The Donald Trump Score Card

Well he did say "Virtually"

 

2 Giuliani Associates Arrested On Campaign Finance Violations
Ryan Lucas and Brian Naylor
October 10, 2019 10:55 AM ET

2 Giuliani Associates Arrested On Campaign Finance Violations

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"The two met with the congressman and sought his "assistance" in getting the then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, removed. The indictment says Parnas was working on this effort, at least in part, at the request of more Ukrainian government officials.

Yovanovitch ultimately was removed from her post this spring amid complaints from Giuliani and others. In the controversial July 25 phone call between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Trump refers to Yovanovitch as "bad news" and said, "She's going to go through some things.""

 

The strange career of Rudy Giuliani, from US attorney to Trump bagman, explained
The triumph of “law and order” over the rule of law.
By Matthew Yglesias
Sep 25, 2019, 3:10pm EDT

The strange career of Rudy Giuliani, from US attorney to Trump bagman, explained

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"Like Michael Cohen before him, Rudy Giuliani, though described as Donald Trump’s “personal attorney,” does not appear to provide legal services in the conventional sense.

He is, rather, a television surrogate and all-around factotum who carries out requests on the president’s behalf while taking advantage of attorney-client privilege to put himself beyond the reach of subpoena power. And it appears he was the bagman for the Ukrainian caper that’s put Trump closer than ever to impeachment by the House of Representatives.

According to reporting by Greg Miller, Josh Dawsey, Paul Sonne, and Ellen Nakashima for the Washington Post, it was Giuliani who ran a “shadow Ukraine agenda.” The full scope of the agenda is still a matter of investigation, but it involves sidelining then-National Security Adviser John Bolton and other key officials to pressure the Ukrainian government into fabricating corruption charges against Joe Biden and his family.

Running sensitive diplomatic missions may sound like an odd job for an attorney not formally employed by the United States government. Adding that the attorney in question used to be mayor of New York City doesn’t really explain it."

 

I think the correct descriptor is consiglieri (a person who serves as an adviser or counselor to the leader of a criminal organization).Definition of CONSIGLIERI

 

Oh Boy... Trump would have fun trying to post that word on Twitter....

 

Any videos anyone has are deep fakes.

 

And trump supporters probably think it's something you get with your breadsticks, at the Olive Garden.

 

Trump was hoping to get somebody like Robert Duvall, but had to settle for Rudy.

 

Duvall doesn't have the money to get away with what Giuliani has.

 

No … theirs involves lubricants. I was just thinking about Biblical brotherly love.

I was just checking this one out. This one sounds big. (1) The two men who were arrested had one way tickets out of the country. (2) They met with Giuliani about two hours before the flight AT TRUMP HOTEL. (3) They gave money to the campaign illegally. (4) They gave money to a Republican Texas member of Congress who had the US Ambassador removed from the job. The entire thing sounds related to the gas business in Ukraine and it stinks of corruption.

 

Rudy is in a heap of trouble now. They might arrest him too.

 

One can only hope, but he has already done enough damage. Like Donald Duck, he has shown just how easy it is walk all over the system that republicans helped to destroy.

 

Graham is duped by prank phone call.


Lindsey Graham dishes on Trump in hoax calls with Russians
By NATASHA BERTRAND
10/10/2019 03:18 PM EDT

Lindsey Graham dishes on Trump in hoax calls with Russians

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"The pranksters’ conversation with Graham, a Trump ally who has the president’s ear on national security issues, also raises obvious questions about potential security breaches. While the pranks appear on their face to have been relatively harmless, the incident suggests it’s getting easier for bad actors to elicit sensitive information from policymakers. Stolyarov provided POLITICO with a recording of their call.

In the call, Graham was primarily concerned with getting Turkey back into the F-35 program and urging the “defense minister” to refrain from using Russia’s S-400 anti-aircraft weapon system, which was fully delivered to Turkey last month in defiance of requests from the U.S. and NATO.

But Graham also expressed sympathy for Turkey’s “Kurdish problem” and described the Kurds as a “threat.” Those private comments appear to contradict his public statements this week, in which he criticized Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops out of northern Syria because it’s “wrong to abandon the Kurds, who have been strong allies against” the Islamic State.

“Your YPG Kurdish problem is a big problem,” Graham told the pranksters. He was referring to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, a group that began fighting ISIS as part of the Syrian Democratic Forces in 2015—with support from the U.S.—but is considered a terrorist group by Turkey because of its push to establish an autonomous state for the Kurds on the Turkish-Syrian border."

