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Did Donald Trump Just Steal The 2020 Election?
Donald Trump may have already stolen The 2020 Election.
On March 19, 2020 Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announces The Senate’s $2 Trillion Coronavirus “CARES Act”, without any consultation with Senate Democrats.
In it is a remarkable provision that allows Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary to hand out $500 Billion to corporations. Secretly. Without ANY oversight.
In fact, where this $500 Billion goes could not even be known — by Congress or the American people — for 6 months.
In other words, disburse the money on May 4 and NO ONE finds out where it has gone until the day AFTER the 2020 Election on November 3.
Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders and others go ballistic, saying that there MUST be oversight, especially in the run-up to an election.
Meanwhile McConnell and Trump, with the help of Fox News, start an intense pressure campaign on Democrats to pass the bill immediately because Americans are suffering.
Speaker Pelosi enters the picture as she and house Democrats (who are needed to pass the bill) insist on oversight and accountability before they will agree to this $500 Billion dollar “slush fund”. Because they do get Trump, McConnell and House Republicans to agree to significant oversight…