The DeJoy Postal Mess Kept Spreading, and Trump Didn’t Help
The Postal Service scandal did not begin on September 8, but it was still metastasizing on that date. New scrutiny over Louis DeJoy’s political donations and his management of the USPS kept feeding the suspicion that the administration was willing to blur the line between governance and electioneering. Trump’s reflexive approval of an investigation into DeJoy only underscored how little control the White House had over a mess it helped create.
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The DeJoy Postal Mess Kept Spreading, and Trump Didn’t Help
The Postal Service scandal did not begin on September 8, but it was still metastasizing on that date. New scrutiny over Louis DeJoy’s political donations and his management of the USPS kept feeding the suspicion that the administration was willing to blur the line between governance and electioneering. Trump’s reflexive approval of an investigation into DeJoy only underscored how little control the White House had over a mess it helped create.
The Postal Service scandal did not begin on September 8, but it was still metastasizing on that date. New scrutiny over Louis DeJoy’s political donations and his management of the USPS kept feeding the suspicion that the administration was willing to blur the line between governance and electioneering. Trump’s reflexive approval of an investigation into DeJoy only underscored how little control the White House had o…
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