The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump used a similar phrase when he called Raffensperger to try to coerce him into overturn turnng the election. Trump said it doesn't pass the smell test.

 

Investigators Find Gaps in White House Logs of Trump’s Jan. 6 Calls

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"WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has discovered gaps in official White House telephone logs from the day of the riot, finding few records of calls by President Donald J. Trump from critical hours when investigators know that he was making them.

Investigators have not uncovered evidence that any official records were tampered with or deleted, and it is well known that Mr. Trump used his personal cellphone, and those of his aides, routinely to talk with aides, congressional allies and outside confidants.

But the sparse call records are the latest major obstacle to the panel’s central mission: recreating what Mr. Trump was doing behind closed doors during crucial moments of the assault on Congress by a mob of his supporters.

The panel is still awaiting additional material from the National Archives and Records Administration, which keeps the official White House logs, and from telecommunications companies that have been subpoenaed for the personal cellphone records of Mr. Trump’s inner circle, like his son, Eric, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, the fiancée of Mr. Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr."

 

When McCarthy called Trump to tell him to stop the riot because rioters were breaking into his Capitol office, Trump told him that he didn't care as much about overturning the election as his rioters did.


Investigators Find Gaps in White House Logs of Trump’s Jan. 6 Calls

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"Few details of what Mr. Trump did inside the White House as rioters stormed the Capitol are known. He was watching television as the riot played out on cable news, and several aides including his daughter, Ivanka Trump, implored him to say something to try to tell the rioters to stop.

Nevertheless, his first public communication as the melee unfolded was a Twitter post attacking then-Vice President Mike Pence. Mr. Trump also is known to have tried to reach out to one senator as the certification of the Electoral College vote was delayed. And he fielded a call from Representative Kevin McCarthy, the top House Republican, who told Mr. Trump that people were breaking into his office on Capitol Hill."

 

White House records obtained so far by January 6 committee show no record of calls to and from Trump during riot - CNNPolitics

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"But the committee has learned the pair did talk that morning from interviewing Pence's then-national security adviser Keith Kellogg, according to a letter sent to Ivanka Trump by the committee requesting her voluntary cooperation. The revelation in the request, underscoring the importance of hundreds of depositions already conducted and potentially reams of phone records that the committee has subpoenaed.

"Whether it is the absence of data or phone logs or willing testimony, inevitably, we have different sources to get that information because these are conversations that require more than one participant," committee member Rep. Stephanie Murphy said.

"So even if there is one node that isn't forthcoming, there are inevitably other points of information that we can use to build a more fulsome picture of what happened on January 6," the Florida Democrat said.

The committee has not requested Trump's personal phone records, according to the committee's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, who noted the panel could always revisit that possibility.""

 

Trump made a sketchy remark about handling of documents.


Trump denies flushing records down the toilet and says he was told he was under 'no obligation' to turn over documents, despite the law requiring it

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"In actuality, I have been told I was under no obligation to give this material based on various legal rulings that have been made over the years," Trump said in his statement.

 

Fixed

 

The GOP may have to actually start competing in races in Ohio.


Ohio Republicans throw temper tantrum as attempts to cheat with gerrymandering shot down - Ohio Capital Journal

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"Nevertheless, that’s what we’re seeing from many Ohio Republican Statehouse politicians confronted with the possibility they may have to finally actually compete in competitive elections.

The childish temper tantrum being thrown by Ohio politicians upset they’ve been stopped from cheating their way into reelection with rigged districts is sadly completely unsurprising."

 

Trump rioter pleads guilty to felonies.


Maryland Man Who Sprayed Fire Extinguisher at Cops on Jan. 6 Pleads Guilty to Felonies

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"Matthew Ryan Miller, 23, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one charge of obstructing an official proceeding and one charge of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers. He originally faced nine charges total, including four that accused him of unlawful activity while carrying a dangerous weapon at the Capitol.

At a plea agreement hearing before U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss, Miller admitted that he had traveled from Maryland to the Capitol and joined the mob of Trump supporters looking to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election.

Miller acknowledged that he joined the mob gathered at the west side of the Capitol building and threw what Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacqueline Schesnol described as an “unidentifiable object” at the building. Miller used a metal barrier as a ladder to climb the wall on the building’s west side and helped other rioters to do the same, Schesnol said."

 

The thing that should be flushed is trump.

 

A Trump presidential library with aisles of toilets overflowing with torn documents.

 

I knew there would be a reason for the golden commode.

