Donald Trump brought his clown show to North Carolina again and this time, he encouraged people to vote twice—once by mail and once in person. He seemed to think that would either test the mail-in system in the state or ensure that people’s vote actually counted. I’m not exactly sure what he meant and I doubt he did, either. Regardless, he urged people to break the law and I suspect we’ll have more than a few MAGA sheep follow him off the cliff.
We’ve gotten so used to the President of the United States spouting utter bullshit that it barely got any attention. A few places covered it, but before the Age of Trump, absurd statements like this one would cause political damage. Now, it’s just fodder for social media and directions to his idiot base.
Republicans don’t even try to excuse Trump. They either pretend like he never said anything or they didn’t know about it or that he was somehow joking. In the wake of Trump’s suggestion that people vote twice, former Executive Director of the North Carolina Republican Party Dallas Woodhouse told us not to believe what the president said. He tweeted, “People have learned not to take everything literally with Trump, but it would have been better not to say it, even in jest.” Obviously, the president wasn’t joking.
Over on CNN, Attorney General William Barr continued to defend the president instead of taking his job to protect the American people seriously. He told Wolf Blitzer that he didn’t know what the laws in every state were. Blitzer asked him if any states allowed voting twice. He repeated his claim that he didn’t know the laws in every state. Again, this man is the Attorney General of the United States. He’s either a partisan hack or an utter idiot. I believe it’s the former.
Trump and company have argued that mail-in ballots could lead to election fraud, but voting twice is just testing the system. The whole episode is classic Trump. He’s trying to create uncertainty and cast doubt on any outcome unfavorable to him. If he loses, he’ll claim voter fraud, possibly because some of his idiot base will vote twice. The goal is chaos.
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The current POTUS needed a Battleship as an election campaign prop in Wilmington, just like he need Mt Rushmore in SD, and an upside down closed Bible over his head (that he did not own) in Washington. Even a fifth grader can see what’s happening. The “illusionist Reality TV act” is more important to him than substantive real solutions to our challenges.
He needs the “2 vote theory” not to certify the integrity of NC’s voting system, but rather to “prepare you” for his claim, “I won”, in November, when he fails to do so.Expect him to go to court. —- and worst, “appeal to his 2nd Amendment militia”.
Enough of those among us (that are smarter than a fifth grader) must VOTE to make it a landslide , and thus much harder for “our leader” to do his “magic tricks”.
Edwin O Finch
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It is what it is, right! But I bet anybody would be hard pressed to reference a US president that has publicly solicited the commission of a criminal act of this nature. That is a new low. Of Course, Trump has walked it back, saying he was just joking. Everybody knows or should know what that means.
I know of at least one person who has made a criminal referral of Trump to AG Josh Stein. According to NCGS 163-275, it’s a Class I felony: 3 to 12 months
If Stein files the charges, Trump may have a complete defense in his subsequent statement “I was just joking”? Of course, that is right up there with the famous “Twinkies defense of years past. Trump has brought so much to the office of president which this country could do without.
I am sure Trump does not know of Madison County, N.C., in my native western North Carolina. But as a boy and young reporter, I recall how Madison refined the “vote twice” ethos. They even voted the tombstone vote. But they weere not as skilled as Texans for LBJ in 1948 who listed a flock of late voters casting their ballots in ABC order. However, Trump, in spirit, is of the tradition of grand larceny of elections.
Did Trump just ask folks to vote twice in the 2020 election? Back in the old days, before Trump, voting twice was a felony carrying a few years in the slammer and heavy fines. Solicitation to commit a criminal act, is a crime. A defendant may be charged with solicitation if he or she requests or induces another person to commit an act that would amount to a felony. Where is that law an order Attorney General Billy Barr ?