The Donald Trump Score Card

I was just going to post what Trump requested of Xi Jinping and that Little Rubio of Florida had said that Trump's request wasn't a real request to investigate the Bidens. Remember that just yesterday Trump claimed he had an ABSOLUTE right to ask China to investigate Biden & son. Trump even added he had a Constitutional duty to ask China to investigate Biden. Now Trump's ass kissing armada appears to have come to the comical rescue event!

 

Its witch hunting season, and Donald Duck hired and fired people left and right, because he was looking for republicans with no scruples whatsoever, willing to do whatever he wanted. He is weeding out the worst of them for us, while the remaining ones are so boring they will be lucky to be elected to the house. Of course, many of them will go to jail for his crimes and for being stupid enough to listen to him, while he retires to the Caribbean or whatever. His golden parachute is bulletproof.

 

China doesn't want to contribute to the delusions of a senile old man. Trump is definitely senile. Don't believe me, ask George Conway. The 25th amendment should be enacted, but the republicans are worthless.

 

can't youtube anything without seeing a Trump survey. I assume they're all coming from the Donald Trump for President 2020 campaign.

 

And yet, unemployment rate is still down

Lowest in 50 years, under Donald Trump

 

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Three deeply problematic aspects of newly released text messages centered on the Ukraine scandal
by Philip Bump
October 4, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...eased-text-messages-centered-ukraine-scandal/

excerpt:

"While the released text messages are neither comprehensive (representing “only a subset of the full body of the materials," according to the letter accompanying the messages) nor directly implicate Trump, they include significant new revelations and suggestions about the Trump-Ukraine interactions. Including, in two suggestive moments, specifically the sort of don’t-document-this responses that imply an awareness of lines being crossed."

 

So in other words; nothing

 

Sometimes I take those surveys and submit my name as Socialist Sally at Socialistsally@hotmail.com

 

Trump's obsessions about Ukraine to avenge his perceived wrongdoers:

Trump thinks that the Mueller investigation coerced people in Ukraine to give false information about Trump's people..

Trump thinks that Hillary used Ukraine to frame Russia and his confidant, Putin.

Trump believes that his convicted former campaign manager, Manafort, was given a bad rap by people in Ukraine.

Trump thinks his leading 2020 election rival Biden was involved in corruption in Ukraine.

Trump wants all of it investigated by Ukraine government officials in an effort to try to undermine the Mueller findings, undo Manafort's convictions, and lock up Hillary and now Biden. It's his narrative for the 2020 Presidential election.

 

How Trump's Obsession With a Conspiracy Theory Led to the Impeachment Crisis
By Simon Shuster/Kiev and Vera Bergengruen/Washington
October 3, 2019

How Trump's Obsession With a Conspiracy Theory Led to the Impeachment Crisis

excerpt:

"Few people, even those closest to him in the White House, grasped exactly what the President of the United States seemed to believe: that Ukraine, a nation consumed over the past five years by a crippling armed conflict with Russia, had found a way to conspire against him during the 2016 election, and to collude with his rival, Hillary Clinton, by hiding the Democratic National Committee’s email server and feeding her allies dirt about Trump. It was an idea Tom Bossert, his first homeland-security adviser, described as a “completely debunked” conspiracy theory. Few saw in his Ukraine outbursts anything more than the effusions of a cable-news showman.

It took a complaint from an intelligence-community whistle-blower, released late last month, to reveal the weight of Trump’s Ukraine conspiracy theory and just how far the President has gone to support the notion that a vast network of enemies inside and outside his own government has been working against him. Trump has tried to mobilize the vast resources of his presidency–from Attorney General William Barr and the U.S. Justice Department to America’s national-security apparatus–and a team of investigative irregulars, led by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. This band of conspiracy cops has traveled the globe in a disorderly hunt for proof of the conspiracy Trump says is arrayed against him."

