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The article says: > Trump said on 13 August that he opposes providing additional funding to the USPS to make it more difficult to deliver mail-in ballots. Tha

The article says: > Trump said on 13 August that he opposes providing additional funding to the USPS to make it more difficult to deliver mail-in ballots. That comment links to another article, where the first paragraph states: > Donald Trump admitted on Thursday he opposed additional funding for the United States Postal Service (USPS) in order to make it more difficult to deliver mail-in ballots. I searched Google and YouTube but can't find the original source, only commentary on it. Does anyone have a link? Edit: Maybe it's referring to https://youtu.be/0ieLG29X_oE?t=840 https://youtu.be/0ieLG29X_oE?t=840. I don't know much about the facts here, but Trump seems to be asserting that Congress is bundling $15–25B in USPS funding in a mega-bill that includes trillions of dollars of bailout money for states, and thus the bill has stalled. He also keeps harping on the failures of mail-in voting (but says absentee works well). I don't know what to make of it, but it's certainly frustrating that multiple news orgs are claiming that Trump is intentionally hamstringing the USPS to harm democracy, when I don't take away any such conclusion from that shitshow of an interview.

vzqx 6y ago
The source is this Fox News interview: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-seeks-to-starve-post-office-to-limit-mail-in-voting https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-seeks-to-starve-post-... No timestamp because I couldn't bring myself to listen to all 40 minutes.
- BrandonM 6y ago
  Thank you. Yeah, these interviews are painful to listen to. Trump said: > [Democrat representatives] want $3½ billion for the mail-in votes, universal mail-in ballots. They want $25 billion for the post office. They need that money in order to have the post office work so that it can take these millions and millions of ballots. Now those are just two items [in the bill]; if they don't get there, they can't have mail-in ballots. [A bunch of rambling about failures of mail-in ballots in VA, NJ, etc.] He seemed to me to be saying that if the Democrats want mail-in ballots, they're going to have to find a way to get this bill passed that would give more funding to the post office. Trump emphasized repeatedly that they're asking for $3.5 billion dollars ("that's a lot of money") for the mail-in ballots.

vzqx 6y ago

The source is this Fox News interview: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-seeks-to-starve-post-office-to-limit-mail-in-voting https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-seeks-to-starve-post-... No timestamp because I couldn't bring myself to listen to all 40 minutes.

BrandonM 6y ago
Thank you. Yeah, these interviews are painful to listen to. Trump said: > [Democrat representatives] want $3½ billion for the mail-in votes, universal mail-in ballots. They want $25 billion for the post office. They need that money in order to have the post office work so that it can take these millions and millions of ballots. Now those are just two items [in the bill]; if they don't get there, they can't have mail-in ballots. [A bunch of rambling about failures of mail-in ballots in VA, NJ, etc.] He seemed to me to be saying that if the Democrats want mail-in ballots, they're going to have to find a way to get this bill passed that would give more funding to the post office. Trump emphasized repeatedly that they're asking for $3.5 billion dollars ("that's a lot of money") for the mail-in ballots.