Trump, despite his record, eyes prime-time address on foreign election interference
As this week got underway, Donald Trump announced by way of his social media platform that he’d deliver “a Speech to the Nation” on Thursday night, though the president initially didn’t say a word about why or what he intended to say. Hours later, however, he spoke via phone to Newsmax and shed some light on what the public can expect to hear.
“Our elections are crooked and we’ve got to straighten them out,” Trump said, peddling familiar, tiresome nonsense. “We’ve got to have voter ID; we’ve got to have proof of citizenship; and we have got to do something about the mail-in ballots, which are just corrupt, crooked and should not be allowed.”
In other words, the president remains focused on his voter-suppression proposal, which the White House has labeled the Save America Act and which congressional Republicans have already conceded they can’t pass.
We’ll learn soon enough what makes its way onto the Republican’s teleprompter, but there’s one thing of particular interest that’s likely to make the cut.
MS NOW, citing comments from two White House officials granted anonymity to discuss internal plans, reported on Monday afternoon that Trump plans to address newly declassified intelligence reports that the White House asserts reveal plans by foreign nations to interfere in the 2020 election.
One obviously can’t fact-check claims that have yet to be made, but if the president and his team follow through on these plans, there are a few things the public should keep in mind.
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Steve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”
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