Trumps choice shift tweet: A classic distraction maneuver

You should move the presidential election in November is best because you will be because of the increase in postal voting"inkorrek most & most bogus votes anyway" of all time: With this foray, the he in the meantime, at the beginning of his Twitter Timeline, pinned, made Donald Trump on Thursday for excitement. Legally, the matter is clear: The President himself can't move the dial, only the Congress can. And it will not do hardly, because the number of Republicans in both chambers of the majority. Many politicians from his own party are against the call of the President, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and the leader of the opposition in the house of representatives, Kevin McCarthy.

The outrage was still large. Many commentators compared Trump with dictators and threw him to cross a red line – New York mayor Bill de Blasio about calling the claim the "act of a tyrant".

Trump non-secured media attention

Trump dominated on Thursday in the blink of an eye the headlines – the historically unique economic fall of the us economy was too large – but he drew a piece of, to Express just a few hours later, in front of journalists that he would not shift. "I want a choice and a result of much, much more than you." This had to be on election night firmly, "not days, months or even years later," he tweeted, after all. And alluded to the fact that the counting of absentee ballots could take longer than that of ballot papers from polling stations.

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The economic development in the Wake of the Corona pandemic is bad news for the former Bautycoon. The country is now in a recession, ended the eleven-year-long growth phase. Such a dramatic economic downturn there has not been since the beginning of the records.

According to experts, the economy has made a growth of five years within a few months to be undone. By the Coronavirus pandemic, twenty million Jobs were lost in April alone. The unemployment rate is at 10.3 percent, higher than in the financial crisis of 2008 and, although many States have taken the Corona restrictions, or relaxed. Critics of the President, first of all, the designated democratic Challenger, Joe Biden, gave trump's miss management and his belittling of the pandemic, the blame for it.

To the bad economic data came out on Thursday also conflicting reports about a possible withdrawal of the Federal police from Portland. And finally, in Atlanta, the civil rights activist John Lewis was buried. The former President Barack Obama delivered a speech to the mourning.

Biden: if Necessary, the army directed the Trump out of the White house

Even if Trump can't move the selection itself, so his Comments contribute to delegitimize the result even before the election day. Individual States he has attacked already that you want to simplify the absentee ballot process or even making it the norm. To deliver without the appropriate documents, claims Trump, again and again, there is by absentee ballot and, in General, a high risk for election fraud. Such attempts at fraud are so rare that it is negligible in the view of professionals.