The Donald Trump Score Card

DOJ underscores independence after Biden urges prosecutions for Jan. 6 subpoena holdouts

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"The House panel scheduled a vote to hold Bannon in contempt of Congress on Tuesday. If that vote moves forward, the full House, slated to reconvene next week, will then hold a vote. If the House moves to hold Bannon in contempt, which is likely with Democrats’ slim majority, then the matter will be referred to the U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C. for criminal prosecution.

But how the Justice Department will decide to proceed, and how quickly, is murky. Attorney General Merrick Garland has not indicated how he will handle such matters from the House, though he will likely be pressed on the issue next week when he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee."

 

Trump is still spreading that lie about McCabe.


Trump Wrong About Campaign Donations - FactCheck.org

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"We previously wrote about the donations in October, when Trump mentioned them during a campaign rally. This time, he brought them up in a series of tweets in which he criticized Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not removing the current head of the FBI.

But the contributions didn’t come from Clinton or her campaign, and Andrew McCabe wasn’t “in charge” of the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s emails at the time of the donations, either.

Jill McCabe’s campaign received $467,500 from McAuliffe’s PAC and another $207,788 from the Virginia Democratic Party for the November 2015 election. McCabe wasn’t the only candidate to receive “big dollars” from McAuliffe’s PAC that year. Common Good VA gave $803,500 to state Senate candidate Jeremy McPike, who won his race, and $781,500 to Daniel Gecker, who lost his. These donations were all part of a failed effort by the Democratic governor to help the Democrats take control of the state Senate that year.

There’s no evidence that Clinton had any say in the contributions to McCabe’s campaign or even knew about them.

Also, McCabe had lost the election by the time her husband became deputy director of the FBI in February 2016. It was in that role that he “assumed for the first time, an oversight role in the investigation into Secretary Clinton’s emails,” according to an FBI spokesman quoted by the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the story about the donations."

 

Trump fired FBI director Comey in 2017 based on what he said was the recommendation of AG Sessions and his deputy Rosenstein.

Trump later fired Sessions, and Rosenstein resigned.

Comey was the person who advanced McCabe to the Deputy Director of the FBI in 2016. Trump had McCabe fired in 2018.

 

The litany of firings is indicative of Trump's revenge campaign against those involved in the Russia investigation in the FBI and AG office.

Trump's frustrations continue to the present with his annoyance that McCabe had his pension reinstated three years after he fired him.

Trump has been in a similar vengeance mode over his legitimate loss of the 2020 election. He has been demanding that the elections in swing states he lost be decertified and that he be declared the winner. He has been threatening the 2022 and 2024 elections with a GOP voter boycott if his demands aren't met.

 

The GOP needs to take it up with Wall Street and their own supreme court, and stop whining like little bitches about "rule of law" and what's fair.

 

A third of the country wants to flat out destroy our government, and whether anything they say makes sense to anyone else is unimportant to them. Go figure, they just want to destroy the government, and it makes sense when you consider there's not much left of it. Texas and Arizona will say and do anything to defy the Federal government, and dare them to stop them. Its an old negotiating tactic in politics, make demands and, sooner or later, people notice you are making demands and will support you. The less sense your demands make, the better if they are aimed at the federal government.

 

The GOP has nominated Josephine Brown for the Wayne County election board which contains Detroit.

Brown says she knows in her heart that Trump won Michigan because she feels it in the air.

She saw all the Trump signs in people's yards.

Brown attended Trump's rally on January 6.

She says she wouldn't have certified the Wayne County win for Biden who won the state with a 154,000 vote margin.


GOP nominee for Mich. county election board was at Jan. 6 pro-Trump rally

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"But Brown said she "truly believes" Trump won last year's election and she wouldn't have certified the result in Wayne County, a Democratic stronghold that's been at the center for the former president's criticisms.

"If I was on the board of canvassers, knowing what I would have known about that election, I honestly don't think I would have," Brown said. "That's just being honest."

