WE’LL SHOW YOU THE LATEST
>>> HERE’S A HEADLINE YOU DON’T
READ EVERY DAY.
YESTERDAY THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES ACCUSED HIS
PREDECESSOR, PRESIDENT BARACK
OBAMA IN THIS CASE, OF TREASON.
>> THE SPYING SITUATION, THIS
IDEA THEY WERE SPYING ON YOUR
CAMPAIGN, YOU’VE BEEN ASKED
BEFORE ABOUT WHAT CRIME HE WOULD
HAVE POTENTIALLY COMMITTED --
>> TREASON.
TREASON.
IT’S TREASON.
LOOK, WHEN I CAME OUT A LONG
TIME AGO I SAID THEY’VE BEEN
SPYING ON MY CAMPAIGN.
THEY’VE BEEN TAPING, THAT WAS IN
QUOTES, A MODERN DAY VERSION OF
TAPING, IT’S ALL THE SAME THING
BUT A MODERN DAY VERSION.
BUT THEY’VE BEEN SPYING ON MY
CAMPAIGN.
>> AGAIN, NO EVIDENCE OF THE
SPYING.
IN THE SERIES OF TWEETS
YESTERDAY, PRESIDENT TRUMP
CONTINUED TO SPOUT BASELESS
CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT MAIL
IN VOTING.
HE CLAIMED WITHOUT EVIDENCE
RIGGED 2020 ELECTION MILLIONS OF
MAIL IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED
BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND OTHERS,
IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR
TIMES.
MORE THAN 32 MILLION AMERICANS
VOTED BY MAIL IN 2016 WITH NO
SIGNS OF WIDESPREAD FRAUD
FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC.
PRESIDENT TRUMP WENT ON TO ADD,
WE VOTED DURING WORLD WAR I AND
WORLD WAR II WITH NO PROBLEM BUT
NOW THEY’RE USING COVID IN ORDER
TO CHEAT BY USING MAIL-IN.
JOHN MEACHAM, WE DON’T WANT TO
GET MIRED IN ALL OF DONALD
TRUMP’S TWEETS BUT THESE ARE
SIGNIFICANT.
HE’S ACCUSING HIS PREDECESSOR,
PRESIDENT OBAMA, OF COMMITTING
TREASON AGAINST HIS CAMPAIGN AND
THIS LATEST SERIES OF TWEETS
TALK ABOUTING ABOUT MAIL-IN
VOTING.
HE APPEARS TO BE SOFTENING THE
GROUND UNLESS HE LOSES THE FREE
AND FAIR RACE FROM THE
BEGINNING.
>> THAT WAS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT
THING THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY,
YOU’RE RIGHT, HE’S LAYING A
PREDICATE FOR RAISING
FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS ABOUT A
RESULT THAT HE FEARS WILL RUN
AGAINST HIM.
AND SO, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF TULSA OR THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF WHETHER FOLKS
SHOW UP IN THE DESERT TODAY, IT
IS REALLY ABOUT THE RESULT OF
THE CAMPAIGN THAT HE’S THINKING
ABOUT.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE KNOW
FROM THE LAST FOUR OR FIVE YEARS
IS THAT THE MORE HE SAYS
SOMETHING, THE MORE A
SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE
POPULATION WILL BELIEVE IT OR AT
LEAST PRETEND TO BELIEVE IT FOR
WHATEVER PURPOSE.
AND I THINK THAT’S THE -- IN
MANY WAYS I USE THIS WORD
ADVISEEDLY, THE SCARIEST THING
ABOUT THIS BECAUSE WITHOUT
PRACTICING PSYCHIATRY, WITHOUT A
LICENSE, HE WAS ACCUSING SOMEONE
ELSE YESTERDAY OF TREASON ON THE
SAME DAY HE WAS TALKING ABOUT
SUBVERTING OUR DEMOCRACY, SO YOU
WONDER IF THERE WAS SOME
PROJECTION THERE.
