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Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Prelude To Detroit: The Tale Of Why Peter Duke & Tracy Connors Suck - Stealin' The Children, Land & Vote The GO BLUE - Detroit Land Bank Authority Model




He is the political fashion photographer to all the co-conspirator stars of the 2016 election interference.

I would never have ever given him a second thought to his existence, but he attempted to summon the Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed, without going through the proper prayers, while contemporaneously invoking the names of Cernovich and Ali Alexander, in the same video, as 2016 election interference experts, which gave me all indicators that he is of similar ilk of these same vile creatures, for they were all mean to my Sweetie.

He said "#MeToo".

This means he knows my blog, leaving him no excuse to continue promulgating false claims in the public record for the purposes of cloaking the industry of trafficking tiny humans.

That is what I call dark magic because we have something called due process in this land, where, prayers are peaceably delivered to the individual who has received the transfer of the one's voice, through the vote.

This means, if there is a situation where one finds transgressions upon government, or with governance, there exists formal mechanisms, either through the administrative process of grievance to one's elected representative in request for constituency services to report such actions, or, in an exhaust of administrative remedy, in court of law, under oath of the seal, in bearing witness.

Alas, Peter likes to make modern day codexes, which is not included the formal process of heraldry, or rather preservation of the record, like what Jorge just did in beatification, for the posterity of society, under oath, because his endeavours are devoid of being granted a seal, or rather a crowdsourcing of manufactured, edited evidence, of false claims, which begs the question to the national sources of his funding.

So, I looked up to see if he had registered as a foreign agent under FARA.

The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was enacted in 1938. FARA requires certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities or other activities specified under the statute to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those activities.  Disclosure of the required information facilitates evaluation by the government and the American people of the activities of such persons in light of their function as foreign agents. The FARA Unit of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) in the National Security Division (NSD) is responsible for the administration and enforcement of FARA.

Due to health concerns regarding COVID-19, the FARA Public Office will be closed until further notice. Should you need access to information that is unavailable online, please contact the FARA Unit at fara.public@usdoj.gov for assistance.

I did not find any seals so I looked up his NGO association and found this.


And, I found this...

2008 is the last filing for Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

Then, I found this, where the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation seems to have gone through the Corporate Shape Shifting metamorphis to magically become the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, because I could not produce any state or federal corporate findings, nor UCC, to demonstrate the contrary to my premise that the corporate parental right to keep and bear the arms of the United States were terminated,  which automatically led me to experience a severe episode of Post Traumatic Fraud Disorders, because I have just found myself another one of those transposable models, like the Detroit Land Bank Authority and the Clinton Foundation, where they like to use big institutions like banking or universities to launder money out the country through those glorious tiny human trust funds transposable models, like Michigan State University, University of Michigan, Grand Valley State, and the many other universities which are at the threshold of a SCOTUS review.

https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/

Then, I found lots of living and dead trademarks, which automatically demonstrates that there was some serious trafficking tiny humans operations going on, because I can see the transposable model.

Trademarks of the Shoah Corporate Shape Shifter

Mark Image
Word MarkI WITNESS USC SHOAH FOUNDATION
Goods and ServicesIC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Providing a website featuring non-downloadable video testimonies of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides; educational services, namely providing multimedia learning activities in the nature of online interactive instructional courses featuring information and guided learning activities in the field of Holocaust studies and other genocides. FIRST USE: 20120123. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20120123
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code(4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number86773638
Filing DateSeptember 30, 2015
Current Basis1A
Original Filing Basis1A
Published for OppositionApril 12, 2016
Registration Number4986911
Registration DateJune 28, 2016
Owner(REGISTRANT) University of Southern California CORPORATION CALIFORNIA University Park, ADM 352 Los Angeles CALIFORNIA 900895013
Attorney of RecordScott A. Edelman
Prior Registrations3761334;4000120;4110643
DisclaimerNO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "FOUNDATION" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN
Type of MarkSERVICE MARK
RegisterPRINCIPAL-2(F)-IN PART
Live/Dead IndicatorLIVE
Distinctiveness Limitation Statementas to "SHOAH FOUNDATION"
Partner
VCARD FULL BIO PDF SHARE
CONTACT
sedelman@milbank.com
T +1 212.530.5149
F +1 212.822.5149
New York
Scott A. Edelman is Chairman of Milbank LLP and a member of the firm’s Litigation & Arbitration Group. Recognized as one of the country’s top litigators and corporate advisers, he specializes in high-stakes, bet-the-company litigation and trials across several substantive areas of the law, including securities, commercial and white collar.