She's the latest example of individuals who have supported unsubstantiated assertions about Michigan's vote being nominated by local GOP officials to serve on county canvassing boards that are in charge of verifying election records and certifying results.

A series of court rulings, dozens of audits and a probe by the Republican-controlled Senate Oversight Committee have upheld Trump's loss in Michigan. Democrat Joe Biden won by 154,000 votes or 3 percentage points.

A Detroit News investigation on Monday revealed a trend across the state involving Republican Party leaders choosing to nominate newcomers to serve on the canvassing boards. The pattern is concerning Democrats and some experts who believe hardcore Trump supporters might refuse to certify future tallies if they gain spots on the panels."

 

Palmer wasn't nominated to continue her post in Wayne County.

Palmer eventually voted to certify Biden's win but later tried to rescind her decision after Trump started a pressure campaign on Shirkey and Chatfield of the MI state legislature in December 2020.

That means Palmer isn't good enough for the GOP.


GOP nominee for Mich. county election board was at Jan. 6 pro-Trump rally

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"None of the the GOP district chairs who were supposed to have been involved in picking three nominees for the canvassing slot have agreed to interviews with The Detroit News about why Palmer wasn't renominated.

During a Rescue Michigan Coalition event this week, Shane Trejo, chairman of the 11th District GOP committee, said Palmer "folded" when it came to deciding to certify the Wayne County results, according to a video posted online.

Republicans need to "stand up" to Democrats and use their "authority" to push back against "all of the evil stuff" Democrats are doing, Trejo said."

 

That's how the GOP plans to use (abuse) its positions on election boards to address election losses in the future, even ones it lost by 154,000 votes.

 

Palmer initially behaved properly and voted to certify Biden's win in MI.

She folded and tried to rescind her vote certifying Biden's win after Trump started a pressure campaign on the MI state legislature.

 

Consider the unrest that will occur when GOP members on election boards refuse to certify election wins based on the popular vote.

 

The state of Michigan currently has protections that prevent a wanton flipping of the electoral vote slate by the state legislature. It's to protect elections from the pressure tactic antics of people like Trump who try to overturn election results with no justification, like he applied to Shirkey and Chatfield.

The Trump GOP is trying to infiltrate election boards and other election-related positions with people who promote truther narratives. It would short-circuit protections for the slate of electors of the state by simply not certifying the election results of particular counties won by Democrats. It's a cheap and easy voter suppression tactic.

 

At the end of that video, an Ashli Babbitt angel puppet for sale, complete with a red MAGA hat.


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Former Trump officials' new career ventures suggest very little has changed despite them being out of the White House

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"1. Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is still trying to distance himself from the kidnapping of Julian Assange. According to Pompeo, he had nothing to do with it.

2. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has been milking his access to the Secret Service.

3. Wilbur Ross is reportedly fantasizing about putting "Trump condos on the moon."

4. Ben Carson is launching a venture similar to Boy Scouts of America.

5. Elaine Chao contributed to calls for Kroger to be boycotted.

6. Alex Azar is reportedly conspiring against his former colleagues."

 

Trump's daughter and son-in-law, along with football player Peyton Manning, attended an elite, memory-lane gala in Israel to honor Trump.

 

Herman Cain is still dead of COVID.

 

Some of the punishments issued to people for violating voting laws sound more stringent than the sentences given to Trump's rioters at the Capitol who were trying to kill Pence and members of Congress on the premise that Biden voters cheated.

Fortunate that Trump's rioters didn't get caught trying to cheat at voting. They would have been in real trouble.


Three Michigan women face voter fraud charges tied to 2020 election

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"Nessel's office also provided an update on other election-related cases, including to note that Paul Parana, a 47-year-old man from Canton Township, pleaded guilty to a 90-day misdemeanor election law violation after filling out and submitting an absentee ballot for his daughter. He was sentenced to 90 days probation and ordered to pay court costs and fees of roughly $1,100 by a judge in Wayne County Circuit Court, according to the attorney general's team."