Posted on 07/31/2020 4:39:52 AM PDT by sevinufnine
President Donald Trump doubled down on his threat to delay November's election, citing concerns mail-in voting could lead to a rigged and crooked result as one of the Republican Party's most prominent conservative members said Trump should be impeached over the matter.
Trump, in a brief news conference at the White House on Thursday evening, said he didn't want to see the election delayed but also argued he didn't want to see mail-in ballots go missing, indicating his opposition to mail-in voting remains an issue in regards to the general election. 'We're asking for a lot of trouble,' Trump said. 'Do I want to see a date change? No. But I don't want to see a crooked election. This election will be the most rigged election in history.'
More and more states are looking at mail-in voting options as a way to counter the coronavirus pandemic but Republicans believe that favors voting blocs that vote Democrats and are suing several states to stop the process.
'I don't want to delay,' Trump added. 'I want to have the election. But I also don't want to have to wait three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything. That what's going to happen. And everyone knows it,' he added. 'Smart people know. Stupid people may not know it. Some people don't want to talk about it. But they know it.'
Meanwhile, prominent conservative Steven Calabresi co-founder of the Federalist Society, said Trump's tweet on Thursday morning calling for an election delay was ground for impeachment. 'This latest tweet is fascistic and is itself grounds for the president's immediate impeachment again by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate,' Calabresi wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
'Glad I was able to get the very dishonest LameStream Media to finally start talking about the RISKS to our Democracy from dangerous Universal Mail-In-Voting (not Absentee Voting, which I totally support!),' he tweeted before his news conference.
Presidents have no power to change the date of the election. That must be done through an act of Congress. And Republican senators, including several Trump allies, were quick to say it wasn't going happen.
Uh no, a question is not grounds for impeachment.
What’s with Calabresi? He goes running to the NYT over an off-the-cuff Tweet? Certainly he knows that POTUS is powerless to move an election.
Calabresi is a Top Conservative now, eh? I never even heard the name before.
What I plan on doing....
“Uh no, a question is not grounds for impeachment.”
You do realize that doesn’t matter to the never Trumpers? LOL. If Trump broke wind during a press conference, I’m sure that would be enough for them to declare grounds for impeachment as well!
"We're asking for a lot of trouble," Trump said."'Do I want to see a date change? No."But how many people will not read beyond the headline and think that President Trump actually wants to delay the election?"I don't want to delay," Trump added. "I want to have the election. But I also don't want to have to wait three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything. That what's going to happen."
"Glad I was able to get the very dishonest LameStream Media to finally start talking about the RISKS to our Democracy from dangerous Universal Mail-In-Voting (not Absentee Voting, which I totally support!)," he tweeted before his news conference.
"prominent conservative Steven Calabresi"
???
Never heard the name till now.
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but Republicans believe that favors voting blocs that vote Democrats...”
That’s putting it so mildly as to mislead.
“But how many people will not read beyond the headline and think that President Trump actually wants to delay the election?”
Answer: every liberal
Calabresi is a Top Conservative now, eh? I never even heard the name before.
Leftists have suddenly become huge fans of the Federalist Society. Once again POTUS does something that would have seemed impossible a few years ago.
Exposed another traitor is all. Trump did this on purpose. He admitted it.
This clown helps explain the weak Federalist Society judge lists that produced the mediocre Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
Good old Emily Goodin from the Daily Mail and their sensational headlines. Rinse and Repeat.
I see it this way. They couldn’t bring Trump down with the nasty bimbos who came out of the woodwork after his election. Couldn’t with Pelosi’s crazy impeachment attempt. So they bring Fauci in to bring the country (and economy of course) to its knees. Pay off his nasty niece to write a “tell all” book that’s likely as true as Dr. Doolittle. Now their calling him mentally unstable. I tremble to think what they will try next, and if he does win (and I have concerns about this election), they will lose what is left of their ever, loving minds.....
Yup, and they fell into his hands once again.
I’m afraid America is turning into a banana republic.
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