Defunding the Postal Service: Trump Admits Voter Suppression Scheme (with Congressman Mike Quigley)

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Renato and Patti discussed Donald Trump’s stunning admission that he was defunding the U.S. Postal Service to stop mail-in voting. They were joined by Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), chair of the appropriations subcommittee overseeing funding for the U.S. Postal Service. Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/ Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/Follow Renato on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@renato.mariotti Opening Theme and Bumper music provided by eitanepsteinmusic / Pond5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	M.S. W. Media.
0:10.0	Donald Trump admits that he's trying to defund the Postal Service to prevent us from voting by mail.
0:19.4	How can we stop him from rigging the election?
0:23.2	Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's news.
0:44.0	My name's Renato Mariati.
0:47.0	I'm a former federal prosecutor,
0:49.0	a practicing lawyer, and a legal analyst.
0:52.0	And I'm joined by my friend Patty Vasquez. lawyer and a legal analyst.
0:52.9	And I'm joined by my friend Patty Vasquez, the host of the Patty Vasquez show who joins us regularly
0:59.1	on this podcast.
1:01.7	But before I bring in Patty, I want to thank our patrons who brought us this episode.
1:08.4	With special thanks to Michelle Due, Andrew Donnelly, James Frohmeyer, J. Gellhausen, Jamie and Isie Gordon,
1:20.9	Patrick, Steve Hungsberg,
1:24.0	Shana Wachinsky, and an anonymous patron.
1:28.0	You too can become a patron on our website,
1:32.0	On Topic Podcast.com just click the support link at the top of the
1:38.2	page so Patty I've got to say that this topic of election interference, particularly voter suppression via
1:49.7	the Postal Service, is one that has been mounting for a while and there have been patrons
1:54.8	and listeners who've been suggesting this topic for quite some time and it's something I've
1:59.3	been tracking because the evidence has been mounting that Trump, it looks like Trump is installed a mega donor in to run the United States Postal Service in order to essentially tamp it down, hinder it, and prevent us from voting by mail.
2:18.0	But I will tell you, Patty, I always thought of this as something that looked really fishy but couldn't be proven.
2:25.8	But here you go, literally just hours before we record this podcast, Trump goes on national
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