The Donald Trump Score Card

Yetman pleads guilty to attacking police officers at Capitol riot.


National Guardsman Who Led 2-Day FBI Search In NJ Admits Pepper-Spraying Police At Capitol Riot

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"Gregory Yetman, 47, of Helmetta, pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers with physical contact before U.S. District Chief Judge James E. Boasberg.

Yetman, an enlisted military police officer with the U. S. Army National Guard, traveled to Washington, D.C., on Jan 6. 2021, and attended a rally for then-President Trump at the Ellipse, court documents show."

 

Man took off work to go to Trump's riot, stole cupcakes during riot, and was fired from his job.

He wrecked his life for Trump and some cupcakes.


Cupcake-swiping Jan. 6 rioter blew off job to join Capitol raid, got fired: Feds

 

Summary of Trump.


Trump’s Trial Could Bring a Rarity: Consequences for His Words

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"Eventually, the case could threaten not only Mr. Trump’s freedom but also the central tenets of a lifelong ethos ever-present in the former president’s patter: a convenient disregard for the truth, the blunt denial of anything damaging and a stubborn insistence that his adversaries are always acting in bad faith."

 

Trump tried to steal the 2020 election from Biden and with the help of a violent mob. Yet he says he and his rioters are being persecuted for being brought to justice for it.

He claims his rioters are hostages and political pawns when in fact they served as his political pawns and took the members of Congress and VP Pence hostage on Jan. 6 (as well as Lindsey Graham who, after saying he was finished with Trump, now says he's totally supporting Trump).

Trump sued Deutsche Bank for $3 billion in damages when the bank asked him to pay his loan and called lenders 'vicious'.

He stiffed a small business piano dealer and a painting business by not paying the bills. The painting business managed to recover its money from Trump will the help of attorneys acting free of charge after a long fight.

Trump stiffed the enrollees of Trump University. They recovered some of their money by filing a lawsuit. Trump didn't want to appear at a trial just after starting his presidency, so he settled.

Trump stiffed construction workers in 1980 and eventually settled privately in 1995.

Trump started a lengthy, unresolved international trade war (that he said would be easy to win) by imposing import tariffs on countries. He called countries 'vicious' after they responded with retaliatory tariffs.

Trump says he's a victim of the justice system for holding him responsible for government documents that he claims became his property when he exited the White House with them.

 

KY man sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for attacking police at Capitol.


Kentucky man sentenced to prison for role in Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol

 

DeSantis calls meeting to try to help Trump with his presidential campaign.

FL has a chance of becoming a swing state again due the abortion issue becoming a major contention point for voters.

Biden visited Florida last week on a campaign stop and reminded the public of what Trump and DeSantis have done to women's reproductive rights and health.


https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/28/desantis-trump-meeting-miami-00154845

 

Merchan has scheduled another contempt hearing in the Trump criminal trial.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/28/trump-trials-tracker-latest-news/

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"On Tuesday, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan held a hearing to review allegations from prosecutors that Trump had violated the gag order 10 times. Trump’s lawyers countered that the former president’s postings about potential witnesses are a permitted response to political attacks against him — an assertion the judge didn’t seem to buy.

Merchan has not ruled yet. But two days after the hearing, prosecutors raised four new potential violations. The judge then scheduled another contempt hearing for Thursday.""

 

Kari Lake is seen more at Mar-a-Lago than Melania.

 

Trump VP hopeful Noem defends shooting and killing her dog after it bit her.


https://www.npr.org/2024/04/27/1247666219/kristi-noem-dog-controversy-trump-vp

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"I realized I had to put her down," she wrote. The newspaper did not say when Noem said the incident occurred.

According to The Guardian, Noem said she included the grisly story to demonstrate her readiness in politics to do what needs to be done, even if it's "difficult, messy and ugly."

Animal welfare organizations decried Noem for killing the dog.

Wayne Pacelle, the president of Animal Wellness Action, said: "There's no rational and plausible excuse for Noem shooting a juvenile dog for normal puppy-like behavior."

 

Trump is known for funneling money through a third party to hide intentions.


Trump's Niece Says Ex-President Could Face Criminal Charges Over His PACs' Sketchy Transactions: 'Donald's Legal Quagmire Deepens' - Benzinga

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"Violation of FEC rules would represent a serious breach of ethics and, potentially, a criminal act, she added.

With Red Curve Solutions serving merely as a conduit for these funds, it isn’t yet known who the ultimate beneficiaries were, Mary Trump said.

“The use of a middleman suggests a desire to obscure the true recipients of the funds, to hide the true nature of these transactions,” she added.

Mary Trump noted that the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing democracy through law, has already filed a complaint with the FEC.

“If it's discovered that these payments are in violation of campaign finance laws, it could result in hefty fines and even criminal charges,” she said."

 

Trump's former official, Navarro, loses again in Supreme Court. He will stay in prison.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/poli...navarros-get-of-jail-request-again/index.html

 

Supreme Court majority sounds sold on Trump's lie.


https://www.salon.com/2024/04/29/the-majority-sounds-sold-on-big-lie/

 

Trump kicked out of Miami Grand Prix for trying to use it as a political event.


Miami Grand Prix Tells Trump Pal His Fundraiser Isn’t Welcome: Report

 

No sign of Melania at Trump's hush-money, porn-star criminal trial in NY.

Trump has been raving lately about how supportive she is of him.

 

Conservative Justices Take Argument Over Trump’s Immunity in Unexpected Direction

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"The court is unlikely to draw those lines itself, instead returning the case to Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, of the Federal District Court in Washington, for further proceedings.

“If that’s the case,” Professor Murray said, “that could further delay the prospect of a trial, which means that whatever is ultimately decided about the scope and substance of presidential immunity, the court will have effectively immunized Donald Trump from criminal liability in this case.”

There is a live prospect, Professor Karlan said, that “there won’t be a trial until sometime well into 2025, if then.”

Sending the case back to the trial judge, she said, “to distill out the official from the private acts in some kind of granular detail essentially gives Trump everything he wants, whether the court calls it immunity or not.”"

 

It could end up in a quagmire of trying to determine whether Trump's acts were personal or official acts as president. Even those two terms aren't well-defined.

The federal election subversion case could end up in a situation like the special master that Judge Cannon had assigned to sift through thousands of government documents and determine which ones are supposedly Trump's.

 

Trump is already claiming that his effort to steal the election from Biden consisted of official acts of his as president to make sure the election was done fairly.

It remains to be seen if the Supreme Court will entertain such a claim.

 

It's not clear what legal basis the Supreme Court would use to say that Trump has immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts as president when he is already out of office. Consequential claims, such as saying it would cripple a president while in office to not have such an immunity, isn't a textual legal basis. It's not written in the Constitution or other laws.

There's been a legal consensus that a president shouldn't be indicted while in office, and that it should happen after leaving office. That's a temporary immunity put forth with the rationale that a president shouldn't be crippled while in office. Even that's not written explicitly in the Constitution or other laws. It's inferred from the Constitution which provides a way for a president to be removed from office by impeachment and conviction in the Senate to be indicted later after being removed from office.

Trump has been indicted after leaving office. To say he still has immunity now is stretching the legal consensus. It would mean that he shouldn't be indicted for anything he did while in office, with the possible exception of acts that are considered personal and not official (however those terms would be defined and how such acts would be determined to be one or the other.

Going down that road can open up a can of worms.