A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on August 13, 2020.
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The Trump operation wanted to make mail voting look broken. On August 13, it mostly succeeded in making itself look broken instead.
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The president told a television interviewer that he was holding back Postal Service money because he did not want mail voting to function smoothly. That admission landed during a mounting backlash over service changes and postal delays, turning a policy fight into an open accusation of election sabotage.