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Trump's Remarks in Press Briefing; September 18, 2020
PRESS BRIEFINGS
Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | September 18, 2020
Issued on: September 18, 2020
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
3:09 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, everyone. So a lot of work has been going on with respect to the vaccines very successful work, I might add. We have three great, great companies doing somewhat different variations, but theyre all looking very good.
From the beginning of the China virus, all nations have understood that our top priority must be to develop a vaccine as quickly as possible to end the pandemic and get life back to normal. The successful vaccine will not only save millions of lives, it will put an end to the restrictions and some of the things that go on and have to go on in the meantime.
Today, I want to discuss the historic progress were making to deliver a safe and effective vaccine in record time. And theres never been anything like this ever. In our history, theres never been any in history, period world history.
Since January, Americas brilliant doctors and scientists have been working around the clock. These are the best medical minds in the world, by far. And the vaccines are going through the gold standard of clinical trials, and very heavy emphasis placed on safety. Three vaccines are already in the final stage.
Joe Bidens anti-vaccine theories are putting a lot of lives at risk. And theyre only doing it for political reasons; its very foolish. Its part of their war to try and discredit the vaccine, now that they know that we essentially have it. Well be announcing it fairly soon.
{snip}
Yeah. Go ahead.
Q The Postal Service had planned on sending 650 million facemasks to Americans back in April. That never happened. Why not? And was it because you were
THE PRESIDENT: I dont know. I I dont run it, to be honest.
Q Were you running
THE PRESIDENT: Thats run as you know, thats run by a commission, and they run it. I think, frankly, if they would raise the price of packaging, youd end up making a lot of money, or breaking even, or doing something.
The Post Office has been a mess for many, many generations, but for certainly decades. And it loses a lot of money. Its always lost a lot of money. And one of the reasons it loses a lot of money now is that its delivering all these packages. And every time they deliver a package, they lose $3 a package or whatever the number may be.
So I would suggest that they raise the price of packages. And you might get something where it loses very little, or maybe broke even, or maybe even made some money. Would can you imagine a thing like that? And whether its Amazon or any of the other Internet delivery services, if you did that, youd have a whole different Post Office. So hopefully, theyll be doing that.
In the meantime, I know so many people in the Postal System, and Ive known them over the years. Theyre incredible people. And theyre very secure. Theyre going to be very secure.
You know, the problem they have with the ballots not the Post Office the problem they have with the ballots is the people sending the ballots and the people counting the ballots. And who are they sending them to? Where are they being sent? Are they being sent to the wrong areas? Are they not being sent at all?
Therell be tremendous corruption if they dont do something about it. Now, one big hope is that were in front of numerous federal judges in Nevada. Were in front in Pennsylvania, as you know. Were in front in Michigan. We have numerous court cases out there that are very well advanced, and youll start seeing decisions. Just like we won the case on opening up Pennsylvania. That was a great decision by a judge that came down two days ago, and that was a very important decision.
So but we have a lot of very important decisions coming down on this, on the scam of unsolicited ballots, where theyre sending out tens of millions of ballots to everybody people that didnt expect them. People are getting inundated with bal- theyll be showered with ballots.
Everybody in this room knows its a scam. Okay? Everybody in this room, even Jon. Dont say it, Jon, because
Q Whats a scam? Whats a scam?
THE PRESIDENT: Its a scam.
Q What
THE PRESIDENT: Sending ballots sending ballots
Q Voting by mail is a scam?
THE PRESIDENT: at a level they are never going to be able to count them. Let me ask you
Q Dont your officials vote by mail, sir? People in the White House vote by mail. Are they part of the scam?
THE PRESIDENT: They do, but thats different. Thats called solicited. When you solicit, when you go out its called absentee or solicit. When you go out and you request a ballot you want to say, I want to vote because I cant be in Florida or I cant be someplace. You request. So youre sending something in, its handled professionally, they send it back its a whole thing. Thats much different than unsolicited, when you get millions of ballots. I heard numbers like 80 million ballots.
Now, just this week, they had another one another one of the disasters that took place an election. But look at what happened in New Jersey. And they had another one in New Jersey very, very bad different than Paterson. Look at what happened in New York with Carolyn Car- your congressman Murphy.
Q Maloney.
THE PRESIDENT: Maloney.
Q Maloney.
THE PRESIDENT: Carolyn Maloney. Look at that. I mean, look at that race. Carolyn Maloney had a race; it was a disaster. Ballots are missing; ballots are fraud.
