After rolling out the red carpet (literally) for Putin in Alaska to discuss the Russia-Ukraine war, what was Trump’s big take? Putin told him American elections are “rigged” because of mail-in voting, which cost him the 2020 election. “You won that election by so much,” Trump quoted the former KGB head as telling him.
"He can be played to do anything, literally anything, because he only has one trigger. It's all Trump. Trump, Trump, Trump. That's it. And so you can play on his insecurities. You can play on his, well, his insecurities. Really, that's it. That's all he's got is insecurity,” says Lincoln Square Executive Producer Sam Osterhout.
But Trump wasn’t done. This morning, he posted that he was going to get rid of “MAIL-IN BALLOTS” and “Seriously Controversial “VOTING MACHINES.”
I don’t know how many ways Trump can tell us that he’s deathly afraid of the Republican Party having to face voters in 2026, so he’s trying everything he can to put his thumb on the scale. That’s why he’s pushed gerrymandering in Texas and other red states.
And he really, really doesn’t want us to still talk about the Epstein files. That’s one reason why he’s sent the National Guard into D.C. so we’re talking about that instead (the other reason, of course, is he wants to turn America into a dictatorship). And by providing endless footage for the mainstream media of troops patrolling the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument (which are not high-crime areas), he’s getting the stagecraft he craves.
“That is one of the geniuses of Trump. That's why he has had such a lock on the Republican Party and on the American media for the last decade, because he understands that a lot of people don't take what happens in Washington particularly seriously," notes Executive Editor Susan J. Demas.
But at Lincoln Square, we don’t take news direction from Trump and his cronies. So you’ll want to tune in at 11 a.m. ET Wednesday when Susan interviews Nina Burleigh of COURIER Newsroom about her reporting on the Epstein scandal. And at 1 p.m. ET Wednesday, Susan will talk with Epstein survivor Jess Michaels.
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