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2024 PENNSYLVANIA ELECTIONS IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
Last day to REGISTER to vote in the November election ............................... October 21 Last day to apply for a mail-in or civilian absentee ballot .............................. October 29 Last day for County Boards of Elections to receive absentee ballots................ November 5 GENERAL ELECTION ............................................................................... November 5 Last day for County Boards of Elections to receive absentee ballots................ November 5 ANNUAL 2024 PRESS DINNER JOKES:
President Biden: “The 2024 election is in full swing and, yes, age is an issue,” “I’m a grown man running against a 6-year-old. Colin Jost: “Can we just acknowledge how refreshing it is, to see a president of the United States at an event that doesn’t begin with a bailiff saying ‘all rise!’” President Biden: “Age is the only thing we have in common. My vice president actually endorses me.” DONALD TRUMP HAS CHEATED HIS WAY THROUGH LIFE. WILL THIS ELECTION BE ANY DIFFERENT?
As his first criminal trial gets underway, prosecutors are expected to show how the former president falsified business records to hide an affair with an adult film star. By The Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial Board Donald Trump cheats. In fact, he cheats at just about everything in life, business, and politics. Trump cheated on his wives and on his company’s taxes. He cheated his donors and tried to cheat the majority of voters out of their choice for president in 2020. Trump’s niece said he cheated to get into college. He cheated to avoid serving in Vietnam. The winner of the Trump International Golf Club’s Championship Trophy even cheats at golf. As Trump’s first criminal trial gets underway on Monday (barring a last-minute delay), prosecutors are expected to show how he falsified business records to hide an affair with an adult film star on the eve of the 2016 election. The scheme underscores how Trump cheated voters by hiding his culpability in a scandal that could have altered the election and history. Cheating has long been the method to Trump’s madness. He says and does whatever it takes to get whatever he wants, whenever he wants — facts and laws be damned. Trump’s willingness to break the rules and norms of civil society is yet another reason why his latest bid for the presidency is a threat to democracy. Trump’s cheating has helped him evade accountability throughout his business and political career. Facing four indictments, Trump now aims to avoid justice by returning to the White House. To help tilt the Nov. 5 election in his favor, Trump wants to change the way electoral votes are counted in Nebraska. Trump has been pressuring Republican lawmakers there to adopt a “winner takes all” system that could help him in a close race. That kind of edge could end up deciding the presidency. Bending the rules has long been the Trump way. Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, claimed her uncle paid someone to take the SAT for him to help gain admission to college. She wrote that Trump viewed “cheating as a way of life.” Trump dodged the Vietnam War by obtaining five deferments for bone spurs. The diagnosis came from a podiatrist who rented office space from Trump’s father. Trump’s cheating continued in his marriages. In 1990, he brought then-mistress Marla Maples on a family vacation with his first wife, Ivana. After Trump married Melania Knauss in 2005, he cheated on her months after she gave birth to their son, Barron, according to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump allegedly paid Daniels $130,000 in hush money on the eve of the 2016 election, which led to his indictment in Manhattan. The payments hid the affair from the public. Yet another sex scandal — on the heels of the Access Hollywood tape where Trump bragged about grabbing women by their genitals — could have tipped the 2016 election, where he won three states by only 80,000 votes combined. Indeed, the indictment alleges Trump attempted to “corrupt” a presidential election. “The core is not money for sex,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said. “We would say it’s about conspiring to corrupt a presidential election and then lying in New York business records to cover it up.” The corner-cutting continued throughout the campaign and Trump’s chaotic term in the White House. In 2020, a Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee found that Trump associates had regular contact with Russian intelligence services that set out to interfere in the 2016 election and help Trump win. Contrary to Trump’s repeated claims of a hoax, the nearly 1,000-page report found that the Russian government worked to disrupt the election. Trump’s top campaign officials were easily manipulated and welcomed the Kremlin’s help, the report said. Bottom line: Trump worked with an adversary to cheat America. He later attempted to do the same with an ally. In an effort to boost his 2020 reelection, Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. That led to Trump’s first impeachment and was a harbinger of how far Trump will go to win. After losing the 2020 election, Trump likewise pressured and threatened Georgia election official Brad Raffensperger to “find him” enough votes to overturn the results in that state. That led to Trump’s indictment in Georgia, where his efforts were part of a broader attempt to steal the election. Trump’s cheating has filled at least two books. David Cay Johnston, a former Inquirer reporter, detailed many of Trump’s misdeeds in The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family. Rick Reilly, a former Sports Illustrated columnist, wrote Commander in Cheat, which details how Trump is a serial cheater at golf — a game that prides itself on honor and integrity. Trump’s chicanery extends to years of dubious schemes to avoid paying taxes. While Trump claimed to be a billionaire, he only paid $750 in federal taxes the year he was elected president. Last year, the Trump Organization was convicted and fined for cheating on its taxes. Trump also cheated donors. In 2019, a judge ordered Trump to pay $2 million to several charities after finding he misused his foundation to further his political and business interests. The judge found that, over many years, charitable dollars benefited Trump rather than the causes he claimed to support. Undeterred by that scam, the Trump campaign ripped off donors after the 2020 election. Donors contributed $250 million to a legal defense fund to overturn the election. But the fund was never created. Instead, the money was funneled to the Save America political action committee and then to several pro-Trump organizations, according to investigators from the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Behind the bluster, Trump mounted a sustained effort to cheat his way to reelection. Trump’s bogus claims of election fraud cut to the core of American democracy as he attempted to disenfranchise millions of voters, including many Black and brown voters in Pennsylvania. Unlike Sophocles, Trump had no idea how to fail with honor and was willing to win by cheating. Even if it meant a deadly insurrection. America deserves better than a congenital cheater. |