The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump legal fees eat up money that could be spent on other GOP candidates, data shows

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"The nearly 20 major lawsuits and investigations facing Donald Trump are draining millions of dollars away from supporting other GOP candidates, according to campaign filings.

So far, according to election filings tracking spending through the end of August, Donald Trump’s Save America leadership political action committee has spent about as much paying Mr Trump’s legal bills as it has backing Republicans in the midterms.

The group has spent $8.4m on GOP campaigns and committees, while doling out $7m on legal fees and another $2m to nonprofits run by former top Trump officials.

Save America spent $3m on a single check to a Florida law firm representing the former president during the Department of Justice’s investigation into top secret documents kept at Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate."

 

Supreme Court declines to hear case on DOJ ‘filter teams’ used in Trump search
by Julia Mueller
10/03/22 10:32 AM ET

https://thehill.com/regulation/cour...ase-on-doj-filter-teams-used-in-trump-search/

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"The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case about whether the Justice Department (DOJ) can use “filter teams,” such as the one enlisted by the DOJ to begin a review of evidence collected at former President Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago to determine whether they are privileged.

The Justices denied a writ of certiorari in Korf v. United States, which questioned the legality of “filter team” protocols that allow teams of federal prosecutors and agents not assigned to a given case to review seized documents claimed to be privileged before the privilege question has been resolved.

The DOJ used a filter team to begin a review of the evidence collected during the execution of a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence before Trump successfully pushed for a “special master” to review the documents he said were privileged.

FBI agents at the Palm Beach, Fla., resort recovered classified documents taken from the White House and kept past the end of Trump’s time in office."

 

Trump rioter from MN pleads guilty.


Minnesota man sentenced to probation for involvement in Jan. 6 capitol riot

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"A Minnesota man was sentenced to probation as part of a plea deal for his actions in the Jan. 6 capitol riot.

Court documents state that various surveillance cameras captured Frank Bratjan on video in the building at the time of the riot.

Court documents show that pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a capitol building.

As part of the deal, Bratjan was sentenced to six months of probation and must serve 60 hours of community service. He will also have to pay a $1,500 fine and a $500 restitution.

Federal court documents say the FBI’s Minneapolis office received a tip in January 2022 that a man named “Joe” was involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, adding that “Joe” had taken a selfie in the Capitol and sent it to his mother. The tipster also said the man had moved back to Minnesota to live with his mother after the Capitol riot investigations started instead of staying with his father in Syracuse, New York."

 

The QAnon shaman was in his 30's and living with his mother.

A judge recently scolded three Trump supporters who were convicted of rioting at the Capitol, telling them they come across as knuckleheads, are still living with their parents, and are not advancing themselves.

One of the three received a call from the White House switchboard the day of the riot at the Capitol.


The mysterious nine-second call from the White House to a January 6 rioter: CNN reveals the rioter's identity for the first time | CNN Politics

 

Trump knows how to pick them. He told them they're very special people and to go home (to their mother's house) after the riot and remember the day forever.

 

Trump has squandered a few million on a lawyer for taking government documents to Mar-a-Lago and millions more on other lawsuits that stem from his misbehavior.

It could have been spent promoting candidates.

 

Another Trump winner.

Molla set his own property on fire and claimed it was done by Biden supporters.


Minnesota man pleads guilty to arson he blamed on politics
The Associated Press
October 12, 2022 5:36 AM

Minnesota man pleads guilty to arson he blamed on politics

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"Police discovered that Molla started his own property on fire and spray painted the graffiti on his own garage. He them submitted multiple insurance claims seeking coverage for the damage to his garage, camper, vehicles, and residence caused by the fire, court documents show.

Molla also created and allowed others to start two GoFundMe accounts to benefit Molla and his family. In total, Molla submitted more than $300,000 in fraudulent insurance claims, of which he received approximately $61,000 from his insurance company. Molla also received more than $17,000 from individual donors via GoFundMe.

Molla pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud."

 

New book details tense call between Trump and moderate Republicans ahead of first impeachment

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"In October 2019, then-President Donald Trump faced the real possibility of Republicans voting to impeach him. In the middle of that fight, Trump announced publicly that he planned to host the next G-7 summit at his Miami golf resort, potentially enriching himself with foreign money.

The announcement infuriated some GOP lawmakers who were already on the fence on impeachment, leading to a tense confrontation at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, between moderate Republicans and Trump's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, according to excerpts from a new book on Trump shared exclusively with NBC News.

Trying to salvage his summit at Doral, Trump himself phoned the group at Camp David, and the moderates gave the president an earful as well.

The Camp David confrontation is yet another example of the challenging and complicated relationship between GOP lawmakers and Trump, who would be the favorite to become the Republican nominee if he runs again in 2024. The episode is captured in “Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump,” a new book by Politico’s Rachael Bade and The Washington Post’s Karoun Demirjian that examines why Congress twice failed to oust and bar Trump from office. It will be released Oct. 18."

 

New book details tense call between Trump and moderate Republicans ahead of first impeachment

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"Mulvaney was fresh off a disastrous news conference where he announced that the G-7 summit — a gathering of the world's largest developed economies — would be held at Trump’s Doral resort in Florida, shocking many Hill Republicans at the very moment they were trying to defend Trump from his Ukraine scandal and a looming impeachment inquiry.

On top of that, Mulvaney publicly conceded that Trump had, in fact, held up $400 million in military aid to Ukraine to pressure that country to launch an investigation into the Democrats and told reporters to “get over it” — before trying to walk back his remarks."

 

Difficult for Trump to top the outlandishness of his plan to hold the G-7 summit at his golf resort after extorting Ukraine, which precipitated his first impeachment.

Trump could have offered to have his impeachment hearings at his Doral golf course instead of Congress.

 

The dog ate my homework

 

"MINE!... " ~ Donald J. Trump

 

More and more people are turning away from religion which consequently results in a decline of church attendance. What do church leaders do to keep their churches afloat? How about convincing the flock that people who don't look like them are the problem.

 

Judge scolds Capitol-storming honor student for not using 'reason and common sense' she learned in debate club

 

Judge scolds Capitol-storming honor student for not using 'reason and common sense' she learned in debate club

 

Judge sentences family of five for involvement in Capitol riot.


A Texas mom who took her family into the Capitol riot doubled-down on Trump's election fraud lies as she asked a federal judge for leniency

 

A Texas mom who took her family into the Capitol riot doubled-down on Trump's election fraud lies as she asked a federal judge for leniency

 

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