The Donald Trump Score Card

How Trump damaged science — and why it could take decades to recover
Jeff Tollefson
05 October 2020
Update 07 October 2020

How Trump damaged science

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"Trump’s actions — and those of his staff and supporters — should come as no surprise. Over the past eight months, the president of the United States has lied about the dangers posed by the coronavirus and undermined efforts to contain it; he even admitted in an interview to purposefully misrepresenting the viral threat early in the pandemic. Trump has belittled masks and social-distancing requirements while encouraging people to protest against lockdown rules aimed at stopping disease transmission. His administration has undermined, suppressed and censored government scientists working to study the virus and reduce its harm. And his appointees have made political tools out of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ordering the agencies to put out inaccurate information, issue ill-advised health guidance, and tout unproven and potentially harmful treatments for COVID-19.

“This is not just ineptitude, it’s sabotage,” says Jeffrey Shaman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University in New York City, who has modelled the evolution of the pandemic and how earlier interventions might have saved lives in the United States. “He has sabotaged efforts to keep people safe.”

The statistics are stark. The United States, an international powerhouse with vast scientific and economic resources, has experienced more than 7 million COVID-19 cases, and its death toll has passed 200,000 — more than any other nation and more than one-fifth of the global total, even though the United States accounts for just 4% of world population."

 

New polls in key battlegrounds raise concerns for Trump
Surveys released with just 20 days to go until Election Day on Nov. 3
By Paul Steinhauser | Fox News
October 14, 2020

New polls in key battlegrounds raise concerns for Trump

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"But as Pence arrived in Michigan, a new public opinion poll released by EPIC/MRA indicated Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leading Trump 48%-39% among likely voters. The survey, conducted Oct. 8-12, is pretty much in line with other polls conducted in October, which put Biden’s lead in Michigan in the 6-10 point range.

Four years ago, an average of the polls on the eve of the election indicated Clinton with a 3.6 point edge. But Trump ended up carrying the state – and its 16 electoral votes – by just three-tenths of 1%.

Trump held a slight two-point edge over Clinton on the eve of the 2016 election in the neighboring battleground of Ohio – but he ended up defeating her by 8 percent. The state wasn’t considered to be in play at the start of the 2020 presidential election cycle, but Ohio’s 18 electoral votes are currently very much up for grabs."

 

Average of National polls is back down to Biden 7.4% ahead

2020 Presidential Election Polls: Biden vs. Trump

 

Not if the US Attorney's office in the Southern District of NY do their job.

Convicted felons are not allowed to hold public office

 

People only remember the lopsided polls with three weeks to go in the 2016 election, when in fact on this same date Hillary Clinton
was up by an average of only 5 points - So Biden is up by an average of 7.4% i'll take it.

BTW if you're expecting a late surge by trump over 9 million people have already voted. 50 times greater than in 2016.

Over 9 Million People Have Already Voted In The 2020 Election, The Majority Being Democrats

Americans are voting early in the 2020 general election at an unprecedented pace, with elections officials having already received more than 9 million ballots in the 30 states
that have made data available, and that data indicates that registered Democrats have returned more than twice as many ballots than Republicans thus far.

Over 9 Million People Have Already Voted In The 2020 Election, The Majority Being Democrats

 

It has NEVER happened and is unlikely

Yes, Trump Could Be Indicted If He Leaves Office in 2021, But Is That Likely?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/12/would-we-really-prosecute-an-ex-president/
On one hand, Harris is right: If we won’t impeach or indict a president in office, the only real reaffirmation of the primacy of the rule of law would come in a criminal trial after he leaves office. And yet, the same considerations that motivated President Gerald Ford to pardon Richard M. Nixon should give us pause. Do we open ourselves to rounds of tit-for-tat prosecution of political enemies? Do we create even more polarization and political ill will, perhaps crippling the next president?

PolitiFact - Could Trump (or any president) be indicted after leaving office? Mueller, legal experts say yes


Is Prosecuting a Former President Worth It?
President Trump has upended the norms governing the presidency. Jack Goldsmith and Bob Bauer have a plan to restore normalcy. But when do the costs of reform outweigh the benefits?

AND if you look here
List of American federal politicians convicted of crimes - Wikipedia

Not a single President

 

The fact that it hasn't happened in American history, doesn't mean that it WON'T happen in the immediate future.

 

Trump has never had much leeway in securing an electoral victory.

