Ted Bosen: Crime of the Century

The Jan. 6 Committee has not touched on Donald Trump’s most horrific crime. Trump began his public push to discredit mailed-in ballots on April 8, 2020, live from the White House Press Room, followed by frequent condemnations of mailed-in balloting throughout the election season, painting mailed-in ballots as “fraught with fraud.”

By election day, in swing states, only one in three Trump voters voted by mailed-in ballot. Conversely, in those same states, a majority of Biden voters voted by mail. Knowing mailed-in ballots would take days to count, Trump had thus clearly planned, far ahead, to falsely assert that “fraudulent Biden ballots” were being “dumped” after the election, and that “suitcases of Biden ballots hidden under election workers’ desks” were being counted and “repeatedly scanned late at night.” But how did Trump know that Democrats would vote by mail while Republicans voted in person? After all, in swing states in 2016, more Trump voters than Clinton voters had actually voted absentee (Pew Research Group). What made those propensities flip?