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FEC chair lays it on the line

Donald Trump keeps making specious allegations about voter fraud.

The head of the Federal Elections Commission, Ellen Weintraub, has heard enough from the president of the United States. She wants him to either put up or shut the hell up about allegations of fraud in our nation’s elections.

She wrote the president a letter that includes this: “What I wrote to you in March 2017 is just as true now: Our democracy depends on the American people’s faith in our elections. Your voter-fraud allegations run the risk of undermining that faith,” Weintraub wrote. “Just as seriously, baseless allegations of fraud have been used to rationalize indefensible laws that deter certain U.S. citizens from exercising their right to vote. Words matter, and facts matter.”

Trump alleges vote fraud in N.H.

She wants Trump to produce any evidence of what he has alleged.

Don’t hold your breath, Mme. FEC Chair. It ain’t gonna happen. Nor will the president ever acknowledge that he stepped in it bigly. 

If only he would. If only he could curb his crass instincts. If only the president of the United States, our commander in chief/head of state/leader of the free world would appreciate the dignity that goes with holding the office he now occupies.

None of that will happen, either.

Which is why — among a multitude of other reasons — he needs to be defeated for re-election.

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FEC boss says, ‘Wait, Mr. POTUS; that’s illegal!’

Donald Trump has said openly and in front of the whole world that he would “look at” negative information about a political opponent that came to him from a foreign nation, even a foreign government.

Except …

The head of the U.S. Federal Election Commission, Ellen Weintraub, has declared with equal vigor that accepting such assistance is illegal … and unconstitutional.

As The Hill reported: Doubling down on why that’s unconstitutional, Weintraub said “this is not a novel concept,” adding that “our Founding Fathers sounded the alarm about ‘foreign Interference, Intrigue and Influence.'”

Great mother of God in heaven. What in the world is careening around in the vacuous skull of the president of the United States?

He has signaled to the entire world that he would possibly accept such foreign assistance, that he wouldn’t necessarily inform the FBI, despite what the FBI director, Christopher Wray, has said what the president should do, which is tell the FBI.

Weintraub said via Twitter: “Let me make something 100 percent clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election.”

I shall add that Weintraub isn’t some shmuck political hack. She holds degrees from Yale and Harvard Law School. Let me be clear: She knows of which she speaks.

Donald Trump is posing, as former VP Joe Biden said, “an existential threat” to our system of government, our values, our way of life, our political norms.

Astonishingly, the president’s own reckless and feckless mouth has delivered that danger to our doorstep.