Remember when Trump wanted to delay the 2020 election until after the end of Covid?
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wanted-call-off-election-over-virus-wolff-book-2021-7
Trump wanted to use the COVID-19 pandemic to call off the 2020 election, Wolff book says.
"President Donald Trump suggested using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse not to hold the 2020 election, according to a new book. An excerpt from Michael Wolff's book "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency" published in The Times of London on Tuesday said that Trump raised the prospect twice over the summer. The excerpt said that in July 2020, Trump had been mulling ways of managing the pandemic without angering his largely anti-mask, anti-lockdown political base.
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"Then, Wolff wrote, Trump brought up another idea: delaying the election over the pandemic. He later spoke of "calling it off," the book said. "People can't get to the polls. It's a national emergency. Right?" Trump was quoted as saying. ..."
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http://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/30/trump-suggests-delaying-2020-election-387902
Trump refuses to back down on suggestion of election delay
"President Donald Trump on Thursday refused to back down from his suggestion earlier in the day that the November general election be postponed, repeating unsubstantiated predictions of widespread voter fraud amid the coronavirus pandemic and saying that large numbers of mail-in ballots might mean “you never even know who won the election.” ..."
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http://www.vox.com/2020/3/21/21188152/trump-cancel-november-election-constitution-coronavirus-vote-by-mail
President Trump, facing cratering poll numbers and the likelihood of an embarrassing defeat in November, suggested the country should “Delay the Election” due to false fears of voter fraud [Trump's Tweet from July 30, 2020]:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
[Link to the tweet, now X:
http://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288818160389558273 ]
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How about THIS spin on Trump's suggestion:
Delay the 2024 election until AFTER all of his court cases have been fully resolved, including appeals. The "witch hunts" will be finally over. Then, even if he is sentenced to prison or an insane asylum, he will be able to campaign without gag orders, he can campaign on ISSUES rather than court cases, deranged prosecutors, "perfect phone calls," and whether or not he lost in 2020.
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Following this version of Trump's suggestion, after all of his appeals and delaying tactics, the next presidential election will probably be sometime around 2032. ... OK. Maybe 2036.
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Remember: It is TRUMP'S idea, not mine!!!