The Donald Trump Score Card

Disclaimer: From the satire site The Onion.

Considering that Trump is often self-parody, it's difficult to discern the real Trump from the satire.



Trump Confirms That It Was Iran Or Some Country Like That Behind Saudi Oil Attacks
9/17/19 1:52pm

https://politics.theonion.com/trump-confirms-that-it-was-iran-or-some-country-like-th-1838190385

WASHINGTON—Addressing the recent attacks on Saudi Arabia that took out more than half that nation’s oil production capacity, President Trump told reporters Tuesday the precision-targeted bombings were a major act of aggression by Iran or some country like that. “The primary actor behind the strike on our Saudi allies was definitely Iran or one of those countries in that same part of the world—someplace with a lot of deserts, a lot of Muslims, a lot of guys with beards,” Trump said to members of the White House press corps, adding, “Syria maybe? Jordan?” before his voice dropped off to an inaudible mumble. “The American people can trust we will take swift action against...Qatar? No, that’s not it. We’re pretty sure Saudi Arabia didn’t do it, because why would they? Why would you bomb your own oil refineries? Then again, you never know. You never can tell. What do you guys think?” The president later clarified that the United States would bomb whichever country the Saudis paid it to bomb.

 

Trump, the whistleblower and the comic: key players in the Ukraine scandal
Trump’s request that Ukraine help find dirt on Joe Biden has led to an impeachment inquiry – and drawn in multiple people
Adam Gabbatt and Shaun Walker
Fri 27 Sep 2019 12.56 EDT

Trump, the whistleblower and the comic: key players in the Ukraine scandal

excerpt:

"Serhiy Leshchenko

One of the new brand of politicians who entered the scene after Ukraine’s Maidan revolution, Leshchenko was a leading political journalist who wrote widely on corruption and became an MP. In May 2016, he published information from a so-called “black ledger” that showed under-the-table payments from the pro-Russian former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych’s regime to various figures including Trump’s former 2016 campaign manager Paul Manafort. This led to Manafort’s resignation from the campaign. Leshchenko later became an adviser to Zelenskiy and has said that before this week, it was “a clear fact that Trump wants to meet [Ukrainian officials] only if Biden case will be included”"

 

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky: The TV Comedian-Turned-President at Center of Trump Impeachment Investigation
By Henry Chu
September 25, 2019 11:38AM PT

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky: The TV Comedian-Turned-President at Center of Trump Impeachment Investigation

excerpts:

"Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A wisecracking TV personality uses his fame to rail against the political establishment and, despite having absolutely zero political experience, runs for president – and shocks the world by winning.

No, not (just) Donald Trump, but the man whose name is now yoked with his in the scandal that has led to an impeachment investigation in Washington. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is the leader whom Trump is accused of leaning on, in July, to dig up dirt on Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Critics say Trump abused his office and should be impeached, while Trump insists there was no impropriety.

Zelensky, 41, was already a well-known figure in Ukraine before his election last April, but as a television comedian, not a politician. He created and starred in the satirical show “Servant of the People,” in which he plays an ordinary schoolteacher whose rants against political corruption – a major problem in Ukraine – turn him into a populist hero and unexpectedly elevate him to the presidency."


"In a case of life imitating art, Zelensky campaigned in Ukraine’s real-life election as an outsider willing to take on the oligarchs who dominate the poverty-stricken country’s economy. He largely avoided serious discussions on policy and used social media to great effect, often posting humorous videos.

Like Trump in 2016, Zelensky astonished the world by winning. Unlike his American counterpart, who drew fewer votes than Hillary Clinton, Zelensky was elected by an utter landslide, with about a staggering 75% of the vote."

 

Trump Pressed Australian Leader to Help Barr Investigate Mueller Inquiry’s Origins
The discussion was another instance of the president using American diplomacy for potential personal gain.
By Mark Mazzetti and Katie Benner
Sept. 30, 2019
Updated 4:50 p.m. ET

Trump Pressed Australian Leader to Help Barr Investigate Mueller Inquiry’s Origins

excerpt:

"WASHINGTON — President Trump pushed the Australian prime minister during a recent telephone call to help Attorney General William P. Barr gather information for a Justice Department inquiry that Mr. Trump hopes will discredit the Mueller investigation, according to two American officials with knowledge of the call.

