The Donald Trump Score Card

On the bright side, anyone giving a dishwasher to a white suburban woman for Christmas will have the freedom to say 'Merry Christmas' to her, and the dishwasher will work better because of Trump.

 

Trump says he loves going to churches and drops a number of $20 bills into the collection bucket.


US Election 2020: Photo of Donald Trump counting money before donating to church goes viral

 

Staged photo op with somebody else's money....

 

GOP loses its quest to stifle voting in PA.



Supreme Court denies Pennsylvania GOP request to limit mail-in voting

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The big picture: The deadlock underscores the importance for Republicans of confirming Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, who the president himself has said could be a deciding vote in an election-related dispute.

• Chief Justice John Roberts joined liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer in denying the application.
• Conservative justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch said they would have granted the application.
• When the court is deadlocked, the decision from the lower court remains in place without setting a precedent for future cases.

 

Trump's money is always someone else's money.

 

Barr came to the rescue of Trump when Trump lost his case in NY that claimed a sitting president is immune from civil lawsuits.




Justice Dept. Says Trump’s Denial of Rape Accusation Was an Official Act
The writer E. Jean Carroll sued the president for defamation after he denied sexually assaulting her in the 1990s. Now the government wants to defend him.
By Benjamin Weiser and Alan Feuer
Oct. 19, 2020 Updated 7:33 p.m. ET

Justice Dept. Says Trump’s Denial of Rape Accusation Was an Official Act

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"The Justice Department said on Monday that President Trump should not be sued personally for having denied a rape allegation because he made the statement while acting in his official capacity as president.

Lawyers for the government made the argument as they defended Attorney General William P. Barr’s decision to intervene in a defamation lawsuit filed in a New York court against President Trump by E. Jean Carroll, the writer.

Ms. Carroll has said that Mr. Trump raped her in a department store two decades ago and then falsely denied the attack while in office, branding her a liar and harming her reputation.

But Justice Department lawyers say that even though the allegation concerns an incident that occurred decades before Mr. Trump became president, his denial was still an official act because he “addressed matters relating to his fitness for office as part of an official White House response to press inquiries.”"

 

Trump is not expected to like the rule of muting microphones during the final debate.



Trump and Biden will have mics muted for part of last presidential debate

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"In order to allow the candidates to freely share their views in the final debate, the commission announced that “the only candidate whose microphone will be open during these two-minute periods is the candidate who has the floor under the rules.”

 

Hey Hope, Hope Hicks give me twenty bucks.

 

Trump is still upset that he didn't get to throw a first pitch like Fauci.



Trump Calls Fauci ‘a Disaster’ and Shrugs Off Virus as Infections Soar
With two weeks remaining in his re-election campaign, President Trump made the coronavirus his message and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci his foil, dismissing scientific advisers as “these idiots.”
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Maggie Haberman and Noah Weiland
Oct. 19, 2020 Updated 11:13 p.m. ET

Trump Calls Fauci ‘a Disaster’ and Shrugs Off Virus as Infections Soar

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"Then the president, harking back to Dr. Fauci’s pitch during Opening Day of the baseball season here, added a postscript: “P.S. Tony should stop wearing the Washington Nationals’ Mask for two reasons. Number one, it is not up to the high standards that he should be exposing. Number two, it keeps reminding me that Tony threw out perhaps the worst first pitch in the history of Baseball!”

Mr. Trump’s eruption generated a backlash. Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee and the chairman of the Senate Health Committee, called Dr. Fauci “one of our country’s most distinguished public servants.”

“If more Americans paid attention to his advice,” Mr. Alexander wrote on Twitter, “we’d have fewer cases of COVID-19, & it would be safer to go back to school & back to work & out to eat.”"

 

Yahoo News/YouGov poll: The tide turns against Trump as Biden surges to his largest-ever lead among likely voters

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"With early voting well underway across the country, the percentage of ballots already cast is growing rapidly — and Biden is banking far more votes than Trump. Last week, 17 percent of likely voters said they had already voted; this week, that percentage has more than doubled, to 38 percent. Given the inherent lag of mail balloting and recent nature of most of these votes — 75 percent of early voters say they voted during the past week — such numbers suggest that the early vote tally could soon hit an unprecedented 60 million."

 

Ten dead in nursing home in Kansas, 52 test positive



Ten residents die from COVID-19 outbreak at nursing home facility in Norton, Kansas
By Katie Moore
October 19, 2020 07:59 PM

https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article246570403.html

 

Tom Del Beccaro says Trump will win in 2020, citing a Rasmussen poll showing African American support for Trump that he says will win him Michigan.