 

[USC02] 52 USC 30121: Contributions and donations by foreign nationals

 

Considering Trump is calling upon foreign governments to engage in what he claims is a general anti-corruption effort, he should also be calling upon them to investigate himself and his businesses along with his political rivals.

 

What exactly is Giuliani's status with respect to his activities with Trump?



Did Rudy Giuliani Nullify His Attorney-Client Protections?
Sometimes he says he’s acting as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer — and sometimes he says he’s not. That could cost him a key legal shield and force him to cooperate with the House impeachment inquiry.
by Ian MacDougall
Oct. 2, 3:30 p.m. EDT

Did Rudy Giuliani Nullify His Attorney-Client Protections? — ProPublica

excerpt:

"At first blush, it’s a reasonable position. The attorney-client privilege shields confidential communications between a lawyer and his client so long as they pertain to seeking or providing legal advice. Giuliani is an attorney; the president is his client. With a number of exceptions, lawyers do not have to reveal anything about conversations with their clients.

Yet legal experts say Giuliani’s apparent hopes of invoking the privilege to avoid providing documents or testifying may be undercut by his own words — specifically, his habit of announcing in public that he is operating in a nonlegal capacity in his international trips. Those trips are of significant interest to congressional investigators. Communications between President Donald Trump and his lawyer aren’t privileged if their substance falls outside the attorney-client relationship.

Take a recent conversation Giuliani had with a reporter for The Atlantic about his attempts to enlist officials in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, to investigate matters that could benefit the president politically. “I’m not acting as a lawyer,” he told the reporter. “I’m acting as someone who has devoted most of his life to straightening out government.”"

 

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‘He gets to decide’: Trump escalates his fight against climate science ahead of 2020
By Juliet Eilperin and Toluse Olorunnipa
February 28, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...12dbbc-3aa3-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html

excerpt:

Trump’s rejection of climate science stretches back to at least 2010. Shortly after signing a letter calling for U.S. action to combat climate change, Trump changed course and began calling the whole concept “a con,” voicing many of the same arguments he uses today.

In a February 2010 interview on Fox News, Trump noted the “freezing” temperatures at the time, and claimed that the United States was “scrubbing” its coal while China, Japan and India pursued dirtier energy, putting American companies “at a competitive disadvantage.”

“It’s probably getting a little bit warmer,” Trump said. “And then, in a number of years or decades, it will get a little bit cooler.”

In 2012, he tweeted that “the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese to make U.S. manufacturing noncompetitive.” And in the years leading up to his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump continued to opine about global warming, seizing on cold snaps to argue that the science showing rising temperatures and sea levels amounted to a “hoax.”

The anti-science views espoused by Trump allow him to cast aside inconvenient facts and shape an argument that aligns with his political goals and his other long-held views, said Tim O’Brien, author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

“It’s performance art,” he said. “I don’t think he authentically believes climate change was authored in Beijing. He just knows that it dovetails neatly with his anti-China, anti-free-trade, anti-climate-change mantra. And he can put that to political use.”

 

Donald Trump once backed urgent climate action. Wait, what?
By Ben Adler and Rebecca Leber
Jun 8, 2016

Donald Trump once backed urgent climate action. Wait, what?

excerpt:

"As negotiators headed to Copenhagen in December 2009 to forge a global climate pact, concerned U.S. business leaders and liberal luminaries took out a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for aggressive climate action. In an open letter to President Obama and the U.S. Congress, they declared: “If we fail to act now, it is scientifically irrefutable that there will be catastrophic and irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet.”

One of the signatories of that letter: Donald Trump.

Also signed by Trump’s three adult children, the letter called for passage of U.S. climate legislation, investment in the clean energy economy, and leadership to inspire the rest of the world to join the fight against climate change."

 

When pressed about his 2012 remark about China during the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump said he was just joking.

 

My boss gave me a gold plated Trump coin for my birthday

 

Lol, we on to climate change now? We bored of Ukraine already?

 

Probably made in China...