The Wall Street Journal said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., should be embarrassed by embracing “unsubstantiated” claims that President Donald Trump is “strangling” the U.S. Postal Service in an effort to control the November elections.
The newspaper made its remarks in an editorial posted Monday night, in which it called the claims “evidence-free.”
“Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling the House back into session this week to address fears that the U.S. Postal Service is being infiltrated by alien lizard people posing as letter carriers,” the newspaper said. “OK, it isn’t quite that bad. The actual conspiracy theory holds that President Trump is strangling the USPS to hack the November election.
“But talk about ‘unsubstantiated,’ as the press likes to call Donald Trump’s Twitter emissions. Democrats should be deeply embarrassed that their leadership has embraced such claims. Two Congressmen, including Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries, wrote to the FBI on Monday to urge, if you can believe it, a criminal investigation of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.”
The newspaper noted that one of the claims being pushed by Democrats is that the USPS is “pulling blue collection bins off the street en masse.”
“In August 2016, the USPS’s inspector general said that ‘the number of collection boxes declined by more than 12,000 in the past 5 years,’" the Journal said. "Voter suppression by the Obama Administration?"
The newspaper maintained that “this is a made-for-TV phony political crisis. Democrats have also scheduled a hearing for next Monday so they can yell at Mr. DeJoy in person. How long before Rep. Adam Schiff says it’s another Russia-Donald Trump conspiracy to steal the election?”
Jeffrey Rodack ✉
Jeffrey Rodack, who has nearly a half century in news as a senior editor and city editor for national and local publications, has covered politics for Newsmax for nearly seven years.
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