Trump Sabotages Aid Package Over USPS Funding [UPDATED]

It's been clear for months that malignant narcissist and corrupt autocrat Donald "Mango Mussolini" Trump is losing his grip on power, facing defeat in November. It's also been clear for months that, due to the pandemic, millions of voters will be using the U.S. Postal Service to mail in their ballots, and that is a direct threat to the cheater-in-chief. He's saying that he'll block funding for the Postal Service to handle the increase in ballots in order to rig the election in his favor, as he indicated this morning:

"Trump said Thursday he does not want to fund the U.S. Postal Service because Democrats are seeking to expand mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic, making explicit the reason he has declined to approve $25 billion in emergency funding for the cash-strapped agency.

'Now, they need that money in order to make the Post Office work, so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots,' Trump said in an interview on Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo. He added: 'If they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting, because they’re not equipped.'”

Negotiations between Sen. Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi and White (Supremacist) House representatives Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin have collapsed over the size of the aid package, despite Dems' willingness to reduce their top line by $1 trillion if the Trump regime will increase the package by $1 trillion. However, Trump sees the funding for the Postal Service as a mortal threat to his re-election:

"...Trump told reporters he would not approve the $25 billion in emergency funding for the Postal Service, or $3.5 billion in supplemental funding for election resources, citing prohibitively high costs. But he went further in remarks Thursday morning, blaming Democrats’ efforts to make it easier for Americans to vote amid the pandemic."

It's also worth noting that millions of people are relying on the Postal Service for everything from prescriptions to annuity checks, but Trump is typically focused only on himself. Both Meadows and Mnuchin had previously raised no objection to the funding for the Postal Service in their negotiations, a position favored by the Trump-appointed Postal Service board of directors.

Any pretense that Trump will spare no outrage to disrupt the election and tip it in his favor is long gone.

BONUS:  Keep in mind there are ways to foil Trump's plans.

UPDATE: VoteVets.org has this stinging ad that goes to how Trump's war on the Postal Service impacts veterans.



(Cartoon:  Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)