Good morning,Lying, propaganda and undermining the postal service to improve his electoral chances: just a day in the life of the Trump campaign. On Thursday, the president appeared to admit in an interview with Fox Business that he was blocking additional funding for the USPS specifically so as to make it harder to vote by mail – in a year when an unprecedented number of Americans are expected to do so. They need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. If they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting because they’re not equipped to have it. Meanwhile, the administration has withdrawn security clearance for seven top officials at the US Agency for Global Media, as it accelerates what critics say is a plan to turn public broadcasters including Voice of America into White House propaganda outlets. When reporter SV Dáte asked Trump on Thursday whether he regretted “all the lying [he’s] done to the American people”, the president ignored the question and moved on. Michael Cohen’s memoir will be released in September after a Department of Justice gagging order to prevent its publication was dropped. Trump’s former fixer promoted the book on Twitter on Thursday, with a foreword describing his “Faustian bargain” with his former boss. It was the baseless, racist conspiracy theory about Barack Obama’s birthplace that first propelled Trump to political prominence. Now, the president is buying into birtherism again, suggesting on Thursday – falsely – that Kamala Harris may not be eligible for vice-presidential office, based on her parents’ immigration status. Harris has already given a boost to Joe Biden’s campaign, which raised $26m in donations in the 24 hours after she was unveiled as his running mate. As Lauren Gambino and Enjoli Liston report, many black voters hailed her selection as a historic moment, although others still have misgivings about her past as a prosecutor. If Biden and Harris make it to the White House, there is already speculation about who might fill her California senate seat. Not everyone is losing out from the Covid-19 catastrophe. US health insurers doubled their profits in the second quarter of 2020 compared to the same period last year.


All data is taken from the source: https://www.theguardian.com/
Article Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/14/first-thing-blocked-mail-and-birtherism-trumps-plan-to-win-in-2020


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