9/18/2020

VOTE BY MAIL: “Everybody in this room knows it’s a scam. Okay? Everybody in this room, even Jon. Don’t say it, Jon, because —”

[Reporter: “What’s a scam? What’s a scam?”]

“It’s a scam… Sending ballots — sending ballots —”

[Reporter: “Voting by mail is a scam?”]

“— at a level — they are never going to be able to count them. Let me ask you —”

[Reporter: “Don’t your officials vote by mail, sir? People in the White House vote by mail. Are they part of the scam?”]

“They do, but that’s different. That’s called ‘solicited.’ When you solicit, when you go out — it’s called ‘absentee’ or ‘solicit.’ When you go out and you request a ballot — you want to say, ‘I want to vote because I can’t be in Florida or I can’t be someplace.’ You request. So you’re sending something in, it’s handled professionally, they send it back — it’s a whole thing. That’s much different than ‘unsolicited,’ when you get millions of ballots. I heard numbers like 80 million ballots.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | September 18, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 18, 2020