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Trump, Inc.

Block The Vote

Trump, Inc.

WNYC Studios

Don, Trump, News, Business, Jared, Ivanka, Jr, Politics, Business News, Government, Eric

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This story was co-published with ProPublica. Sign up for email updates from Trump, Inc. to get the latest on our investigations. President Trump likes talking about voter fraud. He also likes filing lawsuits. Now his campaign is filing lawsuits across the country, citing the alleged dangers of voter fraud. Plus: ProPublica reporters Mike Spies, Jake Pearson, and Jessica Huseman on secret, Republican-only meetings about election policy.

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0:00.0

The president today in North Carolina continuing to stoke unfounded fears about the integrity

0:05.9

of the 2020 election.

0:07.4

CNN White House correspondent, Jeremy Diamond.

0:10.5

Now suggesting that his voters should actually, if they vote by mail, also go and try and

0:15.3

vote in person.

0:16.3

Listen.

0:17.3

So let us send it in and let it go up.

0:20.3

And if the citizens as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to

0:25.3

look.

0:26.3

If it is a Japanese, they'll be able to vote.

0:29.3

And that's what they should do.

0:32.0

And what the president is suggesting his voters should do here is essentially commit

0:35.9

voter fraud.

0:36.9

If you vote here, we are weeks from the 2020 election.

0:39.6

And the nation's top elected official is urging his supporters to upend the basic principle

0:44.5

of democracy.

0:46.0

One person, one vote.

0:48.0

He's saying vote twice, mail in your ballot, and then go vote again to make sure it was

0:52.8

counted.

0:54.2

In the rain of news, it's easy for this voting fraud exhortation to just slip by because

1:00.2

Trump is constantly upending norms.

1:03.8

But it's worth pausing on Trump's vote fraud messaging because the vote is the most

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