Primary Focus & Experience
While serving as Chairman of Milbank, Mr. Edelman maintains a busy and active litigation practice, which includes trials, appeals, white collar and regulatory matters, and corporate governance issues. 

Over the course of his career, Mr. Edelman has taken more than 18 cases to trial and argued dozens of appeals, accumulating a slew of honors along the way. He has tried dozens of civil and criminal cases representing numerous corporations and individuals.
 In 2017, Mr. Edelman was inducted as a fellow into The American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL). Mr. Edelman has successfully led trial teams in a string of high-profile victories. In 2016, he secured a significant victory against the DOJ on behalf of Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) on music licensing affecting the more than $2 billion music performing industry which garnered him recognition by The American Lawyer as “Litigator of the Week.” He also prevailed on behalf of BMI in a trial victory against Pandora in 2015 in the historic music licensing rate case that set the new market rate for all digital music services and awarded BMI a significant fee increase of revenue from Pandora. On behalf of Citi Global Markets in 2014, he secured an injunction preventing an arbitration under FINRA in a high-profile case brought by a Saudi investor. Mr. Edelman also won a major trial victory for Cerberus Capital Management related to the multi-billion dollar merger with United Rentals in the first M&A litigation arising out of the troubled credit markets to proceed to trial in Delaware in 2007.

Highly regarded for his extensive legal skills in and out of the courtroom, clients describe Mr. Edelman as “a phenomenal attorney whose courtroom style is nothing short of perfection” (Chambers). As one of the most versatile litigators in the country, Mr. Edelman is the only attorney in New York who is ranked by Chambers as a leading lawyer in each of the following areas: Securities Litigation, General Commercial Litigation and White Collar Crime and Government Investigations.

Current or Recent Representative Matters
Securities

Represents Vereit, Inc. (formerly American Realty Capital Properties, Inc.) in securities fraud actions filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, including putative class actions and shareholder derivative actions. 
Represents SQM, the world’s largest producer of specialty fertilizers and iodine in securities class action relating to investigations by Chilean government authorities concerning alleged improper payments to Chilean political officials.
Represents Eldorado Resorts in a securities fraud class action filed in the District of New Jersey.
Represents the former CEO of LendingClub Corp. in securities class actions and derivative actions filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California, the Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, and the Delaware Chancery Court.
Represents a group of underwriters in connection with a securities class action in the Supreme Court of New York against Camping World Holdings, Inc. and others arising out of Camping World's October 2017 secondary offering of common stock.
Represents the underwriters of a September 2018 initial public offering of common stock of NIO, Inc., a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer. The underwriters have been named in a putative class action asserting claims under the Securities Act of 1933.
Represented underwriters named as defendants in other securities class action, including matters related to offerings by Endo International, Forterra Inc., and Tile Shop Holdings, Inc.
Represented American Renal Associates Holdings, Inc. as a defendant in a securities class action in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Represented Ambac Financial Group, Inc. in a securities fraud action filed in SDNY arising from the company’s exposure to Puerto Rican debt. Case was dismissed on motion to dismiss. Wilbush v. Ambac Fin. Grp., Inc., 271 F. Supp. 3d 473 (S.D.N.Y. 2017).
Represented former executive officer of Third Avenue Management, LLC in three separate litigations arising from the liquidation of the Third Avenue Focused Credit Fund.
Commercial Litigation

Represented Dycom Industries, Inc. in 2017 in a lawsuit that culminated in a five-day trial relating to disputes arising out of non-competition and related provisions in a Stock Purchase Agreement. The case settled after trial.
Represents private equity fund in fraudulent conveyance claims pending in Delaware Bankruptcy Court arising out of recapitalization of DSI Renal.
Represents Atrium Holding Company and certain of its affiliates in litigations that have included matters before the Delaware Chancery Court and Kansas Bankruptcy Court regarding a Right of First Refusal on a portfolio of hotels owned by The John Q. Hammons Revocable Trust.
Represents Broadcast Music, Inc. in connection with multiple matters, including a rate court proceeding against the Radio Music License Committee scheduled for trial in February 2020, and another rate court proceeding against the live concert industry.
Represented trustees of a multi-hundred million dollar trust in connection with claims brought by the trust’s beneficiaries in Florida state court.
White Collar

