The Donald Trump Score Card

Putin's invasion is supposedly a special peacekeeping military operation to demilitarize Ukraine and rid it of Nazis.

Trump believed it and is now trying to backtrack (blaming the media for supposedly misinterpreting his remarks) to catch up with Republicans who are speaking out against Putin's invasion.


Two Days of Russian News Coverage: An Alternate Reality of War

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"To spend several days watching news broadcasts on the main state channels, as well as surveying state-controlled newspapers, is to witness the extent of the Kremlin’s efforts to sanitize its war with the Orwellian term “special military operation” — and to make all news coverage align with that message.

Words like “war” or “invasion” to describe the actions of the Russian military are forbidden under a new law that Putin signed on Friday. The law mandates up to 15 years in prison for any coverage the state deems “false information” about the military campaign.

“It is not a war on Russian TV,” said Stanislav Kucher, a veteran Russian television host and former member of the presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. Kucher moved to the United States after his shows were repeatedly shuttered.

“You will not see explosions, you will not see strikes on neighborhoods where civilians live, you will not see a lot in terms of troops, soldiers, heavy armored vehicles or anything like that,” he added."

 

Another example of Trump fighting with his partners.

The Grand Hyatt New York.


Hyatt Grand Central New York - Wikipedia

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"The hotel re-opened on September 25, 1980,[9] as the Grand Hyatt New York, with Governor of New York Hugh Carey and Mayor of New York City Ed Koch in attendance. The new facade was criticized as out of place and as having destroyed the character of East 42nd Street. The Architectural Guidebook to New York City referred to the facade as a “mirror box” and an “utter and inexcusable outrage.”[10] The Guidebook continued:

The old Commodore was a brick and masonry structure of appropriately modest and deferential design. The Grand Hyatt imposes its garish vacuity with a painful lack of concern about the way it relates to one of the most architecturally significant streets in America.[10]

In 1989, New York State officials ordered the hotel to pay New York City $2.9 million in rent that had been withheld by the hotel in 1986 due to "unusual" accounting changes approved by Donald Trump.[11] An investigation by New York City auditors noted that the hotel was missing basic financial records and found that the hotel was using procedures that violated Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

The Trump/Hyatt partnership eventually collapsed, with Trump filing a civil racketeering suit against Hyatt owner Jay Pritzker on July 28, 1993, alleging that Hyatt had used improper accounting practices, in order to force Trump out of the partnership with Hyatt, which restricted the chain from operating any other convention hotel in New York City.[12] The Pritzkers countersued on March 28, 1994, alleging that Trump had violated their partnership by failing to remain solvent, using his share in the hotel as collateral for bank loans, and refusing to cover his share of the cost of necessary repairs.[13] The much-needed renovation of the hotel finally began on April 8, 1996, and continued through that August.[14] Finally, on October 7, 1996, the Pritzkers bought Trump's half-share in the hotel for $142 million, ending the partnership.[15][16]

 

Trump: Crush the other side and take the benefits.

His followers in the general public still have faith in him that he will make them an exception and solve their problems.


Trump Sees Act of God in Recession (Published 2008)

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"In that filing, the bank quoted from a best-selling book Mr. Trump wrote last year, “Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life.” In it, the developer said he loved “to crush the other side and take the benefits” and mocked the banks that had lost money on loans made to him before another real estate downturn, in the 1990s:

“I figured it was the bank’s problem, not mine. What the hell did I care? I actually told one bank, ‘I told you you shouldn’t have loaned me that money. I told you the goddamn deal was no good.’”"

 

Trump could use the same line on his voters (Why the hell did you vote for me?) when they find themselves worse off because of Trump's presidency and rhetoric (in particular, the ones who got arrested for rioting at the Capitol and who now finally admit that he stiffed them).

 

This might be fake news. He just wants the attention.

 

14:23 in video. Trump is asked what he thinks will happen with Putin's invasion of Ukraine. He responds with a rant about wind turbines.

Youtube video:

 

The usual from Tucker Carlson.


