Don Trump Explains What He Doesn't Want This November

We know one thing Don Trump doesn't want to happen this November. He explained it perfectly early this morning on Twitter.

A little before seven am he wrote, "Breaking: Michigan sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and General Election. 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 Voter Fraud path!"

A little over an hour later El Don hit the send button again. This time it read, "State of Nevada 'thinks' that they can send out illegal vote by mail ballots, creating a great Voter Fraud scenario for the State and the U.S. They can't! If they do, 'I think' I can hold up funds to the State. Sorry, but you must not cheat in elections."

Now where have we heard him sound like this before? Oh yeah, on the phone with Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky. As might be recalled the conversation was about holding up a rather large shipment of desperately needed arms unless Zelensky dug up some dirt on Joe Biden.

Hey, once a mob boss, always a mob boss, but why quibble over style at this late date.

There are a couple of questions one might ask The Big Orange Guy, in the wake of the first tweet. First, exactly who needed to authorize the Michigan mailing? The governor, a woman he apparently hates? Or, maybe Donald John Trump himself? After all he does consider his presence in the Oval Office grander than most of his predecessors and his boy, Stephen Miller, was once proud to say, "The President's authority will not be questioned."

Of course, never one for details in situations like these, Mr. Trump missed one important fact when it came to Michigan Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson's action. They weren't absentee ballots at all, simply applications for them.

Benson issued a statement saying, "By mailing applications, we have ensured that no Michigander has to choose between their health and their right to vote."

That certainly seems reasonable, since at this moment 92,333 Americans have died from the Coronavirus and the confirmed cases continue to rise. Besides, as the Biden campaign was quick to point out, Trump hasn't had a problem with absentee voting in the past. He mailed in one during the 2018 midterm elections, then again two months ago.

In addition every study made of voter fraud has indicated the problem--well--isn't a problem. It is just another republican bugaboo designed to make voter registration and participation more difficult for traditionally democratic leaning, let's say, demographics.

This unhealthy fixation on voting by mail, could be the real reason Trump and the GOP in general are attempting to let the U.S. Postal Service die on the vine funding wise. Let's face it, you can't mail in a ballot if there isn't a post office in town.

Or, on the darker side, Herr Trump's apparent hysteria over voter fraud could be part of a greater plan. He might be laying the groundwork to challenge the results of the November election if he loses. Indeed, it is easy to imagine him screaming, I told you they were going to steal it from us. I've been saying it all along. Millions of those mail in votes were fraudulent. Prove they weren't!

Yes, that's the ticket, buy some time. Tie up the whole process for months, first at the state level, then in front of every federal judge he has ever appointed. You know how that phone call from Miller will go: Jutice Kennedy, your President granted you a favor once, now it is time for you to repay that favor.

Why not? Trump might not know how to handle COVID-19, but he does know how to game the system. He's been doing it all his life. It is, in the end, his biggest talent, even more so than flat out lying.

We'll see, but given the President's obvious disdain for the law, it is something to keep in mind.


sic vita est


5-20-20