CNN Forced To Apologize For Sick Lie About Trump, US Troops

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer issued an on-air correction on Monday after comments on “The Situation Room” suggested that President Donald Trump’s March executive order on mail-in voting would affect ballots used by U.S. military personnel serving abroad.

“We discussed legal challenges to the Trump administration’s directives for the Postal Service on mail-in voting. A comment I made suggested that U.S. military and overseas voters’ ballots would be impacted by these directives. I want to be clear right now: those ballots are exempt from the Postal Service’s new rules implementing the president’s March executive order,” Blitzer said towards the end of the broadcast.

“Those groups are covered under the Uniformed and Overseas Absentee Voting Act, just to be specific on that point,” the longtime host added.

The original exchange took place Friday on “The Situation Room.” Blitzer interviewed Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger about a lawsuit filed by Virginia and other states seeking to block the order. A federal judge had issued a 14-day temporary restraining order against implementation the previous week.

“The continued attacks that we’re seeing from the Trump administration is really just an effort to get people fearful, to get people to stay home, and, in many cases, to eliminate what is a valid, safe, secure way for people to be able to have their voices heard and to vote,” Spanberger said.
Blitzer then replied, “And in Virginia, you have a lot of military personnel who totally rely on mail-in ballots if they want to be able to express their opinions.”

“That’s true. It’s members of the military service, of our diplomatic service, intelligence services, people serving overseas in service to our country who get their ballots mailed to them at the various postings throughout the world,” Spanberger followed up.

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The correction pertained to President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” on March 31, 2026. In broad terms, the order directs the Department of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Social Security Administration, to compile state-by-state lists of confirmed U.S. citizens who will be 18 or older by the next federal election

It also instructs the U.S. Postal Service to issue rules for mail-in and absentee ballots in federal elections. Those rules call for official election-mail envelopes with tracking barcodes and generally limit USPS transmission of such ballots to people on state-submitted mail-in participation lists. States that want USPS to carry those ballots would notify the agency and provide the lists.

The order also directs the attorney general to prioritize certain election-related investigations and prosecutions.

The Postal Service later issued a related rule on ballot mail for federal elections. That rule, and the order’s mail-handling provisions, do not apply to ballots covered by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, commonly known as UOCAVA. UOCAVA is the federal statute that requires states to provide absentee voting procedures for members of the uniformed services, their eligible family members, and U.S. citizens living outside the country.

Congressional research summarizing the USPS rule states that military and overseas ballots covered by UOCAVA are outside the rule’s scope and will not be directly affected. Service members and other overseas voters therefore continue to use the existing UOCAVA process, including the Federal Post Card Application and related absentee procedures, rather than the new USPS participation-list system created under the March order.

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