>> Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs Committee. And there were several moments worth highlighting including how he
tried to play dumb when it came to the post office, changing its operations by picking
up mail drop boxes, and also taking mail sorting machines out of service.
So here's DeJoy, pretending like he had no idea what was going on.
>> Since my arrival, we removed 700 post collection boxes of which I had no idea that that was
a process. When I found out about it, we socialized it here as a leadership team, and look at
what the what the excitement was it was creating, so I decided to stop it and we'll pick it
up after the election.
On the machines, the machines we are speaking about, again, mail volume is dropping. This
is a process that I was unaware about. It's been around for a couple of years now. And
I repeat, both the collection boxes and the machine close down, I was made aware when
everybody else was made aware.
>> Okay, so he's lying. One good factor to consider in whether you wanna determine whether
he's lying or not is that he has investments in companies that the post office serves as
a competitor to. So already, there's a huge conflict of interest there. But let me also
note that he just mentioned that, I didn't know this was going on.
I didn't know that they were picking up these drop boxes. I didn't know that they were taking
these male sorting machines out of service. That's why once I found out, I decided to
stop it, he decided to stop it when it was already too late, when literally hundreds
of mail sorting machines had already been taken out of service.
And after there was backlash. When it made national headlines, and everyone was outraged,
he finally decided to respond to that backlash by agreeing that he would halt these changes
to the post office. But keep in mind that much of the damage had already been done.
And I'm not buying for a second that he didn't know what was going on.
So let me give you some of the actual numbers and evidence and you can judge for yourselves
whether you believe me or you believe this crook. So as Ari Berman tweeted out, the United
States Postal Service ordered to remove 671 male sorting machines under DeJoy. Okay, so
here are some specific numbers broken down by state so 59 were taken out of service in
Florida.
58 in Texas, 34 in Ohio, 30 in Pennsylvania, 26 in Michigan, 15 in North Carolina, 12 in
Virginia, 12 in Wisconsin, 11 in Georgia, and he has made it clear that he will not
reinstall the mail sorting machines that have already been taken out of service. And as
Ari Berman perfectly points out there, this is a major crisis especially considering that
we have this general election coming up.
DeJoy mentioned that, these decisions were made because there's been a slowdown in mail.
Okay, that's fair, especially after the pandemic, there has been a slowdown in mail. But also
because of the pandemic, it's abundantly clear that many Americans are gonna rely on mail
and voting in order to cast their ballots.
And the post office knows that. How do I know the post office knows that? Because they ward
all 50 states that the post office will not have the capability to process all the mail
in ballots that are gonna come in because they have taken these machines out of service.
So that argument is null and void, it's garbage. It's trash, it's a lie. And by the way, just
to show you how much of a difference this year is compared to previous years when mail
sorting machines were taken out of service. In 2018, for instance, the agency, the post
office decommissioned about 3% of its delivery barcode sorters or 125 machines in 2019.
It was 5% or 186 machines. The 671 on this year's list amounted to about 13%. Gee, I
wonder why there was the sharp increase in the number of machines they took out of service
in a year when we're about to have a general election. Wow, is that just a crazy coincidence
or are we hearing from a crook who's lying to the American people about helping Donald
Trump rigging the election?
>> Okay, so two things here. So first of all, they said, no, look, we're looking to save
money here cuz of the lower volume and we happen to Bitcoin suddenly be speeding it
up massively during the election year. But it's okay, it's gonna save $1.6 billion. Okay,
well, that does sound like a lot.
Now there's costs associated with it too. So that's gotta be a big number to justify
the costs. So did they save 1.6 billion? Nope, theoretically they saved $91 million, which
I'm not sure even covers the cost. So as usual, a massive lie under Donald Trump, 6 billion.
That's 91 million.
Who cares? Who cares? Just move on, move on. And so that's what is that, that's less than
10% of what they promised, about 6% of the cost savings that they promised. Okay, so
now the second thing is he says, I'm sure I didn't know what was going on.
I mean you'd have to ask the HR person who charges the post office. Dude, you're the
guy in charge of the post office. You, that's your job. What are we doing? We're dismantling
the mailers, sorters, I don't know that. Taking away the boxes. I don't know that. What do
you know?
What do you know? Do you know that it was 3%, 5%, 13%? No, I don't know. What are you
doing? What are you doing? Okay, but now as Jerry Jackson, our senior producer said earlier
this morning in our production meeting, I'm trying to give him credit for great point
there, is that, wait, you don't know, but now you say it's absolutely essential that
you do it.
It's essential that you do the thing that you don't know about. If you asked me about
a physics problem that I don't know, I wouldn't say, I don't know what that's about, but it's
essential. How do you know? I don't know it. I don't know it. I don't know the formula
at all.
I don't even know if it's right, right? If you showed me a random formula and claimed
that it was physics. So, no, it makes no sense at all. This guy's an obvious liar.
>> The mail sorting machines are so important for the upcoming election and the Washington
Post did a great job in breaking down the numbers to show what an average worker can
do with sorting mail versus what these machines can do.
And to be clear, both are very important. DeJoy also has cut overtime hours for postal
workers, which is also a bad move when you know you're gonna have this influx of mail
in ballots. But according to a grievance that was filed by the American Postal Workers Union,
the Postal Service was poised to decommission 671 of the massive machines about 10% of its
inventory and capable of sorting 21.4 million pieces of paper mail per hour.
The Postal Service, by comparison, processes as much as 500 million items each day. So
it's an important part of the Postal Service, especially during this general election to
have those machines in place. And again, Louis DeJoy is lying to us. But there was one moment
where he was honest and it had to do with whether or not he would be willing to reinstall
these machines.
