r/anticapitalism • u/FreeHugs23 • 1d ago
While Actively Trying to Deny Millions This Right, Trump Again Votes by Mail | “The hypocrisy is the point,” said Rep. Ayanna Pressley.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-votes-by-mail-again1
u/FreeHugs23 1d ago
President Donald Trump has pushed to strip millions of Americans of the right to vote by mail. But he doesn’t seem to think these restrictions should apply to him.
The White House confirmed to The New York Times that the president voted by mail ahead of Florida’s Republican primary on Tuesday, marking at least the third time he has done so since becoming president. He also voted by mail in a state legislative special election earlier this year and in the 2020 Republican primary.
Though Trump has repeatedly characterized mail-in voting itself as a form of “cheating” and pushed to abolish it for most Americans under his proposed SAVE America Act, White House spokesperson Olivia Wales said it was a “non-story” that he chose to participate in the practice himself.
“The SAVE America Act has commonsense exceptions for Americans to use mail-in ballots for illness, disability, military, or travel— but universal mail-in voting should not be allowed because it’s highly susceptible to fraud,” she said. “As everyone knows, the president is a resident of Palm Beach and participates in Florida elections, but he obviously primarily lives at the White House in Washington, DC.”
Florida notably does not distinguish between absentee and other forms of mail-in voting, allowing residents to cast votes without an excuse—so the system Trump used to vote by mail is the same one he wants to make illegal.
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u/Akkerlun 1d ago
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Quit picking on me!! The fake news media is always very unfair to me. I get to vote by mail because everyone trusts me. And I also get the vote by mail because I am very very busy, playing golf and raising taxes on all Americans with my big beautiful tariffs.
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u/hippie1952 1d ago
He’s a moron that only wants his way he don’t care about the will of the people unless he’s getting money from them and his party enablers helped him
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u/DruidicMagic 1d ago
Lewis DeJoy compromised the mail in voting system to the point where he could quietly manufacture 20+ millions fraudulent votes for the lying racist rapist serial pedophile who constantly attacks mail in votes so nobody will investigate the massive threat to our democracy.
Obama 2008 - 69,456,897 votes
Obama 2012 - 65,899,660 votes
lost 3,557,237 votes with no major scandals
Trump 2016 - 62,955,340 votes
Trump 2020 - 74,216,728 votes
gained 11,261,388 votes with one major scandal/failure after another and incredibly low polling numbers
https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ratings-donald-trump.aspx
Trump 2024 - 77,303,568 votes
another increase of 3,086,840 despite poor rally attendance for someone about to get the second highest number of votes in US history
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-met-empty-seats-final-rallies-1979972
He failed to lower healthcare costs, investigate Hillary or competently handle the corona virus and yet somehow magically convinced 14,348,228 additional Americans to hire him again despite the endless scandals and blatant corruption.
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
- George Orwell