Multiple non-public representations of CEOs, CFOs, general counsels, entrepreneurs and others in criminal, regulatory, and congressional investigations.
Corporate Governance

Edelman has represented and advised numerous boards of directors, special committees of boards and individual directors on corporate governance and fiduciary duties.
Recognition & Accomplishments
Mr. Edelman joined Milbank in 1994 and became a partner in 1995. Prior to joining Milbank, Mr. Edelman served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 1990 to 1994. He started his career at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review and a John Olin Fellow in Law and Economics and received his B.A. (summa cum laude) and M.A. degrees, both in Economics, from Yale University.


Then, I found Nirvana...

Steven Spielberg And USC Shoah Foundation To Honor William Clay Ford, Jr., Executive Chairman Of Ford Motor Company, At Ambassadors For Humanity Gala In Detroit

USC Shoah Foundation logo
NEWS PROVIDED BY

USC Shoah Foundation Institute 
May 13, 2015, 10:07 ET
     
DETROIT, May 13, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Steven Spielberg, founder of USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, will present William Clay Ford, Jr., executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, with the Institute's Ambassador for Humanity Award at the organization's annual gala, taking place this year in Detroit on Sept. 10. Ford will be recognized for his leadership and corporate citizenry around education and community. Mickey Shapiro, real estate developer and longstanding member of the Institute's Board of Councilors, is the event's co-chairman. The gala vice chairs and benefit committee will comprise leaders from the local community and from around the nation.

The September gala will provide the opportunity to highlight the Institute's global work in making the 53,000 audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides in its Visual History Archive a compelling voice for education and action.

USC Shoah Foundation has a long history in Michigan and with Ford Motor Company, which was the sole sponsor of the 1997 NBC broadcast of the Academy Award® winning "Schindler's List,"' the film that inspired the establishment of the Institute. The Institute collected 335 testimonies with Holocaust survivors and witnesses in the Detroit area, with local videographers and interviewers specially trained for the job.

The Visual History Archive is also available on two campuses in Michigan, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor and University of Michigan - Flint.

The event will also shine a light on the emerging partnership between USC Shoah Foundation and Ford Motor Company to expand the Institute's IWitness educational platform in the Detroit area. IWitness brings the first-person stories of survivors and witnesses of genocide from the Institute's Visual History Archive to students via multimedia-learning activities that are accessible via Macs, PCs, iPads, and tablet devices connected to the Internet.

They all have trafficking tiny humans trust funds
Currently, 100 educators in Michigan – and over 6,500 globally – use IWitness. In addition, more than 250 educators in Michigan, and over 15,000 nationally, have been trained on Echoes and Reflections, a multimedia Holocaust curriculum developed by the Institute and partners, the Anti-Defamation League and Yad Vashem.

This is that database David Whelan, brother of Paul Whelan, the one who did the Clinton Foundation
database, set up the University of Michigan library system for the State of Michigan, where I still have access, as soon as I update my stuff, because I am pretty damn sure I worked on the initial stages of the design out University of Michigan Dearborn with my Psychobabies. This is a human asset management database of identities, where, you can search for the right made up crap to formally present as evidence because they make up the facts through the use of predictive modeling crap. I am having another Post Traumatic Fraud Seizure...

A significant portion of the proceeds raised at the gala will remain in the region, where the funds will be utilized for educational programs in secondary schools. 

This is code for Detroit Children's Fund where they probably invested in some of those Detroit Land Bank Authority properties so they could run merrily through the streets of Detroit, creating and flipping those fake ass TARP mortgages because it is in partnership with USC and University of Michigan, just like how the Emergency Manager Law of Jones Day was implemented after it was generated out of those fake ass Public Private Partnerships like with Kevyn Orr and the PriceWaterHouse USC School of Public Policy that utilized that Archdiocese of Detroit model to go a-stealin' the children, land & vote.....I got some serious boos boos I am putting on my special "honey do" list.

