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   From: fucdp2025a@sacbee.con   
      
   Lee wrote:   
      
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   >TRUMP PLEDGES UNCONSTITUTIONAL ORDER   
   >TO LIMIT MAIL-IN VOTING AFTER PUTIN   
   >CHAT   
   >Aug 18   
   >   
   >President Donald Trump pledged   
   >Monday that he will try to eliminate   
   >mail-in voting, after telling Fox   
   >News that authoritarian Russian   
   >President Vladimir Putin agreed with   
   >him on the subject during their   
   >meeting last week.   
   >   
   >Despite lacking any sort of   
   >constitutional power on the matter,   
   >Trump declared in a Truth Social   
   >post that he would sign an executive   
   >order to “help bring HONESTY to the   
   >2026 Midterm Elections,” and attempt   
   >to strip states of their independent   
   >authority to oversee elections, and   
   >is demanding they just do what he   
   >tells them to.   
   >   
   >“I am going to lead a movement to   
   >get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also,   
   >while we’re at it, Highly ‘Inaccurate,’   
   >Very Expensive, and Seriously   
   >Controversial VOTING MACHINES,” the   
   >president wrote, referencing   
   >conservatives’ disproven claims and   
   >conspiracies regarding voter fraud   
   >in the 2020 election, which he lost.   
   >   
   >“Remember, 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,” he added. “ELECTIONS CAN NEVER   
   >BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING…   
   >THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING   
   >MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL   
   >DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!!”   
   >   
   >Of course, the president does not   
   >have the power to unilaterally strip   
   >states of their constitutionally   
   >guaranteed right to conduct and   
   >oversee elections, and any executive   
   >order purporting to do so will likely   
   >face immediate court challenges.   
   >   
   >The post came days after Trump told F   
   >ox News’ Sean Hannity that Putin — who   
   >hasn’t participated in a free and fair   
   >election in decades — agreed with him   
   >on the need to eliminate mail-in   
   >voting during their meeting last week.   
   >   
   >“Vladimir Putin said something — one   
   >of the most interesting things — he   
   >said, ‘your election was rigged   
   >because you have mail-in voting,’”   
   >Trump recounted. “He said … ‘it’s   
   >impossible to have mail-in voting and   
   >have honest elections.”   
   >   
   >“We talked about 2020,” Trump continued.   
   >“He said ‘You won that election by so   
   >much,’ … and he said and ‘if you would   
   >have won, we wouldn’t have had a war,   
   >you’d have all these millions of people   
   >alive now instead of dead,’ and he said   
   >‘you lost it because of mail-in voting,   
   >it was a rigged election.’”   
   >   
   >There is no evidence that the use of   
   >mail-in ballots or digital voting   
   >machines is conducive to widespread   
   >electoral fraud. Though mail-in   
   >voting has historically skewed   
   >Democratic, Republicans rely on it   
   >as well, including in states like   
   >Florida, where Trump voted early   
   >last year. Nevertheless, eliminating   
   >mail-in voting has been a goal of   
   >the president’s for some time now.   
   >https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-pledges-limit-ma   
   >il-in-voting-putin-1235410408/   
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   When will the rest of the USA joing the MAGA Republican movement and just   
   accept that Trump is our dictator now and nobody challenges him?   
      
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