Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) tore into President Donald Trump for signaling he’ll try to defund the post office in order to undermine mail-in voting ahead of the 2020 election.
In an interview with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press Sunday, Sanders was asked about reports that the Postal Service is removing mail-sorting machines, which also accompanies the postal services’ now-abandoned efforts to remove mailboxes. When asked if this was “legitimate reform” or “sabotage,” Sanders replied that they were the actions of a president “who is doing everything he can to suppress the vote, make it harder for people to engage in mail-in balloting at a time when people will be putting their lives on the line by having to go out to a polling station and vote.”
Sanders referenced to a recent Trump interview in which the president suggested he would block funding to the post office in response to congressional Democratic efforts to expand mail-in voting. The senator called it an uncharacteristically “honest” admission that Trump wants to suppress votes because he thinks “it will help him win the election.”
“So this is a deliberate effort to defund and destroy the U.S. Postal Service so that people cannot engage in mail-in ballots,” Sanders said. “That’s what Donald Trump is telling the American people, and it is an outrage, Chuck, because this campaign is
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