DONALD TRUMP’S ATTACK ON VOTING RIGHTS AND THE THREAT TO NATIVE SOVEREIGNTY

DONALD TRUMP IS on a rampage against mail-in voting and already questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election.

This week on Intercepted:

The modern Republican Party has mastered the art of voter suppression and gerrymandering, but the president is now seeking to exploit the pandemic to aid these efforts. In between tweets accusing Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” of being involved with the death of an intern decades ago and spending time on the golf course as the U.S. neared 100,000 coronavirus deaths, Trump has offered an overwhelmingly fictional narrative about Democratic voter fraud punctuated by warnings of the election being illegitimate before a single vote has been cast.

Mother Jones senior reporter Ari Berman, author of “Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America,” analyzes the strategy of Trump and the GOP and lays out what he considers the nightmare scenario for the November election.

As Trump continues to downplay the human toll of Covid-19, he is doubling down on his push for states to quickly reopen. Many of the states that have reopened surround Indian country and the chair of the Hopi Tribe reservation says, “We have a wildfire burning around us.” Journalist Rebecca Nagle, host of the podcast “This Land,” discusses how the coronavirus is disproportionately impacting Native communities, explains some major cases before the U.S. Supreme Court on Indigenous land rights, and talks about Trump’s battles against Native tribes.

First aired on The Intercept.

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