Steven Spielberg, founder of USC Shoah Foundation and chairman of the Ambassadors gala said, "Working with Bill Ford and Ford Motor Company to further explore ways to share the work of the Institute with the people of Michigan is a wonderful opportunity. Reaching people when they're young is the key to changing the world with testimony. IWitness and its ability to deliver tolerance education to the Detroit region gives me great hope that together we can affect significant change. The commitment of Bill Ford and Ford Motor Company to support new approaches to learning, to provide scholarships, and to help deserving students attain higher education, makes him a great ambassador, and I am proud to recognize him for his efforts."

Behold, the trafficking of tiny humans, straight out Detroit.

FUN FACT! THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY IS UNDER A FEDERAL COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATION PERTAINING TO THESE AFOREMENTIONED ACTIVITIES

"The USC Shoah Foundation stands as an enormous point of pride for USC, and has seen its efforts advanced greatly through the support of individuals and organizations that recognize its value as a truly transformational tool for education. Mr. Ford is a visionary leader who understands the contribution that USC Shoah Foundation makes to the world, and we are honored to recognize him for his corporate citizenry and leadership," said University of Southern California President C. L. Max Nikias.

"I am so pleased that USC Shoah Foundation will be joining forces with Ford Motor Company and the local Detroit community to explore new ways to utilize IWitness as an educational tool, and endeavor to reach a growing number of educators and students across the Detroit region," said USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen D. Smith.

For more information about the gala call the Event Office at 248-593-9743, the USC Shoah Foundation Benefit at 818-777-7876 or email ambassadorsgala2015@usc.edu. Donations are tax deductible to the full extent permitted by law.

About USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education
USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education is dedicated to making audiovisual interviews with survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides, a compelling voice for education and action. The Institute's current collection of over 53,000 eyewitness testimonies preserves history as told by the people who lived it, and lived through it. Housed at the University of Southern California, within the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the Institute works with partners around the world to advance scholarship and research, to provide resources and online tools for educators, and to disseminate the testimonies for educational purposes. For more information about USC Shoah Foundation, please go to sfi.usc.edu.

Then, I found this...

IL Link to Wikipedia article  Hebrew Yiddish
  • 2016: Lesly Culp, USC Shoah Foundation Senior Education Content Specialist and Trainer, gives a presentation about IWitness at Yad Vashem.
  • 2013: Czech Teacher Seminar in Jerusalem that introduced IWitness to 25 educators.
  • 2012: Partnership with Yad Vashem and the Anti-Defamation League (5th year) Echoes and Reflections
  • 2011: USC Shoah Foundation presented the IWitness platform at the 8th international conference of Yad Vashem.
  • 2011: USC Shoah Foundation participated in the Yad Vashem seminar for Czech teachers. Several workshops and presentations by the USC SF representative on using testimony in education, the methodology, the need for local context, and the role of propaganda.
  • 2010: USC Shoah Foundation conducted half-day workshop on the USC Shoah Foundation methodology and use of local testimony for Lithuanian teachers at the Yad Vashem, with DVD handouts (October 13) and for Czech teachers participating in a similar YVS teacher-training program.
  • 2015: USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith gave the keynote address at a Holocaust seminar in Tel Aviv. 
  • 2016: The “Jews of the Middle East in the Shadow of the Holocaust” conference in Jerusalem discussed Visual History Archive testimonies.
  • 2012: Haifa Conference: Bridging the Divide in Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Towards a Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinary Dialogue
  • 2012: Western Galilee College Testimony Conference
  • 2008: USC Shoah Foundation participated in the 6th International Conference on Holocaust Education in Jerusalem.

Additional educational resources

  • 2013: USC SF testimony included in Yad Vashem’s multimedia classroom lesson Studying Genocide in the Context of the Holocaust.
Israel

Then, I found Detroit...

Looking for someone to be your domestic or foreign spokestoken like what Peter's grooming, or just to hire an international trustee of your children's trust fund to launder your tax aversive funds you pilfered from the children's trusts out the United States as a Public Private Partnership in the name of the lord? Well, you can search here:
https://www.temple-israel.org/

A Plausible Explanation As To Why WXYZ Released Ann Marie LaFlamme - The Well Of Tiny Humans


Then, I found University of Michigan...

