Well, Donald Trump just admitted that he is trying to sabotage the election.

Here’s what the President of the United States said this morning (on a Fox News channel, of course) about proposals in Congress to provide funding the Post Office needs so that Americans can safely and easily vote by mail in the midst of the coronavirus emergency:

“Now they need that money in order to have the Post Office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. … But if they don't get [it], that means you can't have universal mail-in voting.”

Then, Larry Kudlow — a senior economic advisor to Trump and longtime Republican operative, who is infamous for how consistently wrong his predictions about the economy have been over the years — called efforts to protect voting rights “liberal” and a “left wish” and “not our game.”

Meanwhile, the Republican mega-donor Trump installed to run the Post Office has been implementing drastic and unprecedented service cuts. He’s even telling states — which are already financially strapped because of the Trump Pandemic — that they may have to pay far more than expected if they want ballots handled properly.

Let’s be absolutely clear:

The Trump administration is attempting what amounts to a bureaucratic coup d’etat to remain in office.

Tell Donald Trump, Larry Kudlow, and the rest of them:

Thank you for admitting that you do not actually believe in democracy or upholding the Constitution. You will not get away with this assault on the right to vote.

Thanks for taking action.

In unity,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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