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brooklynite

(93,851 posts)
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 02:40 PM Aug 2020

Postal Service chief denies slowing down election mail to assist Trump

Last edited Fri Aug 7, 2020, 05:34 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Politico

The head of the United States Postal Service on Friday denied claims he was sabotaging election mail on behalf of President Donald Trump, as large delivery delays spark fears of a voting crisis associated with an increase in mail-in ballots.

...snip...

DeJoy pushed back against these claims during an open session of the Postal Service’s Board of Governors on Friday morning.

“While I certainly have a good relationship with the president of the United States, the notion that I would ever make decisions regarding the Postal Service at the direction of the president or anyone else in the administration is wholly off base,” DeJoy said.

The postmaster general also rejected allegations that he was purposefully slowing down mail ahead of the November election, where mail-in ballots are expected to play an outsize role due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/07/postal-service-chief-denies-slowing-down-election-mail-to-assist-trump-392555

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Postal Service chief denies slowing down election mail to assist Trump (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2020 OP
What a surprise rurallib Aug 2020 #1
If he admitted the truth, trump would fire him empedocles Aug 2020 #3
If he admitted the truth, he'd go to jail. lagomorph777 Aug 2020 #14
Dems need to get actual proof from credible postal incidences where slowdown is occuring onetexan Aug 2020 #35
It does look like we may have to go to the courts - scary prospect lagomorph777 Aug 2020 #38
I think that guy's gotta be removed -- he's nothing but an agent of interference for tRump Blue Owl Aug 2020 #2
He is trump donor and pal and trump put him into this top spot. riversedge Aug 2020 #23
So just run of the mill incompetence instead of a political malfeasance...good to know, you tool. Thomas Hurt Aug 2020 #4
Where's the link? NT BillE Aug 2020 #5
Here is the link I found srose58089 Aug 2020 #7
Thank you! BillE Aug 2020 #13
How About This? jayfish Aug 2020 #6
Did the Committee members follow up by asking him about how the Postal Workers no_hypocrisy Aug 2020 #8
if he says it it must be true yaesu Aug 2020 #9
Of course he isn't to help Trump, he is doing so he can run it bankrupt and he can buy what's left LiberalArkie Aug 2020 #10
Postmaster Admits To Dems That He's Slowed Mail mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 #11
You should post this as it's own OP. Thank you! chowder66 Aug 2020 #18
so he was lying in the Politico piece? What a surprise. LymphocyteLover Aug 2020 #39
It isn't just slowing the mail. It is mail missing too. LiberalFighter Aug 2020 #12
Gaslighting much? ananda Aug 2020 #15
Like tRump, this guy had zero Scarsdale Aug 2020 #16
Did he just admit he decided to do this all by himself? bucolic_frolic Aug 2020 #17
I caught that, too... IthinkThereforeIAM Aug 2020 #30
But he doesn't deny he's slowing down the mail. Fuck him. SunSeeker Aug 2020 #19
+1 CountAllVotes Aug 2020 #20
This message was self-deleted by its author CountAllVotes Aug 2020 #21
I live in a mixed political neighborhood. In a small town in the midwest that Trump won (stole 2016) usaf-vet Aug 2020 #22
Thank you for continuing to serve your country! SunSeeker Aug 2020 #26
Good for you for taking the time. One vote at a time. riversedge Aug 2020 #28
Why would you even suggest ...? (nt) stopdiggin Aug 2020 #24
He donated 2 million to Drumpf's campaign. Now he runs USPS. Start with that Congress. Evolve Dammit Aug 2020 #25
I mailed my mortgage payment in..................DeJoy your an hypocrite turbinetree Aug 2020 #27
Wait was it wrong? Should I not of done that? mahina Aug 2020 #29
Didn't do it to HELP trump...that's just a happy side effect! Maeve Aug 2020 #31
"....wholly off base". This guy has got to go. oasis Aug 2020 #32
Glad to see that the process is being watched and monitored by people, other than Maxheader Aug 2020 #33
Another liar. Hope they charge him with perjury. Joinfortmill Aug 2020 #34
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Aug 2020 #36
I'll bet his contractor companies are still making as much $$ as before. Captain Zero Aug 2020 #37

onetexan

(12,994 posts)
35. Dems need to get actual proof from credible postal incidences where slowdown is occuring
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 12:44 PM
Aug 2020

on a larger scale to charge him with election interference.

