Wisconsin voters have been put into a life-and-death scenario: allow conservatives a good chance of keeping some of the positions open in today’s election, or risk their lives and the lives of their loved ones and communities by going to vote. This doesn’t even take into account the hundreds of thousands of votes that will not be counted this election day due to the last-minute hijacking of states’ and citizens’ rights by our Supreme Court. During Tuesday’s White House coronavirus press briefing, Donald Trump took a few questions from reporters, and gave his usual bologna answers, but one back and forth concerning the president’s hypocritical stance on vote-by-mail was illuminating.
REPORTER: You were highly critical of mail-in voting, mail-in ballots.
DONALD TRUMP: I think it's horrible. It's corrupt.
REPORTER: But you voted by mail in Florida's election last month—
TRUMP:—Sure I can vote by mail. Because I’m allowed to.
REPORTER: How do you reconcile that?
TRUMP: That's called out of state. You know why I voted? I happen to be in the White House and I can't go to Florida to vote.
Unwrapping how much lying and hypocrisy goes into the simplest of phrases Trump is able to piece together at any given time is like trying to untie a wet shoestring knot. First off, there’s the obvious hypocrisy of saying he thinks voting by mail is “ horrible” and “corrupt,” while also saying it is fine for him to do it because … he’s “allowed to.” The funny lie is that he says he couldn’t be in Florida to vote because he was at the White House. Considering that Trump has spent at least a third of his presidency in Florida at Mar-a-Lago, it’s a bit extraordinary that what would have been a legitimate excuse by almost any other politician, is a clear dodge by history’s worst president.