The Donald Trump Score Card

I smell Madagascar

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...b3d5c6-575b-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html

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"Some accused of taking part in the mayhem may be invoking the president as a way to duck blame for their own actions. Already, several rioters charged with crimes have said they hope Trump will pardon them before he leaves office since they believed they were following his instructions.

Jenna Ryan, a real estate agent from Dallas who has been charged with illegally entering the building, appeared on local television on Friday to beg Trump for clemency.

“I thought I was following my president,” she said. “I thought I was following what we were called to do. . . . He asked us to fly there. He asked us to be there. So I was doing what he asked us to do.”

Trump’s call to action to his supporters came after he had already tried and failed to overturn the election results in the courts and by pressuring Republican state legislators and GOP election officials in swing states that backed President-elect Joe Biden.

By December, Trump had turned his focus to the upcoming joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, when lawmakers were set to count the electoral college votes and formalize Biden’s win.

On multiple occasions, he urged his supporters to come to Washington and to apply public pressure on Congress to change the election results.

“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” he tweeted on Dec. 19."

 

A Virginia man was just arrested in DC with a loaded handgun, ammunition,
and fake inauguration credentials.

Not the type of warm reception Biden was looking for.

 

Is this the first time Trump didn't lie?

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...b3d5c6-575b-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html

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"On the morning of Jan. 6, as Congress prepared to convene in the Capitol, Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. delivered a fiery speech to the thousands of Trump supporters assembled on the Ellipse. Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, called for “trial by combat.”

In his address to the crowd, Trump did not overtly call for them to try to enter the building or commit violence. But he emphasized the need for strength and repeatedly called for the crowd to fight on his behalf.

“Our country has had enough,” he said. “We will not take it anymore, and that’s what this is all about. To use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal.”

He falsely claimed that “all Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify, and we become president, and you are the happiest people. And he said that if Pence allowed the vote to move forward, Biden would become president.

“We’re just not going to let that happen,” he said."

 

That false remark by Trump initiated a death warrant on Pence. Trump's protesters flipped out when Pence didn't overturn the election for Trump when he legally couldn't.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...b3d5c6-575b-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html

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"As the crowd periodically chanted, “Fight for Trump,” he continued, “So we are going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue — I love Pennsylvania Avenue — and we are going to the Capitol.”

Trump, in fact, returned to the White House. But thousands of his supporters turned and began marching toward the Capitol, where lawmakers were just starting to meet in joint session."

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...b3d5c6-575b-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html

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"Investigators allege Sanford can be seen in video footage hurling a fire extinguisher at a group of police officers on the West Terrace of the Capitol. The extinguisher struck one officer in the head, then ricocheted and hit two other officers — one of whom was not wearing a helmet.

Sanford has been charged with knowingly entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct on the Capitol ground and assaulting an officer.

In an interview, Sanford’s attorney, Enrique A. Latoison, said he is not part of any extremist group but was caught up in the moment — and that Trump bore responsibility."

 

Jacob Blake fucked up, fine.

In four days trump will be booted out of office along with the rest his white racist xenophobic cronies, and Joe Biden will be installed
as the President of the United States, and Kamala Harris the first woman and black VP of the United States.

Within two years all the damage that trump caused will be reversed, Biden will immediately order construction on the wall to cease,
we will join our european partners once again in the Paris Climate accords, and Trump will be sitting in Jail along with the rest of his
fucked up dysfunctional family.

 

Trump potentially faces a slew of civil lawsuits against him related to the siege he promoted. Some of his supporters are already placing at least some of the blame on him.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...b3d5c6-575b-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html

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"The day after the riot, the brother-in-law of Roseanne Boyland, 34, one of four rioters who died that day, told reporters that he also blamed Trump for the events."

“I’ve never tried to be a political person, but it’s my own personal belief that the president’s words incited a riot that killed four of his biggest fans last night,” Justin Cave said.