He won 306 electoral votes in 2016 of the 270 needed. It's a a slim margin that's near the bottom of all U.S. presidential elections, in spite of Trump contending he won by a landslide.

He is vulnerable in the Great Lake states, particularly MI, WI, OH, and PA. Polls show him not faring well in those states in 2020 compared to 2016.

He's become vulnerable in some of the southern states including NC, GA, and FL which he carried relatively easily in 2016.

Article from June 2020:


The electoral map is tilting badly against Donald Trump right now

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"Start here: Trump got 306 electoral votes in his 2016 win. Now, consider these 2020 scenarios (all calculations made via 270towin.com):

* If Trump loses Texas (and wins everywhere else he won in 2016), he loses to Biden, 270 electoral votes to 268 electoral votes.

* If Trump loses Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (and wins everywhere else he won in 2016), he loses to Biden 278 to 260.

* If Trump loses Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania (and wins everywhere else he won in 2016), he loses to Biden 279 to 259.

* If Trump loses Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin (and wins everywhere else he won in 2016), he loses to Biden 276 to 262.

* If Trump loses Arizona, Ohio and Wisconsin (and wins everywhere else he won in 2016), he loses to Biden 271 to 267.

The point here is not to say any of these electoral map scenarios are locked in. After all, we are still 152 days away from the November 3 election. (And, yes, I counted.)

Rather, they are to note that Biden, as of right now, has a WHOLE lot of different paths to 270 electoral votes, while Trump has a dwindling number. And of course, the polls on released on Wednesday don’t even deal with potential trouble spots for Trump in Florida, North Carolina and Georgia — all of which he won in 2016."

 

DID NOT say it won't just that it has NOT and is HIGHLY unlikely

 

Trump had a chance at being in a better position in the WI, MI, OH, and PA in 2020 if he had taken even a mild turn toward pragmatism. Instead, he chose a trench warfare version of his 2016 campaign to try to please his base including an increased use of race-baiting ploys.

His portrayal of being a dissident had appeal in 2016 when the Great Recession was still on the minds of some of the public who felt left behind. A lethal pandemic has erased most of the lingering memories of the Great Recession and replaced them with a new recession that can be attributed in part to Trump's incompetency and denialism which has caused a continual resurgence of the virus.

His trade wars no longer seem fruitful and easy to win like his glamorous threats of such action did in 2016.

At the time, Trump hadn't yet become a nepotistic, autocratic, DC insider like he is now. His 2016 ploy has lost its appeal outside the orbit of his hardcore base.

 

On the other hand, we've never had a crime boss in the Presidency before.

 

Now thats funny I dont think there is a crime syndicate in the world that would claim him do you?

 

The U.S. Constitution is a social contract that is only as good as people's willingness to abide by it.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/12/would-we-really-prosecute-an-ex-president/

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"The real solution, of course, is to avoid these quagmires in the first place: Pick presidents wisely and to insist the House and Senate do their constitutional duty. We would not be in this position if the Senate could be expected to fairly render a verdict on impeachment/removal. That Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has already predetermined the outcome — declaring case closed — has landed us in a legal, political and ethical quagmire. We need to rid the political system of intellectually and ethically corrupted Republicans, enforcing the lesson that the public expects lawmakers to put country and Constitution above partisanship."

 

Trump campaign Twitter account apparently locked.


Trump campaign Twitter account apparently suspended

 

of course there is. The Russian one.

 

Highly doubtful
see this
Russian mafia - Wikipedia
Bratva structure
Note that these positions are not always official titles, but rather are understood names for roles that an individual performs.

• Pakhan – also called Boss, Krestniy Otets ("Capo di tutti capi | Godfather"), Vor ("Thief"), Papa, or Avtoritet ("Authority"), controls everything. The Pakhan controls four criminal cells in the working unit through an intermediary called a "Brigadier."[47]
• Two Spies – watch over the action of the brigadiers to ensure loyalty and that none becomes too powerful. They are the Sovietnik ("Support Group") and Obshchak ("Security Group").

Check two spies

 

The coronavirus surge continues in the swing state of Wisconsin with new cases reaching 3,279 per day

When the increase started in September when cases were about 600 per day, denialists were denying the increase and saying it was just randomness in the data.


Tracking coronavirus in Wisconsin

 

Positivity rate exceeds 20% in Wisconsin. 153 more hospitalized.

7-day positivity rate for COVID-19 tops 20% in Wisconsin; 153 more hospitalized