President uses method he has called ‘cheating’ in Palm Beach County race By Erica L. Green The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, who has long railed against mail-in voting — including Monday, when he called it “mail-in-cheating” — used the method himself in a Florida special election scheduled to take place Tuesday.
According to voter records on the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections website, Trump voted by mail in Palm Beach County, home to his Mar-a-Lago Club. Records show he has been registered to vote there since 2019 — and that he mailed his ballot at least one other time, in 2020.
The website noted that Trump’s voter status was “by mail ballot” and that it had been counted in the special election that will determine whether Democrat Emily Gregory or Republican Jon Maples, whom Trump endorsed, will represent Trump’s district in the Florida state House.
Trump’s most recent vote, reported earlier by The Washington Post, comes as the president torpedoed negotiations to end the partial government shutdown to demand Republican lawmakers pass legislation called the SAVE Act that would stiffen voter identification requirements and make mail-in voting significantly more difficult.
he White House said in a statement that the legislation was not designed to eliminate mail-in voting. “The SAVE America Act has common-sense exceptions for Americans to use mail-in ballots for illness, disability, military, or travel — but universal mail-in voting should not be allowed,” the statement said. “
As everyone knows, the President is a resident of Palm Beach and participates in Florida elections, but he obviously primarily lives at the White House in Washington, D.C.”
During an appearance in Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday, he argued that the voter identification bill was essential to national security. “Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating,” he said. “I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all.”
Also Monday, the Supreme Court appeared poised to reject Mississippi’s mail-in ballot law, a decision that could upend mail-in voting throughout the country. A decision in the case, brought by the Republican Party, is expected by late June or early July.
It could affect hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots for hotly contested congressional races in November. Trump has long fixated on mail-in-voting to bolster his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, and has called the SAVE Act one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in the country’s history.
During his State of the Union address, Trump falsely claimed that “cheating is rampant in our elections” and called for “no more crooked mail-in ballots,” though states that vote entirely by mail see very little fraud.
Trump has called for some exceptions for mail-in voting, such as when voters are ill, disabled, traveling or in the military. But it is unclear why Trump chose to mail his ballot for this week’s Florida’s special election.
He has spent the past two weekends in West Palm Beach during the early voting period, which started March 14 and ended Sunday.
According to the elections website, his polling location is within a 15-minute drive of both his residence and his golf club. This article originally appeared in The New York Times
PM146, you are so right. Insolvent means: “Unable to pay debts.”
With regard to the federal government, this is 100% bullshit. The federal government’s so-called “debt” is about $35 trillion. Even if it were $350 trillion or $3,500 trillion, the government could pay it all off today by punching a couple of computer keys.
However, insolvent also means “having liabilities in excess of a reasonable market value of assets held.” There are two problems with that definition regarding the federal government.
No one knows the market value of federal assets. (What is the Grand Canyon worth? The Great Lakes? The Rocky Mountains? The Mississippi River? The 20-mile offshore band around America? The federal highway system? Washington Monument? etc., etc.
While that definition has some meaning with regard to monetarily non-sovereign entities, it doesn’t apply to the Monetarily Sovereign U.S. government.
I suspect Professor Steve Hanke knows it. He’s just a headline hunter trying to say that the federal debt is too high (though he is dead wrong about that, too.) In fact, it’s way too low.
I doubt he is dumb, just ignorant of the facts. It’s what passes for teaching in America’s schools.
By the Times Union editorial board: It accurately describes the immoral, un-Christian, criminal lowlife President the MAGAs worship. Nothing can better describe the ignorance of the MAGAs/
“Robert Mueller just died,” President Donald J. Trump posted on social media on Saturday. “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” He then added his name in all-caps – apparently for the benefit of anyone who, despite abundant precedent, might doubt that Mr. Trump would post anything so shabby and low.
It is a little late to expect Mr. Trump to express contrition for his rage-posting, or grow either a sense of decency or a greater commitment to this nation’s ideals. But if he were looking for a role model to emulate, he could do a lot worse than trying to match the life of Mr. Mueller.
While the president managed to evade the draft during Vietnam due to a “bone spurs” diagnosis written up by a podiatrist who was friendly with Mr. Trump’s father, Mr. Mueller joined the Marine Corps after the combat death of a college lacrosse teammate. He had to wait a year to recover from a knee injury before being accepted for basic training. Mr. Mueller had been in Vietnam for less than six months before his rescue of a wounded Marine earned him the Bronze Star with a special designation for combat valor, the first of many decorations and awards he would earn for his military service.
As Mr. Trump took over his father’s real estate empire, made disastrous forays into the casino business and turned his family life into tabloid fodder, Mr. Mueller worked as a federal prosecutor in California, Boston and Washington, D.C. In 2001, he was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as the sixth director of the FBI, a post he formally ascended to exactly a week before the 9/11 terror attacks. After that catastrophe, Mr. Mueller worked to rebuild the threadbare communication network connecting the agency and other elements of the nation’s security apparatus, and was a staunch opponent of allowing the FBI to engage in the “enhanced interrogation” tactics – a euphemism for torture – being deployed by the CIA against terror suspects.
This editorial board certainly had its differences with Mr. Mueller and his agency, including our criticism of the more insidious provisions of the USA Patriot Act and the FBI’s conduct in the sting operation that resulted in the unjust 2006 prosecution of Yassin M. Aref and Mohammed M. Hossain. But on balance, we agree with President Barack Obama, who said on the occasion of Mr. Mueller’s 2013 exit as director that “countless Americans are alive today, and our country is more secure, because of the FBI’s outstanding work under the leadership of Bob Mueller.”