Available to the general public, this version of the Visual History Archive provides access to the full metadata covering 55,000 interviews found in the Visual History Archive. Users can search the archive in a number of ways including name, experience, place, and language. In addition, a select number of English-language testimonies are available for viewing. To view testimonies not included in this sample set, see the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, www.lib.umich.edu/database/link/27807

Record info:

Database type
Database
Video
Access Type
Open access for all users
Permalink
https://apps.lib.umich.edu/database/link/11541
Alternative Title(s)
USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive
Shoah VHA
SVHA
Academic Discipline
Humanities
International Studies
Social Sciences

I also found the University of Indiana which makes me think of Tyler Technologies.

https://libraries.indiana.edu/databases/vha

The USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive allows users to search through and view the 51,537 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide currently available in the Archive that were conducted in 61 countries and 39 languages. Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China and the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide.



Now, meet Tracy Connors, of whom there is scant information about, which leads me to question the content of her character and her allodial attachment to a land.


Tracy may not know this, but she just entered her testimony into the public record on the history of the Civil Rights movement in the United States with the Black Panthers Foundation, which is now called the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, and its journey to Cuba and back, which just so happens to have had its parental rights to keep and bear the arms of the United States, terminated, just like the Shoah Corporate Shape Shifter.

And, on that note, I need to take a personal moment because Peter impugned my intelligence, which is never a very wise thing to do, which is why he sucks, and so does Tracy, until she can disprove my claims, under oath, in bondage of her body and spirit, because the cases of USC, et al trafficking tiny humans Trust Funds are already in SCOTUS, where we are going all out, old school, full maternal. 

This is not a Youtube nor Hollywood production, this is about the resurrection for the messiah cometh.


The moral of the story is, "Do not be mean to my Sweetie. Period."

#maytheheavensfall

Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Monday, August 31, 2020

Prelude To Detroit: Here Comes Harry Belafonte!

On the third day, Harry Belafonte is presented.

Harry is a significant figure in U.S. history, but the educational institutions like to keep people like him, omitted from publication, which is why I do what I do.

I am watching to see how the social platforms address this propaganda video.

A 2011 video of Harry Belafonte apparently falling asleep was doctored to falsely depict Joe BidenA video shared on Sunday by White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino depicting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden sleeping during a local news interview is manipulated, according to Sacramento-area news anchor John Dabkovitch. The news segment, filmed in 2011, in fact featured singer Harry Belafonte, according to Dabkovitch, who co-anchored the program at the time.


Harry & Pamela Belafonte

Jamaican-American musician, actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte joined the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. He became one of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s closest confidants. Over the years he organized demonstrations, raised money and contributed his personal funds to keep movement activities going. Belafonte has advocated for a range of other humanitarian causes. In 1985, he helped to orchestrate the recording of the Grammy Award winning song "We Are The World," a multi-artist effort to raise funds for Africa. In 1987, he received an appointment to UNICEF as a goodwill ambassador. Belafonte has been involved in prostate cancer advocacy since 2006, when he was diagnosed and successfully treated for the disease Belafonte achieved fame when his 1956 breakthrough album Calypso became the first full-length album to sell over 1 million copies. He is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song," with its signature lyric "Day-O." He became the first Afrian American to win an Emmy for his 1959 TV special Tonight with Belafonte. He has starred in such groundbreaking films as "Carmen Jones" (1954), "Island in the Sun" (1957), "Buck and the Preacher"(1972), and "White Man's Burden" (1995). In 1987 he produced a Broadway play about apartheid entitled Asinamali!" Belafonte owns his own music publishing firm and a film production company.

Though born in Harlem, Harry's mother sent him to live in Jamaica, the island of her birth, when he was still a child. He returned to Harlem as a teenager at the outbreak of World War II. He found it difficult to adjust to life in states, dropped out of high school and enlisted in the Navy. After his honorable discharge, he worked as a laborer until he found his calling in the entertainment world. He started his career as an actor and studied his craft in the Dramatic Workshop of the School of Social Research. There his classmates included Marlon Brando, Walter Matthau, Rod Steiger and Tony Curtis.

In 2000, Belafonte won a Grammy Award for his lifetime achievement in music. In 2002 Africare awarded Belafonte the Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award for his efforts to assist Africa. Additionally, the American Association of Retired People (AARP) named Belafonte one of nine recipients of 2006 Impact Award.

#maytheheavensfall


Voting is beautiful, be beautiful ~ vote.©

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Will Trump Delay The 2020 General Election Due To Gerrymandering In The 2020 Primary Election?


