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President Donald Trump doesn’t seem content to put his thumb on the election scale this year.
He’s jumping on it with both feet.
The commander in chief told soldiers at Fort Bragg, “You have to vote for us” — a breach in long-standing protocol that respected a Defense Department prohibition on partisan political activity by active-duty service members.
Kristi Noem, Trump’s secretary of homeland security, caused a firestorm recently by saying, “When it gets to Election Day, we’ve been proactive to make sure that we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country.”
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, observed FBI agents collecting 2020 voting records in Fulton County, Ga., using subpoenas based on debunked claims.
As if a possible precursor of things to come, Trump himself said he regrets not seizing voting machines after he lost that election.
At his behest, Republicans in Congress are trying to jam through legislation that would dramatically change the way elections are run and make it more difficult to vote.
Then there’s the redistricting derby triggered by Trump and his comments about nationalizing the elections and Republicans taking them over.
The examples go...
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