Thursday, July 16, 2026

Post-Mortem

Same as it ever was, then. You can’t blame Trump for this. So why is the DOJ going to court to get them? That’s why.
Warner: Since he's been reelected, he has single handedly dismantled much of the election protection security system that candidly was set up during the Trump administration. He's dismantled the foreign malign influence center at the director of national intelligence and gotten rid of the FBI efforts, the NSA efforts….
ETTD. Everything. And how do they “check” them? Against what? Do they check to be sure Ken Paxton is living at the address where he’s registered to vote with the Texas SOS? Yeah. So what do they “check”? That my father is alive? He’s not. And he hasn’t voted since he left the house he’d lived in for 50 years. He may still be on the voting rolls. But he hasn’t been “active” on them for over a decade. So what do they “check”? There is, indeed, nothing new under the sun. Or, you know, not. And 60 court cases said he didn’t.

Same as it ever was.

Finally: this is a pretty decent summary of the speech:
We watched Trump's dangerous and deranged speech so you don't have to. Here are the moments you need to know about:

— He openly laid groundwork to challenge the midterms. He claimed our elections were "compromised," clearly setting up the justification to tamper with results before a single vote is counted.

— He said he'll "correct vulnerabilities" in our elections. Translation: he told you exactly what he plans to interfere with.

— He contradicted himself on China in real time. He first claimed China was "working to influence" and "undermining confidence" in him, then said he was doing a "great job" with them back when he made the claim. He couldn't keep his own conspiracy straight.

— He claimed China rigged the 2020 election, this time by getting journalists to write bad stories about him, because China supposedly wanted Biden to win since Trump was "wise to them."

— He said they found "burn bags" from the Obama Administration full of supposedly incriminating material, without ever saying what was actually in them.

— He said he needs "urgent measures" to stop our elections from being "hacked," citing Maduro's rigged machines in Venezuela in 2020 as his "evidence."

— He attacked networks for not airing him live, accusing them of being "part of the conspiracy to rig elections" and suggesting they should lose their broadcast licenses.

— He announced he wants to seize voter data from states he's deemed "vulnerable" ahead of the midterms.

This was a sitting president telegraphing, step by step, how he plans to undermine the 2026 midterms with egregious lies and conspiracy theories.
China tried that. And I’m still unclear exactly how Trump “challenges” the midterms. He didn’t mention Warnock and Ossoff, but Warnock’s question is a good place to end:
Warnock: "Look at this from a common sense perspective. I won two elections -- in '21 and '22. Our congressional delegation is majority Republican, so are you saying that on the same ballots that elected my Republican colleagues, their ballots are legitimate and the ballots that elected Ossoff and myself are illegitimate?"
Trump had the same problem in 2020. But none of his 60 cases survived long enough to face it. Authoritarianism doesn’t work in America because o one person is in charge of all the governments.
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