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Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 02:32 PM Nov 2018

Urging Florida To Ignore Military Votes Fits Trump's True Pattern With The Troops

From attacking a former POW to nixing a cemetery visit, the president has often disrespected service members.

WASHINGTON ― Two days after skipping a visit to an American military cemetery near Paris because it was raining, President Donald Trump called for effectively disenfranchising overseas military members voting in Florida, raising further questions about the draft-evading president’s commitment to the armed services.

“The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged,” Trump tweeted early on Monday, the observed Veterans Day holiday for the federal government. “An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!”

Scott and DeSantis are the GOP’s candidates for U.S. senator and governor in Florida whose election-night margins of victory have resulted in legally mandated recounts.

But skipping those recounts would not only violate state law, it would ignore the ballots of tens of thousands of Florida-based troops deployed overseas. Those ballots are supposed to be counted if they arrive by this coming Friday.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-military-disrespect-cemetery-florida_us_5be9f43ae4b044bbb1a783bf
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Urging Florida To Ignore Military Votes Fits Trump's True Pattern With The Troops (Original Post) Jeffersons Ghost Nov 2018 OP
Why do my posts still reflect Eastern Time Zone? I chaged my address to New Mexico in my profile Jeffersons Ghost Nov 2018 #1
Although it lost 2 hrs of publicity, I finally corrected my time zone... Jeffersons Ghost Nov 2018 #2
+1,000 malaise Nov 2018 #3
After unusual computer disruptions, I recommended my own OP, making 2 recs. Jeffersons Ghost Nov 2018 #4
I'm giving it another kick malaise Nov 2018 #5
thanks! my computer began acting normally again at 1:30 PM MTZ Jeffersons Ghost Nov 2018 #6
Mine is waiting for a part malaise Nov 2018 #7

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
2. Although it lost 2 hrs of publicity, I finally corrected my time zone...
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 03:00 PM
Nov 2018

Who cares about the Florida recount anyway?

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
4. After unusual computer disruptions, I recommended my own OP, making 2 recs.
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 04:24 PM
Nov 2018

Apparently "truth spreading" will not occur with this OP.

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