Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On Donald Trump’s Vote-By-Mail Hypocrisy

Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor on Donald Trump’s blatant hypocrisy as he attempts to ban vote-by-mail but New York Times reporting exposed that he used the program himself last election. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

This morning, the New York Times reported that Donald Trump — who constantly complains about vote-by-mail, who says it is rife with fraud — used vote-by-mail himself in a special election in Florida. Can you believe it? According to Donald Trump, vote-by-mail is cheating when other people use it, but perfectly fine when he does it himself. What a hypocrite this man is. What a hypocrite.

Maybe Donald Trump should ask for another amendment to the SAVE Act to create a presidential exception for mail-in ballots, because apparently his own rules do not apply to him.

And of course, the White House is now offering up ridiculous excuses, saying the president is a busy man, that he obviously lives in the White House. That is all nonsense. A single mom with three kids and two jobs is just as busy as Donald Trump, and he’s doing everything he can to stop her from voting, while voting by mail himself because he’s supposedly busy.

Donald Trump goes to Mar-a-Lago almost every weekend. His polling location is less than 15 minutes away by car. If he wanted to vote in person, he very easily could have.

His decision to vote by mail shows just how hypocritical Donald Trump is about fraud and cheating. That’s who he is, I’m afraid.

And that tells you everything. It shows not only Donald Trump’s hypocrisy, but the complete baselessness of his claims about voter fraud. It shows that the whole point of pushing this bill is to make it harder for other people to cast a ballot. And as I mentioned in the beginning, the Thune amendment along those lines is just a cover up to hide what the bill, the SAVE Act, really does.

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