Oh, this isn’t good.
Courtesy of WaPo:
A top donor to President Trump and the Republican National Committee will be named the new head of the Postal Service, putting a top ally of the president in charge of an agency where Trump has long pressed for major changes in how it handles its business.
The Postal Service’s board of governors confirmed late Wednesday that Louis DeJoy, a North Carolina businessman who is currently in charge of fundraising for the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, will serve as the new postmaster general.
The action will install a stalwart Trump ally to lead the Postal Service, which he has railed against for years, and probably move him closer than ever before to forcing the service to renegotiate its terms with companies and its own union workforce. Trump’s Treasury Department and the Postal Service are in the midst of a negotiation over a $10 billion line of credit approved as part of coronavirus legislation in March.
Trump has indicated he wants the Postal Service to dramatically raise fees for delivering packages for customers such as Amazon in exchange for tapping the line of credit. Trump has long argued that Amazon doesn’t pay the Postal Service enough, a charge the agency has fiercely contested. (Amazon’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos, owns The Post.)
So Trump puts yet another crony in position to run an agency that he wants to undermine or possibly destroy.
Where have we seen this before?
But there are those who are fighting back.
Courtesy of NYT:
A coalition of online retailers backed by Amazon began a seven-figure advertising blitz on Wednesday opposing President Trump’s demand that the beleaguered United States Postal Service ratchet up its package delivery rates to avoid bankruptcy amid the coronavirus crisis, its top lobbyist said.
The coalition intends to spend more than $2 million on the campaign in an attempt to whip up Republican opposition to Mr. Trump’s idea, pressing lawmakers instead to support a multibillion-dollar rescue package proposed by Democrats that would help the Postal Service survive the sharp drop in revenue and mail volume caused by the pandemic.
The ads began running nationally Wednesday night on Fox News’s “Hannity” — one of Mr. Trump’s favorite programs — and will be featured on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show on Thursday. They do not mention the president, but label his proposal to jack up delivery prices by 400 percent “a massive package tax” on small businesses and Americans who rely on the mail for prescription drugs and other goods.
It’s a good idea to run these on Fox News and other conservative news outlets.
Well if Trump is planning to destroy the Post Office he better get a move on because after November I don’t think he will be in a position to make any real change anywhere.
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FedEx or Amazon or whoever should give every American free shipping for their mail-in ballot!!!
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Lol. Oh. Snap back. I will pass it on. 👍
Ugh.
But at least we’ll see who they are.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/trump-campaign-manager-models-new-2020-coronavirus-mask-inside-the-white-house/
Ever damned day, more bullshit.
Go right ahead, America, take another bite of that shit sandwich and vote him in another term.
USA! USA!
More shit creates a greater need for that Jesus fellow. O boy, “he” better be “there”.
#FailedExoteric
Just as Deplorable as all of Trump’s nominees.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-allied-postmaster-general-ran-081516802.html?guccounter=1
“The new chief executive of the U.S. Postal Service previously owned and ran a company that was fined more than $1 million after it fired three female employees who reported that they had been sexually harassed by a company manager.
A jury in Tennessee awarded $1.5 million in 2013 in a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against New Breed Logistics, a company run until 2014 by Louis DeJoy, who was tapped to be Postmaster General on Wednesday. The jury found that New Breed had fired three temp workers for complaining about a manager’s “unwelcome sexual touching and lewd, obscene and vulgar sexual remarks” at one of the company’s warehouses in Tennessee. The company also fired a male employee who spoke out about the harassment.”
“In the years after that harassment lawsuit, employees of New Breed and, later, XPO said they miscarried after being asked to lift large boxes in its warehouses, according to a New York Times investigation. The incidents occurred both before New Breed’s sale to XPO and after, when DeJoy remained an XPO board member.
Those incidents could raise additional questions about DeJoy’s qualifications for the post of next Postmaster General, which effectively helps oversee a 600,000-strong workforce with a $71 billion budget. Already, his selection by the U.S. Postal Service’s board of governors this week has been criticized over allegations that it was done as a matter of political favoritism. DeJoy is a prominent ally of and donor to President Donald Trump and the lead fundraiser for this year’s Republican National Convention. ”
Maybe DeJoy doesn’t know there are also female USPS employees? After all, they are called male carriers.
