WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to withhold federal funding for Michigan and Nevada over their pursuit of mass mail-in voting.
The president said, falsely, that Michigan is sending absentee ballots to 7.7 million voters, following that with a warning to Nevada if it pursues voting by mail. Michigan's secretary of state, Jocelyn Benson, said Tuesday that all of those registered voters will be mailed applications for absentee ballots for the state’s elections in August and November — not the absentee ballots themselves.Trump said the move was done “illegally and without authorization from a rogue secretary of state.”
“I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!” he tweeted, and then tagged White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, acting Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought and the Treasury Department in a follow-up tweet.Sign Up
Might be easier and safer but is there any data from past elections to show that mail-in ballots get counted as cast and not manipulated?
Federal government trying to tell a state what to do... and withholding money to try and force the issue. Is this about Ukraine?
Cuz the more that vote the worse he loses
Kamala informed him that would be a crime. Now, he can't say he didn't know, as his lying secretary of state Pompano just did on live tv. What a tangled web we weave.
Nov3 bye biatch
🤣I’m just so out of things to say at this point, so I laugh
CrookedPresident
....' To make it easier and safer for Democrats to Commit voter fraud ' There, fixed it for you. Incase your unfair and totally partial bias kept you from being able to see what you did wrong in this tweet.
He is crazy!!!!!!
Yeah easier for rig the election.
Didn’t he hold back funds for the Ukraine if they didn’t investigate VP Biden and/or his son? Kind of the same thing here. This nightmare needs to end November 3rd. Vote!!!!
he is a shitstain
Why not more democrats coming across the border daily
I thought states were responsible for how people in their own states are allowed to vote. Not the president.
Man on the street comments received by man in line at Home Depot
Easier to vote fraudulently but being left wing cannot point that out.
Impeach the criminal illegitimate occupant of the WH again!
Easier and safer to rig it because the democrats know 100% Trump will be your POTUS in 2020 facts
Extortion.... the last grasp of an out going presidential crook
The Law is the Law ! We should lock you up !
Next he will hold up funding to every state unless they vote for him. Dictator Trump continues VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
Most of the stuff he says, he never does. Never. Just ignore him
What is it with threats?
Trump fights to undermine the peoples vote because he lost it to Hillary. Stick with the electoral college they are as corrupt as he is
Election interference.
Correction: President Trump on Wednesday threatened to hold up federal funds for two election battleground states that are trying to make it easier for voter fraud during the under the guise of the coronavirus pandemic.
Bull! Makes Voter fraud easier!
I D I O T ! ! !
Der größte Idiot aller Zeiten!
And makes it easier to cheat!
Presidential black mail!Basically!
Texas has a vote by mail. If he tries to tell us Texans we can't...We WILL LiberateDC
Easier and safer to cheat. There fixed it for you.
Trump the wannabe DicKtator!!
“How dare you let Americans vote against me!” Trump was heard shouting with a mouth full of White Castle.
Maybe now that there is a Lawyer in the family ... Tiffany can now tell her father all the things he does that are against the law ... since no one else seems to.
Remember when we had a president that worked for all Americans? This hoax of a president running on a retaliation platform is exhausting.
Yeah..m Michigan's action is illegal. And we have a safe way. Wisconsin's April primary is the model.
FYI - New Mexico is also planning to send out absentee ballot applications to EVERY CITIZEN! Go GovMLG for a Covid-safe approach. coronavirus
Didn't Trump himself use a mail-in ballot?
Good for Trump. They are trying to steal an election and have no chance of winning. Corn pop’s not going to cut it.
Before what does fear have the Trump government
Wrong there trying to cheat.
Trump will demolish Biden who is beyond incoherent. Good for him trying to maintain the integrity of elections when he doesn't really have to bother.
Way to win over the electorate!
PATHETIC SICK MAN! WE DESERVE SO MUCH BETTER!
“Easier and safer” LMAO
Hate is just so ugly !!!!!
That’s a no no potus
Just chill, Make no mistake, God don't like Ugly!
Big Boy Bullying Tactics at their political worse
Well, That was a misleading headline by NBC. In fact it's a case of shameful and dishonest story writing.
we will be back to normal by November. DEMs wont 'let a good crisis go to waste'
Are you poor ?
