So why did the President of the United States do that?
Donald Trump, with the camera rolling, in broad daylight, as the good people of North Carolina suggested voting twice?
He is well aware that this leads to media freakouts, and journalists and pundits stand in solidarity and condemn it for promoting such a blatant illegal act.
And that was a definite issue.
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If Trump had just issued his 130th warning about mail ballot fraud, it wouldn’t have given much news, just one paragraph of a story. But he knows from long experience that when he crosses the line, goes to the top, the resulting upheaval can last for many weeks to even a week, confusing the media and the political world about the very issue he wants to clarify.
If it takes heat, if it has to be backtracked, be it. That still means front-page stories about too many cable segments and the potential for mail fraud, say, one thousand Americans die every day from Covid-19.
I no longer defend the aggressive suggestion that Americans somehow test the system by voting twice. (Or why stop there, maybe five times.) I don’t think Trump is serious. His established way of saying questionable things to further the broader narrative, in some cases privately admitting that he is changing the subject from some other controversy. He is trolling the press.
Here are the exact words of John Evans, president of the North Carolina WECT:
“Well, they will go out and they will vote, and by going to the polls and voting that way they will have to check their vote, because if they keep the tablet, they will not be able to do that. So, send them to them and let them vote, and if the system is as good as it says it is, obviously they won’t be able to vote. If it’s not a tablet, they’ll be able to vote so it’s this way. And this is what they should do. “
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I haven’t found anyone on Fox News defending this maneuver. In fact, when Sandra Smith pressed Kay Lei Sand Sand to explain why Trump made this comment, the press secretary said he was not instructing people to do anything illegal, but to make sure they had a mail ballot tablet – and if not, So vote. “He wants verification,” he said.
The second round, as these items were spread in cablewars, while Bill Bar appeared on CNN.
When Wolf Blitzer said it seemed like “Trump encourages people to break the law and vote twice,” the attorney general replied: “Well, I don’t know exactly, but I think that’s what I think.” It’s trying to figure out if the system’s ability to monitor is good. “
When Wolfe pressed again, Bair said he didn’t know the law in a particular state, but the whole mail-ballet system was like “playing with fire.”
That composition – that Bar doesn’t know the specifications but why Trump is on the big issue here is the AG used more than once in CNN interviews. (He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture and that his confession had been obtained through torture, but that his confession had been obtained through torture.
CNN And MSNBC. But the fresh wave of attacks on bars by pundits is giving the story a leg up.
Trump knows how to push the media buttons. In a memo leaked to the New York Post, he ordered federal agencies to cut funding to cities such as New York, Washington, Portland and Seattle, which could “corrupt themselves in the legal field.” This led to an unusually harsh response from Andrew Cuomo, who said that Trump would need an “army” to protect him if he wanted to walk the streets of New York City.
Now I don’t believe this will end up feeding the aid provided, as previously threatened by Trump, the administration will not reduce aid to schools that reopen on a physical basis. But vowing to retaliate against the perpetrators of urban violence is another way for him to look strong.
In the meantime, anyone who has followed Trump’s instructions to vote more than once does so at their own risk.
