The Donald Trump Score Card

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  1. scratcho

    scratcho Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    NEXT!!!!
     
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  2. stormountainman

    stormountainman Soy Un Truckero

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    Flynn took a half million dollars to kidnap a Turkish politician on US soil and forcibly return him to Turkey. That a crime and conspiracy to commit a crime. Your knowledge of American Law and American politics is very shallow VG.
     
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  3. scratcho

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    You can't expect a primate to utter anything that makes sense. Except maybe---uggg--me want banana
     
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  4. egger

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    Offering a pardon implies that the recipient is guilty of an offense. Accepting a pardon implies that the recipient is acknowledging guilt which he or she may not want.

    Women in the general public may not wish Susan B. Anthony to be pardoned because of the guilt implication.

    It's an issue Trump should have considered before offering the pardon to try to win the votes of women.

    Ironically, Susan B. Anthony was fighting against voter suppression, whereas Trump has been trying to stifle equal opportunity to vote based on his own truther narratives.



    Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects President Trump's Pardon Of The Suffragette
    Neda Ulaby
    August 20, 2020 2:45 PM ET

    Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects President Trump's Pardon Of The Suffragette

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    "On Tuesday, President Trump officially pardoned leading suffragette Susan B. Anthony, who died in 1906. He noted she was arrested in 1872 for voting before it was legal for women to do so.

    "She was never pardoned!" he exclaimed in a White House ceremony. "Did you know that she was never pardoned? What took so long?"

    Well, it was partly that Anthony would not have wanted to be pardoned, according to some historians who've pointed out that Anthony did not think she'd done anything wrong. Joining those voices is the executive director of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, New York."
     
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  5. egger

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    Critics pressure Trump to rescind Susan B. Anthony pardon
    Historians say a pardon validates her alleged crime, against her wishes.
    By Libby Cathey
    August 19, 2020, 4:15 PM

    Critics pressure Trump to rescind Susan B. Anthony pardon

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    "Following Hochul, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren agreed that Anthony wouldn't have wanted the pardon and called on Trump to rescind his action.

    Even Trump later Tuesday appeared to acknowledge that Anthony may not have wanted a pardon, noting that she secured pardons for election inspectors who aided her, but not herself.

    "I actually asked the other day and they were talking about Susan B. Anthony, and she did that for other people and she didn't want herself included. She wasn't included in the pardon from many years ago," Trump said in Arizona. "It's been very, very popular.""
     
  6. Flagme15

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    Hahaha
     
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  7. Flagme15

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    ca...at, dog, tv, what was it again?
     
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  8. egger

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    Trump says he appreciates support from followers of unfounded QAnon conspiracy

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    "President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he knows little about the controversial conspiracy theory known as QAnon – but added that he is nevertheless grateful for the support of its followers.

    “I don’t know much about the movement, other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate,” Trump said at a White House press briefing.

    QAnon began as a fringe internet conspiracy alleging, among other things, that Trump is secretly fighting against “deep state” factions of powerful Satanic pedophiles who are plotting against him and his supporters."
     
  9. egger

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    Trump doesn't care to know too much about anything, other than when people like him.
     
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  10. egger

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  11. unfocusedanakin

    unfocusedanakin The Archaic Revival Lifetime Supporter

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    These conspiracy people can never explain two things

    1. Why Trump can not produce results despite all the time he has had and according to their figures having 10's of millions of gun owners ready to die on his command,
    2. What makes him so special as to be above corruption

    It's always a vague threat about to happen. No matter what the hammer will drop next week and boy when it does you will be sorry because we are going to hang Hillary and it's going to be sweet.

    Just like the Evangelical Christians who predict the end times when it does not happen they just move on without seeing what fools they looked like. Oh it must the week AFTER next our bad dear leader.
     
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  13. unfocusedanakin

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    If there was enough of a market demand there would be racist products that make a point to say all lives and the kind of thing. But there are not.

    The lower middle class does not buy much they buy what they afford and usually on credit. The poorer someone is the more likely they will buy into the GOP idea of everyone having a million dollars.

    Why does it even make sense to care what Republcajsn think anymore? It don't make dollars so it does not make cents,
     
  14. egger

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    In his wind vane fashion, Trump can fire someone (or claim he fired someone) and later make apologies for him and even commute or pardon him.

