{"id":468103,"date":"2026-09-18T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468103\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:08:08","slug":"supreme-court-must-block-trumps-blatant-attempt-to-buy-votes-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468103\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court must block Trump\u2019s blatant attempt to buy votes \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cTrump, hoping to salvage midterms, makes dubious pledge to give every US adult $5,000 if GOP wins\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/09\/10\/trump-pledge-5000-payments-midterms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 10<\/a>): If President Trump\u2019s promise of $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans win the House and Senate is not illegal election interference, I don\u2019t know what would be. The Supreme Court has to squash this immediately and completely.<\/p>\n<p>But suppose this promise is allowed to stand. The odds of Trump actually delivering are low to nonexistent based on previous failed promises, but if he does deliver, the huge trillions in cost will be borne not by Trump or the GOP but by you and me (i.e., by precisely those who receive the $5,000) as we deal with the further increase in the national debt. Smoke and mirrors.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter Wagner, Scripps Ranch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cTrump, hoping to salvage midterms, makes dubious pledge to give every US adult $5,000 if GOP wins\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-468103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}