The Donald Trump Score Card

Summary of Trump's distortions and lies at his Mar-a-Lago presser.

Rasmussen polls are known for being highly slanted toward Trump.


https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5070566/trump-news-conference

excerpt:

"17. “Rasmussen came out today. We're substantially leading.”

Trump is not substantially leading, and Rasmussen is viewed as one of the least crediblepollsters in the country."

 

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/10/trump-calls-harris-bitch-report

excerpt:

Catch up quick: Trump said about Harris on Wednesday in a phone interview with "Fox & Friends": "I heard she's sort of a nasty person."

 

And Trump isn't?

 

Donald Trump already won the only Supreme Court fight that mattered

excerpt:

"One thing that the current Supreme Court has made absolutely clear is that, at least in the most politically charged cases, an existing Supreme Court precedent will survive only as long as there are five justices who personally agree with that decision. And presidents will select new justices who are vetted to ensure they will overrule any precedent that the president’s party is eager to overrule.

So a decision creating the “narrow presidential immunity” that Kovarsky envisions will be worthless unless there are five justices sitting on the Supreme Court, at the very moment when a future administration brings a malicious prosecution against a former president, who agree that such a prosecution should not move forward."

 

Summary of the presidential immunity to criminal and civil suits.


https://constitution.findlaw.com/ar...ial-immunity-to-criminal-and-civil-suits.html

excerpt:

"What Happens Now?

The Court remanded the rest of the case to the district court. Among other things, the district court must do the following:

Determine whether the indictment’s remaining allegations involve official or unofficial conduct.

Determine whether the indictment’s remaining allegations involve conduct to which the president is immune. The Court also noted the district court cannot use a president’s testimony or private records as evidence at trial.

Determine whether a prosecution involving Trump’s alleged attempts to influence the vice president regarding the certification process “would pose any dangers of intrusion on the authority and functions of the Executive Branch.”"

 

Summary of the doctrine of presidential immunity.


https://constitution.findlaw.com/ar...ial-immunity-to-criminal-and-civil-suits.html

 

Opinion | Trump Should Lose. But the Supreme Court Should Still Clarify Immunity.

excerpt:

"But an assassination order that targets a political rival isn’t a reasonable exercise of a core constitutional power. Nor is taking a bribe for a presidential pardon, using the State of the Union address to commit treason or asserting a presidential role in the quadrennial tabulation of electoral votes. In those scenarios, the immunity vanishes."

 

At Trump impeachment 'trial' in the Senate, Alan Dershowitz argued that Trump withholding U.S. government money to Ukraine to help his reelection campaign by coercing the Ukraine leader to conduct a public smear campaign on Biden in the 2020 election was in the public interest because reelecting Trump was in the public interest.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...fers-trumpiest-possible-argument-his-defense/

 

Opinion | Trump Should Lose. But the Supreme Court Should Still Clarify Immunity.

excerpt:

"Only the tiniest slice of the indicted conduct could bear a straight-faced description as an “official act” — when Mr. Trump and co-conspirators “attempted to use the power and authority of the Justice Department,” as the indictment puts it, to have the department initiate bogus election investigations and “to send a letter to the targeted states that falsely claimed that the Justice Department had identified significant concerns that may have impacted the election outcome.” Even if the Supreme Court settled on an official acts test, there’s little chance it would preclude the whole prosecution.

Mr. Trump’s prediction of similar indictments against Democrats is a ghastly justification for a needlessly broad presidential immunity. He shouldn’t get immunity just because some ambitious federal prosecutor might, for example, indict Joe Biden for something his son Hunter did."

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/22/trump-immunity-supreme-court-00112124

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"Going forward, the legal analysis will likely boil down to two questions. The first is whether, by asking DOJ officials to declare the 2020 election “corrupt,” for example, or by initiating “catch and kill” hush money payments’ from the Oval Office in order to bury negative publicity, Trump was acting within the “outer boundaries” of executive policy-making authority. If so, certain acts could conceivably be immune from prosecution or otherwise excised from the scope of the criminal indictments.

The second question is whether greenlighting criminal indictments that implicate even borderline conduct would set a bad precedent that could hamper future presidents from performing their constitutional duties. Even if what Trump did as president was unacceptable, in other words, if it fell within the discretion that presidents need in order to do their jobs, it could be protected.

These are issues that the Supreme Court can and probably should decide in the coming months or years as these four indictments proceed. The question will likely come down to balancing the constitutional interest in cementing expansive discretion and power in the presidency against a broader public interest in ensuring the rule of law applies to everyone, including the president. Because there are no clear lines for striking that balance, it’s impossible to rule out that politics and ideology could play a role in that assessment."

 

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/11/trump-slump-assassination-attempt-2024-election

excerpt:

"The latest: The Trump campaign said Saturday that its internal email had been hacked, with documents "obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process."

Steven Cheung, the campaign communications director, warned reporters in a statement: "Any media or news outlet reprinting documents or internal communications are doing the bidding of America's enemies and doing exactly what they want.""

 

In 2016 Trump called for Russia to find Hillary Clinton's private emails and expose them to the world. Trump said Russia would be rewarded.


Trump asked Russia to find Clinton’s emails. On or around the same day, Russians targeted her accounts

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“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press,” Trump said in a July 27, 2016 news conference.

 

Then again, Trump doesn't perceive the Russian government as an adversary but rather an ally.

 

Trump says Harris crowd at Detroit airport is fake because in a particular image the reflection of the crowd on the aircraft can't be readily discerned.

Trump says it's 'election interference'.


Trump Posts Absolutely BONKERS Conspiracy About Kamala Harris Crowd Size Easily Disproven By Video Evidence

 

Numerous images and videos of the event exist. Trump would need to prove that all are fake.


image:

 

Now that the federal documents case against Trump has been dismissed by Judge Cannon (who was emboldened by Clarence Thomas who said that Jack Smith supposedly has no authority). Trump is emboldened and is set to sue the DOJ for $100 million for the search of Mar-a-Lago.


Trump set to sue DOJ for $100m over Mar-a-Lago raid

 

Trump's desperation.

He wants Harris disqualified and Biden put back into the race because he thinks Harris falsified photos of her crowd in Detroit.


Trump:

“This is the way the Democrats win Elections, by CHEATING – And they’re even worse at the Ballot Box. She should be disqualified because the creation of a fake image is ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Anyone who does that will cheat at ANYTHING!”

 

--says the expert on cheating and lying!

 

How can this guy even say this with a straight face? Anybody remember those doctored inauguration crowd photos?

 

Article from 2018.


Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened
Jon Swaine in New York
Thu 6 Sep 2018 06.00 EDT

Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened