The Donald Trump Score Card

Most people today don't even know who Connie Francis is - or was back then as a singer. But the song is appropriate.

 

FBI arrests another Houston-area resident tied to US Capitol riot

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"This is now the ninth person from the Houston area to be arrested. The FBI said he was seen on video hitting officers with what appeared to be a "whip-like weapon.""

 

Texas GOP wants a forensic election audit — but there's a catch

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"Texas Republican lawmakers are looking to join the voter fraud conspiracy bandwagon with their latest push for an election audit of select counties across the LoneStar state. But there's a catch with this particular audit.

According to The Washington Post, Texas lawmakers have proposed a new piece of legislation, House Bill 241. The publication reports that the controversial proposed bill which "calls for an independent third party appointed by the state's top GOP officials to conduct a forensic audit of results in counties with more than 415,000 people."

The main issue with the bill center on the counties Republican lawmakers are targeting with the piece of legislation. Out of the 13 counties they are proposing to audit, voters in 10 of those counties voted in favor of President Joe Biden. During a recent interview, Texas state Rep. Steve Toth (R), who sponsored the bill, claims his constituents have expressed concern about the possibility of voter fraud in the state."

 

Barrack released on $250 million bond.


Tom Barrack, former Trump inaugural chair, released on $250 million bond

 

Fact check: Arizona early votes don't prove claims of voter fraud

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"The exact origin of Logan's 74,243 figure is unclear.

"Without knowing exactly what data the Senate contractors are using and how they're interpreting it, we can't know for sure where they came up with 74,000," Jason Berry, a communications manager for Maricopa County, told USA TODAY in an email.

However, Logan – as well as the social media posts parroting his claims – appear to have erroneously conflated mail-in ballots with all early votes, which in Maricopa County include ballots cast by mail and in person. Of course, early votes cast in person wouldn't involve anything being mailed.

In response to Logan's remarks during the briefing, Maricopa County published a Twitter thread addressing his claim about mail-in ballots.

"In Maricopa County, we allow people to vote early in two ways: 1) by mail and 2) in-person at Vote Centers. These are all considered early votes," the county wrote. "The people who vote in-person use ballots provided at a Vote Center. This is not a new practice, so it's not unusual that we would have more early votes than mail-in ballots sent.""

 

But... Is there bamboo fiber in the paper, that's the important detail everybody is asking about.

 

Donald only hires the best, he doesn't bail them out on $250 million dollar bonds.

 

Exclusive: 'QAnon Shaman' in plea negotiations after mental health diagnosis
Sarah N. Lynch
July 23, 202111:42 AM EDT

Exclusive: 'QAnon Shaman' in plea negotiations after mental health diagnosis

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"WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - The participant in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riots nicknamed the "QAnon Shaman" is negotiating a possible plea deal with prosecutors, after prison psychologists found he suffers from a variety of mental illnesses, his attorney said.

In an interview, defense lawyer Albert Watkins said that officials at the federal Bureau of Prisons, or BOP, have diagnosed his client Jacob Chansley with transient schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety.

The BOP's findings, which have not yet been made public, suggest Chansley's mental condition deteriorated due to the stress of being held in solitary confinement at a jail in Alexandria, Virginia, Watkins said.

"As he spent more time in solitary confinement ... the decline in his acuity was noticeable, even to an untrained eye," Watkins said in an interview on Thursday.

He said Chansley's 2006 mental health records from his time in the U.S. Navy show a similar diagnosis to the BOP's.

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office declined to comment on the case.

Chansley is one of the most recognizable of the hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol after the then-president in a fiery speech falsely claimed that his November election defeat was the result of fraud.

Chansley, of Arizona, was photographed inside the Capitol wearing a horned headdress, shirtless and heavily tattooed. He is a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory that casts Trump as a savior figure and elite Democrats as a cabal of Satanist pedophiles and cannibals.

He faces charges including civil disorder and obstructing an official proceeding."

 

He got tired of hearing “ Florida man”.

Let’s start with his election.

500 Pandas want to know.

Sounds like poor parenting.

 

Donald, stfu.
Trump blasts Cleveland Indians name change

 

Has Trump beaten the system?

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"But most legal observers have concluded that Trump will probably not be indicted. Certainly no time soon. He may not even be sued successfully. Not for the 11 instances of potential obstruction of justice found by Robert Mueller. These have been dismissed by Trump’s lawyers as mere “process crimes” even though “process crimes” are against the law.

True that former Trump adviser Tom Barrack was just indicted in Brooklyn for process crimes in failing to register as a lobbyist for the Emirates. The conduct alleged, however, according to the indictment, was not to advance Trump’s interests, but constituted a “betrayal” of the former president.

Not for extortion in the Ukraine affair. There is too much uncertainty over whether dirt on the Bidens was “something of value,” and there is that pesky element of quid pro quo. Not for fomenting the insurrection of Jan. 6. There are constitutional issues, say the cautious lawyers. Unlike former Attorney General Bill Barr, current AG Merrick Garland knows who his client is, but also unlike Barr, he is apparently too timid to take a shot any time soon. He is not there to dispose of the issue as might a judge. He is there to be an advocate, not for the president, but for all of us.

So, no whiff of an indictment in the wings. Not even a grand jury subpoena to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to get down Trump’s famous conversation with him on Jan. 6 as the insurrectionists penetrated the Capitol.

Little doubt that Trump would likely be convicted before a D.C. jury for inciting an insurrection on Jan. 6, leaving the constitutional issues for the appellate courts to grapple with."

 

Trump is still fuming about the George Floyd protests.


Trump blasts Cleveland Indians name change

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“The people of Cleveland cannot be thrilled and I, as a FORMER baseball fan, cannot believe things such as this are happening. A small group of people, with absolutely crazy ideas and policies, is forcing these changes to destroy our culture and heritage,” Trump said, likely making reference to those behind cancel culture.

“At some point, the people will not take it anymore!”

 

In his petty mind, Trump can take solace in the fact that Cleveland Guardians retains the 'dians' part of the former Indians name.

 

Donald became a former fan when he was booed at the World Series in 2019.

 

Trump can now start up another culture war of dividing GOP politicians into those who will support his disdain for the new Cleveland Guardians name versus those who don't, and he can make the GOP elections hinge on his latest petty hangup.

 

Trump is like the kid in elementary school who goes around the classroom declaring rock band 'A' as great and 'B' as garbage and tries to coerce as many classmates as he can to agree that 'A' is great to satisfy his ego.

 

Trump can orchestrate another insurrection at the Capitol to protest the name change of the Cleveland Indians.

 

Lockstep conformity to party dogma can be deadly.


The Tragedy of Herman Cain

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"It’s impossible to say whether Cain contracted the virus at the rally or elsewhere, and aides said he’d been traveling often, but the risk he took in attending the rally seems to exemplify the change in Cain after his entry into politics. Cain was not a stupid man, nor ignorant of science; he was a trained mathematician, after all. But by 2020, Cain—a man who’d joined the Republican Party out of a sense of contrarianism—was ready to risk his life to show his lockstep conformity with party dogma. At one time, Cain seemed like a model of how an individual can live the American dream. Today, he seems like a cautionary tale about how an individual can be destroyed by American politics."

 

It's curious as to what goes on in the minds of once rational and successful people as they transition into their retirement-age years. The cold light of practical reason starts taking a back seat to ideology, trutherism, and sometimes pure fantasy, The late Herman Cain was a relatively mild example. Mike Lindell and Rudy Giuliani are more extreme cases.

Trump seemed much more articulate and rational in his earlier adult years. Although he had an inflated ego and a revenge-seeking drive during his younger years, it didn't dictate his behavior to the extent that it has during his 70's, such as his relentless quest to overturn an election (using someone else's money, not his PAC money) that he thinks he won by a landslide and that he alleges was viciously stolen from him.

 

I think it’s a combination of an unwillingness to let go of the past and a refusal to accept the future, and onset senility. Unfortunately, I saw it with my late mother.