Tom Del Beccaro: A Trump 'surprise' victory is in the offing -- here are the 10 tea leaves pointing to it
Just as in 2016, there are tea leaves, if you will, indicating that President Trump will win again
By Tom Del Beccaro | Fox News
October 20, 2020

Tom Del Beccaro: A Trump 'surprise' victory is in the offing -- here are the 10 tea leaves pointing to it

 

Trump is still butt-hurt about Fauci wearing a Washington Nationals face covering.

Trump was booed at game 5 of the 2019 World Series and the crowd chanted 'Lock Him Up!' as he sat at the stadium.

Jose Andres tossed the opening pitch. He was involved in a lawsuit against Trump.

The Washington Nationals won their first World Series in 2019 which frustrated Trump to the extreme.



The Nationals won their first World Series in 2019 which frustrated Trump even more.
Watch the Moment Trump Realizes He’s Getting Booed at a Washington Nationals Home Game
In Game 5 of the Nationals-Astros World Series, the crowd cheers turned to boos and taunting chants at the sight of the president.
By Luke Darby
October 28, 2019

Watch the Moment Trump Realizes He's Getting Booed at a Washington Nationals Home Game

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"In a counterpoint to Trumpian values, Spanish chef José Andrés threw the opening pitch. Andrés and the Trump Organization were entangled in a lawsuit when the chef pulled out of a deal to run a restaurant in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., after Trump called Mexican immigrants rapists in 2015. And Andrés traveled to Puerto Rico to provide food for people affected by Hurricane Maria, while the Trump administration ignored pleas for aid. The chef also opened a kitchen in early 2019 to feed furloughed workers during a government shutdown. Andrés thanked the Nationals for the invitation, tweeting, "Thank you @Nationals @MLB @astros For inviting an immigrant! To throw first pitch! In a game full of immigrants! Inviting me representing millions of first responders doing amazing work helping everyone!""

 

Trump is fuming that Fauci is being given national TV airtime and speaking out after one of his campaign ads quoted Fauci out of context to make it appear that Fauci was honoring Trump.


Trump closes his campaign by insulting Fauci for telling the truth - CNNPolitics

 

This is mostly an opinion piece.

 

Trump demands Barr investigate Hunter Biden before the election.



Trump demands Barr investigate Hunter Biden

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""This is major corruption and this has to be known about before the election,” Trump said.

Trump’s remarks represented an extraordinary effort by the president to push a member of his Cabinet to investigate the family of his political opponent, as he explicitly invoked the election as reason to do so. They came after a group of House Republicans asked Barr to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the allegations about Hunter Biden made in the Post last week.

A spokesperson for the Justice Department did not immediately return a request for comment on Tuesday."

 

Two weeks remaining until the election.

Barr hasn't released the 'interim report' of Durham's investigation.

In respectable circumstances, the DOJ doesn't do public relations events for a president about investigations and a president doesn't demand that it does, especially for an election.

The Trump administration apparently hasn't yet mailed the 39 million letters to American seniors informing them about Trump's planned $200 gift cards before the election. The plan is currently in a legal quagmire.

 

The U.S. farmers can take pride in knowing that they have become long-term welfare recipients of Trump.

More than a third of farm income in 2020 is subsidies from the government.



Trump's payments to farmers hit all-time high ahead of election
By Mark Weinraub
October 20, 2020

Trump's payments to farmers hit all-time high ahead of election

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"CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is assuring a bumper year for farmers as the Nov. 3 election approaches, with record government subsidies projected to make up more than a third of farm income in 2020."


"Government payments, ranging from longstanding crop insurance payments to new programs compensating farmers for lost sales during the U.S.-China trade war, have risen every year of Trump’s presidency.

Farmers also say they have suffered from Trump’s policy of exempting some oil refiners from requirements to blend ethanol into their fuel, which has reduced demand for corn used to make the biofuel."

 

The confusion of Trump.

Trump tweeted that he had authorized full declassification of Mueller documents.

Mark Meadows now says that the tweet wasn't an order to declassify but rather permission Trump gave to Barr if Barr wants to declassify..



Meadows says Trump did not order declassification of Russia documents

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"“I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax,” Trump tweeted on Oct. 6. “Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!”

DOJ attorneys previously argued that the tweets should not be considered actual declassification orders.

The declaration from Meadows came in response to orders in two federal cases seeking documents from Mueller’s investigation."