Easier and safer? Or easier to get more votes for Democrats
The last time he voted he did it by mail
Pure corruption
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Why? So I can get sick standing in line, die and that’s 1 less person you don’t have to pay their social security, since you all think MY MONEY is an entitlement!!!!!
We have mailing voting in California. LOVE It! I have no idea where my polling place is. I haven’t missed an election in probably 20 years.
Why don't we counter Trump & the GOP by fixing the election for the Democrats so we can all be rid of this manipulative bunch of Hitleristic traitors who hate the 'American Way' so much? If they can do this to the USA w/Russia's help, why can't we do it back? LET FREEDOM RING! 🇺🇸
Democrats trying their damn best to win in November Using an Infection with a 99+% Survival Rate to commit mail Fraud Prevent a Fair Election Total Liberal corruption
Banana Republic
Trump says he wants to withhold funds to Michigan. They sent absentee ballot applications to their citizens This is an impeachable offense by the President. He's threatening a state for allowing people to register to vote. He can't intimidate at the polls.
He’s just dumb enough to do it too
can these 2 impeachable offences proceed quickly or else they will still be going on in November
mail in voting will be the narrative he'll use to contest the results of the election, should he lose.
Question for realDonaldTrump supporters: If his poll numbers are so high why is he scared of people voting? How does that make sense to you?
I can't vote in person in November, I'm scared. Meanwhile, today at Walmart
Narrative spin! You know his issue is NOT about making it easier to vote
I love how NBC News never frames the story or editorializes... just provides the facts. Solid journalism...
SpeakerPelosi RepAdamSchiff Please figure out a way to get funds to these states!
Easier and safer for criminals to interfere in our elections. Good for Trump.
Why did yall use this type of headlines 'Trying to make it easier and safer to vote'. Why not say the whole truth...
He will lose in Michigan.
Back to court we go.
Under the Constitution of the US, elections are administered at the state level and according to state laws. The federal govt has nothing to do with it. djt's threats to withhold federal funds to states that choose to allow voting by mail are outrageous and unconstitutional.
That should be against the law.
Translation: President Trump threatened to hold up federal funds for two election battleground states that are trying to make it easier for democrats to cheat. There. Fixed it for you. FakeVirus FakePandemic
Trump wants to hold funding to these states but the death toll over 86k. His priorities are in the wrong place. He scared that Americans will vote him out.
Trump cannot afford for the will of the people to be heard. The Republicans as a whole are worried, too.
Noooo... They are trying to steal it...
Is this not the same as withholding funding for help with campaigning? Ie what he was impeached for in regards to Ukraine? How are more ppl, on both sides, not holding him accountable?
Trumps scared. Once he ste0s foot off White House property he will be sued or tied up in court until hes in boot hill.
If Walmart is open the polls can be open
I vote by mail in Ohio. He’s not concerned?
This SOB only cares about himself. Covid19 risk be damned. That alone should be enough to make you not vote for him.
Free Joe Exotic!!!!
Hmm. Doesn't Bush v Gore apply here? States select electors by whatever means they choose. If they choose to send out ballots and harvest them (which only Republicans have been caught abusing, at least recently), then that's on them.
So bribery then....
And this hippocrate voted by mail. What a loser.
Of course he did, he’s petty, and just another ✅ on my list of why I’m not voting 4 him, and it’s all his own doings 🤷🏻♀️
Trump is lying as usual cheating stealing to keep his death grip on our nation
What do you mean that this act was done illegally by a rogue Secretary of State. Who the hell do you think is responsible for voting information at the state level, besides it was only the applications to vote by mail and not the absentee ballots, so get off your high horse.
I believe that would violate some sort of constitutional right of the people. He’s trying to cheat cause he knows without help he stands no chance of winning
Just like that, you are no longer talking about self medicating. See how easily you have been trained? And you hardly mention the suspicious firing of so many IG’s Or the thousands needlessly dying to protect a failed leaders chance at re-election The 4th estate is a puppet
Our taxpayer money
Can this be legal in modern America? What if voters threat to vote him out over his cons to mail-in voting? Will that be acceptable too?
