We’ve all known for some time now that Post Master General Louis DeJoy is a Trump jockey if ever there were one. But according to a new report, an apparent disdain for this country, its people, and everything it stands for isn’t the only thing the two egomaniacs have in common — evidently, they’re both pretty fond of redaction.
No one will soon forget the blocks of black that was the Mueller report, at the hands of Donald Trump and his administration. And now, it looks as though DeJoy’s team has taken a page straight from their criminal playbook when it comes to covering up anything of consequence with those infamous black bars.
A while back, Trump’s Post Master General was slapped with a lawsuit in federal court. Over the past few months, Democratic lawmakers have been cranking down the pressure on DeJoy to produce a copy of his calendar to show who he met with as he was taking control of the U.S. Postal Service — most specifically when he enacted the sweeping policies that significantly slowed down the process of mail, just before an election that would be predominantly dependent on mail-in votes, namely from Democratic voters. However, when the calendar was finally released, it was almost nothing but black redaction bars and a few dates.
HuffPost reports that DeJoy held more than 450 meetings and conference calls between June 15 to Nov. 7. But, the agency’s Freedom of Information Act office redacted nearly every word of the calendar short of dates, times, and a handful of repeating words.
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The calendar was disclosed as a part of a lawsuit by the liberal legal group American Oversight and does not specify why the majority of its contents are redacted.
A letter that can with the calendar said that the hidden portions “concerned trade secrets, privileged interagency communications, and personnel records that would raise privacy concerns,” according to HuffPost.
Executive director of American Oversight, Austin Evers, said, “Shrouding his calendar in secrecy likely violates the letter of the law, and certainly violates its spirit. DeJoy works for the public, but you wouldn’t know it from his calendar. Even in the Trump era, this is an extraordinary level of obfuscation.”
These people have truly come to believe that they can get away with anything under the reign of Donald Trump. I’ve got bad news for them when January 20th rolls around.
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