 

Trump documents taken to Mar-a-Lago marked 'top secret:' report

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"Some documents former President Trump took to his Mar-a-Lago residence were reportedly marked as “top secret,” according to a new report by The Washington Post.

Citing two people familiar with the matter, the Post reported on Thursday that some of the documents Trump took back to his Florida club after departing the White House were clearly labeled as classified, while some were marked as “top secret” — which is the highest level of classified information.

News broke on Monday that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) had recovered multiple boxes of White House records from Mar-a-Lago last month, which contained significant communication records and gifts and letters from world leaders."

 

Trump still maintains a consistent 42% favorable rating.

His unfavorable rating is near 51%, which is about the best it's been during the past five years.


https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/trump_favorableunfavorable-5493.html

 

Trump-induced voting problems in Texas.

Texas made voting even more stringent after Trump's 2020 loss and after seeing that Trump won Texas by only about 5%.

Many people won't notice the ID requirement area that needs to be filled that's hiding under the envelope flap that was placed there to keep it confidential during mailing.


Hundreds of mail-in ballots are being returned to Texas voters because they don’t comply with new voting law

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"The ID requirements forced a redesign of the carrier envelopes used to return mail-in ballots, allowing them to be sealed in a way that protects a voter’s sensitive information while traveling through the mail. The ID field was placed under the envelope flap. But based on early figures, local election officials this week said they feared voters were missing it altogether.

The voting law allows for a correction process, but local election officials and voters are facing a time crunch."

 

Trump needs to find better people to advise him.


Trump’s freedom could be at risk over documents found at Mar-a-Lago

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"One such document retrieved from Mar-a-Lago, a letter reportedly written to Mr Trump by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, could potentially put him at risk for prosecution under laws which govern the handling of classified material.

Mr Trump could not even argue that he did not believe the letter to be classified because he once threatened a Time Magazine photographer with prison for attempting to take a photo of it during a 2019 Oval Office interview.

Bradley Moss, a Washington, DC attorney who specialises in national security law, told The Independent Mr Trump lost any authority to possess classified information once he became a private citizen."

 

Trump’s freedom could be at risk over documents found at Mar-a-Lago

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"Mr Moss added that Mr Trump could also face prosecution for mishandling classified documents if the letter from Mr Kim — or any other classified material — was transported to Mar-a-Lago in anything but an authorised means for transmitting such material.

“I don't see how those were in any way … unclassified,” he said. How on earth he had those set aside and shipped down there remains to be seen, but that could be a very easy case for criminal exposure”.

According to National Security Counselors executive director Kel McClanahan, the ex-president could also face prosecution even if the letter was not technically classified because his possession of it after his term was up violated a provision of the Espionage Act pertaining to “national defence information”.

“The Espionage Act says there has to be National Defence Information but it doesn’t have to be classified,” he explained. “National Defence Information is helpfully defined as ‘information relating to the national defence,’ which can be expanded to be pretty much anything the government wants it to be”."

 

Trump’s freedom could be at risk over documents found at Mar-a-Lago

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"Ironically, Mr McClanahan said Trump also could face criminal charges for destroying government property — the same charges he insisted be pressed against rioters who defaced a Portland, Oregon federal courthouse.

“He’s completely dead to rights on those,” he said.

Nick Akerman, a former federal prosecutor who worked on the Justice Department investigation into Richard Nixon during Watergate, said Mr Trump’s criminal exposure far outweighs anything he might face from anything related to the 6 January insurrection or the potential crimes identified during former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election."

 

Perdue lost the special election in GA for a U.S. Senate seat the day before Trump's riot at the Capitol. He's now running for governor with Trump's endorsement.

Trump's rhetoric about stolen elections may have contributed to Perdue's loss by making GOP voters feel less confidence about elections.


Trump ally vows to block ‘the left’ from overseeing key Georgia elections

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"A Republican candidate for governor in Georgia has said he would not let “any of the left” run elections in his state, adding repeatedly that it would happen “over my dead body” and underscoring the violent tone that has come to shape discourse around democracy in America.

Former Senator David Perdue railed against his Democratic opponent, Stacey Abrams, in a video of a speech given on 4 February in Fayette county. Abrams, a voting rights activist, would be the first Black governor in the state’s history if elected.

Perdue, who has been endorsed by Donald Trump, told his supporters: “My vision for Georgia is this: over my dead body would I ever, ever turn an election process over to Stacey Abrams or any of that woke mob ever again.”"