The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump-endorsed Perdue having difficulty in primaries.


Trump-backed Perdue struggles in Republican primary challenge in Georgia - CNNPolitics

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"David Perdue kicked off his campaign for governor of Georgia with an emphatic endorsement from former President Donald Trump.

But since then, his primary challenge to unseat Brian Kemp -- the Republican governor Trump loves to hate -- has been a big flop.

Perdue, a former US senator, has so far raised a fraction of what Kemp has in his campaign war chest. Very few Republican elected officials, operatives, donors and activists in Georgia have abandoned Kemp in favor of Perdue. And limited public polling hasn't been promising, either.

"I think Perdue is on life support and knows it," said one neutral GOP operative who requested anonymity to speak freely. "The Kemp momentum is palpable."

The Perdue campaign is drawing attention from around the country, in part as a test case on the GOP's tolerance for Trump's vendettas. The former President remains exceedingly popular within the party, but his relentless focus on the 2020 election may have put him a beat behind Republicans who have moved on to other issues such as school mask mandates and the economy."

 

Have you ever seen two more ignorant spoiled entitled poor little rich kids in your life? You're stupid rich. Just shut up, enjoy your wealth, maybe do something good with it and get out of everyone's faces. SNL used to do such great parodies of these bozos.

 

Friend of Donald Trump's son-in-law pleads guilty to stalking his wife after Trump pardoned him for stalking a doctor and two other people.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/16/kurson-trump-guilty-plea/

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"NEW YORK — Ken Kurson, a close friend of former president Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has pleaded guilty in state court to misdemeanor charges of computer trespass and attempted eavesdropping, more than a year after he was pardoned by Trump for federal charges that he stalked a doctor, her colleague and the colleague’s spouse.

If he avoids arrest for a year and completes 100 hours of community service, his plea can be downgraded to harassment.

“The defendant is to lead a law-abiding life,” Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Josh Hanshaft said as he accepted the guilty plea."

 

Trump pardoned Kurson, along with Bannon, in the final hours of his administration.


With Hours Left in Office, Trump Grants Clemency to Bannon and Other Allies (Published 2021)

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"Ken Kurson, a friend and associate of Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who was arrested late last year on cyberstalking charges involving several individuals, including a friend whom Mr. Kurson blamed for the deterioration of his marriage. He was pardoned."

 

Yeah... That ain't happinin'

 

Imagine a judge saying that to Trump after Trump plea bargains in a future case related to his business practices or his riot at the Capitol.

 

Close friend of trump + law abiding life = oxymoron.

 

Trump said "I'm your law and order President"...

Not "your law abiding President".

There is a difference...

 

He must have spent some serious time in an Ohio ice fishing shack.

 

The type of candidates Trump is endorsing.


Trump's pick for Arizona secretary of state suggested Covid didn't exist and called vaccine a 'crime against humanity' - CNNPolitics

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"Mark Finchem, the Arizona secretary of state candidate backed by former President Donald Trump, spread dangerous misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic on social media, calling the vaccine a "crime against humanity," implying it was a "bio-weapon" and sharing an article last August that suggested Covid-19 did not exist in the Canadian province of Alberta.

A CNN KFile review of Finchem's social media postings on platforms popular with the extreme right wing found that he repeatedly promoted anti-vaccine rhetoric and other false claims about possible Covid-19 treatments, the efficacy of mask-wearing and the severity of the virus.

In August 2021, Finchem shared a story riddled with misinformation on the coronavirus and vaccine on the platform Gab -- a social media network popular with conservatives, the alt-right and some extremists -- writing, "It ain't a vaccine!!! Call it what it is, a crime against humanity."""

 

Donald Trump’s legal woes threaten to engulf him as accountants abandon ship

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"A Guardian tally this month found that Trump was facing a total of 19 legal challenges, six of which involve alleged financial irregularities.

By withdrawing its stamp of approval from the documents, Mazars leaves Trump potentially exposed to substantial legal and financial trouble.

The papers, known as statements of financial condition, were used by Trump and his family business to attract and secure hundreds of millions of dollars in loans. They are also at the centre of an escalating investigation by the New York state attorney general, Letitia James.

Last month James tightened the screws on Trump and the Trump Organization by releasing details in a filing of several instances involving golf courses, real estate and other assets where the family had allegedly “falsely and fraudulently valued multiple assets and misrepresented those values to financial institutions for economic benefit”.

In a letter dated 9 February, Mazars’ general counsel, William Kelly, told the Trump Organization that the annual financial statements it had prepared for the family business between 2011 and 2020 were no longer reliable."

 

Donald Trump has $93 million in cash, Forbes report says, citing 2020 disclosure. It's far less than he's claimed at other times.

