The Donald Trump Score Card

You have a right to fear the upcoming election:

Even If the Democrats maintain control of both the House and Senate, you’ll have a hundred MTG’s spreading lies and poisoning the democratic process.

No matter what happens in this election, the United States has already lost

 

this is all payback for 'muricans electing a black man, twice, as president.

 

The Republicans spent four years trying to make Obama a one-term president and failed

 

and they still haven't gotten rid of Obamacare. WTF is taking so long, sheesh?

 

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Capitol attack: Proud Boys leader pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy

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"A North Carolina man pleaded guilty on Thursday to plotting with other members of the far-right Proud Boys to violently stop the transfer of presidential power after the 2020 election, making him the first member of the extremist group to plead guilty to a seditious conspiracy charge.

Jeremy Bertino, 43, has agreed to cooperate with the justice department’s investigation of the role that Proud Boys leaders played in the mob’s attack on the Capitol on 6 January 2021, a federal prosecutor said. Judge Timothy Kelly agreed to release Bertino pending a sentencing hearing that was not immediately scheduled.

Bertino also pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully possessing firearms in March in Belmont, North Carolina. Kelly accepted his guilty plea to both charges during a brief hearing after the case against Bertino was filed on Thursday.

Prosecutor Erik Kenerson said estimated sentencing guidelines for Bertino’s case recommend a prison sentence ranging from four years and three months to five years and three months. The civil war-era seditious conspiracy charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison."

 

Election Deniers Failed to Hand Wisconsin to Trump but Have Paved the Way for Future GOP Success

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"All those efforts failed, sometimes spectacularly.

But on a more fundamental level, the election deniers succeeded. They helped change the way Election Day will look in 2022 for crucial midterm elections in Wisconsin — and they are creating an even more favorable climate for Trump and Republicans in 2024.

This summer, the conservative majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court banned most drop boxes for ballots, which had provided another quick and convenient method of voting during the pandemic, rather than relying on the mail. Until a federal judge intervened, the ruling also meant that people with disabilities could not have help delivering their ballots to their municipal clerks.

More recently, in Waukesha County, a judge sided with the Republican Party in a ruling that barred local clerks from fixing even minor errors or omissions — such as a missing ZIP code — on absentee ballot envelopes. The clerks could contact the voter or return the ballot to be corrected. In a state already known for limiting voter access, this was another example of a push toward more controls."

 

Election Deniers Failed to Hand Wisconsin to Trump but Have Paved the Way for Future GOP Success

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"Just how important the state is became clear in August, when the Republican National Committee announced that it will hold its 2024 convention in Milwaukee, a typically overlooked, Democratic-led city. The convention will saturate the state’s largest media market, reaching the conservative-leaning suburbs and the quiet towns and farms beyond.

But first comes November’s midterm election, with a chance to consolidate Republican power in the state and shape oversight of coming elections. Both ends of the political spectrum are keenly aware of the stakes.

“What can happen in 2024 is largely going to be determined by what happens this November,” said Wisconsin attorney Jeffrey Mandell, president of a progressive firm dedicated to protecting voting rights."

 

Another Republican Trump critic heads for the exits | CNN Politics

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"The news that Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse is planning to resign from his position by the end of the year to take over as the president of the University of Florida means that another prominent Republican critic of former President Donald Trump will be stepping off the political stage.

Sasse was one of only seven Republican senators to vote to convict Trump for his role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol.

“President Trump lied that he ‘won the election by a landslide,’” Sasse said in explaining his vote at the time. “He lied about widespread voter fraud, spreading conspiracy theories despite losing 60 straight court challenges, many of his losses handed down by great judges he nominated.”

At a May rally in Nebraska, Trump went after Sasse, calling him “Little Ben Sasse” and referring to him as a “grandstanding, little-respected senator.”

Sasse also criticized the Trump-led Republican Party in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in June.

“We can either continue to drift as a party that exists as a vehicle for the grievances of the angriest, oldest folks, or we can be the future-focused party of 2030 – with policies centered on the future of work and the future of war,” he said."

 

Article from February 2021.


7 GOP Senators Voted To Convict Trump. Only 1 Faces Voters Next Year
Barbara Sprunt
February 15, 2021 5:00 AM ET

7 GOP Senators Voted To Convict Trump. Only 1 Faces Voters Next Year

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"Senator: Bill Cassidy, Louisiana

Vote explanation: Cassidy posted a video to Twitter after the trial, saying: "Our Constitution and our country is more important than any one person. I voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty."

On ABC on Sunday Cassidy added that "it was clear that [Trump] wished that lawmakers be intimidated" while they counted electoral votes, and that Trump didn't act quickly to dissuade the violent mob.

