President Donald Trump in an interview in North Carolina on Wednesday advised voters of that state to vote twice—a clearly illegal action. He said voters should send in their ballots by mail and then try to vote in person on top of that. Voting twice is a felony in many states and, according to the New York Times, “constitutes the kind of voter fraud the president has railed against.” On Thursday Trump appeared to backtrack saying on Twitter that people should only vote in person after mailing in their ballot if they cannot verify that their mail-in ballot has been processed. He wrote, “go to your Polling Place to see whether or not your Mail In Vote has been Tabulated (Counted). If it has you will not be able to Vote & the Mail In System worked properly. If it has not been Counted, VOTE.” Meanwhile the nation’s top law enforcement official, Attorney General William Barr, in a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer appeared unable to clarify the one-person-one-vote law that the nation is founded on. 

During the same CNN interview Mr. Barr echoed another mysterious and ludicrous claim by Trump that anarchists were “flying around the country” to make trouble. He made no mention of the Trump-supporting rightwing armed white vigilantes like Kyle Rittenhouse who are crossing state lines to shoot at protesters. Meanwhile Trump in a memo this week announced that he would be cutting federal funding for Democratic-run cities saying he was asking federal officials to identify “anarchist jurisdictions.” Elected officials slammed his move as “petty and divisive.” 

In other news, Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden headed to Kenosha, Wisconsin on Thursday two days after Trump’s trip there. Biden called for the Kenosha police officers who shot Jacob Blake to be charged and said he planned to meet Blake’s family. Trump’s campaign manager Bill Stepien ascribed the President’s lack of ethical boundaries to Biden, shockingly saying, “The president was there earlier in the week as the president of the United States. Vice President Biden is there today as a candidate, as a political candidate. This is not the time to be injecting politics into a really serious situation that president helped solve.” In fact, Trump’s trip to Kenosha resembled a massive governm...