Let's take a look. >> Well, we've heard about the sorters. You
addressed that earlier. Well, you'll be bringing back any mail sorting machines that have been
removed since you become Postmaster General. Any of those come back?
>> There's no intention to do that. They're not needed, sir.
>> So you will not bring back any processors.
>> And not needed, sir >> That is also a lie. So let me go to the
graphics. Let me go to the numbers. States with more people, states with more people,
meaning more people are gonna wanna vote, right? Hence, a larger USPS footprint had
more machines taken out.
California had the greatest number, 76 followed by Florida, 59, Texas 58, New York 52, and
Ohio 34. Alaska is the only state with no machines on the list. And also according to
data provided by the Union, 618 of the 671 machines were to be disconnected by August
1st.
I give you those numbers because DeJoy is like, no, no, don't come at me. Okay, don't
come at me. I said, I would stop. I'm gonna stop no more. No more trouble. No more trouble.
I'm not gonna touch the machines anymore. Yeah, except the plan was to get rid of 671
and by the time you agreed to stop these operational changes, 618 of the machines had already been
put out of service.
So the damage was already done and he's being clear in that he will not reinstall the machines
in time for the election. >> Yeah, but Ana, he really needed to do that.
But what is it that he did? He doesn't know. But he does know it was really needed.
And yeah, if you dismantle 618 out of 671, it's already mission accomplished. So this
is as usual, the democrats whistling past the graveyard. So here's a question I would
ask DeJoy. You have 30 to $75 million invested in competitors and contractors to the post
office, what is it, is a 30 is it 75?
What are the competitors? What are the contractors? And how much money are you gonna make by destroying
a post office? Why are we pussyfooting around this? No, no, you will make tens of millions
of dollars through these actions so that you if you don't lay out exactly how you're planning
to profit off of destroying the post office, you're not gonna have that job anymore.
You're not gonna have a tomorrow. But the Democrats would never do that, cuz unless
they're fighting progressives, they're cowards. >> One other video that I do wanna show the
audience is DeJoy making these bold statements about how, well, these actions needed to take
place. I didn't know anything about them, but these actions were essential.
Okay, well, where's the data indicating that these actions were essential? He was asked
that question during the hearing. Let's see how we responded.
>> Senator, the policy analysis we did would show that we would improve service to every
constituent. >> So that's great. So can you provide me,
by this Sunday, if I understand you correctly, you have an analysis that will show that this
should have improved although we are finding out through thousands and thousands of contacts
to our office, to our connections, that it has not been the case?
So this is frankly unacceptable. And I would like to see the analysis that this was based
on to our offices by this Sunday. Can you commit to that, sir?
>> No, ma'am. >> Can you commit to providing it to us at
all, sir? >> I will get back to you on that.
>> You won't commit to the American people to be transparent?
>> Senator, I will go back and get the truck schedule, the analysis that designed the truck's
graduates. >> I want you to look in the camera. There
are millions of people watching who are impacted every day by what you do.
And please understand that. And so I want you to commit to the American people to transparency
and provide us with the data that is been used to create these decisions.
>> But ma'am, I do not accept the premise, and I will provide you with the transportation
schedule that I directed the organization to adhere to.
>> So based on the former post office inspector general's testimony, his name is David Williams,
I can see how Louis DeJoy, an incompetent person who has no expertise whatsoever in
regards to the post office, would need help and some coaching in the middle of his confirmation
hearing. Because he's not the smartest guy, and clearly, doesn't have data, doesn't know
what he's doing, but only has one interest in mind and that's his own self-interest and
helping Donald Trump essentially rig this election.
>> Yeah, if you're wondering at home, well, he doesn't sound too bright. I could see with
my own eyes whether I agree or disagree with you guys politically. How did he get all that
money? Guys, you gotta remember, the number one trade, especially when you're doing government
capture and crony capitalism, is shamelessness.
You don't need to be that smart. You just grease a couple of politicians and they give
you positions where you can make tens of millions of dollars. It's really six system. But I'll
tell you Ana, the one silver lining here is they're overreaching and there's a mistake.
Not on the election per se, the Trump cult like, great.
We're still gonna lose you. That's a great idea. He could steal an election on Fifth
Avenue. I was so supportive. We don't need to stick to democracy anyway. So I'm not talking
about that. I'm talking about even those guys, they like the post office and they don't wanna
pay 9, $10 to send a letter, they don't.
So there's a story in the LA Times about how now the post office can't keep up, they did
so many cuts of mail is piling up for the first time ever they're able to deliver it
on time. And then sometimes there's live things in males like chicks, and food and it's rotting,
etc.
And those aren't just going to Democrats, they're gonna Republicans too. In fact, I
even see it in my Twitter feed. How much the right wing hates me, right? But even some
of them are like, I mean I do kinda want my mail though. And now they can see it slowing
down.
It's slowing down. And they want the post office. I mean you remember Joe Rogan clowning
Dave Rubin on this, right? This is a thing that even right wingers get, like I don't
wanna pay ten bucks for every letter and I want my mail on time this is, that guy's making
tons of money off it and that's what democrats drove me crazy talk about all the money's
making off of me.
They never mentioned it cuz they liked the corruption. But if they pounce on that, the
right wing would also be in a rage because even those guys, they also hate crony capitalism
because they're not making any money off of it. They just got tricked into supporting
the guys who do crony capitalism.
So if the Democrats were just 2% populist and 5% fighters, they win every election super
easy.