The Donald Trump Score Card

First lady Melania Trump sponsored parents' green card application: Sources

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"As one of the harshest critics of the process, Trump even alleged during the State of the Union that along with the visa lottery program, chain migration was a catalyst for two terrorist attacks in New York.

"In recent weeks, two terrorist attacks in New York were made possible by the visa lottery and chain migration," he asserted.

But in fact, despite both men who carried out the attacks entering the country legally through the two programs, they were not radicalized until after they arrived in the U.S., categorizing these incidents as homegrown."

 

Homegrown terrorists, like how Trump radicalized his followers domestically who attacked the Capitol.

 

Trump White House aide was secret author of report used to push ‘big lie’

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"The Dominion report, subtitled “OVERVIEW 12/2/20 – History, Executives, Vote Manipulation Ability and Design, Foreign Ties”, was initially prepared so that it could be sent to legislatures in states where the Trump White House was trying to have Biden’s win reversed.

But top Trump officials would also use the research that stemmed from the White House aide-produced report to weigh other options to return Trump to the presidency, including having the former president sign off on executive orders to authorize sweeping emergency powers.

The previously unreported involvement of the Trump White House aide in the preparation of the Dominion report raises the extraordinary situation of at least one administration official being among the original sources of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

The publicly available version of the Dominion report, which first surfaced in early December 2020 on the conservative outlet the Gateway Pundit, names on the cover and in metadata as its author Katherine Friess, a volunteer on the Trump post-election legal team."

 

He looks like someone right out of a Dick Tracy comic book

 

Maybe Melania can clean up all this murky immigration situation, by testifying against her husband to the Jan 6 Committee.

 

LOL, I was thinking he looks more like Leslie Neilsen- accept, I liked Leslie!

 

Ohio Supreme Court has rejected the third set of voting maps, submitted by the Republicans, due to Gerrymandering.

Ohio redistricting: Justices reject legislative maps, primary in doubt

 

All you need to know about Stone is that he has a tattoo of Nixon on his back.

 

This is not the hypothetical thread. Go see Ms. Hypotheticia.

 

For the general purposes of artistic economy, I'll say Trump is an ass.

 

>> bordering on treason>>

Seems just a smidge more serious than what the Rosenburg folks got the electric chair for.

 

Home of Republican who crafted Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill is destroyed by tornado
‘We are blessed. It could have been a lot worse,’ Joe Harding says
Gino Spocchia
March 17, 2022

Home of Republican who crafted Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill is destroyed by tornado

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"The home of the Republican lawmaker who crafted Florida’s widely condemned ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill has been badly damaged by a tornado, according to reports.

Joe Harding, whose bill was approved by the state’s legislature this month despite widespread criticism, had his home in central Florida ravaged by 110mph winds last weekend.

He told Florida Politics that while he was away, his family was at home on Saturday morning when the twister struck."

 

God bless.

 

Article from 2018.


How Putin's oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns

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"Oleg Deripaska is said to be one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs, and he is founder and majority shareholder of Russia's Rusal, the second-largest aluminum company in the world. Blavatnik holds a stake in Rusal with a business partner.

Further, nearly 4 percent of Deripaska's stake in Rusal is owned by Putin's state-controlled bank, VTB, which is currently under U.S. sanctions. VTB was exposed in the Panama Papers in 2016 for facilitating the flow of billions of dollars to offshore companies linked to Putin.

Earlier this year, The Associated Press reported that Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager, began collecting $10 million a year in 2006 from Deripaska to advance Putin's interests with Western governments. Deripaska's name turned up again in an email handed over to Mueller's team by Manafort's attorneys. According to The Washington Post, in the email dated July 7, 2016, just two weeks before Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president, Manafort asked an overseas intermediary to pass a message on to Deripaska: "If he [Deripaska] needs private briefings, tell him we can accommodate."

Viktor Vekselberg is one of the 10 richest men in Russia. He and long-time business partner Blavatnik hold a 20.5 percent stake in Rusal. (They met while attending university in Russia.)

