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Conservative commentator and former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino mocked former First Lady Hillary Clinton for suggesting Tuesday that slow mail delivery is the result of a plot by President Donald Trump to thwart mail-in voting.
Linking to an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer reporting that citizens are upset that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail delivery has been painfully slow, 2016 Democrat presidential candidate Clinton offered up a conspiracy theory, not incompetence or mismanagement, as an explanation for the increased delays in delivery:
“I fear Republican sabotage of the USPS, including slowing mail delivery, is a Trump strategy to make voting by mail more difficult this fall. Request your ballots and return them as early as you can.”
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Pres. Trump has been a staunch opponent of Democrats’ push for expansion of mail-in voting throughout the country prior to November’s elections. Trump is insisting that mail-in voting will result in massive voter fraud.
Replying to Clinton’s tweet, Bongino said his fear is that Democrats will try to rig the election by weaponizing the media to spread false information and government agencies to spy on Republicans:
“I fear Democrat sabotage of the election, including colluding with foreign agents to collect and distribute false information to media co-conspirators in order to weaponize our law enforcement & intell communities to spy on Republicans. Wait, she already did that.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer article does partially attribute the slower mail delivery to cutbacks in the USPS budget, but it also attributes the downsizing to USPS’s “crippling debt” and cites the coronavirus pandemic as another reason mail service has slowed. Not only have at least 133 Philadelphia Postal Service employees contracted COVID-19, but the pandemic has also caused a surge in online shopping, the article notes.