LOL. CNN did a supercut of all Kayleigh McEnerny’s negative comments about Trump before she did a 180 and started kissing his ass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=99&v=bdc7Iw3jMvc&feature=emb_logo
She changed her tune when it started to look like Trump was winning. Took three years for it to finally pay off.
I didn’t think there were anymore LOSERS for trump to hire, but he still manages to find them.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/hes-so-stupid-morning-joe-scorches-trump-for-calling-putin-to-celebrate-flynns-charges-getting-dismissed/
“You know, he can say hoax as many times as he wants to say hoax, it doesn’t change the fact that he would be sitting in jail right now if he weren’t president of the United States and if there weren’t a corrupt attorney general,” Scarborough said. “He committed one act of obstruction of justice after another. Robert Mueller said, ‘I can’t get to that,’ as far as whether he can be charged in the criminal complaint, because he is president of the United States — Justice Department guidelines don’t allow me to do that.”
“Make no mistake of it, Donald Trump committed one crime after another,” He is so stupid. He didn’t realize — he really is just so stupid. He didn’t realize that if you fire the director of the FBI because he is investigating you because of dealings with Russia, that everybody is lying about in your entire administration, that’s just going to cause the American people to want more investigation.”
Scarborough blasted Attorney General William Barr for acting like Trump’s former fixer Roy Cohn and undermining the case against the disgraced national security adviser.
“So here it is, it comes full circle,”
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/05/07/bill-barr-jokes-about-his-decision-to-drop-criminal-case-against-traitor-michael-flynn.html
“Well, history is written by the winners. So it largely depends on who’s writing the history.”
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/05/07/adam-schiff-slams-trumps-puppet-bill-barr-for-dropping-case-against-traitor-michael-flynn.html
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) also blasted Barr’s move, too, saying it’s another effort by the attorney general to cover up for the president by “overruling the Special Counsel.”
@kylegriffin1
Pelosi: “Barr’s politicization of justice knows no bounds. Michael Flynn pleaded guilty … in the face of overwhelming evidence—but now, AG Barr’s Justice Dept. is dropping the case to continue to cover up for the President. Overruling the Special Counsel is without precedent.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-trum-admin-michael-flynn_n_5eb4d859c5b6a67335407525
The Department of Justice on Thursday told U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington it wants to drop the case against Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, following a pressure campaign by the Republican president and his political allies.
While judges typically sign off on such motions, Sullivan could refuse and instead demand answers from the DOJ about who requested the sudden about-face, said Seth Waxman, a former federal prosecutor now at the law firm Dickinson Wright.
“If Judge Sullivan wanted to he could conduct an inquiry and start asking a lot of questions,”
The Justice Department said in a court filing on Thursday it is no longer persuaded that the FBI’s January 2017 interview with Flynn that led to the charges was conducted with a “legitimate investigative basis” and does not think Flynn’s statements were “material even if untrue.”
the judge could stop Flynn from withdrawing his guilty plea and impose sentence. In that case, Trump could pardon Flynn.
The judge is unlikely to sign off on the request as a pro forma matter, said Channing Phillips, the former acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia during the Obama administration, adding that with Sullivan “nothing is pro forma.”
“I can guarantee you, he is going to question the prosecutors,” Phillips said in a phone interview. “He is going to want to understand exactly the basis for this motion … You have a new attorney general. You have a new U.S. attorney. You have new prosecutors who take a different position. But the facts haven’t changed.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/morning-joe-supercut-donald-trump-coronavirus-rhetoric_n_5eb53ae3c5b6a673354118da
The video begins with Trump’s declaration on Jan. 22 that the outbreak was “totally under control.” Later, he repeatedly downplays the threat, saying the virus would “go away.”
“The metrics right here. That’s my metrics…
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/morning-joe-blows-up-laughable-gop-claims-to-be-the-party-of-life/
“This coming from the party of life,” he said. “I don’t think so. The party of life that puts children in cages — I don’t think so. Any suggestion that this party is the party of life is laughable at this point.”
“I can list names, I don’t have to — they’re out there. They’re no longer the party of life, they’re a party of the bottom line, they are party of the stock market. Anybody says they’re the party of life, because they want to protect life before a child is born but not after, and seniors, their deaths are not tragic like the death of a 30- or 40-year-old, or a Texas lieutenant governor saying, ‘You know what, we’re willing to sacrifice ourselves, we’re willing to die so the stock market can go up.’ No, they’re not.” “This morning as we wake up, over 76,000 Americans dead.”