In 1990, Blavatnik and Vekselberg co-founded the Renova Group for large-scale investments in energy, infrastructure, aluminum and other metals. One of their earliest investments was in Tyumen Oil Co. (TNK), founded in 1995. TNK is best known for its contentious partnership with British Petroleum after the two entities formed a joint venture in 2003. That rocky relationship ended 10 years later when they sold out to the state-controlled energy giant, Rosneft, under pressure from the Russian government.

As for BP, that pressure took the form of growing harassment and intimidation from Russian authorities who at one point, according to Forbes, refused to renew visas for BP employees, forcing BP's joint venture chief Robert Dudley (who is now chief executive of BP) to flee Russia and manage TNK-BP from a foreign outpost in a secret location.

Vekselberg has connections to at least two Americans who made significant GOP campaign contributions during the last cycle. They are among several Americans who also merit Mueller's scrutiny."

 

How Putin's oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns

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"The Americans

Andrew Intrater, according to Mother Jones, is Vekselberg's cousin. He is also chief executive of Columbus Nova, Renova's U.S. investment arm located in New York. (FEC records list his employer as Renova US Management LLC.)

Intrater had no significant history of political contributions prior to the 2016 elections. But in January 2017 he contributed $250,000 to Trump's Inaugural Committee. His six-figure gift bought him special access to a dinner billed as "an intimate policy discussion with select cabinet appointees," according to a brochure obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.

Alexander Shustorovich, chief executive of IMG Artists, attempted to give the Republican Party $250,000 in 2000 to support the George W. Bush presidential campaign, but his money was rejected because of his ties to the Russian government, according to Quartz. So why didn't the Trump team reject Shustorovich's $1 million check to Trump's Inaugural Committee?

Simon Kukes is an oil magnate who has something in common with Intrater. From 1998 to 2003, he worked for Vekselberg and Blavatnik as chief executive of TNK. Redacted CIA documents released in 2003 under the Freedom of Information Act said "TNK president Kukes said that he bribed local officials." The CIA confirmed the authenticity of the reports to The Guardian newspaper but would not comment further. In 2016, Kukes contributed a total of $283,000, much of it to the Trump Victory Fund. He had no significant donor history before last year's election."

 

Trump rioter arrested.


Arizonan Jacob Zerkle arrested for Capitol riot, admitted to shoving officers

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"Federal authorities arrested a southern Arizona man Tuesday who, according to court documents, admitted to pushing police officers outside the U.S. Capitol during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Jacob Zerkle told an FBI agent who interviewed him outside his home in Bowie, Arizona, in October that he did push into officers while protesting outside the Capitol and that “he probably did something dumb,” according to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court of Washington D.C.

There were no answers at phone numbers listed for Zerkle. He was arrested in Tucson on Tuesday, according to a Justice Department web page that tracks the cases of the hundreds of people charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.

The complaint alleges Zerkle committed seven crimes, including assaulting an officer."

 

Trump rioter arrested.


Feds arrest man they say bragged online about actions during Jan. 6 riot

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"Authorities arrested a Wisconsin man for his alleged involvement in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot after he bragged online about pepper-spraying law enforcement, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Riley D. Kasper, 23, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly assaulting law enforcement using a deadly or dangerous weapon on Jan. 6. The Department of Justice said Kasper posted on social media following the riot, saying pepper-spraying a cop was "satisfying," the agency said in a statement.

"You charge that line and start spraying they start running for cover like you're coming at them with an ak" and "there is definitely something satisfying about pepper spraying cops in riot gear ...," Kasper wrote on social media, according to court documents.

Kasper was the most recent arrest in the DOJ's pursuit of individuals allegedly involved with the Capitol riot. At least 775 people have been arrested, including more than 245 charged with assaulting or impeding an officer. The DOJ said about 140 police officers were assaulted during the riot."

 

Republicans Push Crackdown on Crime Wave That Doesn't Exist: Voter Fraud

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"The Florida Legislature last week created a law enforcement agency — informally called the election police — to tackle what Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans have declared an urgent problem: the roughly 0.000677% of voters suspected of committing voter fraud.

In Georgia, Republicans in the House passed a law on Tuesday handing new powers to police personnel who investigate allegations of election-related crimes.

And in Texas, the Republican attorney general already has created an “election integrity unit” charged solely with investigating illegal voting."