THE THING ABOUT OBAMA, THIS IS
HOW TRUMP GOT TO THIS PARTY WAS
BY RAISING RACIST QUESTIONS
ABOUT -- FALSELY RAISING
QUESTIONS ABOUT BARACK OBAMA’S
BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
RIGHT.
THAT’S ONE OF THE REASONS HE IS
PRESIDENT.
THAT IS THE TICKET HE RODE TO
POLITICAL PROMINENCE IN THIS
PARTICULAR ERA.
SO HIS HOSTILITY TO OBAMA IS OF
A PIECE.
THERE ARE VERY FEW COHERENT
ELEMENTS ACTUALLY IN THE TRUMP
WORLD.
BUT A DISCOMFORT WITH, DISLIKE
OF, AND DISDAIN FOR, BARACK
OBAMA IS ONE OF THEM.
AND I SUSPECT ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT’S DRIVING HIM A LITTLE
CRAZY RIGHT NOW IS THAT BIDEN IS
MORE ELUSIVE.
BIDEN IS, IN SOME WAYS, AND I
SAY THIS WITH RESPECT, A MORE
CONVENTIONAL POLITICAL FIGURE.
IT’S JUST HARDER.
BARACK OBAMA WAS THE FIRST
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT,
HILLARY CLINTON WAS TRYING TO BE
THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT.
THAT GAVE TRUMP, WITH HIS KIND
OF ARCHIE BUNKER-ISM, EXCEPT
ARCHIE BUNKER WAS KNICKSFICTIONA
GAVE HIM TARGETS.
BIDEN IS NOT THAT.
BIDEN IS SOMEONE WHO COMES FROM
VIRTUALLY THE WORLD THAT GAVE
TRUMP A LOT OF INROADS IN 2016.
I THINK IN SOME EVANGELICAL HE
HAS
-- I THINK IN SOME LEVEL HE HAS
A FEAR THAT BIDEN WILL TAKE
THOSE VOTES AWAY.
>> REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT TRYING
TO SHORE UP THE ELECTION
PROCESS, THAT’S WHERE THEY FEEL
THE PRESIDENT IS GOING TO GO TO
TRY AND WIN.
PRESIDENT TRUMP CONTINUES TO
RAIL AGAINST MAIL-IN VOTING,
BEEN DOING SO ON TWITTER.
BUT HIS CLOSEST AIDES REPORTEDLY
HAVE EMBRACED IT.
FOR YEARS.
ACCORDING TO THE RECORDS
OBTAINED, VICE PRESIDENT MIKE
PENCE AND HALF A DOZEN OF
TRUMP’S OTHER SENIOR ADVISERS
HAVE VOTED BY MAIL.
YOU KNOW WHY?
BECAUSE IT WORKS.
MILITARY DOES IT TOO.
MORE THAN THREE YEARS OF LEAVING
THE INDIANA GOVERNOR’S
RESIDENCE, PENCE STILL VOTES
FROM THAT ADDRESS.
BETSY DeVOS HAS PERMANENT VOTING
STATUS IN MICHIGAN.
BRAD PARSCALE VOTED ABSENTEE IN
TEXAS IN 2018 AND DID NOT VOTE
IN THE GENERAL ELECTION TWO
YEARS EARLIER WHEN TRUMP’S NAME
WAS ON THE BRALALLOT.
TWO OTHER SENIOR CAMPAIGN
OFFICIALS VOTED BY MAIL IN NEW
JERSEY WHILE ONE VOTED BY MAIL
IN GEORGIA SINCE 2014.
IN ADDITION, WHITE HOUSE PRESS
SECRETARY KAYLEIGH McENNAYNY HAS
VOTED BY MAIL IN EVERY FLORIDA
ELECTION SHE’S PARTICIPATED IN
SINCE 2010.