 

Trump is fortunate that Pence, Pelosi, and Grassley and others weren't injured or killed.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...b3d5c6-575b-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html

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"But Leonard M. Niehoff, a First Amendment expert at the University of Michigan Law School, said that the courts have held that potentially inciting speech must be examined in context.

In this case, Trump called for his supporters not just to march to the Capitol, but to “stop the steal,” to act with strength and to “fight like hell.” He noted that the only way protesters would have been able to stop the electoral college process was through violence.

“The clear instruction was you are going to the Capitol to stop the steal. You are going there to show strength. You are going there to take the country back and not to let this happen,” Niehoff said. “Is it conceivable that you would listen to that speech and say to yourself, ‘All the president wants us to do is go to the Capitol and then go home?’ I just don’t think so.”"

 

Trump planting false information in the minds of his already angry supporters about an act Pence supposedly could do but couldn't legally is an underhanded and diabolical way of inciting a riot.

It's akin to mob bosses causing 'accidents' to happen to people and property.

 

Part of the nameplate of Nancy Pelosi that Trump supporters chopped off the wall above the door to her office.


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A Common Line Keeps Emerging From Capitol Rioters: Trump Asked Us To Be Here
By Matt Shuham
|January 15, 2021 4:59 p.m.

A Common Line Keeps Emerging From Capitol Rioters: Trump Asked Us To Be Here

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“The President asked for his supporters to be there to attend, and I felt like it was important, because of how much I love this country, to actually be there,” Brock said.

“We were invited here by the President of the United States,” another man yelled at police officers on the Capitol grounds, in a video that’s since circulated widely on the web.

 

Not exactly... His behavior could be described as 'moronic', but I think he's capable. I think he's misguided. He's been abused by some male relative I think, and convoluted himself by way of misusing wealth & power for years and years. He's basically taken everything for granted, and behaves as though he's entitled to more and more and more... It's childish, and yeah I think it's kinda dumb.

 

A Common Line Keeps Emerging From Capitol Rioters: Trump Asked Us To Be Here

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"Trump addressed Pence directly several times during his remarks.

“Mike Pence, I hope you’re going to stand up for the good of our Constitution and for the good of our country,” Trump said at one point. “And if you’re not, I’m going to be very disappointed in you. I will tell you right now. I’m not hearing good stories.”

In fact, Pence had reportedly told Trump before the President’s speech that he would not attempt to overturn the election.

But once that news rippled through the crowd Wednesday, it fueled some protesters now facing charges.

“Once we found out Pence turned on us and they had stolen the election, like officially, the crowd went crazy,” a man appearing to be Joshua Matthew Black allegedly said in a YouTube video after the riot, one that was cited in a court document in his case."

 

Charge number five in the indictment; Destruction of public property. How do you plead?

 

Capitol Police arrest Virginia man who tried to pass security checkpoint with weapons, 'unauthorized' inauguration credential
Lindsay Schnell and Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY
Published 4:56 p.m. ET Jan. 16, 2021
Updated 5:03 p.m. ET Jan. 16, 2021

Police arrest armed man with 'unauthorized' inauguration credential

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"Police in Washington, D.C., on Friday arrested a Virginia man who allegedly tried to pass through a security checkpoint with an "unauthorized" inauguration credential, unregistered handguns and more than 500 rounds of ammunition, according to officials.

Wesley Allen Beeler, 31, of Front Royal, Virginia, was arrested shortly after 6:30 p.m. Friday after police found two unregistered Glock 9MM handguns, 509 rounds of 9 mm ammunition, 21 12-gauge shotgun shells, and one 17-round Glock 17 magazine, all in his truck, according to a police report.

At the time of arrest one mile northeast of the Capitol building, Beeler was accused of illegally carrying a concealed weapon outside of a home or business, possession of an unregistered firearm, possession of unregistered ammunition, unlawful possession of ammunition and possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device."

 

"Trump told me to do it."