Tag: Trump double standard

Trump could have voted in person in Florida this year but chose not to

As President Donald Trump rolled to his West Palm Beach, Florida, golf course on the morning of March 7, his motorcade filed past a library where local officials were preparing for the first day of in-person early voting in Florida’s presidential primary contest.

Trump didn’t stop at that site or any of the 15 other early voting locations in Palm Beach County that were opening that day. By the time the library opened for voting at 10 a.m., Trump had already arrived at his golf course — whose main entrance is across Summit Boulevard from the library. When he departed the course hours later, he didn’t stop to vote either.

Trump would drive past the library four more times that weekend without dropping in to cast a ballot. Instead, he voted by mail — the very option he has begun railing against as governors seek to expand remote voting amid the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading.

Trump Steps Up Attacks on Mail Vote, Making False Claims About Fraud

New York Times logoPresident Trump initially said he might withhold federal funding for Michigan and Nevada if the states moved forward in expanding vote by mail, though he later backed off that threat.

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday escalated his assault against mail voting, falsely claiming that Michigan and Nevada were engaged in voter fraud and had acted illegally, and threatening to withhold federal funds to those states if they proceed in expanding vote-by-mail efforts.

The president inaccurately accused Michigan of sending mail ballots to its residents, as his aides later acknowledged, and he offered no basis for his claims of illegal actions by either Michigan or Nevada. The Michigan secretary of state has sent ballot applications — not the ballots themselves — to registered voters, a growing practice among election officials, including in states led by Republicans. In Nevada, where the Republican secretary of state declared the primary a nearly all-mail election, ballots are being sent to registered voters.

As most states largely abandon in-person voting because of health concerns over the coronavirus, Mr. Trump and many of his Republican allies have launched a series of false attacks to demonize mail voting as fraught with fraud and delivering an inherent advantage to Democratic candidates — despite there being scant evidence for either claim. Continue reading.

Before Trump warned that Maxine Waters had ‘called for harm,’ he told supporters he’d like to punch a protester

The following article by Eugene Scott was posted on the Washington Post website June 25, 2018:

Jeers and violence erupted between Donald Trump supporters and protesters at the Republican frontrunner’s rally in Fayetteville, N.C., on March 9. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)

President Trump warned a Democratic lawmaker to “be careful” in a tweet accusing her of calling for harm to his supporters. Of course, that tweet ignores Trump’s own history of encouraging violent behavior, including some widely noted incidents during the 2016 campaign and since entering the White House.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told attendees at a Los Angeles rally Saturday that they should confront Trump Cabinet members whenever they are spotted in public.  That day, headlines were blaring about White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders being asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia because she works for the administration. Continue reading “Before Trump warned that Maxine Waters had ‘called for harm,’ he told supporters he’d like to punch a protester”

Trump, a Veteran of Sexual Harassment Accusations, Scolds Franken

The following article by Michael D. Shear was posted on the New York Times website November 16, 2017:

President Trump in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Wednesday. Credit Tom Brenner/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump lashed out at Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, in two suggestive Twitter posts late Thursday night after the senator was accused by a Los Angeles radio newscasterof kissing and groping her more than a decade ago.

Leeann Tweeden, the newscaster, made the allegations earlier Thursday about Mr. Franken’s behavior while both of them were performing on a 2006 U.S.O. tour. She released a picture showing Mr. Franken, a former writer for “Saturday Night Live,” appearing to grab her breasts while she was sleeping.

The photograph prompted Mr. Trump to tweet that “the Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words.” The president then suggested that Mr. Franken might have gone on to take more liberties with the sleeping woman. Continue reading “Trump, a Veteran of Sexual Harassment Accusations, Scolds Franken”

Trump, who labeled Rubio a ‘choke artist’ for needing water during speech, needs water during speech

The following article by Aaron Blake was posted on the Washington Post website November 15, 2017:

President Trump once criticized Rubio for his awkward sip from a water bottle – but just had a water bottle moment of his own. (The Washington Post)

A few years back, Sen. Marco Rubio got a little parched and needed to awkwardly swig from a bottle of water during his Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. For this, Donald Trump relentlessly ridiculed Rubio — spotlighting the incident at least eight times.

On Wednesday, President Trump met karma. Continue reading “Trump, who labeled Rubio a ‘choke artist’ for needing water during speech, needs water during speech”

Candidate Trump attacked Obama’s executive orders. President Trump loves executive orders.

The following article by Andrew Rudalevige was posted on the Washington Post website October 17, 2017:

President Trump signed an executive order on the Affordable Care Act on Oct. 12. With the order, he directed federal agencies to rewrite regulations on selling a certain type of health insurance across state lines. (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

As he campaigned for the presidency, Donald Trump argued that Barack Obama’s frequent use of unilateral administrative tools made Obama a weak leader. “We have a president that can’t get anything done,” Trump told an interviewer in January 2016, “so he just keeps signing executive orders all over the place.”

That spring he added, Continue reading “Candidate Trump attacked Obama’s executive orders. President Trump loves executive orders.”