Please explain to me the difference between a killer and Trump. You don't need to be the one to pull the trigger to be a killer.
What a great time in American history we have a drug-addicted psychopath running the country. thanks electoral college 🇺🇸
He. Is. A. Scumbag....
Dumbest president ever
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Didn't he vote by mail?
Evil 👺
Quid pro Quo. Wow it never stops.
Democrat voter fraud must be stopped!!!
I wish someone would explain to us how to get thousands of ballots miscounted... everyone just makes the claim that it’s fraudulent they don’t explain any technique that’s proven.
18 U.S.C. § 598: 'Whoever uses any part of any appropriation made by Congress for...relief...for the purpose of interfering with...any individual in the exercise of his right to vote at any election, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.'
Fox news anchors of color this is what you defend after you ancestors fought so hard to vote
More abuse of power against his own people! 45 should have been removed from office after impeachment. The Ukraine scandal she'd light on his insidious intentions for humankind!
Trump is trying to interfere in the election process and the GOP stands by and watches. GOPCorruptionOverCountry
and people think this is alright
Trump and the GOP are so transparent with all of this. They literally have said more access to voting means more votes for Ds because the D platform is just more popular. If they can't win the argument, they will maintain their minority power by any means.
GOPAreMurderers
If the recent election in Wisconsin proved anything it’s that strong arming people to vote in person only isn’t going to save the Republican Party from a historical and humiliating defeat this November.
Don't need to be ANY mail in ballots! End of story, it's called cheating! You wackos
So states rights is no longer a thing?
More lies while dams break & USA has flooding victims
Aren’t people getting how unacceptable his behavior is anymore. Despicable Donny apparently has special rules
Nevada Gov. Sisolak: 'For the President to threaten federal funding in the midst of a pandemic over a state exercising its authority to run elections in a safe and legal manner is inappropriate and outrageous.'
This just shows that Trump is crappy president and horrible person! He is such a child!
No to mail in votes. You can go to the store, you can go vote. And must have ID with you!!
He is running scared. Texas is also allowing the vote by mail choice.
Do stupid people know they are stupid?
Well inturn they can withhold fica
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NBC has zero credibility and an increasing number of people are slowly figuring that out
Every day it is something new with him. What’s next The closer we get to the election, it’s only going to get worse!!!!
Love mail in voting, quick and easy,,.
Isn't dump ass interfering with states rights? He can't get national testing organized un the most of a pandemic but he's worrying about states mailing applications.
So what ,, he's withholding from us all so calm down you guys are not alone here ... Dang!!!!!
MeetThePress We need to vote the Electoral College out. The popular vote counts. Not Electorates that are paid off.
What is happening to beautiful, mighty America! People are threatened in this hard times, no federal funding! So sad!
Picture of a one term president...
Wow! While the US flounders along for the next 5 years fighting Covid without a leader or direction, China will continue to grow unimpeded.
IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE .... for all to witness. Where you at senatemajldr and SenateGOP?
He is so ignorant...he needs to go!!!
Sounds a bit impeachable to me. Of course he can do none of this, he's just planting seeds of doubts when he loses in a landslide.
Trump’s a pathological liar
Of course also has he even acknowledged the flooding in Michigan right now or offered any help to the governors or any sympathy for the people of Michigan.
Trump full of funk like a rotten skunk, and we should all reluctantly but eventually scream?in Biden we trust?
🗣STATE’s RIGHTS!
Don't be surprised if Trump's next move to rig the election in his favor is to restrict voting to only Republican voters.
This is. Alllll wrong🤬🦠
wait, what?!
This can’t be legal.
Nobody wants him to run this country anymore! We've suffered enough.
Gop plz tell me why this legal!!
MeetThePress When you spend a lot of time and energy stoking fear in the public to stay away from the polls mail in ballots makes your efforts all for not. The loser just can’t win without cheating.
How about instead of saying “says falsely” you just say “lies about”?
Fascism 101. U must Use rigged machines as u stand in line to get infected & die for their economy. But not before u vote red like a fool.
This seems illegal
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