Columnist says Trump urged election cheating — Jerusalem Post
The author of a Jerusalem Post column claims that US President Donald Trump, during a speech to supporters in Dallas, urged them to “cheat like hell” in the upcoming midterm elections. According to the columnist, attendees raised their right hands and repeated the text of an oath after the president.
As the author writes, the oath included the phrase: “I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try and cheat like hell, as they do.” The columnist believes that such rhetoric contradicts Trump’s statements about the need to ensure free and fair elections.
Payment proposal
According to the column’s author, Trump also proposed paying $5,000 to every adult American if the Republican Party retains control of Congress in November. He reportedly called the potential payments a “Trump dividend.”
The author of the article believes that such a proposal may contradict the federal ban on paying for votes. The author also writes that some Republican lawmakers are distancing themselves from the idea, citing its potential cost of $1.2 trillion and the federal deficit, which, according to the column, has exceeded $40 trillion.
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Election rhetoric
The columnist notes that Trump urged supporters to make the November 3 elections a referendum on himself. In the author’s view, Democrats support this approach, while some Republicans are more restrained about it.
The article also cites an assessment by New York Times columnist Michelle Cottle. She believes that Trump’s statements about election violations in Georgia in 2020 reduced Republican turnout and contributed to Democratic victories in the state. The Jerusalem Post author suggests that the president’s current election rhetoric may affect the activity of Republican Party supporters.
The Jerusalem Post material is an opinion column, so the assessments and forecasts presented in it belong to its author.
