In the middle of a pandemic and a presidential campaign, no claim about President Trump’s use or potential abuse of power is too outlandish to print, complain some media critics, legal analysts, and allies of the White House.
The latest example is former Vice President Joe Biden’s prediction that Trump will postpone the presidential election. “Mark my words, I think he is gonna try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can’t be held,” the presumptive Democratic nominee said at a fundraiser last week. He also floated this possibility earlier in April, saying, “We cannot delay or postpone” November voting due to the coronavirus. And Biden has suggested Trump would disrupt voting by threatening to defund post offices.
