Trump sabotages the U.S. Post Office to undermine the election
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 2 August 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Trump has quietly moved to sabotage the Post Office to undermine nationwide vote-by-mail efforts. Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey discusses his high-profile Senate primary race against Joe Kennedy and Trump’s dangerous calls to delay the election.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Cassie Depeckle, the host of Wunderies against the odds. |
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| 0:19.2 | Today we're going to be talking about something that's really important. |
| 0:22.5 | It is a five-learned fire and that is Trump's quiet plan to sabotage the post office to |
| 0:27.4 | undermine nationwide vote by mail efforts. |
| 0:29.9 | And I'll also be speaking with Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey about his high profile |
| 0:33.5 | Senate primary race against Joe Kennedy, as well as Trump's not-so-subtle calls to |
| 0:37.9 | delay the election. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie. |
| 0:43.3 | So I want to focus on the post office because it's an issue that people seem really worried |
| 0:47.4 | about and there's a lot of confusion about what's actually happening here. |
| 0:51.6 | So in May, Trump installed a guy named Lewis DeJoy as the postmaster general because |
| 0:56.4 | he has a ton of experience working with the USP. |
| 0:59.7 | No, no wait, I'm sorry. |
| 1:01.3 | I'm looking at the wrong notes. |
| 1:03.0 | He is a Trump mega donor with no experience whatsoever whose content to help the president |
| 1:07.2 | weaponize the post office for his own personal benefit. |
| 1:09.9 | Yeah, that's the correct one here. |
| 1:12.9 | And when I say mega donor, I mean $360,000 to a Trump super PAC and $2.5 million to Republicans |
| 1:21.0 | across the country just in the last election cycle. |
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