They'll also be aware that their boss has been meeting regularly with Republican leaders as well as reshuffling USPS leadership in an apparent bid to get people who would resist his efforts out of the way. They also can't miss the fact that they're losing equipment, from sorting machines to the actual shelving they use to sort mail manually.
And if it wasn't clear enough to postal workers that all of this was extremely political, Trump told them so directly this week. "They want $25 billion, billion, for the Post Office. Now they need that money in order to make the Post Office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots," said Trump. "But 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.”
DeJoy's ham-handed response is as transparent as Trump's. He just lies. Last week he said that the USPS is "not slowing down election mail or any other mail" and has "ample capacity to deliver all election mail securely and on time." He also said that while he has a "good relationship" with Trump, "the notion that I would ever make decisions concerning the Postal Service at the direction of the President or anyone else in the administration is wholly off-base." Don't believe your lying eyes, believe another Trump lackey.
He lies about the efforts of Democrats to fund the USPS. He lies about his own motivations and his fealty to Trump. He lies about the delays he is creating in mail delivery. At the same time that his own agency is warning that in Pennsylvania, there's "a risk that ballots requested near the deadline under state law will not be returned by mail in time to be counted under your laws as we understand them."
It doesn't get more transparent than that. Trump doesn't care how many people he kills or how many institutions he destroys—including the very foundations of democracy in this country—to stay in power. And the Republican Party is aiding and abetting him.
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