    Trump said in 2015 that he fired Roger Stone so that he could bring in better people to his campaign.

    Like the case with Bannon, Trump says he fired Stone. Stone says he quit.

    Trump commuted the sentence of Stone in 2020.



    Steve Bannon's arrest is the perfect symbol of the Trump era
    Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
    Updated 2:08 PM ET, Thu August 20, 2020

    Bannon's arrest is the perfect symbol of the Trump era - CNNPolitics

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    "Which is a remarkable run of criminality. And clashes directly with then-candidate Trump's promise in August 2015 that "I'm going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people. We want top of the line professionals." (Amazingly, Trump said those words to explain his decision to part ways with, wait for it, Roger Stone!)

    The simple truth is that the story of Bannon is, in many ways, the story of Trump's presidency. The billionaire businessman has attracted all sorts of third-rate political consultants, grifters and assorted hangers-on, elevated them to positions of power, cast them out of those positions and then watched as they aimed to cash in on their moment in the sun -- whether via a tell-all book or, in Bannon's case, an alleged nest-feathering scheme."
     
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  15. egger

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    What Ethics? Trump Fills White House With Industry Lobbyists While Hiding Every Move
    Justin Elliott
    Published April 16, 2017 - 9:22pm

    What Ethics? Trump Fills White House With Industry Lobbyists While Hiding Every Move

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    "President Trump has stocked his administration with a small army of former lobbyists and corporate consultants who are now in the vanguard of the effort to roll back government regulations at the agencies they once sought to influence, according to an analysis of government records by the New York Times in collaboration with ProPublica.

    The Times adds new details to our previous reporting on Trump's weakening of ethics rules and former lobbyists working on regulations they opposed on behalf of private clients just months ago.

    The Times scrutinized financial disclosures of top White House staffers and found that the lobbyists and consultants in their ranks had more than 300 recent corporate clients and employers, including Apple and Anthem, the insurance company."


    "Still, under Trump's executive order, he can issue waivers at any time to staffers, Catanzaro included, for any reason, and never disclose it.

    Even the federal government's top ethics official, Walter Shaub, who runs the Office of Government Ethics, is being kept in the dark.

    "There's no transparency, and I have no idea how many waivers have been issued," Shaub told the Times."
     
  16. Flagme15

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  17. 6-eyed shaman

    6-eyed shaman Sock-eye salmon

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    The hell are you rambling about? This makes zero sense
     
  18. Vanilla Gorilla

    Vanilla Gorilla Go Ape

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    Maybe ask John Edwards if she wants to get pardoned
     
  19. egger

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    The indictment of Bannon originated from the U.S. District Court, Southern District of NY. It was formerly headed by Berman whom Barr fired.

    Barr sleazily put words in Berman's mouth that he had resigned. Barr was rebuffed by Berman who didn't resign until it was agreed that his deputy would assume his place in a proper succession.

    Every time one of Trump's his former associates is charged with offenses it opens the possibility that it may reveal incriminating evidence about Trump. It's a real disadvantage for Trump that he has a history of hiring such shady people.

    Trump's approach appears to be that of instructing Barr to fire someone like Berman to thwart ongoing investigations related to him.
     
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  20. egger

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    Five takeaways on Bannon's indictment
    By Harper Neidig
    08/20/20 03:49 PM EDT

    Five takeaways on Bannon's indictment

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    "Federal prosecutors now have significant leverage over Bannon

    The two charges Bannon is facing each carry the possibility of up to 20 years in prison, though if he’s convicted he will likely receive a far lighter sentence.

    Still, prosecutors now hold significant leverage over the former Trump confidant, which they could try to use to pursue investigations into any number of reported schemes involving the president himself or his allies.

    It’s unclear what the U.S. attorney’s office might want, if anything, from Bannon, but under Berman it prosecuted an array of major and minor figures in Trump’s orbit, including Cohen, his former attorney.

    Since his legal ordeal that landed him in prison, Cohen has turned on his longtime former boss, saying that he arranged the hush money payments because Trump told him to.

    It’s also been reported that Berman had been investigating the business dealings of Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, though it’s unclear whether the probe is ongoing or whether Bannon would have any knowledge that would be helpful to prosecutors.

    Still, if the president’s former top adviser seeks a plea agreement with prosecutors in order to avoid significant prison time, it could possibly lead to even more legal headaches for Trump and his allies."
     
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