The Donald Trump Score Card

Getting out of bed in the morning infringes on his ability to be President.

 

Holding Trump accountable to law and ethics infringes on Trump's ability to be President.

Peter Schweizer could write ten volumes on Trump corruption, cronyism, and nepotism.

 

For Trump, Instinct After Florida Killings Is Simple: Protect Saudis
Before issuing his own condolences, the president channeled the Saudi king’s, and avoided any discussion of the hard questions about why the U.S. is training Saudi officers.
By David E. Sanger
Dec. 7, 2019

For Trump, Instinct After Florida Killings Is Simple: Protect Saudis

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"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — When a Saudi Air Force officer opened fire on his classmates at a naval base in Pensacola, Fla., on Friday, he killed three, wounded eight and exposed anew the strange dynamic between President Trump and the Saudi leadership: The president’s first instinct was to tamp down any suggestion that the Saudi government needed to be held to account.

Hours later, Mr. Trump announced on Twitter that he had received a condolence call from King Salman of Saudi Arabia, who clearly sought to ensure that the episode did not further fracture their relationship. On Saturday, leaving the White House for a trip here for a Republican fund-raiser and a speech on Israeli-American relations, Mr. Trump told reporters that “they are devastated in Saudi Arabia,” noting that “the king will be involved in taking care of families and loved ones.” He never used the word “terrorism.”

What was missing was any assurance that the Saudis would aid in the investigation, help identify the suspect’s motives, or answer the many questions about the vetting process for a coveted slot at one of the country’s premier schools for training allied officers. Or, more broadly, why the United States continues to train members of the Saudi military even as that same military faces credible accusations of repeated human rights abuses in Yemen, including the dropping of munitions that maximize civilian casualties."

 

For Trump, Instinct After Florida Killings Is Simple: Protect Saudis

excerpt:

"Mr. Trump was so quick and so eager to assure the Saudis that the relationship would continue before anyone knew how to categorize the shooting that it raised questions about how the administration would have responded if the suspect had been an Iranian, or an immigrant from Mexico. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump often cited the killing of a young woman in California by an undocumented immigrant as a reason to crack down on immigration and build a wall along the southern border.

“Had an attack been carried out by any country on his Muslim ban, his reaction would have been very different,” said Aaron David Miller, a longtime Middle East negotiator and now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace."

 

Yes sir, that VG sure likes to push the Alt-Right and White Nationalism and Trumpism … for an Australian.

 

‘Go after your enemies’: Trump’s 21-year-old impeachment playbook
Trump shared his real-time thoughts about the Clinton impeachment two decades ago. Those same views are echoing through the president’s fight today.
By TINA NGUYEN
12/08/2019 07:07 AM EST
Updated: 12/08/2019 07:57 AM EST

‘Go after your enemies’: Trump’s 21-year-old impeachment playbook'

excerpts:

"The moment gave TV hosts an opening to ask him what he thought about Clinton’s travails. In several television appearances between 1998 and 1999, while the scandal unfolded in real time, Trump remained consistent in his advice for Clinton: Don’t get involved publicly, don’t tell outright lies, make independent counsel Kenneth Starr look like he was on a witch hunt and denigrate his accusers.

Clinton’s impeachment and Trump’s impeachment have marked differences, of course. While the first involved the denial of an extramarital affair, Trump’s alleged crime involves an attempt to extort the head of a foreign country in order to gain political dirt on a rival. This distinction, however, has been lost on Trump in recent months — particularly as he doubles down on insisting that he did not want a quid pro quo and simply wanted Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to root out corruption."


"Trump already knew how to define his enemies with vicious descriptions, calling Starr a “total wacko” in a Geraldo Rivera interview in November 1999. “There’s the guy. I mean, he is totally off his rocker,” he said, sympathizing with Hillary Clinton, who he called “a very, very good person.”"

 

Pushing the farce of super dodgy follow-daddy-around Biden businesses is white nationalism now?

 

You mean avoid any hard questions as to why Obama let them train Saudi soldiers

 

Lolz, Sunday times reporters said someones elses unknown sources where unknown to them did they?

 

With White House Absent, Impeachment Devolves Into Partisan Brawl
By Michael D. Shear, Nicholas Fandos and Maggie Haberman
Dec. 8, 2019 Updated 6:16 p.m. ET

With White House Absent, Impeachment Devolves Into Partisan Brawl

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"WASHINGTON — Almost from the moment that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her lieutenants decided this fall to pursue the impeachment of President Trump, they made a fateful judgment: If the president intended to do nothing but stonewall and subvert their inquiry, they were not going to be the ones politely sticking to lofty traditions.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers have made a similarly cold calculation. After a year of defying without consequence Congress’s attempts to investigate the president’s conduct, they have no intention of taking part in what they view as an illegitimate impeachment, initially conducted without a formal House vote in a break with recent precedent.

The clash comes to a head on Monday with a hearing in the Judiciary Committee where Democratic lawyers plan to present the case for impeaching Mr. Trump while the White House sits out the process. That will set in motion a rapid-fire set of actions likely to produce official charges against the president by week’s end and a nearly party-line vote in the full House before Christmas to impeach him.

It is an indication of how, in a deeply polarized nation where party rules above all else, a process enshrined in the Constitution as the most consequential way to address a president’s wrongdoing has devolved into another raucous partisan brawl."

 

Republicans don't care about the Constitution. They only care about the Second Amendment.

 

BOO HOO HOO … Oh But Obama!

 

And they feel that the 2nd Amendment only applies to white people.

 

Fixed, but don't thank me.

 

You going to say that everytime you are whingeing about Trump over something Obama actually started

 

Its been 18 years, and you are still falling for that one

Did Saudis Fly Out of the U.S. While Airspace Was Still Closed after 9/11?

 

0 chance of getting a conviction in the senate, and if Trump does win next year Pelosi and Schiff will get the full brunt of the blame for losing an election dems should have won. Then its bye bye to both their careers after that

 

The big red button never leaves his side

 

Trump offers condolences to Saudi Arabia after a Saudi killed three people and wounded eight in Florida.



Trump’s defense of Saudis grows more isolated after deadly shooting on military base
By Toluse Olorunnipa and Josh Dawsey
December 8, 2019 at 6:48 PM EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...80eed6-19f5-11ea-9ddd-3e0321c180e7_story.html

excerpts:

"After a Saudi gunman killed three people at a naval base in Pensacola, Fla., some of President Trump’s Republican allies took to the airwaves to condemn the attack as an act of terrorism, call for a halt to the training program that admitted the shooter and sharply press the Saudi government to cooperate in the investigation.

Trump did none of that. Instead, he used his appearances before television cameras — and his Twitter account — to repeatedly offer cover for the Saudis, conveying Riyadh’s condolences with more fervor than he used in relaying his personal feelings about the shooting."


"Earlier Sunday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), normally a staunch Trump ally, was among several state officials pushing for more stringent scrutiny of foreigners who come to the United States for military training. Gaetz, who earlier called the killing an act of terrorism, also suggested the incident should change America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia.

“Of course, what happened in Pensacola has to inform on our ongoing relationship with Saudi Arabia,” he said ABC News’s “This Week.”"