 

Trump pushed Tillerson to help Giuliani's client out of DOJ probe: Source
By John Santucci
Oct 10, 2019, 5:22 PM ET

Trump pushed Tillerson to help Giuliani's client out of DOJ probe: Source

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"During a 2017 oval office meeting, President Donald Trump urged then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to push the Department of Justice to drop a criminal case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was being represented by Rudy Giuliani, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The meeting was first reported by Bloomberg.

Reza Zarrab, Giuliani's client, was accused of bank fraud, money laundering and helping the Iranian government in evading the U.S. economic sanctions on Iran to hinder its nuclear weapons program.

The source with knowledge told ABC News that many top level aides including Tillerson and then-White House chief of staff John Kelly told the president he could not get involved in the matter saying it would be interfering in an ongoing criminal investigation."

A representative for Tillerson declined to comment when reached by ABC News. Kelly did not respond to a request for comment, nor did Giuliani.

 

Trump says he hopes his lawyer Rudy Giuliani doesn’t get indicted
Dan Mangan
October 10, 2019

Trump says he hopes his lawyer Rudy Giuliani doesn't get indicted

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"President Donald Trump said Thursday that he hopes his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani does not end up getting indicted on criminal charges.

Trump’s comment to reporters came hours after federal prosecutors in New York revealed that two of Giuliani’s clients, along with two other men, had been charged with conspiring to violate campaign finance laws barring foreign money to be used to support candidates for federal office.

Giuliani reportedly had dined with the clients, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, hours before they were arrested at Dulles International Airport in Virginia waiting to board a flight abroad with one-way tickets.

The indictment says Parnas and Fruman made illegal donations totaling $325,000 to a political action committee that supports Trump.

“I don’t know those gentlemen,” Trump told reporters Thursday."

 

How much do you want to bet he resigns and Pence pardons them both.

 

Trump's former Russia aide set to give revealing testimony on Giuliani, Sondland
Fiona Hill’s appearance next week before Congress has stoked fear among people close to the president.
By Josh Lederman, Carol E. Lee and Kristen Welker
Oct. 10, 2019, 7:37 PM EDT

Trump's former Russia aide set to give revealing testimony on Giuliani, Sondland

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"WASHINGTON — Fiona Hill, who was until recently President Donald Trump’s top aide on Russia and Europe, plans to tell Congress that Rudy Giuliani and E.U. ambassador Gordon Sondland circumvented the National Security Council and the normal White House process to pursue a shadow policy on Ukraine, a person familiar with her expected testimony told NBC News.

Hill’s appearance next week before Congress has stoked fear among people close to the president, said a former senior White House official, given her central role overseeing Russia and Ukraine policy throughout most of the Trump administration.

Her plans to testify also pose a key test for whether congressional committees pursuing an impeachment inquiry can obtain testimony from other former officials who have left the administration, given the possibility that the White House may try to assert executive privilege to stop them from testifying."

 

Trump sounding like Hogan's Heroes TV character Sergeant Schultz:

“I don’t know them, I don’t know about them, I don’t know what they do, but, uh, I don’t know, maybe they were clients of Rudy, you’d have to ask Rudy. I just don’t know.”




Trump: I Don't Know The Giuliani Associates, But I Might Have A Picture With Them
Josephine Harvey, HuffPost
October 10, 2019

Trump: I Don't Know The Giuliani Associates, But I Might Have A Picture With Them

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"Images of Trump with the pair have since been circulated. One image, posted on Facebook by Parnas in May 2018, shows the businessman with Trump at the White House. He thanked the president for an “incredible dinner and even better conversation.”"


"Parnas, Fruman, Giuliani and Trump are pictured together in an undated image published by the Miami Herald. Vice President Mike Pence was also pictured with the four of them at the event."


"Another image posted on Facebook by Parnas, also in May 2018, was captioned “power breakfast !!!” and included a #Trump2020 hashtag. The photo shows Donald Trump Jr. with Fruman and Parnas at the Beverly Hills Polo Lounge."

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Donald Duck's "Mega Rally" live in Minnesota, which is as redneck as it gets. He's either totally flipped his lid, inciting civil war, attempting to drag the entire republican party down with him or, very likely, all three since he doesn't seem to make distinctions between reality and fiction. His greatest ambition in life, before running for president, was to own a professional wrestling franchize, and watching him give speeches to a crowd like this one makes it all too clear just how shallow and soulless at least a third of the country has become. My best guess, if I had to make one, is that he really held this rally just so he could be the center of attention one last time. Walmart and reality TV are just no substitute for a real life, and the only solution is to make modern economics obsolete.

That may sound bizarre, but within ten years almost any job done by people today will be done by computers and robots. You can run, but there is no hiding from reality, which ever so much greater and subtler, than reality TV.

 

Maybe. Remember that Melania cried her eyes out the night trump was elected. She didn't want him to be president, and I doubt she has changed her mind.