The Donald Trump Score Card

Article from 2016.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...1-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html?tid=a_inl

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"The other expenditures involved smaller amounts. In 2013, Trump used $5,000 from the foundation to buy advertisements touting his chain of hotels in programs for three events organized by a D.C. preservation group. And in 2014, Trump spent $10,000 of the foundation’s money on a portrait of himself bought at a charity fundraiser.

Or, rather, another portrait of himself.

Several years earlier, Trump used $20,000 from the Trump Foundation to buy a different, six-foot-tall portrait."

 

Trump used $258,000 from his Donald J. Trump Foundation 'charity' to pay his own legal costs.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...1-11e6-ac8e-cf8e0dd91dc7_story.html?tid=a_inl

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"I represent 700 nonprofits a year, and I've never encountered anything so brazen," said Jeffrey Tenenbaum, who advises charities at the Venable law firm in Washington. After The Washington Post described the details of these Trump Foundation gifts, Tenenbaum described them as "really shocking."

“If he’s using other people’s money — run through his foundation — to satisfy his personal obligations, then that’s about as blatant an example of self-dealing [as] I’ve seen in awhile,” Tenenbaum said.

 

Trump paid a $2 million fine for misuing his charity which was dissolved.

Article from 2019 by Letitia James, the NY State AG.

James later brought civil fraud charges against Trump whose trial is currently underway.


https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/201...ed-2-million-illegally-using-trump-foundation

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"Additionally, as part of the settlement, Trump was required to agree to 19 admissions, acknowledging his personal misuse of funds at the Trump Foundation, and agreed to restrictions on future charitable service and ongoing reporting to the Office of the Attorney General, in the event he creates a new charity. The settlement also included mandatory training requirements for Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump, which the three children have already undergone. Finally, the settlement required the Trump Foundation to shutter its doors last December and dissolve under court supervision."

 

Exclusive: Trump defends family separation, warns ‘weaponized’ government could target his opponents, in Univision sitdown | Semafor

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"On Family Separation. Trump defended his policy of separating parents and children at the border, which sparked one of the largest outcries of his presidency before it was stopped by an executive order and court decision.

“When you hear that you’re going to be separated from your family you don’t come,” Trump said. “When you think you’re going to come into the United States with your family, you come.”

He continued: “We did family separation. A lot of people didn’t come. It stopped people from coming by their hundreds of thousands because when they hear family separation, they say ‘Well, we better not go.’”"

 

Trump was frustrated he couldn't convince Congress and his own party to spend U.S. taxpayer money on his border wall. He used family separations to try to jerk Congress into giving him the money.

He used a similar tactic of threatening to deport DACA recipients.

His grand finale was the shutting down of the government (the longest in U.S. history) to try to coerce Congress.

None of it worked.

He ended up declaring a fake national emergency and used military money to build his wall, money taken from other military projects to be back-filled later by Congress.

Trump could use the same tactic of declaring fake national emergencies to go after groups he doesn't like in a second term.

 

She Tangled with Trump in a Deposition. Here’s Her Strategy When He’s Under Oath.

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"The man responds really well to flattery. You flatter him and he’s your best friend."

 

Trial begins for attacker of Paul Pelosi.


Paul Pelosi revisits night of shock and fear in trial of conspiracy-driven attacker

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"The defendant had come to the Pelosi home with zip ties and what he later told police was the intention of attacking the former House speaker.

He told investigators that he planned to kidnap the congresswoman and “break her kneecaps” if she refused to accept the false contention that former President Donald Trump was the winner of the 2020 election."

 

After a string of Thomas scandals, the U.S. Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics.


The Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics, but it has no means of enforcement

 

Trump's Speech Parallels Hitler's Words

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Hitler: I will get rid of the "communist" "vermin"
Trump: I will get rid of the "communist" "vermin"

Hitler: I will take care of the "enemy within"
Trump: I will take care of the "threat from within"

Hitler: Jews and migrants are poisoning Aryan blood
Trump: Migrants are "poisoning the blood of our country"

Hitler: "One people, one realm, one leader"
Trump: "One people, one family, one glorious nation"


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Trump's spokesperson, Cheung, responded in a Hitler-esque way by saying that those who cite the facts that Trump's words parallel Hitler will be exterminated by Trump.


Trump Team Responds to Hitler Accusations by Proving Accusers Right

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“Those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House,” Cheung told The Washington Post on Monday

 

Ukraine arrests officials on treason charges over Giuliani effort against Hunter Biden.


https://thehill.com/policy/internat...icials-treason-charges-giuliani-hunter-biden/

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"Ukraine’s security services arrested a national lawmaker who previously had ties to Rudy Giuliani on Monday, claiming that he was involved in an intelligence operation on behalf of the Russian government.

Parliament member Oleksandr Dubinsky assisted Giuliani’s 2019 efforts in Ukraine to dig up political dirt against President Biden, specifically regarding his son Hunter Biden’s business in the country.

Dubinsky is accused of treason, as prosecutors allege he and others worked with Russian intelligence services to destabilize Ukrainian politics."

 

Seems like it's time for Gaetz to oust Johnson like he did McCarthy.

Johnson did the same thing McCarthy did: compromise with Democrats to avoid a government shutdown.


Conservatives hold back on Johnson ouster threat — but plot other payback

 

Two CO men arrested in connection to Capitol riot.


2 more Coloradans arrested in Jan. 6 insurrection | 9news.com

 

Two El Paso County men arrested in connection to Capitol riot.


Two El Paso County men arrested for alleged breach of Capitol during Jan. 6 riot

 

Hialeah city council in FL votes to rename street after Trump.


Hialeah city council votes to rename street after Donald Trump – NBC 6 South Florida

 

Willis indicates Trump GA criminal trial could extend into early 2025.


Fulton County DA expects Georgia election subversion case against Trump won’t conclude before 2024 election | CNN Politics

 

Trump's social media business is struggling.


‘Substantial doubt’ the owner of Trump’s Truth Social will survive, accountants warn | CNN Business

 

Judge rules Trump can be on ballot in MI GOP primary and that the issue of whether he can be president is for Congress to decide.

A similar ruling occurred in MN. Trump made a misleading statement that the 14th Amendment argument was tossed out in MN but it wasn't. The issue was left for the federal government to decide. .


Trump can appear on Republican primary ballot in Michigan, judge rules

 

Trump drops appeal to try to move hush money trial to federal court.

Trump wasn't even president yet when the Stormy Daniels payment scheme was iniitiated by Cohen paying Daniels money to be reimbursed later by Trump.

Trump has been claiming that he was acting within the scope of his presidency when he made the reimbursement payments to Cohen, which was an underhanded way of completing the scheme.


Trump drops appeal to move Manhattan hush money trial to federal court | CNN Politics