Real story behind the post office 'election theft' conspiracy...

 

Don't Fall for the Post Office 'Election Theft' Conspiracy Theory
By Buck Sexton

Dear reader,

If you want to get attention in 2020, come up with a crazy conspiracy involving President Donald Trump...

Even the most so-called sophisticated political minds fall prey to the most outlandish anti-Trump tale.

First came "Russia Collusion." For three years of the Trump presidency, the news media ran wild with their theories of international scheming and traitorous undermining of American democracy.

This scheme had its foundation in the dossier from Christopher Steele, a sloppy British ex-spy, who dressed up gossip as intel reporting and managed to dupe an all-too-willing cabal at the FBI with lurid tales of golden showers in Moscow, among other outrageous charges.

A thriller writer would have passed on it as a plot for a novel. CNN and the national media had no such reservations.

It led to countless hours of media coverage and a yearslong special counsel investigation. Now we know, beyond any reasonable doubt, the Russia Collusion scheme was a fairytale. The Mueller probe confirmed it and the Durham investigation has racked up its first prosecution of a former FBI lawyer who was part of the fabrication.

And the final bipartisan investigative report released yesterday by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which interviewed more than 200 witnesses and reviewed more than 1 million pages of documents, also found no evidence of collusion. Acting Chairman Marco Rubio noted in a statement:

We can say, without any hesitation, that the Committee found absolutely no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government to meddle in the 2016 election.

What the Committee did find however is very troubling. We found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling. And we discovered deeply troubling actions taken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, particularly their acceptance and willingness to rely on the 'Steele Dossier' without verifying its methodology or sourcing.

Nonetheless, the political maneuvering of the Russia collusion catastrophe served its purpose for a time. The process was the punishment.

Trump's administration spent enormous energy and resources defending itself from this fabrication of Hillary Clinton's Democratic Party and a handful of Deep State plotters inside the federal bureaucracy. The idea of collusion also gave the Democrat base a comforting story to tell that absolved Hillary of losing and redirected its constituents' anger.

To the Democrat faithful, Russia collusion meant that Trump cheated, so he isn't really the president.

Now, the Democrats are running the same playbook for the 2020 election...

The Post Office conspiracy is becoming the Democrat Party's "secret weapon" narrative to fire up its base and undermine any Trump victory before a single vote is cast.

In short, the new theory is that Donald Trump is trying to defund or even eliminate the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in order to stop vote-by-mail operations across the country.

But the evidence ranges from the dishonest to the absurd...

Photos appeared across social media last week showing post office employees removing mailboxes from the street. Other photos showed locked mailboxes.

Turns out none of the pictures showed anything nefarious or even unusual – post offices often adjust drop box locations – but it didn't matter. The story was too good for Trump haters to pass up.

Then, Democratic leadership like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer went full throttle with allegations that Trump was undermining the Post Office as a voter-suppression scheme because he won't agree to a $25 billion bailout check for the USPS.

I hope we can agree there is a difference between allegations that Trump is "dismantling the USPS," as pop music star Taylor Swift weighed in on Twitter, and declining to be politically blackmailed into handing that same agency billions of dollars more after it has lost billions year after year.

Simply put, the allegations are nuts. The Postal Service doesn't answer to Trump. It's already funded until 2021. And there is no danger that Trump can pull all money from it, nor is he threatening to do so.

In reality, the Democrats have decided that they want universal mail-in ballots for this election, without anywhere near the logistical planning or funding surge necessary to prepare for that in a reasonable fashion. It is also a massive invitation for voter fraud in what is likely to be a very tight election.

Beyond that, the USPS is a poorly run entity that has been losing billions of dollars in recent years (around $78 billion since 2007). It has 600,000 employees, but its mail carriage was down 33% in 2019. And about half of what is does deliver is junk mail and unwanted marketing material. In a world with FedEx, UPS, and Amazon, the USPS needs to be pared down and streamlined. Trump advocates for this because it is what common sense demands.

Instead of acknowledging the real problems from the USPS, Democrats have seized this moment for maximum political advantage. They are claiming Trump's refusal to cave to their every demand for the USPS is tantamount to another Russia collusion election theft.

With the 2020 election looming, it's clear what's at play. This post office conspiracy not only fires up the Democrat base, it also gives them a ready excuse in case Trump wins. "He stole it!" will be the rallying cry of the resistance.

And we will all be worse off as a country for the lie.

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