The Donald Trump Score Card

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    Comey is the former FBI director whom Trump fired.


    Dismissal of James Comey - Wikipedia

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    "Other reasons have been offered. Insider sources have claimed that Trump was furious at Comey for refusing during March to back up Trump's wiretap accusations against former President Barack Obama, as well as not defending him from accusations of collusion with the Russian government.[72][73] According to Comey, associates interviewed by The New York Times, Associated Press, and CBS News, Trump had asked Comey in January to pledge his loyalty to him, and Comey declined to make this pledge, saying that he would give him "honesty" and what Trump called "honest loyalty".[74][75] Trump denied that he asked Comey for his loyalty, but says such a discussion would not necessarily have been inappropriate.[76] On June 7, 2017, during an interview with MSNBC, House Speaker Paul Ryan stated that it's "obviously" inappropriate for the president to ask the FBI director for loyalty.[77] According to sources, Comey's unwillingness to offer personal loyalty to Trump was one of the reasons for the firing.[73][78] Another source told The Atlantic that Trump fired Comey because Trump was concerned about what Flynn would testify in court.[79] The next day, several FBI insiders said Comey was fired because "he refused to end the Russia investigation."[80] Prior to the firing, senior White House officials had made inquiries to intelligence officials, such as "Can we ask [Comey] to shut down the investigation [of former national security adviser Flynn]? Are you able to assist in this matter?"[81] After his dismissal, Comey recounted that Trump had told him the following in March 2017: "If there were some satellite associates of his who did something wrong, it would be good to find that out, but that he hadn't done anything wrong and hoped I would find a way to get it out there."[82][83]"
     
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    Trump pardoned Flynn in November 2020.
     
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    Flynn has become increasingly fringe.

    Flynn could easily be in a high level position in a second Trump administration.

    Article from April 2024.


    ‘Flynn’ Portrays the Christian Nationalist Evangelist’s Fight With the Deep State - Word&Way

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    "In addition to Carlson and Beanz, other talking heads in the documentary include former U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, an avowed Trump supporter, five of Flynn’s siblings, and Trump’s top election fraud lawyer, Jesse Binall.

    The ocean is a motif for Flynn’s battle against political foes. He talks about how he nearly drowned in legal fees to defend himself from charges of lying to the FBI about his meetings with former Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyah in December 2016. He also admitted taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Turkish government while failing to register as an agent of a foreign government. The film omits that he was eventually pardoned by Trump for both counts."
     
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    How did Flynn become so fringe.


    Can Someone Please Explain How Michael Flynn Got So Crazy? – Mother Jones

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    "I’m not sure how such grievance turns a person into an Alex Jones accessory. Does a man who once oversaw intelligence for a living truly think that Soros and Gates cooked up Covid so they can reign supreme over the Earth? I can understand how someone who has never left their hometown and who falls into the Infowars pit might believe the world functions in this fashion. But a former general who has traveled the globe, who has had access to wide-ranging and sensitive information, and who has interacted with the mighty? QAnoners will say, That’s why Flynn is saying this stuff. He’s been on the inside. He knows! But the sane among us realize that his past only makes his story more curious and incomprehensible."
     
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    Can Someone Please Explain How Michael Flynn Got So Crazy? – Mother Jones

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    "Flynn led that agency for two years, but he developed a reputation at the DIA for repeating dubious assertions—what his subordinates referred to as “Flynn facts”—and was reportedly forced out as DIA chief due to his poor management skills. He left government service, opened the Flynn Intel Group, and became ensnared in several controversies. He was paid $45,000 to speak in Moscow at the 10-year anniversary celebration of RT, a Russian propaganda outlet, and sat at a banquet table with Vladimir Putin. (This was one year after Putin invaded and annexed Crimea.) In 2017, the Wall Street Journal reported he was being investigated for participating in a plot to kidnap a Muslim cleric living in the United States and deliver him to Turkey in return for millions of dollars. Flynn denied he had been involved in such a scheme."
     
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    “I nearly escaped death,” Which means he's dead.
     
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    “I nearly escaped death,” Which means he's dead.

    we can always hope.
     
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    Ron Johnson finally admits riot at Capitol was violent but blames outside agitators.


    Ron Johnson finally admits Jan. 6 was violent — then blames it on 'outside agitators'

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    "Yeah, we had January 6," Johnson said, including it in his list of violent events. "But you also — based on ... eye-witness testimony, you had four distinct groups of agitators there too. So, we haven't even begun to understand the full story of what happened on Jan. 6.
     
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    Trump's the decorated Easter egg shell.

    Flamboyant on the outside, empty on the inside, and easily crushed.
     
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    That's the story of Trump.

    Yet after nine years since he started his run for the presidency, his following still thinks he's going to bring them wealth.
     
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    Ron Johnson tried to carry the WI fake electors paperwork to Mike Pence on Jan. 6.
     
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    Well, just maybe, the Biden Administration can start blowing their own horn a bit. 500% more people hear "crrooooooked Joe Biden" vs. the success of the infrastructure act....
     
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    Johnson claimed he didn't know the nature of the papers he was carrying, like someone who was duped into being a courier for the Russian strudel.

    Texts later showed that he knew what he was doing.


    Ron Johnson denies he knew of fake electors despite released texts
     

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