These are small races. These are look at what happened in Virginia. Look at what happened at various other parts of the country, even over the last short period of a while. And these arent 80 million or 50 million or 20 million votes; these are small elections. These are congressional elections where, in theory, its easy.
So whats going to happen on November 3rd when somebody is leading and they say, Well, look, we havent counted the ballots; we have millions of ballots to count? Its a disaster. Everyone knows it. Everyone knows its a disaster. And I dont expect people here to say although some people will. Some people would say it. Everyone knows. You dont even have to know politics to know.
And this has nothing to do with Post Office, by the way. Where are these ballots going? Whos sending them? Whos signing them?
You have in Nevada, you have a governor that signs something where he doesnt even want verification of the signature. So what does that mean? So he doesnt even want verification of the signature.
So I think its going to be a terrible time for this country. And were counting on federal judges to do a great constitutional job when they are theyre right now analyzing it many, many federal judges many, like, I think five or six but many federal judges.
I can tell you, in Pennsylvania big. In Nevada very big. I believe its in front of a judge in Michigan. We have a lot of judges have not yet ruled on this. But if its ruled in a different manner or its ruled where these millions and millions of unsolicited people that arent even asking. Theres such a difference. You write in, you ask, they send it to you, you sign it, you send it back thats perfect. Thats absentee.
Theres nothing like going to the voter booth, by the way nothing where they check you as you go in. Theres nothing like that. But thats absentee; thats okay.
But this scam of sending millions and millions of ballots and you know who knows this better than I do? The Democrats. They know its going to be a mess. They know its going there are going to be millions of missing ballot or tremendous numbers of missing ballots.
You could be talking about large percentages of these ballots are going to be missing. Theres going to be fraud. Its a disaster.
Q So, let me follow up on that, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: And everybody and itd be a lot easier for me not to bring it up. But everybody knows Im right. And you dont have to know a lot about elections. You dont have to know a lot about politics. This is going to be the scam of all time.
And hopefully, the federal judges all respected, all highly respected hopefully, theyll be able to see this clearly and stop it.
THE PRESIDENT: Okay, thank you very much, everybody.
So I want to congratulate Puerto Rico. And I think youre going to have a great period of time. I think youre going to see a rebuilding of Puerto Rico.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
END 3:40 P.M. EDT
Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | September 18, 2020
Issued on: September 18, 2020
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
3:09 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, everyone. So a lot of work has been going on with respect to the vaccines very successful work, I might add. We have three great, great companies doing somewhat different variations, but theyre all looking very good.
From the beginning of the China virus, all nations have understood that our top priority must be to develop a vaccine as quickly as possible to end the pandemic and get life back to normal. The successful vaccine will not only save millions of lives, it will put an end to the restrictions and some of the things that go on and have to go on in the meantime.
Today, I want to discuss the historic progress were making to deliver a safe and effective vaccine in record time. And theres never been anything like this ever. In our history, theres never been any in history, period world history.
Since January, Americas brilliant doctors and scientists have been working around the clock. These are the best medical minds in the world, by far. And the vaccines are going through the gold standard of clinical trials, and very heavy emphasis placed on safety. Three vaccines are already in the final stage.
Joe Bidens anti-vaccine theories are putting a lot of lives at risk. And theyre only doing it for political reasons; its very foolish. Its part of their war to try and discredit the vaccine, now that they know that we essentially have it. Well be announcing it fairly soon.
{snip}
Yeah. Go ahead.
Q The Postal Service had planned on sending 650 million facemasks to Americans back in April. That never happened. Why not? And was it because you were
THE PRESIDENT: I dont know. I I dont run it, to be honest.
Q Were you running
THE PRESIDENT: Thats run as you know, thats run by a commission, and they run it. I think, frankly, if they would raise the price of packaging, youd end up making a lot of money, or breaking even, or doing something.
The Post Office has been a mess for many, many generations, but for certainly decades. And it loses a lot of money. Its always lost a lot of money. And one of the reasons it loses a lot of money now is that its delivering all these packages. And every time they deliver a package, they lose $3 a package or whatever the number may be.
So I would suggest that they raise the price of packages. And you might get something where it loses very little, or maybe broke even, or maybe even made some money. Would can you imagine a thing like that? And whether its Amazon or any of the other Internet delivery services, if you did that, youd have a whole different Post Office. So hopefully, theyll be doing that.
In the meantime, I know so many people in the Postal System, and Ive known them over the years. Theyre incredible people. And theyre very secure. Theyre going to be very secure.