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"Donald Trump had about $93 million in cash during the final year of his presidency, a sum substantially smaller than he had claimed to have in the bank in previous years, Forbes reported Monday.

Forbes based the valuation on documents released last week by New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of a civil investigation into possible fraud schemes at the Trump Organization.

The magazine compared it to previous, larger claims Trump has made about how much money he has — notably in a 2015 interview in which he claimed to have $793 million in cash.

Trump's precise wealth has long been difficult to pin down, given the complexity of his business dealings and his reluctance to release independent evidence."

 

Most of Trump's businesses are private, which makes it difficult to know financial details.

His casinos were public. His disasters in that market were better documented.

 

Even Trump can't fake his casino failures.

He tried to make them look like successes by saying that he failed sooner and less than the other casino owners.

The other casino businesses survived difficult economic times and made profits later. Trump never returned to the market.

 

Donald Trump has $93 million in cash, Forbes report says, citing 2020 disclosure. It's far less than he's claimed at other times.

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"In 2015, when Trump announced his bid for the presidency, his campaign released a statement claiming he had $302 million in liquid assets — cash and other readily available funds — as of June 2014.

A financial statement he was required to submit as part of his presidential campaign put the sum lower, between $78 million and $232 million in mid-2015.

According to Forbes, Trump boosted the figure even more in a sit-down interview with the magazine in his office in Trump Tower in 2015.

"As of today, I'm at $793 million," he told the publication, citing a figure much higher than previous ones.

Forbes said Trump said the increase was "because I sell stuff," noting the sale of the Miss Universe pageant for nearly $30 million."

 

Donald Trump’s legal woes threaten to engulf him as accountants abandon ship

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"The Trump Organization said it was “disappointed” by Mazars’ decision but tried to spin the development in a positive light. It selectively cited a line in the Mazars letter that said that “we have not concluded that the various financial statements, as a whole, contain material discrepancies”, adding that the comment rendered the James and Bragg investigations “moot”.

As Trump’s legal and financial woes deepen, he is also being assailed by a flurry of bad news surrounding the congressional investigation into the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. Trump, who is at the centre of the House select committee inquiry given that his “big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen from him drew thousands of his supporters to the Capitol building that day, has been trying to persuade his closest advisers not to cooperate.

This week it was revealed that John Eastman, a conservative law professor who was integral to attempts to persuade the then vice president, Mike Pence, to delay certification of Joe Biden’s victory on January 6, has handed over 8,000 pages of emails to the committee.

It has also become known that Rudy Giuliani, who as Trump’s lawyer was a key figure in the campaign to overturn the presidential election results, has opened a dialogue with the committee that could see him testifying in some form."

 

Trump is trying to claim that one of Durham's filings elicits the death penalty for Hillary.


Analysis: The Durham report reveals how bad information spreads in Trump's MAGA world - CNN

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"The talking points all stem from this: On Friday night, as CNN's Katelyn Polantz and Evan Perez explained in a Monday article, special counsel John Durham "accused a lawyer for the Democrats of sharing with the CIA in 2017 internet data purported to show Russian-made phones being used in the vicinity of the White House complex, as part of a broader effort to raise the intelligence community's suspicions of Donald Trump's ties to Russia shortly after he took office."

The accusation was couched in what Polantz and Perez described as "vague, technical language" in a court filing. It was not accompanied by any indictments or other prosecutorial steps. But pro-Trump media outlets noticed the filing and started to share it on Saturday.

The fact that this supposed "bombshell" had been buried in a motion related to claims about attorneys having a conflict of interest, and not an indictment, was the first sign that the story was not what right-wing outlets said. The second was that the initial stories never actually went beyond the technical language to explain what purportedly happened."

 

Analysis: The Durham report reveals how bad information spreads in Trump's MAGA world - CNN

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"Trump's Saturday night statement alluding to death penalty crimes cemented the weekend's right-wing storyline. On Sunday morning Fox ran an inaccurate banner on TV that said "Durham: Hillary Clinton's campaign paid tech company to 'infiltrate' Trump servers to link Trump to Russia." But that's not what the court filing asserted. And even though the banner had the word "infiltrate" in quotes, the filing did not actually include the word.

Before normal news outlets even began to write about the court filing, Fox's abnormal operation ran a Sunday afternoon segment titled "MEDIA IGNORES DURHAM BOMBSHELL." That segment, coupled with Fox's massive coverage, inadvertently showed what was really going on. Fox's networks mentioned Durham at least 30 times over the weekend, 80-plus times on Monday and 55 times on Tuesday, according to TVEyes data. Almost all of the coverage was political talk driven by hosts and guests, not news reporting by correspondents."