But what about that Parental Right of a legal guardian?

Or guardian, because the Detroit Absentee Ballots did not make that designation of a legal or a non-legal, whatever that means, guardian.

What about gerrymandering?


What about the Detroit Land Bank Authority properties, many being lots, which lodged absentee ballots which were tallied and certified by the City of Detroit Election Commission?

FUN FACT! BRENDA JONES CERTIFIED HER OWN ELECTION FOR CONGRESS


What if the 2020 General Election is put on hold due to absentee ballot fraud in the 2020 Primary Election?

Is that why the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, with jurisdiction over U.S. Elections, has an ominous presence in Detroit and other cities who got hit with SIGTARP?

What about the absentee ballot tallying issues in Detroit?

What about the water shutoff issues of having a vote disqualified due to condemnation codes in Detroit?

How about this one - What about all the expired Michigan State IDs due to the Cooties?

Michigan Gov. Whitmer again extends expiration of licenses, ID cards, vehicle registrations due to COVID-19No penalties until July 31

Will this mean absentee ballots submitted before July 31, 2020 will be tallied and counted, even if one does not have a valid State ID at the time of signing the absentee ballot application and submission?

Where are my Michigan Republicans on this one?

Probably too busy masking up.

EO 2020-78 Emerg Order - Dr... by Amber Ainsworth on Scribd

So many questions, so little time before the August 4, 2020 Primary Election, where, in Detroit, whoever wins the Primary, automatically wins the General!

Gov. Whitmer blasts President Trump over suggestion to delay election

President Donald Trump escalated his ongoing attacks on the mail-in voting process Thursday morning, suggesting in a tweet that the November election should be delayed. 

The statement — coming five days before a primary election in Michigan, which will be marked by a huge number of absentee ballots due to fears of spreading coronavirus at polling places — garnered a massive and immediate backlash from Republicans and Democrats, including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. 

"It’s clear that the president is more focused on his chances in the 2020 election than on protecting families from a virus that has killed more than 150,000 Americans," Whitmer said in an emailed statement. 

"The truth is that mail-in absentee voting is safe, simple, and patriotic — so much so that the president and more than a dozen of his closest advisors have done it." 

Trump's tweet came moments after the Commerce Department announced historically abysmal financial numbers for the second quarter of the year and amid continued evidence that he is well behind the presumptive Democratic nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, in national polls and in battleground states like Michigan.

In recent weeks, Trump has shaken up his campaign team, trumpeted infrastructure projects in key states and suggested he will take action to keep impoverished Americans from living in suburban neighborhoods, all as he has continued to rail against what he calls mail-in voting, despite there being no difference between that and absentee voting, and the fact that Trump himself has voted by mail several times.

Over Wednesday and Thursday he posted several comments, including one on Thursday morning saying, "With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history."

"It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???" 

The president's rhetoric appears to be an attempt to sow doubt in the eventual outcome of the presidential vote and echoes other unfounded attacks on mail-in voting. Posting such comments days before Tuesday's primary in Michigan, meanwhile, could further undermine confidence in results, which Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says could take days to finalize.

"A sitting president is peddling lies and suggesting delaying the election to keep himself in power," U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint Township, posted on Twitter shortly after Trump's tweet. "Don’t let it happen."

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, said on Twitter, "The general election will take place on November 3rd. Period."

"We aren't going to delay an election just because this impeached president's poll numbers are falling," she added.

The president does not have the power to delay any federal election. This power is reserved to the states or Congress, according to the National Constitution Center. 

“Unlike the practice of some states that allow the governor to postpone an election during emergencies, neither the Constitution nor Congress provides any similar power to the president or other federal officials to change this date outside of Congress’s regular legislative process,” wrote the center, citing a recent opinion from the Congressional Research Service. 

There is no indication that either chamber — especially with Democrats in control of the U.S. House — would entertain changing the date of the election. Even if somehow there were no election, Trump's first term in office will end, by law, on noon on Jan. 20, 2021.

Absentee voting expected to be big part of primary
Nearly 2 million Michigan voters have requested absentee ballots for the primary election. The presidential election and ongoing pandemic fears will drive that number up in November, Benson recently said. 

