The Donald Trump Score Card

Cannon was slammed by the appeals court in December 2022.


https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article269511242.html

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"In a scathing ruling issued Thursday night, a federal appellate court in Atlanta found she should have heeded her first legal concerns. A three-judge panel, all Republican-appointees like Cannon, reversed her decision to name a “special master” because she had no authority to do so and effectively killed the case as legal experts consider a potential appeal unlikely to succeed.

The ruling from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, several South Florida and other legal experts said, left little room for argument.

“The key point is that Judge Cannon had no jurisdiction to do anything here,” said Mark Schnapp, a former federal prosecutor and longtime Miami criminal defense attorney. “She tried to assert equitable jurisdiction [to appoint the special master], but her own opinion showed why her analysis was defective.

“Her opinion got ripped to shreds by the Eleventh Circuit Court,” he said."

 

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article269511242.html

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"But rather than follow her own analysis, Cannon extended Trump protections not provided to ordinary citizens by appointing a special master to review the FBI’s evidence, citing the “unprecedented circumstances” of the U.S. government raiding a former president’s home."

 

Cannon's stance was that Trump's reputation as a former president was at stake.

 

Followup.

Byerly didn't get the light sentence he wanted.

He was sentenced to three years in prison.


Capitol rioter gets prison for attacks on journalist, police

 

Cannon got a bare-ass spanking by the Eleventh Circuit which is known to be a conservative court.

Trump appointed Judges Andrew Brasher and Britt Grant to the Eleventh Circuit.

 

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How College-Educated Republicans Learned to Love Trump Again

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"‘Like a teenager who’s rebelling’

The shift in Republican support for Mr. Trump can be pinpointed almost to the moment last year when, on March 30, 2023, a Manhattan grand jury indicted him for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, making him the nation’s first former president to face criminal charges.

At the time, Mr. Trump’s primary bid had support from less than half of voters in most polls, an ominous position where he had been hovering for months.

But just four days after the Manhattan indictment, Mr. Trump eclipsed the 50 percent mark, and he has trended upward ever since, according to a national average of polls maintained by FiveThirtyEight. As of Saturday, Mr. Trump had support from about 60 percent of the party."

 

The GOP modified the CA primary to be winner-take-all to a candidate who wins more than 50% of the vote.

It gives Trump the chance to win the nomination before his first criminal trial and a better stance to claim that the prosecution of him is election interference.


Poll: California could be Trump's ace in nomination fight; he's way ahead

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"Trump holds similarly large leads in several other Super Tuesday states, according to recent polls. All told, just over one-third of the delegates to the GOP convention will be settled that day. Trump’s strategists hope to win enough of them to put the nomination out of contention at that point, which would be before any of the four criminal trials he faces are scheduled to begin."

 

‘We want our country back’: Why Donald Trump had the Iowa caucuses sewn up

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“We need something different than what we’re doing now. It’s not working. I was making more money than I ever have, and now I’m broker than I’ve ever been,” said David Brunell, a 32-year-old Trump supporter, who sat in the overflow room awaiting the former president’s appearance.

“That says a lot about where the economy is at.”

But why not consider one of Trump’s primary rivals? The former president’s supporters say he is a known quantity, and they have seen how he governs.

“We just want our country back. We want it back like it was when he was president and better,” Hutton said.

 

People confuse bluster with competence.


‘We want our country back’: Why Donald Trump had the Iowa caucuses sewn up

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"Asked what he likes about Trump, 18-year-old Evan Walker – who will be voting for the first time – said: “More his personality; he just knows what he’s doing.”

“He’s very outgoing.”

 

Fears grow that Trump will use the military in ‘dictatorial ways’ if he returns to the White House

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"While Trump never invoked the Insurrection Act, he believed the protests in the summer of 2020 surrounding the George Floyd killing made the U.S. look “weak” and wanted the military to quash the demonstrations, former appointees said.

Sending troops into American streets is often a bad idea, military experts say, pointing to the sort of tragedy that unfolded at Kent State University in 1970 when National Guardsmen shot and killed four students protesting the Vietnam War.

In his appearance before the congressional Jan. 6 committee, Milley said that there was “significant pressure on Secretary Esper to deploy forces” to deal with the 2020 racial justice protests.

Trump’s subordinates deflected such demands from the president. But in a new term, critics expect he’ll surround himself with loyalists determined to carry out his commands, whatever their merit.

