The Donald Trump Score Card

Why should state courts have any less authority than state legislatures over issues concerning elections for Congress and the presidency.

 

Trump not invited to 2022 AEI forum.


Trump not invited to conservative AEI event

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"When a group of conservative leaders and donors meet for the American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum this week, there will be one notable absence: former President Trump.

The former president wasn’t invited to the gathering in Sea Island, Ga., a Republican source confirmed to The Hill. The absence was first reported on Sunday by CBS News.

The forum is expected to feature appearances by a handful of Republican critics of Trump, like Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, as well as several Democrats, including Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council."

 

Trump should call Putin by name and tell him to cease hostilities.

Just before the invasion started, Trump praised Putin by name.

After the invasion of Ukraine started, Trump said vaguely, "They have to stop killing these people."


Why Russian attacks in Ukraine are likely to get more deadly

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"During a nearly 11-week campaign, from December 1994 through February 1995, Russian forces laid siege to the Chechen city of Grozny. When it was done, estimates put the civilian death toll at between 25,000 and 30,000.

Beginning in 2012, Russian forces aided the Syrian government in a relentless, four-year attack on the Syrian city of Aleppo that left an estimated 31,000 civilians dead.

What’s playing out now in Ukrainian cities, experts say, bears a striking resemblance to those two conflicts. Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution's Doha Center, said the images of the bombing of Kharkiv are “like Aleppo all over again.”

Sergiy Orlov, the deputy mayor of Mariupol, said on Wednesday that his city was witnessing a “human catastrophe,” with entire districts of its outlying areas having been leveled by Russian bombs and artillery fire. Medics have not been allowed to retrieve the dead as the Kremlin attempts to bomb towns and cities into submission, he said.

Philip Reeker, the U.S. chargé d’affaires to the U.K., warned that “medieval tactics are certainly what we can expect [from Putin]. That is exactly what President Putin and the Russian military have in mind.”"

 

Trump's rioters at the Capitol used medieval tactics on police to promote an authoritarian.

 

Trump comes up empty again, like Geraldo at Al Capone's vault.


Audit quashes conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud in Michigan
By Steve Neavling
March 4, 2022

Audit quashes conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud in Michigan

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"The Michigan Office of the Auditor General debunked conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud, concluding in a report released Friday that local and state officials conducted accurate audits of the election that found little to no irregularities.

The office found no evidence of fraud and said the post-election audits were sufficient, with some exceptions, contradicting repeated claims by former President Donald Trump and his loyalists who have insisted Joe Biden stole the election."

 

Audit quashes conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud in Michigan

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"One of the most pervasive conspiracy theories was that numerous votes were cast on behalf of dead people. By comparing voting records with public health records, the office found that 1,616 votes, or 0.03% of the total ballots, were cast by people who were dead as of Election Day. But in most of the cases, the people voted absentee before they died.

In all but 20 instances, the voter died more than 40 days before the election."

 

Audit quashes conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud in Michigan

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"The report also found that 99.99% of the votes were not duplicates and 99.99% were within acceptable age parameters.

“The performance of Michigan’s clerks in the 2020 election and the months that followed was outstanding, especially when we take into consideration the national, coordinated and shameful effort to overturn the legitimate outcome of the election and undermine the clerks themselves,” Benson said. “The reality is that Michigan’s county, city and township clerks successfully shouldered significant responsibilities, endured unprecedented scrutiny and ensured the security and professional execution of the 2020 election and post-election audits."”

 

Class action lawsuit against all machines................lol..

 

Someone should remind him that he can be Countersued.

 

I can't believe Lindell was on a My Pillow commercial yesterday, practically begging for someone to buy his crap.

 

Trump's attorney general sends a letter from No Man's Land

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"Barr has, in essence, written a letter from No Man's Land.

Barr alternates between castigating and exonerating, between sounding sympathetic and exasperated. He catalogs Trump's offenses yet casts him as the latest victim of dishonest media and "the radical Left."

Barr reports that at the end of Trump's term, the president had "lost his grip" and become "manic and unreasonable" and "off the rails," heeding the advice of "whack jobs." Yet Barr thinks Trump could have won in 2020 with "a minor adjustment in his behavior," and he wishes he had."

 

Just a minor change. If Trump had just been sane instead of crazy.

 

Trump's response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine is akin to the way he responded to the coronavirus that has killed a million Americans and 6 million people worldwide.

Trump has been on the wrong side of both problems. He is trying to dig himself out of the hole he made for himself by proffering shallow, simplistic statements that he thinks will be remedies.

When the coronavirus was starting to impact the U.S., Trump said, "Stay calm, it will go away."
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Russia's invasion puts a new light on Trump's Ukraine pressure campaign

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"As scenes of war and death in Ukraine at the hands of Russia have played out for the world to see on television screens all day for days on end, Trump has changed his tune.

In recent days, he called what's happening there a "holocaust"; said many times over that the war would never have happened if he were still president; and even called for the U.S. to attack Russia but make it look like it was actually China — by flying American planes with a Chinese flag on the side.

"And then we say, 'China did it,' " Trump told Republican donors Saturday in New Orleans, according to a recording obtained by The Washington Post. " 'We didn't do it — China did it,' and then they start fighting with each other and we sit back and watch."

It's the kind of simple-sounding amateur solution that Trump has floated throughout his political life, one that is impracticable in a complicated world."

 

Trump made that remark at a mega-donor event in Louisiana to people who are giving him millions more dollars to make such remarks.

 

"I know more than the generals..." ~ Donald J. Trump

 

Trump's consistent, gullible praise of authoritarians.


Column: Trump's power worship of Putin is repugnant — and predictable

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"It’s all the more repugnant when you realize that Trump was celebrating Putin’s propaganda that he was merely sending in “peacekeepers” while suggesting there’s nothing wrong with Russia falsely declaring conquered territory is “independent.”

Eventually it dawned on Trump that he misread the moment. At the Conservative Political Action Conference he offered a real condemnation. “The Russian attack on the Ukraine is appalling. It’s an outrage and an atrocity that should never have been allowed to occur.” Reasonable people can debate the depth of his sincerity. Though it seems to me that if your first reaction to lawless slaughter is to marvel at the wonderful brilliance of it, you’ve told us who you are.

But we already knew who Trump is. From his respect for the Chinese government’s slaughter of pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square to the invasion of Ukraine, Trump has long demonstrated his instinctual attraction to brutality and “strength.” Just last Saturday, he praised the authority shown by North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and “joked” that he wished his generals were as terrified of him as they were of Kim."

 

Trump was gullible enough to believe Putin was sending in peacekeepers to defend regions in Ukraine that Putin infiltrated with insurgents to thwart a legitimate Ukrainian democracy.

 

Trump was gullible enough to believe people like Mike Lindell and deployed insurgents to the Capitol to thwart a legitimate election.

 

Like he has been about Putin's authority in Ukraine, Trump was mesmerized by the authoritarian behavior of his rioters at the Capitol. Trump reportedly said, "Look at all those people fighting for me."

 

The problem is that Putin is supported by sixty to seventy percent of the Russian population. These are mostly older people.