AND ACCORDING TO "THE WASHINGTON
POST" IVANKA TRUMP ATTEMPTED TO
VOTE ABSENTEE FOR NEW YORK MAYOR
2017 BUT SENT THE BALLOT TOO
LATE.
HER HUSBAND, JARED KUSHNER
REQUESTED A BALLOT FOR THE
MAYORAL ELECTION IN 2017 BUT
DIDN’T RETURN IT.
KELLYANNE CONWAY VOTED ABSENTEE
IN 2018.
REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN RONA
McDANIEL VOTED ABSENTEE IN
MICHIGAN MULTIPLE TIMES.
AND DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF WHO
VOTED ABSENTEE HIMSELF IN 2018
AND IN FLORIDA’S MARCH PRIMARY.
JONATHAN LEMIRE, LOOK, HE’S
LOSING IN SWING STATES.
HE HAS NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT JOE
BIDEN, EXCEPT HE’S SLEEPY.
AND THE SHOW IS ITTIRED AND THE
SEATS WON’T FILL.
THIS IS THE NEXT BATTLEGROUND
FOR THE PRESIDENT.
WHETHER IT BE ASKING FOR FOREIGN
HELP OR TAMPERING WITH THE
ELECTION OR JUST TRYING TO UNDER
MINE THE PROCESS, WOULD THAT BE
FAIR TO SAY HIS FOCUS MIGHT BE
ON HOW TO WIN A DIFFERENT WAY?
>> I THINK MIKA WHAT YOU’RE
SPELLING OUT HERE IS CAUSING
RISING ALARM AMONG DEMOCRATS AND
GOVERNMENT GROUPS WONDERING
WHERE THE PRESIDENT IS GOING
WITH ALL OF THIS.
WE HAVE SEEN HIM FOR WEEKS NOW
RAIL AGAINST THE IDEA OF MAIL-IN
VOTING, SUGGESTING WITHOUT
EVIDENCE, THAT IT COULD LEAD TO
WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD.
IN 2016 HE CLAIMED THERE WAS
VOTER FRAUD THEN.
HE THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE ABOUT
3 OR 4 MILLION ILLEGAL VOTES
CAST.
COINCIDENTALLY, THAT WAS ABOUT
THE MARGIN OF HIS DEFEAT IN THE
POPULAR VOTE TO HILLARY CLINTON.
HE SIGNED A COMMISSION TO STUDY
THAT.
THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE ANY OF
THAT HAPPENED EITHER.
I THINK WE’VE SEEN DISTURBING
SCENES IN GEORGIA.
CONCERNS ABOUT THE ELECTION IN
KENTUCKY.
THE ONE IN WISCONSIN THAT WAS
HELD DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE
PANDEMIC IN THAT STATE ABOUT
RESTRICTIONS TO ACCESS TO
VOTING.
I THINK THERE IS A SENSE HERE
THAT IS ONE OF THE PLAYS THAT
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS TRYING
TO USE.
TRYING TO SIMPLY MAKE IT HARDER
FOR PEOPLE TO VOTE.
THEY’LL HAVE THEIR ARGUMENTS WHY
THEY’RE TRYING TO DO THAT BUT
DEMOCRATS SAY THEY’RE SIMPLY
TRYING TO TAKE AWAY UP ONE OF
THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE BECAUSE
REPUBLICANS THINKS AND EVERYONE
AGREES A LOWER TURNOUT RACE
PROBABLY HELPS DONALD TRUMP AND
RIGHT NOW THEY’RE STUMBLING.
SATURDAY NIGHT IN TULSA WAS
MEANT TO BE THE CAMPAIGN REBOOT,
THE RESTART, ENERGIZE THE
PRESIDENT, REASSURE REPUBLICANS
SEEING THESE POLLS.
INSTEAD THEY’RE FACED WITH
THOUSANDS OF EMPTY SEATS AND
REAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MESSAGE
AND DIRECTION OF THE CAMPAIGN,
THE STATUS OF HIS SENIOR STAFF,
AND WHETHER THEY CAN EVER