THE BLACK OBAMA FIRES A SALVO FOR THE WHITE OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN

Barack Obama accuses Donald Trump of trying to 'kneecap the Post Office' to 'discourage people from voting' in November and undermining part of the 'basic infrastructure of American life' 

 

Daily Mail 

August 14, 2020

 

Barack Obama slammed President Donald Trump for trying to 'actively kneecap' the postal service to disenfranchise voters. 

 

Obama did not say Trump's name but did refer to the 'president' in his interview on the podcast of David Plouffe, his former campaign manager, in some of his harshest, direct criticism of Trump to date. 

 

'What we've seen in a way that is unique to modern political history is a President who is explicit in trying to discourage people from voting,' Obama said. 'What we've never seen before is a President say, 'I'm going to try to actively kneecap the postal service to encourage voting and I will be explicit about the reason I'm doing it.''  

 

The accusations from the former president come as the U.S. Postal Service sent detailed letters to 46 states and the District of Columbia warning that it cannot guarantee all mail-in ballots will arrive in time to be counted for November's election, The Washington Post reported.