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Trump’s attacks on the Postal Service deserve sustained, red-alert coverage from the media

Perspective by
Former columnist
August 15, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. EDT
In an interview on Fox Business Network on Thursday, President Trump said he won’t approve emergency funding for the struggling U.S. Postal Service. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Listen to President Trump long enough, and, despite his penchant for falsehood, you’ll eventually hear some unvarnished truth.

That happened Thursday when he stated his intentions clearly in an interview with Fox Business Network. He doesn’t want to approve billions in emergency funding for the cash-strapped and struggling U.S. Postal Service for a simple reason: to prevent Democrats from expanding mail-in voting during the pandemic.