DeJoy apparently broke campaign laws

Where does Trump find this collection of bigots and cheaters?

By reimbursing his employees for campaign contributions, DeJoy broke federal and state laws, including:

"No person shall make a contribution in the name of another person" (52 U.S.C. 30122)

People have gone to jail for this https://t.co/Hq0UsLnjFe
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) September 6, 2020

During his testimony, DeJoy was asked by Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) if he had repaid executives for making donations to the Trump campaign.⁰“That’s an outrageous claim, sir, and I resent it. . . . The answer is no,” DeJoy responded angrily. https://t.co/DJAQJklZRB
— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) September 6, 2020

Prosecutors routinely send people to prison for the criminal conduct described below. If article is accurate, @USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy must resign. @RepJeffries & I previously requested @FBI to investigate DeJoy. We fully expect FBI will do so now.#SundayThoughts https://t.co/m33vQ6Y29U
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) September 6, 2020

What is alleged here — "straw" donations — is not a minor violation. Many people have faced prison for this. Get ready for a thread. https://t.co/eUU7G0bYfG
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) September 6, 2020

My statement on today's @washingtonpost story "Louis DeJoy’s rise as GOP fundraiser was powered by contributions from co. workers who were later reimbursed, former employees say":

It is against the law to directly or indirectly reimburse someone for a political contribution.1/2
— Josh Stein (@JoshStein_) September 6, 2020

Reminder from 20 years ago: a Gore fundraiser was convicted of 5 felonies for doing exactly this https://t.co/64M1Wyr3k6
— Austan Goolsbee (@Austan_Goolsbee) September 6, 2020

1/ It is a violation of campaign finance law to circumvent campaign finance limits by getting other people to donate to a candidate and then reimbursing them for their donations. https://t.co/H0S86PwdrH
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) September 6, 2020

Over 500,000 Social Security checks come in the mail

I am a retired Social Security employee and I thought that all checks were now electronic. I was surprised to find out that so many checks were mailed. It’s a small percentage of a huge volume. This came to my attention as part of the discussion on Trump’s efforts to damage mail-in voting.

Some conservatives are accusing Obama and other Democrats of lying for saying some people rely on the mail for Social Security checks.

They aren't. Though 99.1% do direct deposit, the 0.9% still getting mail checks is 549,818 people. https://t.co/49pl5uS6ix
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 17, 2020

Again: it is *not* true Social Security completely stopped mailing paper checks in 2013. Again: more than 549,000 people get paper Social Security checks this month, per official data (https://t.co/49pl5uS6ix); including SSI, it's "nearly 850,000" paper checks a month. pic.twitter.com/LOeBrVuTyf
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 18, 2020

Trump’s sabotage of the post office

“How many ways can the new Postmaster General sabotage the @USPS?” https://t.co/lj4b0O9wqw
— Slate (@Slate) August 8, 2020

Trump and his political agent the POSTMASTER GENERAL are pulling apart the US Postal Service authorized by the Constitution. How can Republicans in Congress allow this to happen? 630,000 angry employees. Rural America in peril without USPS.
— Barry R McCaffrey (@mccaffreyr3) August 8, 2020

Trump’s Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and his wife, Aldona Wos, nominated to become our ambassador to Canada, own between $30 million and $75 million of assets in competitors to the US Postal Service. No problem there, right?
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 8, 2020

23 postal executives were reassigned or displaced in today’s shakeup. The new structure centralizes power around a Trump megadonor and de-emphasizes decades’ worth of institutional postal knowledge. ✉️ https://t.co/IZ2eLhtXQc
— James Hohmann (@jameshohmann) August 7, 2020

I asked a bunch of postal workers what’s wrong with the mail. Their answers were scarier than expected. https://t.co/56aAtqHofg
— Adam Clark Estes (@adamclarkestes) August 7, 2020

Democrats have an opportunity to save the mail before the election. They’re running out of time. https://t.co/pB8DyNU0WY
— Slate (@Slate) August 6, 2020

https://twitter.com/AdyBarkan/status/1291962702709919745?s=20

Top Democrats say postmaster general acknowledged new policies that workers say are delaying mail, @jacobbogage reports https://t.co/4v2a2h7frA
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) August 6, 2020

Senate Democrat launches inquiry into Postal Service delays https://t.co/F529y7WskI
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) August 5, 2020

President Trump and his appointees have begun taking cost-cutting steps that appear to have led to slower and less reliable Postal Service delivery https://t.co/3aRHpxQThW
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 1, 2020

Let's see, it's safe to mail Social Security checks, prescription drugs, and your driver's license, but not to vote? Undermining the USPS is the backdoor of undermining the election. Support USPS. https://t.co/qh0igvHicy
— Richard Stengel (@stengel) August 1, 2020