I actually think Dems need to be getting injunctions to stop the mail slowdown ASAP. On just the smell test alone it doesn't pass.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
38. It does look like we may have to go to the courts - scary prospect
Mon Aug 10, 2020, 08:19 AM
Aug 2020

given how badly Trump/Moscow Mitch have corrupted the courts.

no_hypocrisy

(45,771 posts)
8. Did the Committee members follow up by asking him about how the Postal Workers
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 02:56 PM
Aug 2020

have been saying that the sorting machines have universally been shut down arbitrarily. And that no overtime for work that needs to be done?

I don't care what DeJoy claims. The proof of his malfeasance is out there.

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,889 posts)
11. Postmaster Admits To Dems That He's Slowed Mail
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 03:09 PM
Aug 2020
Postmaster Admits To Dems That He’s Slowed Mail
August 7, 2020

The Washington Post reports:

The head of the U.S. Postal Service acknowledged in a meeting with top Democrats that he instituted new policies restricting overtime and extra mail processing trips, moves that the agency previously downplayed and that postal workers say have caused mail backlogs, according to a letter released Thursday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.).

Pelosi and Schumer met with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Wednesday to discuss reports of those delays, which have reverberated through this year’s primaries by slowing the delivery of absentee ballots. Internal Postal Service documents obtained by The Washington Post show that postal employees have been barred from working overtime hours and instructed to leave mail behind if it is processed late.

Read the full article.

LiberalFighter

(50,496 posts)
12. It isn't just slowing the mail. It is mail missing too.
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 03:09 PM
Aug 2020

I have not received last week's Thursday mail and as of right now have not received this Thursday or today's mail.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
16. Like tRump, this guy had zero
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 03:21 PM
Aug 2020

experience for the job. In order to get it, he HAD to agree with whatever tRump wanted, so here we are. Any rich person donating to the tRump coffers, gets a lucrative job, with no experience needed. They can screw everything up, and it is alright with tRump and the rest of the gop. Who was passed over for promotion so this donor could get the job, I wonder?

Response to SunSeeker (Reply #19)

usaf-vet

(6,094 posts)
22. I live in a mixed political neighborhood. In a small town in the midwest that Trump won (stole 2016)
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 04:04 PM
Aug 2020

Most of my neighbors have noticed as I have that their mail is arriving later than ever before. I asked our carrier if it was just my imagination or was it later. He just shook his head and said politics it's getting time to think about retiring. I replied the national news is suggesting the president has appointed a new postmaster who is purposely slowing down mail. I asked do you think it has something to do with voting by mail. The carrier has been our carrier for years. He sees what comes and goes from this address. He knows we Are Democrats by our mail and political signs on the lawn.

I put together a one-page flyer detailing what it appears Trump is doing intentionally to slow voting by mail and mail-in ballots. Over several days I walked about 7 seven blocks during the day and early evenings. To people who were out and about, I 'd try and strike up a conversation about slower mail. The majority (especially retired senior citizens) had noticed it arriving later some even arriving a day later than usual. Incoming bills and retirement checks.

The really interesting part was there are 6 to 8 known Trump supporters some already had Trump 2020 lawn signs out. Two asked me to leave. One demanded I leave a would not take the flyer. For the folks that were not home, I just dropped the flyer between the doors.

Over the last week, TWO of the Trump 2020 signs are gone from the lawn. One person, I talked to admitted he was a Republican and a veteran I told him I was a Democrat and USAF veteran. We both served during Vietnam. He thanked me for the flyer and said if true it was wrong. With Covid cases increasing in our region and both of us in our seventies. We agreed that voting by mail was the safest way for us. For this election and future elections.

I don't know if I changed and minds but the missing Trump signs is intriguing. Here is hoping it might have been the straw that broke the camels back.

Evolve Dammit

(16,632 posts)
25. He donated 2 million to Drumpf's campaign. Now he runs USPS. Start with that Congress.
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 04:39 PM
Aug 2020

Quid Pro Quo. Never stops.

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
27. I mailed my mortgage payment in..................DeJoy your an hypocrite
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:23 PM
Aug 2020

in my neighborhood we have seen the mail slow down a lot........so if I get a letter saying that they didn't get my payment on time.................who is at fault.......me or you, not the postal workers.....

Maxheader

(4,366 posts)
33. Glad to see that the process is being watched and monitored by people, other than
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 08:07 AM
Aug 2020


the donnybots...Too bad if it seems over the top for some....

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