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Trump seeking end to mail-in voting on advice from Putin (no kidding)
Trump: "Vladimir Putin said something -- one of the most interesting things. He said, 'Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting,' " Trump told Hannity. "He said, 'Mail-in voting, every election -- no country has mail-in voting. It's impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.' And he said that to me because we talked about 2020. He said, 'You won that election by so much.' "
"[He said] it was a rigged election," Trump added. "You can't have a great democracy, republic...with mail-in voting."
Sven's post on the Fireworks Monday thread. Listen to what Fiona Hill had to say about mail-in voting in Russia.
"Here is an interview from Fiona Hill, the former senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council. Her view on Putin is spot on".
We are in the midst of an ongoing dissolution in this country. And everyone who voted for an Orange felon is complicit. Evil, (Congressional Repugnants) or just can't see past their own noses.
At this point, it is impossible for Trump voters to deny the truth. So, maybe, the voter themselves, if they still support what is going on, are, themselves, evil.
From Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American (dated Aug. 18):
Trump’s social media account this morning posted a long screed saying the president is “going to lead a movement to get rid of” mail-in ballots and voting machines, and lying that the U.S. is the only country that uses mail-in voting because it is rife with fraud. As usual, the post claimed that Democrats “CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE” and claimed they “are virtually Unelectable without using this completely disproven Mail-In SCAM.” The post said he would sign an executive order “to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.”
Then the post claimed that “the States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do.”
This is bonkers across the board. Dozens of countries use mail-in voting, and there is zero evidence of widespread voter fraud in the U.S. Just today, news broke that right-wing channel Newsmax will pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems for spreading false claims that the company’s voting technology had been rigged to give the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden.
Combining that sum with the $787 million Fox News paid for spreading the same lies means, as Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) wrote today, that media entities have paid out nearly $900 million “for publishing lies about the 2020 presidential election. Yet Donald Trump, who lost by more than seven million votes, keeps repeating the Big Lie and makes it compulsory dogma for his employees.”
Certainly, if Democratic leaders were so unelectable, the Republicans would not go to such lengths to rig district voting maps and keep Democratic voters from the polls. Indeed, while voter fraud is vanishingly rare, the Republicans are using the specter of it to engage in election fraud: manipulating the mechanics of an election to favor one side over another.
Well, if/when the courts rule against this absurd attempt to rewrite the Constitution his plan "B" is simply to have the National Guard from Republican states take over the justice system. He's rehearsing that type of move right now.
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"Here is an interview from Fiona Hill, the former senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council. Her view on Putin is spot on".
https://cbsnews.com/news/fiona-hill-face-the-nation-transcript-8-17-2025/
Is Dump that much of a patsy or is he just complicit (playing along)? Eh, even he can't be THAT stupid. Either way, we lose in the end.
Trump’s social media account this morning posted a long screed saying the president is “going to lead a movement to get rid of” mail-in ballots and voting machines, and lying that the U.S. is the only country that uses mail-in voting because it is rife with fraud. As usual, the post claimed that Democrats “CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE” and claimed they “are virtually Unelectable without using this completely disproven Mail-In SCAM.” The post said he would sign an executive order “to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.”
Then the post claimed that “the States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do.”
This is bonkers across the board. Dozens of countries use mail-in voting, and there is zero evidence of widespread voter fraud in the U.S. Just today, news broke that right-wing channel Newsmax will pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems for spreading false claims that the company’s voting technology had been rigged to give the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden.
Combining that sum with the $787 million Fox News paid for spreading the same lies means, as Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) wrote today, that media entities have paid out nearly $900 million “for publishing lies about the 2020 presidential election. Yet Donald Trump, who lost by more than seven million votes, keeps repeating the Big Lie and makes it compulsory dogma for his employees.”
Certainly, if Democratic leaders were so unelectable, the Republicans would not go to such lengths to rig district voting maps and keep Democratic voters from the polls. Indeed, while voter fraud is vanishingly rare, the Republicans are using the specter of it to engage in election fraud: manipulating the mechanics of an election to favor one side over another.