You know, the problem they have with the ballots not the Post Office the problem they have with the ballots is the people sending the ballots and the people counting the ballots. And who are they sending them to? Where are they being sent? Are they being sent to the wrong areas? Are they not being sent at all?
Therell be tremendous corruption if they dont do something about it. Now, one big hope is that were in front of numerous federal judges in Nevada. Were in front in Pennsylvania, as you know. Were in front in Michigan. We have numerous court cases out there that are very well advanced, and youll start seeing decisions. Just like we won the case on opening up Pennsylvania. That was a great decision by a judge that came down two days ago, and that was a very important decision.
So but we have a lot of very important decisions coming down on this, on the scam of unsolicited ballots, where theyre sending out tens of millions of ballots to everybody people that didnt expect them. People are getting inundated with bal- theyll be showered with ballots.
Everybody in this room knows its a scam. Okay? Everybody in this room, even Jon. Dont say it, Jon, because
Q Whats a scam? Whats a scam?
THE PRESIDENT: Its a scam.
Q What
THE PRESIDENT: Sending ballots sending ballots
Q Voting by mail is a scam?
THE PRESIDENT: at a level they are never going to be able to count them. Let me ask you
Q Dont your officials vote by mail, sir? People in the White House vote by mail. Are they part of the scam?
THE PRESIDENT: They do, but thats different. Thats called solicited. When you solicit, when you go out its called absentee or solicit. When you go out and you request a ballot you want to say, I want to vote because I cant be in Florida or I cant be someplace. You request. So youre sending something in, its handled professionally, they send it back its a whole thing. Thats much different than unsolicited, when you get millions of ballots. I heard numbers like 80 million ballots.
Now, just this week, they had another one another one of the disasters that took place an election. But look at what happened in New Jersey. And they had another one in New Jersey very, very bad different than Paterson. Look at what happened in New York with Carolyn Car- your congressman Murphy.
Q Maloney.
THE PRESIDENT: Maloney.
Q Maloney.
THE PRESIDENT: Carolyn Maloney. Look at that. I mean, look at that race. Carolyn Maloney had a race; it was a disaster. Ballots are missing; ballots are fraud.
These are small races. These are look at what happened in Virginia. Look at what happened at various other parts of the country, even over the last short period of a while. And these arent 80 million or 50 million or 20 million votes; these are small elections. These are congressional elections where, in theory, its easy.
So whats going to happen on November 3rd when somebody is leading and they say, Well, look, we havent counted the ballots; we have millions of ballots to count? Its a disaster. Everyone knows it. Everyone knows its a disaster. And I dont expect people here to say although some people will. Some people would say it. Everyone knows. You dont even have to know politics to know.
And this has nothing to do with Post Office, by the way. Where are these ballots going? Whos sending them? Whos signing them?
You have in Nevada, you have a governor that signs something where he doesnt even want verification of the signature. So what does that mean? So he doesnt even want verification of the signature.
So I think its going to be a terrible time for this country. And were counting on federal judges to do a great constitutional job when they are theyre right now analyzing it many, many federal judges many, like, I think five or six but many federal judges.
I can tell you, in Pennsylvania big. In Nevada very big. I believe its in front of a judge in Michigan. We have a lot of judges have not yet ruled on this. But if its ruled in a different manner or its ruled where these millions and millions of unsolicited people that arent even asking. Theres such a difference. You write in, you ask, they send it to you, you sign it, you send it back thats perfect. Thats absentee.
Theres nothing like going to the voter booth, by the way nothing where they check you as you go in. Theres nothing like that. But thats absentee; thats okay.
But this scam of sending millions and millions of ballots and you know who knows this better than I do? The Democrats. They know its going to be a mess. They know its going there are going to be millions of missing ballot or tremendous numbers of missing ballots.
You could be talking about large percentages of these ballots are going to be missing. Theres going to be fraud. Its a disaster.
Q So, let me follow up on that, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: And everybody and itd be a lot easier for me not to bring it up. But everybody knows Im right. And you dont have to know a lot about elections. You dont have to know a lot about politics. This is going to be the scam of all time.
And hopefully, the federal judges all respected, all highly respected hopefully, theyll be able to see this clearly and stop it.
THE PRESIDENT: Okay, thank you very much, everybody.
So I want to congratulate Puerto Rico. And I think youre going to have a great period of time. I think youre going to see a rebuilding of Puerto Rico.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
END 3:40 P.M. EDT
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