Political situation: The backlash to Cassidy's vote to convict was swift. The state GOP voted unanimously to censure him, releasing a statement saying it condemns Cassidy's action.

"Fortunately, clearer heads prevailed and President Trump has been acquitted of the impeachment charge filed against him," the Republican Party of Louisiana statement read.

Cassidy just won reelection a few months ago, by 40 percentage points, and won't face voters again until 2026. Additionally, Louisiana has an open primary system, which could insulate him some from a Republican challenge."

 

'Clearer heads' is used by the GOP to describe those who didn't convict Trump for his Jan. 6 insurrection.

 

Sasse was reelected in 2020 with a win margin of 38% over his Democratic competitor.

He had four years remaining in his U.S. Senate term but is expected to resign.

 

‘Politics isn’t about the weird worship of one dude’: Sasse shoots down Nebraska censure motion

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"In the five-minute video directed at the members of the party’s State Central Committee, Sasse defended himself as holding Trump accountable for his actions and denounced blind loyalty to a single person.

“Politics isn’t about the weird worship of one dude,” Sasse said. “The party can purge Trump skeptics. But I’d like to convince you that not only is that civic cancer for the nation, it’s just terrible for our party.”"

 

Trump may still be hiding more secret documents, DoJ official believes: report

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"Donald Trump may still be hiding more top-secret documents he took from the White House at the end of his presidency Department of Justice officials believe, a report claims.

A top DoJ official, Jay I Bratt, informed the former president’s lawyers that the government believes he has not yet returned all the material in his possession, two people briefed on the matter told The New York Times.

It is unclear what action, if any, the DoJ may take to retrieve the documents, or what evidence they may have that Mr Trump has them, according to the newspaper.

“The weaponized Department of Justice and the politicized FBI are spending millions and millions of American tax dollars to perpetuate witch hunt after witch hunt,” Taylor Budowich, a spokesman for Mr Trump, told The New York Times."

 

Because a lot of MAGA maggots benefit from Obamacare, and the GOP knows it.

 

You've gotta remember: The poor White people in rural America are the largest recipients of welfare, and food assistance, and heat assistance. There you have to also look at all the Agricultural Welfare. Here in North Dakota you have millionaire farmers who own hundreds of thousands of acres of prime farmland, and hundred thousand dollar diesel pickup trucks, are getting federal money to "SET ASIDE" land. That means they don't plant anything on it. And that means they get paid half a million dollars a year to do nothing with a part of their land. In addition, they get grazing leases so their cows can eat off public land and they don't have to go out and buy feed for their stock. Boy, talk about welfare! I sure wish I was a rich farmer like these guys. Remember the Bundy guys who took the federal buildings in Oregon and protested in Nevada? The father and the sons got millions in federal money for their ranches. After they deposit their government check in the bank, they start bitching about Entitlements again.

 

Jan. 6 riots: Newly charged Meadville man loses Second Amendment claim

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"Slye, of Meadville, immediately objected to a federal magistrate judge's order that barred him from possessing a gun while he is out on an unsecured bond of $10,000.

Slye's lawyer, an assistant federal public defender, argued in an oral motion that the prohibition violated Slye's Second Amendment rights.

Slye has lost his argument.

He fell well short in a ruling that honed in on his case and found that the Constitution failed to support his interpretation of the right to bear arms.

The decision, issued Thursday in U.S. District Court in Erie, demonstrated how arguments about the Constitution are playing out in the cases of defendants accused of storming the Capitol over claims about their rights and those of President Donald Trump as he denied his electoral defeat."

 

Jan. 6 riots: Newly charged Meadville man loses Second Amendment claim

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"Slye dubbed 'JackTheTripper' on website

Slye, 32, is charged with using a bike rack to intentionally trip a U.S. Capitol Police officer during the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He is accused of assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers, and interfering with a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder, both felonies. He also is charged with six misdemeanors."

 

37 times Trump was soft on Russia
Analysis by Marshall Cohen, CNN
Updated 10:36 AM EDT, Tue August 4, 2020

37 times Trump was soft on Russia | CNN Politics

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"Trump defended Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
During a January 2019 Cabinet meeting, Trump defended the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. He said the Soviet Union “was right” to invade in 1979 because “terrorists were going into Russia.” The comments puzzled many observers, who noted that the Soviets had invaded to bolster a communist government and the US had backed Afghan militants who fought the Soviets.

Trump asked allies to let Russia back in the G7

Breaking with American allies, Trump repeatedly called for Russia to be invited back into the Group of Seven. Russia was suspended from the working group of leading industrial nations in 2014 after Putin annexed Crimea. At the August 2019 G7 summit in France, Trump pressed the other leaders to include Russia at the 2020 gathering. They balked at the request, which would have handed a huge victory to Putin without any concessions."