Mr. Trump’s ire is entirely due to Mr. Mueller’s May 2017 appointment as special counsel to investigate Russia’s interference with the previous year’s election. Much has been written about that investigation, but one thing that cannot be seriously disputed is that Mr. Mueller pursued it with the excruciating care of the institutionalist he was – sometimes to a fault. To offer but one example: Rather than demand Mr. Trump testify in a live setting, Mr. Mueller allowed him to provide written answers to written questions, resulting in exquisitely lawyered responses dominated by serial expressions of faulty memory.
Mr. Mueller’s two-volume final report, issued in the spring of 2019, concluded that Russia interfered in the election with the clear desire to boost Mr. Trump’s candidacy, but that no one in his campaign conspired in those efforts. On the question of whether Mr. Trump obstructed the special counsel’s investigation, Mr. Mueller’s team wrote, “While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” (This did not prevent Mr. Trump from falsely stating that the findings offered him “Complete and Total EXONERATION.”) The report noted that Congress had the power to pursue the matter further through its oversight and impeachment powers.
#Monetary Sovereignty - Mitchell 
ANOTHER TRUMP CLAIM THAT DUMMIES BELIEVE
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And speaking of dumb, or at least ignorant, we get articles like this one about “teh debt”:
https://fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-government-insolvent-fiscal-crisis-fix/?fbclid=IwVERDUAQxZStleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR5LsLw4eXdn3g2QYq8qIWdfAAXQNK2CQMwXZ9QdaIgBaXRi6FUcylUpAVJbZw_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw
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PM146, you are so right. Insolvent means: “Unable to pay debts.”
With regard to the federal government, this is 100% bullshit. The federal government’s so-called “debt” is about $35 trillion. Even if it were $350 trillion or $3,500 trillion, the government could pay it all off today by punching a couple of computer keys.
However, insolvent also means “having liabilities in excess of a reasonable market value of assets held.” There are two problems with that definition regarding the federal government.
I suspect Professor Steve Hanke knows it. He’s just a headline hunter trying to say that the federal debt is too high (though he is dead wrong about that, too.) In fact, it’s way too low.
I doubt he is dumb, just ignorant of the facts. It’s what passes for teaching in America’s schools.
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By the Times Union editorial board: It accurately describes the immoral, un-Christian, criminal lowlife President the MAGAs worship. Nothing can better describe the ignorance of the MAGAs/
“Robert Mueller just died,” President Donald J. Trump posted on social media on Saturday. “Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” He then added his name in all-caps – apparently for the benefit of anyone who, despite abundant precedent, might doubt that Mr. Trump would post anything so shabby and low.
It is a little late to expect Mr. Trump to express contrition for his rage-posting, or grow either a sense of decency or a greater commitment to this nation’s ideals. But if he were looking for a role model to emulate, he could do a lot worse than trying to match the life of Mr. Mueller.
While the president managed to evade the draft during Vietnam due to a “bone spurs” diagnosis written up by a podiatrist who was friendly with Mr. Trump’s father, Mr. Mueller joined the Marine Corps after the combat death of a college lacrosse teammate. He had to wait a year to recover from a knee injury before being accepted for basic training. Mr. Mueller had been in Vietnam for less than six months before his rescue of a wounded Marine earned him the Bronze Star with a special designation for combat valor, the first of many decorations and awards he would earn for his military service.
As Mr. Trump took over his father’s real estate empire, made disastrous forays into the casino business and turned his family life into tabloid fodder, Mr. Mueller worked as a federal prosecutor in California, Boston and Washington, D.C. In 2001, he was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as the sixth director of the FBI, a post he formally ascended to exactly a week before the 9/11 terror attacks. After that catastrophe, Mr. Mueller worked to rebuild the threadbare communication network connecting the agency and other elements of the nation’s security apparatus, and was a staunch opponent of allowing the FBI to engage in the “enhanced interrogation” tactics – a euphemism for torture – being deployed by the CIA against terror suspects.
This editorial board certainly had its differences with Mr. Mueller and his agency, including our criticism of the more insidious provisions of the USA Patriot Act and the FBI’s conduct in the sting operation that resulted in the unjust 2006 prosecution of Yassin M. Aref and Mohammed M. Hossain. But on balance, we agree with President Barack Obama, who said on the occasion of Mr. Mueller’s 2013 exit as director that “countless Americans are alive today, and our country is more secure, because of the FBI’s outstanding work under the leadership of Bob Mueller.”
Mr. Trump’s ire is entirely due to Mr. Mueller’s May 2017 appointment as special counsel to investigate Russia’s interference with the previous year’s election. Much has been written about that investigation, but one thing that cannot be seriously disputed is that Mr. Mueller pursued it with the excruciating care of the institutionalist he was – sometimes to a fault. To offer but one example: Rather than demand Mr. Trump testify in a live setting, Mr. Mueller allowed him to provide written answers to written questions, resulting in exquisitely lawyered responses dominated by serial expressions of faulty memory.
Mr. Mueller’s two-volume final report, issued in the spring of 2019, concluded that Russia interfered in the election with the clear desire to boost Mr. Trump’s candidacy, but that no one in his campaign conspired in those efforts. On the question of whether Mr. Trump obstructed the special counsel’s investigation, Mr. Mueller’s team wrote, “While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” (This did not prevent Mr. Trump from falsely stating that the findings offered him “Complete and Total EXONERATION.”) The report noted that Congress had the power to pursue the matter further through its oversight and impeachment powers.
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