“Like any good dictator, he’s going to try to use the military to basically perform his will,” said Leon Panetta, former defense secretary and CIA director in the Obama administration."

 

Trump fired Esper in November 2020 just after the election.

 

'The Smell Was So Offensive': Donald Trump Was Kicked Out of NYC Steakhouse for His Odor, TikToker Alleges - NewsBreak

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“Years ago I posted about Trump being kicked out of Keens Steakhouse in Manhattan , where I was eating with my father in 1983, because his smell was so offensive,” the TikToker alleged.

One TikToker claims he was kicked out from a steakhouse in the '80s due to his bad smell. mega

“This wasn’t an elderly thing – it was 1983. I wouldn’t make fun of Trump today if it was an elderly thing. That’s not what we do on the left. It happens to elderly people. Trump wasn’t elderly,” he continued.

The social media user then shared more to how the incident unfolded. “We didn’t complain. The table next to him complained and the table behind him complained. We smelled it, but my father and I didn’t complain about it. Trump was not elderly. The smell was so f------- offensive that they finally had to ask him to leave, and he did leave, quietly, right by us and then wafted us," he claimed. “Trump’s been s-------- all over himself for almost 30 f--------- [years].”

 

The act of trying to rewrite a loss into a win.

Trump is a contemporary example of it.


Opinion: Trump's 'lost cause,' a kind of gangster cult, won't go away

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"Specifically, the Confederate "lost cause" claimed that Southern soldiers had shown unfailing valor, and that the South hadn’t really lost, but merely succumbed to superior numbers and resources. Southern white women allegedly supported the cause to the bitter end and helped preserve the “truthful” memory; the Confederacy’s enslaved Black population supposedly remained loyal to their owners; and, finally, the Confederates had never really fought for slavery but rather for “home,” national sovereignty and states’ rights.

To be sustained as public propaganda, lost causes need a pure narrative with clearly identified villains and heroes. Sometimes, they are havens of sick souls; other times, they are the means to power for a disciplined political movement. Trump’s "lost cause," now newly virulent as he campaigns for a second term despite multiple indictments, draws on a menu of grievances among the disaffected, energizing those who believe that a “diversity”-obsessed multicultural America has veered out of control, especially in relation to immigration at the Mexican border."

 

Opinion: Trump's 'lost cause,' a kind of gangster cult, won't go away

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"Trump’s "lost cause" also has its martyrs, including the hundreds of convicted insurrectionists — known in the movement, and by Republican politicians such as Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), as “hostages” — who are now in prison. Above all, it peddles a model of politics and society according to which facts and evidence are irrelevant. At Trump rallies, constitutionalism is for losers, history is little more than a useful weapon, and American civics is deployed as entertainment to indulge hatred of liberalism, representative democracy and — in many cases — nonwhite America. The Trump "lost cause" is thus a platform, one that the Republican Party has adopted to convert these stories and lies into votes. Win or lose, it will not die."

 

Opinion: Trump's 'lost cause,' a kind of gangster cult, won't go away

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"Some are also staunch believers in conspiracy theories about “fraud” allegedly committed in the 2020 election as well as other dark notions of leftist machinations in American universities, on school boards, and in the Democratic Party. Unlike the Confederate Lost Cause, the Trump version is a kind of gangster cult, full of rituals of loyalty to a single man and his plans to fashion an authoritarian U.S. government that will use executive power to achieve his followers’ preferences."

 

Trump wins Iowa caucus.


https://www.npr.org/2024/01/15/1224749221/trump-wins-republican-iowa-caucus-2024

 

Former Fox Business star Lou Dobbs is now on LindellTV.

Lindell is asking Trump-pardoned Roger Stone and Trump-pardoned Steven Bannon to give him money for the TV show to promote Trump.


Election-denying MyPillow chief plots TV expansion in bid to help Trump

 

Trump tops his opponents while Biden hits a new low in approval ahead of Iowa caucus: POLL

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"BIDEN/TRUMP -- A Biden/Trump general election, if that's the outcome of the primary season, would represent a battle of markedly unpopular candidates. Among all adults, Biden's approval rating is just 33% in this poll, worse than Trump's low as president (36%) and the lowest since George W. Bush from 2006-2008. Fifty-eight percent disapprove of Biden's work.

Among groups, just 31% of women now approve of Biden's work in office, a new low (as do 34% of men). He won 57% of women in 2020.

He's at 28% approval among independents, a customary swing voter group; a low of 32% among moderates; and a low of 41% among college graduates, 10 points off his career average in that group."