Trump Ripping on His Man USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy

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U.S. Presidents can not remove the Postmaster General. So, Louis is safe if that is what people and the author of this piece seems to think Biden can do.

However, this is rich in that Louis Dejoy was Trump’s selection and sent to the USPS Board of Governors and they appointed Louis. It is only recently that Biden was able to replace the Governors who have served their term. And here we are reading about Trump whining about slow mail. DeJoy gave Trump’s campaign $1.2 million before becoming the Postmaster General. Read the write up by Ms. Stoddard (below).

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Trump Attacks the Post Office – and Democracy

“We have very bad elections. We have a bad voting system. And we have mail-in ballots. You know it’s very interesting, I read the other day, the post office is saying how bad it is,” Trump told Root.

“The post office is critiquing themself saying, ‘We’re really in bad shape, we can’t deliver the mail,’ and they’re not even talking about mail-in ballots, ‘Well, we’re gonna dump millions and millions of ballots,’” Trump added. “And I’m saying to myself, ‘How can they be taking the vote?’”

Then there was this: “And I said, you know, we ought to go to court, and we ought to bring a lawsuit, because they’re gonna lose hundreds of thousands of ballots. Maybe purposely. Or maybe just through incompetence.”

We have very bad elections . . . they’re gonna lose hundreds of thousands of ballots.

The post office has not “admitted” it is a mess. Nor does it “run” presidential elections. The United States Postal Service did respond to a recent letter from the National Association of Election Directors that expressed concerns over slow processing, a lack of required training for post office workers handling election mail, and lost mail. The Director of Election Mail and Government Services responded to the organization with a statement saying:

“We are ready to deliver. We were successful in 2020 delivering a historic volume of mail in ballots; also in 2022 and will do so again in 2024.”

According to Postal Service analyses, in the 2020 election nearly 98 percent of ballots were returned to election officials within three days, while 99.9 percent of ballots were delivered within seven days.