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Let’s think back on the President’s angry tirades against mail-in ballots on Truth Social. In July, they were “inherently corrupt.” And just last month, voting by mail was “totally CORRUPT and out of control,” and a “Nation Destroying SCAM.” And he tried, more than once, to do something about it. Trump has signed two executive orders to restrict mail ballots nationwide. The first would have thrown out ballots that arrive after Election Day. The second would have let the Postal Service refuse to deliver ballots to anyone who wasn’t on a federal citizenship list. Both got blocked in court. But now Trump has reversed course, urging Republicans to vote by mail for Republican candidates in November. “Republicans must WIN the 2026 Midterm Elections, and we must use every appropriate tool” he posted on Saturday. “Whether you vote early, absentee, by mail, or in-person, we must swamp the Radical Left Dumocrats with massive turnout!” This remarkable hypocrisy is an admission that the effort to kill mail voting has failed. But there’s more to it. For six years, Trump told his voters that mail ballots are how elections get stolen. Many of them listened and stopped voting by mail. That cost him in 2020, and it cost Republicans again in the 2022 midterms. Now he needs those votes back. And let’s not forget: Trump votes by mail. He did it most recently in Florida this March. So what’s changed since those angry posts? Nothing. The rules are the same. The only thing that has changed is that Trump has decided mail voting might help him this time. That’s how it’s always worked with him. Voting by mail was a scam when he thought it hurt his chances. But now that he needs it, it’s an appropriate tool. Funny how that works.