The Donald Trump Score Card

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/politics/trump-venezuelan-dilemma-boat-strike-maduro

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"Politically, the administration’s strategy seems to be to constantly repeat that Trump and Hegseth had themselves declared that they had legal authority for attacks on boats carrying “narco-terrorists.” But this approach ignores profound legal critiques of their action and authority. And the White House has refused publicly to lay out the legal justification and evidence for such attacks that is contained in a classified Office of Legal Counsel finding. Democratic senators who’ve seen the document have described it as “sloppy” and problematic."

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/politics/trump-venezuelan-dilemma-boat-strike-maduro

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"The possibility of a “double-tap” attack on the boat is so problematic because it raises the possibility that action was taken to kill survivors of the initial assault when they were injured or could pose no danger to the US. This could infringe the laws of war or the Geneva Conventions. Hegseth initially blasted such reports as “fabricated, inflammatory and derogatory” and designed to discredit US “warriors.” On Sunday, Trump reacted to a Washington Post report that Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody,” saying his Defense Secretary said he “did not say that.” But he also said that he personally would not have wanted a second strike.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt then confirmed on Monday that there was a second strike. She said that Adm. Frank M. “Mitch” Bradley, commander of the US Special Operations Command, was responsible for ordering it, and was “well within his authority.” But Leavitt declined to describe the threat posed to US service personnel before the second strike."

 

TRUMP’S BRAIN

 

Hegseth initially said there wasn't any second strike on a boat to kill survivors and the Washington Post fabricated it.

Then White House press spokesperson Leavitt said there was a second strike.

Then Trump said he wouldn't have wanted a second strike to kill survivors.

Then Hegseth said he supports Admiral Mitch Bradley who he says is an American hero and the one that ordered the second strike to kill survivors.

 

Venezuela currently has more proven oil reserves than Saudi Arabia.

 

Trump is becoming increasingly like Bush and Cheney, the opposite of what his political platform was in 2016 that scorned military adventurism overseas.

Bush Sr. invaded Nicaragua to remove Noriega.

Reagan was engaging in similar behavior to Trump in Central and South America during his two terms in the name of anti-drug operations. In that era the communists were labeled as the bad guys.

 

DHS plants to deploy 250 agents to New Orleans to crack down on immigration.


DHS plans to deploy 250 border agents to Louisiana in major immigration sweep, AP sources say

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"In Chicago, Bovino drew a rare public rebuke from a federal judge who said he misled the court about the threats posed by protesters and deployed tear gas and pepper balls without justification during a chaotic confrontation downtown. His teams also oversaw aggressive arrest operations in Los Angeles and more recently in Charlotte, where Border Patrol officials have touted dozens of arrests across North Carolina this week after a surging immigration crackdown that has included federal agents scouring churches, grocery stores and apartment complexes."

 

Costco sues Trump to obtain refund of tariffs.


Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs

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"With Friday's lawsuit, Costco becomes the latest major company to seek tariff refunds through the courts.

Global cosmetics giant Revlon, eyeglass maker EssilorLuxottica, motorcycle manufacturer Kawasaki, canned foods seller Bumble Bee, Japanese auto supplier Yokohama Tire and many smaller firms have also filed similar suits."

 

One hundred ways Trump has hurt workers in his first 100 days.


https://www.epi.org/publication/100-days-100-ways-trump-hurt-workers/

 

Leavitt hasn't given an adequate explanation as to why the survivors of the bombed boat were killed in a second strike.

She claims self-defense, but she appears to be making a general claim about protecting Americans from illegal drugs entering the U.S., as opposed to an imminent tactical threat to U.S. military personnel who bombed the boat twice.

In other cases, striking a target a second time can be argued to be justified by saying that the people who were the targets had a weapon that could be imminently fired at the military vehicle that was used to bomb it.

 

Newsmax Legal Analyst Andrew Napolitano Destroys Pete Hegseth in Stunning Commentary: ‘Should Be Prosecuted for a War Crime!’
Alex Griffing
Tue, December 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM UTC

Newsmax Legal Analyst Andrew Napolitano Destroys Pete Hegseth in Stunning Commentary: ‘Should Be Prosecuted for a War Crime!’

 

Rescuing the survivors of the boat that was bombed could give evidence from the survivors that they weren't transporting illegal drugs.

Just as significant an issue is how Trump is justifying bombing the boats in the first place. Trump told a reported at a news gathering that people don't need to see the evidence.

Killing the survivors who apparently didn't pose a threat is another issue on top of the bombings.

Napolitano said on Newsmax that he expects the incidents to be investigated by both parties in Congress.

 

In some cases, the claims by the U.S. military are dubious. The motion of an arm by an person considered to be the enemy who was injured and down in an initial strike is said to be reaching for a weapon, giving the military an excuse to shoot and kill the person.

In a leaked video during the U.S. invasion of Iraq after 9/11, a U.S. military troop in a helicopter looking at an injured survivor near a vehicle it had bombed is chanting 'Come on. Reach for that weapon!', itching for an excuse, such as arm movement, to launch another missile at the person to kill him.

 

Trump's seemed oblivious about his guest who had fainted next to him.

SNL did a skit where Trump casually steps over the body of the fainted man on the White House floor. It's about the same as reality.

The image below is the real one, not from the SNL sketch.


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And this concerns nobody. Standing there oblivious, not like oh, jeepers, what can I do to help? Should I hide under the desk? The SNL sketch was precious.

At the very least, why didn't the SS whisk him out of the room?

 

This next one shows just how crooked this government with trump running it. "no one is above the law"is a bad fuckin' joke now. There's a commercial , but I got it clicked off in about 3 seconds.

 

He's 80 years old and in poor health. Most of the world hates him. He cannot spend what ill-gotten money he has today. That's what I don't understand about the uber-rich. How much money is enough? "All of it"....is what they want.

 

Trump does a 158-post marathon whining session overnight.


https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/trump-truth-social-december-150-posts-social-media