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1. The following email I received suggests both why the Post Office scandal is real and why it could be so devastating politically.
"I am a retired teacher (62 years old and retired because of the pandemic).
2. "I am at high risk because of high blood pressure and mild cerebral palsy. Consequently, I have arranged for my blood pressure meds to be delivered by USPS so that I don't have to leave my house. The meds are now late.
3. "I have been on the phone with [insurance company] reps for 2 hours yesterday and 3 hours today. I have arranged to get 5 days worth of meds (for which I will have to pay full price) at a local CVS. (Someone else will need to pick up my meds.)
4. "However, I am taking a gamble not having meds tonight. I am furious! I am sure there are many others like me. I know there must be thousands of vets who are experiencing the same things as I am. I heard Lt Gen. Honore describe a similar problem on MSNBC with Brian Williams.
5. "He had to go to Walgreens. I'm trying to avoid getting COVID and I'd like to be alive to be able to vote in the election. I'd like my mail in ballot to arrive safely to my registrar of voters in ___ County. I have called my US Rep and my US Senators. What else can I do?"
6. I'm kind of out of practice in helping with political campaigns (and some might say I wasn't such a great help to begin with!). But even I can see the Democrats need to hang this around the neck of Donald Trump and the RepublicanParty--and hang it again, and then again...

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There are, I think, three ways Trump could win.
In order of likelihood:
1. Trump uses the powers of the the executive branch in unprecedented ways (Nixon or Ukraine on steroids), combined with his demagoguery and GOP voter suppression, to win an unfair election.
2. In a somewhat close election, with some uncertainty on Election Night, Trump over the next weeks uses the powers of the executive branch, combined with demagoguery, Fox and Facebook, and compliant GOP governors, state legislators and members of Congress, to steal the election.
3. Trump actually persuades a plurality of voters in states adding up to 270 electoral college votes to vote for him.
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1. For me (not a lawyer, but someone who served in government and signed an SF-312 and SF-4414, and have had many friends and associates go through the clearance process for post-employment articles and books): The passage in the legal complaint that jumped out was paragraph 46:
2. "On or around April 27, 2000, Ms. Knight had completed her review and was of the judgment that the manuscript draft did not contain classified information."
Ms. Knight is Ellen Knight, the career employee who had spent four months working painstakingly with Bolton...
3. ...to remove or rewrite countless passages to ensure no classified information was even inadvertently revealed in the book. The process sounds as if it was even more painstaking than usual. I'll also say, knowing Bolton, that whatever criticisms one might have of him...
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NSA intercept, May 3, 8:44 pm.

Assistant to @POTUS Hope Hicks: "Hi there, it's Hope."
White House Reporter [NAME REDACTED]: "Hi, Hope."
Hope: "Listen, on very deep background--I advised against this Lincoln Memorial thing. But you know how it is. Kellyanne gets these ideas..."
NSA intercept, 8:46 pm.

Assistant to @POTUS Kellyanne Conway: "Hey, Kellyanne here."
White House Reporter [NAME REDACTED]: "Oh. Hi."
Kellyanne: "You can attribute this to a person very close to Trump. He's fuming. He says he wished he'd listened to Kellyanne instead of Jared..."
NSA intercept, 8:52 pm.

Assistant to @POTUS Ivanka Trump: "It is Ivanka."
White House Reporter [NAME REDACTED]: "Oh."
Ivanka: "Attribution: a most highly informed person. The president says his staff are "losers" lacking "worldly experience." He only trusts Jared and Ivanka..."
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