The White House restricted access to the call’s transcript to a small group of the president’s aides, one of the officials said, an unusual decision that is similar to the handling of a July call with the Ukrainian president that is at the heart of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Mr. Trump. Like that call, the discussion with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia shows the extent to which Mr. Trump sees the attorney general as a critical partner in his goal to show that the Mueller investigation had corrupt and partisan origins, and the extent that Mr. Trump sees the Justice Department inquiry as a potential way to gain leverage over America’s closest allies.

And like the call with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, the discussion with Mr. Morrison shows the president using high-level diplomacy to advance his personal political interests."

 

In a similar vein, the released version of Trump's Ukraine call is a reconstructed transcript. The full content is not currently known. According to news reports, it is in a storage device for classified information even though the type of information in the call (according to Trump himself) doesn't warrant such a storage mode. It's what Trump accuses others of doing.

It's also not known what other calls Trump or the private citizen Giuliani may have made to Ukraine or other countries that may have facilitated Trump's use of his presidential powers for his personal enhancement.

The shadow government mode that Trump has chosen to use (that he accuses others of using) with Giuliani, Barr, and Pompeo has increased people's suspicions of him, and he's paying a political price for it.

 

It’s ironic that the Democrats and their media loyalists use ‘influencing an election’ as the president’s crime while attempting to void my vote in broad daylight. They don’t want to leave it up to the voters next year because they know they could lose. Loathsome.

 

I wonder if having a real time Twitter meltdown will prove an effective impeachment defense.

 

Crimes you cant identify but you sure exist because you hate Trump

Okey dokey

 

Lolz! You are killing me

What the fuck would ScoMo know about it

Ha ha ha ha

 

I'm going to let Adam Schiff explain it to you. Adam Schiff is going to put them in prison.

 

It seems the participation of Pompeeon has been erased from the record, or hidden?

 

I'm starting to see a pattern.

 

I am holding my breath

 

That's what Individual One said.

 

A country that Putin had already invaded unbeknownst to clueless Trump.

Two autocrats, Putin and Trump, double abusing a country that has already incurred much abuse.

All of this shadow government approach by Trump is supposedly going to prove Putin innocence, find Hillary's emails, and prove corruption by Biden.

It might even find the alleged 3 million illegal votes that went to Hillary that the Trump-appointed Kobach and his failed commission couldn't locate.

Trump could even pressure the leader of Ukraine to make a public statement supporting his faulty claim that hurricane Dorian was going to hit Alabama.

 

John Dean: 'There is enough evidence' to impeach Trump
By Justine Coleman
09/30/19 08:52 PM EDT

John Dean: 'There is enough evidence' to impeach Trump

excerpt:

"“There is enough evidence of an abuse of power, a breach of his oath of office,” Dean said. “What they need to do is get evidence that fleshes it out. They need to show exactly what was going on.”

To speed up the impeachment process, the former White House counsel added that congressional investigators need someone comparable to Dean during the Watergate investigation, with extensive White House knowledge to testify against the president.

After initially covering up for Nixon's crimes, Dean cooperated with prosecutors and detailed the violations the president and his staff committed during blockbuster Senate testimony. About a year later, Nixon resigned.

Dean told the newspaper he hoped Don McGahn — the former White House counsel and chief counsel for Trump's campaign — would step up after resigning last October."

 

You know they will be immediately pardoned.

 

Adam Schiff?! Am I experiencing deja by? Still waiting for that Russian Collusion proof he swore he had. I think there’s something wrong with that guy.

 

I'm still waiting for Tricky Dick to go to jail. Its a little difficult to believe anything anyone says, much less that justice is possible, when they all have a "Get Out of Jail Free" card, except for the flunkies. They will spin this however they like for the mindless masses. Reagan committed treason, and never spent a day in jail, because the word has no fucking meaning if you can get away with murder. Fuck em, they took my vote away and shredded our constitution, and I will have no part of a nation that supports their madness.

My bots will target military personal as well, who tend to be fascists making it next to impossible to distinguish my bots from their own people. They cannot stop me, and they know it, because my work is related to next generation AI and quantum mechanics, and is all in the public domain. You cannot attack what you cannot comprehend, your own damned humanity. The alternative is civil war, and allowing the rest of the world to develop the theory of everything first.