Benson has repeatedly said mail-in voting is safe and secure. Whitmer echoed those comments Thursday while noting monumental events in U.S. history have not delayed other elections. 

"If we could hold an election in 1864 in the midst of a Civil War threatening to tear our country apart, we can and will hold one in 2020. It’s time for the president to get his priorities straight and work with Congress on a bipartisan recovery package that protects our families, frontline workers, and small business owners.” 

Trump has repeatedly attacked mail-in voting, implying Democrats have created a system that exacerbates fraud without providing any evidence. Chris Gustafson, a Trump campaign spokesman in Michigan, recently echoed those claims while saying Republicans have always favored absentee voting. 

Voter fraud is very rare, noted University of Michigan professor Edie Goldenberg in a in a recent column for academic outlet The Conversation.  

"The evidence we reviewed finds that voting by mail is rarely subject to fraud, does not give an advantage to one political party over another and can in fact inspire public confidence in the voting process, if done properly," Goldenberg stated. 

Citing a database of voter fraud allegations maintained by the conservative Heritage Foundation, Goldenberg noted 143 convictions for voter fraud involving mail-in ballots in the entire U.S. since 2000. That's only a fraction of the more than 250 million ballots cast during that time, she reported. 

Republicans have been attacking absentee voting
In May, Benson mailed absentee ballot applications to all 7.7 million registered voters in the state. While she says the high participating rate is evidence that this was a successful efforts, Republicans in the state have attacked the effort. 

Trump initially criticized the effort and threatened to withhold state funding. On Wednesday, Senate Elections Committee Chairwoman Ruth Johnson, R-Holly, questioned why Benson would use the state's qualified voter file as a mailing list. Johnson, who previously served as secretary of state, said she's heard from many concerned Michiganders who received ballot applications for family or friends who are dead or who moved out of state. 

Both Johnson and Benson acknowledged the voter file is difficult to maintain and contains the names of people who are no longer eligible to vote. But Benson said a "secondary goal" of the May mailing was to help kick-start the process of cleaning up the file. 

Voters may still request absentee ballots in person from local clerks until 4 p.m. Monday. A ballot must be received by a clerk by 8 p.m. Tuesday, when polls close, in order to be valid. Polls for Michigan's primaries open at 7 a.m. Tuesday.

Congressional Democrats criticize Trump's misinformation campaign
Democrats in Michigan's congressional delegation, meanwhile, were quick to denounce the president's suggestion and continued to say he was spreading false rumors about the security of absentee voting.


Just a day earlier, on Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Southfield, led a letter signed by several Democratic members of Congress to Trump complaining that the president had been using his position to "spread misinformation about vote-by-mail" that wasn't supported by his own administration's findings.

"Your continued insistence on spewing misinformation and hoaxes does nothing more than create confusion," the letter said. "Your rhetoric is manipulating people into believing the upcoming November elections are 'rigged' without any evidence — a mistaken belief that threatens the integrity of our democracy moving forward. 

U.S. Rep.  Elissa Slotkin, D-Holly, said Thursday that by "laying out the path to discredit the results of the election," Trump is bolstering a theory that some of his critics have been talking about for months: The  possibility that he might move to disrupt the election or the transition of presidential power in some way.

"It sent a shiver down my spine, as I hope it does all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle," said Slotkin, a former acting assistant U.S. Department of Defense secretary.

U.S. Rep. Andy Levin, D-Bloomfield Township, said he expects more to come. "We are in the midst of a dystopian nightmare caused by the greatest failure of executive leadership in the modern history of the presidency. Given Trump’s poll numbers, I’m afraid we can expect a lot more efforts to sow fear, confusion and conspiracy theories."

U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, who was attending the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis' funeral in Georgia, said, "Voting and regular elections are a fundamental pillar of our democracy. John Lewis said in his final words to America: ‘Democracy is not a state. It is an act…’ John Lewis fought with his soul to protect voting rights. We must each do our part to strengthen voting rights. We can and must have elections on Nov. 3."

Republicans in the delegation were less quick to respond to a question from the Free Press, though a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, said Upton "does not believe the November election needs to be delayed." 

Some other Republicans from outside Michigan knocked down the idea as well. Speaking on Fox News, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, said, “We will not delay the election.” U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said in a tweet, "Election dates are set by Congress. And I will oppose any attempts to delay the #2020Election."

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