August 13, 2020

By Thom Hartmann

Last year the US Postal Service delivered over 1 billion prescriptions to Americans. It’s the main way that veterans get their medications, and increasingly all across America people are getting their pharmaceuticals that way.

Donald Trump doesn’t care. He doesn’t care how many people die because their medications are late and they go into diabetic shock or their blood pressure explodes. He just doesn’t care.

In fact, he’s enthusiastic about this. He was bragging on Fox News about how he’s blocking money to the Post Office so that people can’t vote by mail. And now, all across America, people are reporting that their mail has already slowed down.

Congress is trying to pass legislation to help out the tens of millions of Americans who are unemployed because of this administration’s incompetence in handling the Trump Virus.

Trump and Mark Meadows are openly blocking that legislation because it contains funding for the Post Office, and Trump has now explicitly threatened to veto any legislation that increases funding for the Post Office.

We’ve already seen Trump sabotage dozens of major federal agencies, like the EPA and the USDA, to help polluting industries and big donors.

Now he is actively sabotaging the Post Office to steal an election. And Republicans, facing electoral defeat in overwhelming numbers, apparently agree with him that this is a good idea.

The number for the congressional switchboard is 202-224-3121. Call now.

Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of The Hidden History of American Oligarchy and more than 30 other books in print. His most recent project is a science podcast called The Science Revolution. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute.



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