states have decided to dramatically increase the ability of v**ers to v**e by mail in November, especially after the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court forced in-person v****g in April, leading to a spike in c****av***s cases in the weeks afterwards. No one can assume that the v***s won't still be a threat this fall, and it's better to prepare now for the possibility that people won't be able to v**e in person in November.
But Trump is certain — and for good reason — that if more people get to v**e, he's likely to lose. So he's freaking out. He's particularly sweating the possibility that v**ers in swing states will be able to v**e by mail in large numbers, since he knows his best chance of winning those states lies in making sure that as few people v**e as possible.
"Breaking: Michigan sends absentee b****ts to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General E******n," Trump tweeted on Wednesday, in typical hyperventilating style. "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 V***r F***d path!"
He deleted and reposted the tweet later to reflect it was b****t applications that were sent, not b****ts themselves, but kept the more disturbing false claim that it's illegal to mail b****t applications to v**ers. He also threatened Nevada in similar fashion.
As Jack Holmes of Esquire pointed out, Trump is threatening two U.S. states in exactly the same way he threatened Ukraine: Claiming he will withhold funds authorized by Congress if the recipient doesn't help him c***t in the 2020 e******n. This is e******n f***d and blackmail, but this time directed at Americans.
Not only are these tweets an effort to blackmail the states, but they are also a direct effort to scare ordinary citizens out of v****g.
As political analyst Judd Legum pointed out in his newsletter, Popular Information, "Telling someone that an absentee b****t application they receive was sent to them 'illegally' could dissuade them from v****g."
Indeed, the tweets themselves are arguably v**er intimidation, since Trump is literally trying to scare people into thinking they may be prosecuted if they fill out an application for a mail-in b****t. V**er intimidation is a federal criminal offense that could lead to jail time — except that Trump is hiding behind "executive privilege," which has been used to argue against legal punishment for all his criminal behavior.
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This h**e-filled rant is so wrong on so many levels it isn't even worth the time & energy to try to refute it!