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Trump fired all three remaining members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on Thursday, abruptly disabling the only federal agency devoted solely to election administration at a moment when Trump has sought to reshape federal voting rules.
The two Democratic commissioners, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland, were notified by email. “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as Commissioner of the Election Assistance Commission is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” the email said. It was signed by Morgan DeWitt Snow, deputy director of presidential personnel in the Executive Office of the President.
The third commissioner, Republican Christy McCormick, was allowed to resign, according to three sources within the agency. McCormick declined to comment when reached by phone. The agency’s fourth commissioner, Republican Donald Palmer, voluntarily departed the agency earlier this year to join the Heritage Foundation.
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This was the plan from the beginning. Don’t act surprised now or when there are armed men at polling stations on Election Day.
Welp.
We lived long enough to see America become a 3rd world shithole.
Edit: Don’t care if I get banned. This traitor’s head needs to be on a pike.
Always was.
🌎🧑🚀🔫👨🚀
Statements like this make me think you haven’t been paying attention.
I never thought in my lifetime the United States would need “International Observers”.
Yeah that’s for countries that don’t respect democracy, not… Oh nevermind.
I’m not sure the last time I saw the phrase international observers offhand (I am sure it’s happened but just missed it) but they are definitely needed in that country. They seem to be degrading themselves to third world, in function if not by cold war meaning.
Umm excuse me. Who the hell do you think you are calling us a third world. That label belongs to shit whole countries didn’t you hear our lord and DT say so about another country. How dare you accuse us of being like THEM.
Okay I can only act like that so much before I start to vomit. All jokes aside we are more in line with a 4th world (even if there is no such thing) instead of a 3rd world. I still can believe this motherfucker got elected TWICE.
i think it’s so funny how americans think they live in a democracy while one guy just fires whomever he wants.
To be fair, a democracy is normally a system where the people elect a smaller group of representives to make decisions for them.
I don’t think any country has implemented a full direct democracy where the entire population votes on everything.
But not just anyone… The court said he couldn’t fire that guy from the fed, cause that’s clearly the only important thing that the president needs oversight on /s. Despite the fact that he’s destroying the economy other ways. It’s all fucking ridiculous
Yeah we in the rest of the world call that a “dictatorship” m’dudes.
It was a lot easier to believe the illusion before the Orange Don.
Was there always a lack of repercussions to illegal actions or were administrations playing nice for the most part?
I’m guessing like with other actions some federal judge will ask to reinstate them when it’s far too late
There was a supreme court decision during the current administration that basically said the president can’t be held accountable. It’s completely insane.
There were repurcussions most of the time until Nixon got pardoned. Grant got a speeding ticket on a horse from a beat cop who knew exactly who he was, and Grant paid the ticket. But after Nixon, all bets were off.
Was there always a lack of repercussions to illegal actions or were administrations playing nice for the most part?
Oh my god how much more evidence do you need to acknowledge they’re in on it?
I’m not following, are you saying the judges are? This administration? All previous administrations and this one?
Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden along with Ginsberg, Schumer, Pelosi, McConnell and more.
They serve corporations, billionaires and Israel. They don’t give a fuck about you.
It would be incredible and one hell of a historic moment if the Orange Pedophile’s reign, which has exposed all our system’s flaws, actually resulted in us plugging those holes and updating our political machine to prevent this all from happening again.
But the bottom line is that would require voter action and Americans are dogshit stupid.
i would wholeheartedly wish such a change for you guys.
Plug the holes of centuries of murder and pillage? Can you fix all the countries you’ve invaded or couped since WWII? Can you bring back all the dead fisherman or those 200 little girls trump killed this year? Can you bring back all the Iraqis, Afghanis, Vietnamese or Koreans?
Death to America.
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Very ironic username.
How original of you.
i think it’s so funny how americans think they live in a democracy
Not just any 'ol democracy, but the bestest one ever!!1!!
And validated as just fine by the unelected supreme court.
Good times.
Democracy requires public commitment, but people will always choose what benefits them in the shortest expanse at the cost of long term benefits.
When the ancient greeks who layed the groundwork can pinpoint the cycle to a fault, isn’t that a sign of a system that is dubious at best in its performance?
Can’t win because you’re shit? Cheat.
- Republican Party Saying
Drump is one of the most hated presidents in US history, seriously none of this will work out in the favor of the Republican party. Fuel shortages start soon, all thanks to Trump’s economy.
They’re not even going to pretend to count the votes, are they?
They can count???
They don’t count as politicians because they don’t count the voters. They are something else.
They will definitely pretend to count the votes.
Hahahahhahhahhahahhha, no.
Depends on what state you’re in.
Really interested to know why nobody near this guy has any spine whatsoever.
Easy, they’re conservatives/regressives.
Plenty of people near him have a spine. They just aren’t your friends
Doubtful anyone near him has a spine. They all fold faster than superman on laundry day. Even when it harms them.
This is it. His big move. It’s all out in the open now and the endgame is midterms. C’mon citizens of all stripes, choose neighbourhood reps to watch and video all the polling booths on election day. You’ll need that insurance.
Uh, not this year.
Fired the Democrat, but “allowed the Republican to resign”. That is some petty shit. Not that it surprises me coming from Trump and the hairs he has hanging on to his balls like DeWitt.
Can’t wait to see how much phantom voter fraud his administration uncovers exclusively in states run by people Trump personally doesn’t like. With no mention of how they know there is any fraud to begin with since it seems like they have fired everyone on the Federal side that had any direct insight into elections with this announcement.
I’m sure someone in the media will get right on that line of thought when the time comes. /s
Well they haven’t found fraud yet, have they? They need to be replaced with people who will find “fraud”, who will get the necessary votes, and disregard votes where there were “illegal immigrants” …… you can tell because they speak Spanish
Seems petty on the surface, but doesnt that leave the democrats able to apply for unemployment, while the Republicans can’t because they resigned?
he’s setting himself up for a coup from a general, at this point it could really happen
As long as he does the coup really fast, he can turn around and claim that it was all executive actions for which he has immunity from any potential crimes.
There’s TONS of ELECTION FRAUD so we need to FIRE the ONLY people who’s ENTIRE JOBS are to MONITOR these Crimes!
-Republicans LITERALLY!
“there’s tons of election fraud and these people didn’t find it so they need to be fired”
You need to use your imagination a bit more buddy.
Don’t worry, he’ll replace them with his cronies soon enough
Called it. As soon as the Supreme Court gave their ruling on hiring/firing within independent agencies, I figured the FEC/EAC would be screwed. Godddamn, I hate this administration.
they saw midterms were going to crucify gop and trump, so they had to act quick.
Midterms are still going to crucify gop and trump, tho probably only metaphorically speaking
“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”
David Frum
The fact that we didn’t imprison him and every other Bush lackey is a big part of why we’re in our current situation
I’d argue it was the failure to prosecute the separatists following the Civil War that was the original sin. The laws and precedents that would’ve been set in the process of prosecuting Confederate leaders and political supporters would’ve prevented a lot of the should-be-illegal insurectionist actions that have been ignored as “performative” for decades
