Democrats are falsely claiming that Trump admitted to sabotaging stimulus to stop mail-in voting

It’s laughable what Democrats are coming up with to try and foist the blame on Trump for the stimulus they won’t approve. Now they are seizing on a Fox Business interview Trump did yesterday to claim that he’s now admitting that he’s holding up the stimulus to stop mail-in voting.

First, here’s the portion of the interview they are seizing on:

 
He admits absolutely nothing in that clip. He just make an honest assessment that if they don’t pass the stimulus, they won’t get money for the Post Office and it means mail-in voting won’t happen.

But Nancy Pelosi and Schumer are trying to make it sound like Trump is sabotaging the bill in order to stop mail-in voting:

DC EXAMINER – Democratic leaders in Congress claimed President Trump is purposely undermining the Postal Service to prevent mail-in balloting and ordered him to cut it out.

“House and Senate Democrats call on the President to immediately cease his assault on the Postal Service, make clear that he will allow the 2020 election to proceed without his sabotage tactics and enable the American people the same opportunity he and the First Lady requested this week to vote by absentee ballot,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement on Friday.

Democrats were responding to Trump’s comments in a Fox Business interview explaining why he did not support a Democratic proposal to provide billions in new funding to the financially troubled U.S. Postal Service.

“Now, they need that money in order to make the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots … But if they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting,” Trump said.

Notice they call it an “assault on the post office”. It’s absolutely ridiculous. As Trump said multiple times in the last two days, the post office money isn’t what he’s opposed to in the bill. It’s the trillion or so in bailout money Pelosi is trying send to Democrat cities and states that have been run into the ground. That’s what Trump is opposed to in the bill quite frankly I’m glad he’s standing his ground on this.

So in case you’ve seen the headlines accusing Trump of this nonsense, now you know it’s complete bunk and just another attempt by Pelosi and Schumer to foist the blame on Trump for the stimulus that they are holding hostage.

Listen to the full section on mail-in voting from the Fox Business interview below. It’s cued up to 10:03:


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