Tucker Carlson: Biden Provoking Russia for Renewable Energy

 

Still with the resting constipation face.

 

Trump made the same type of empty reply when Hannity asked him what he would have done better with the U.S. troop pullout from Afghanistan if he was still president.

Trump said campaign finance laws prevented him from answering the question.

 

Flynn takes the fifth.


Former Trump adviser Michael Flynn meets with Jan. 6 committee, takes 5th

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"According to the book, Flynn -- who had just received an unconditional presidential pardon from Trump after pleading guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI during the Russia probe -- made a frantic phone call to a senior Trump intelligence official named Ezra Cohen (sometimes referred to as Ezra Cohen-Watnick), who previously worked under Flynn at both the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council.

Flynn urged Cohen that "he needed to get orders signed, that ballots needed to be seized, and that extraordinary measures needed to be taken to stop Democrats from stealing the election," Karl reported.

"Sir, the election is over," Cohen told Flynn, according to the book. "It's time to move on.""

 

‘Putin Republican’ Cawthorn slammed as Pence visits Ukraine refugees - latest

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"Controversial Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn caused outrage coming down on the other side of the war in Ukraine and branding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “a thug” in a recent speech.

Meanwhile, it has emerged that Donald Trump’s plane had to make an emergency landing in New Orleans not long after taking off from the Louisiana city after the aircraft suffered an engine failure over the Gulf of Mexico, it has emerged. The pilot immediately turned the plane around and landed just before 11pm on Saturday. The former president’s campaign organisation has since started sending out emails soliciting funds for a new “Trump Force One”, albeit without mentioning last weekend’s incident."

 

Rabbit240 just got done being an expert on infectious diseases. It will take him awhile to understand global economics.

 

Sidney Powell is using some of the $15 million she raised from election conspiracy theories to fund the legal defense of January 6 defendants

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"Defending the Republic's use of funds for January 6 defendants was first reported by Ken Bensinger in BuzzFeed News. A representative for the Oath Keepers told BuzzFeed News that Powell's group was also paying for the legal defense of Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the militia's leader, who the Justice Department has accused of seditious conspiracy.

The Justice Department has brought nearly 800 criminal cases overall against people who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as part of a mob trying to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election. Leading up to and following the insurrection, Powell has been one of the loudest voices pushing false conspiracy theories that the presidential election results were manipulated in Biden's favor, and that former President Donald Trump was the true winner of the vote. She has asked supporters to donate to Defending the Republic, an opaque fundraising vehicle, as she spread her conspiracy theories."

 

Sidney Powell is using some of the $15 million she raised from election conspiracy theories to fund the legal defense of January 6 defendants

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"The group, Defending the Republic, is sending funds to Jonathon Moseley, an attorney representing Kelly Meggs, a member of the Oath Keepers militia. Prosecutors say Kelly Meggs, along with his wife Connie Meggs, mobbed the Capitol building and maintained weapons nearby as Congress certified now-President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election."


"Defending the Republic's use of funds for January 6 defendants was first reported by Ken Bensinger in BuzzFeed News. A representative for the Oath Keepers told BuzzFeed News that Powell's group was also paying for the legal defense of Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the militia's leader, who the Justice Department has accused of seditious conspiracy."

 

Powell is using the money to defend some of the most unsavory characters involved in Trump's insurrection, such as Meggs and Rhodes.


For the far-right Oath Keepers, the January 6 Capitol attack was 'one battle in a larger war,' prosecutor says

 

Tina Peters appears in court.


Bond for Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters set to $25,000, lowered from the expected $500,000 listed in an arrest warrant

 

'Trump Will Be Charged,' Kirschner Concludes After AG Garland's Remarks

Former U.S. Army Prosecutor Glenn Kirschner concluded that former President Donald Trump "will be charged" in connection with the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol and the effort to overturn the 2020 election results after new remarks from Attorney General Merrick Garland.

In an interview with NPR that aired on Thursday, Garland said "everyone" who committed crimes related to January 6 would face accountability.

"We begin with the cases that are right in front of us with the overt actions and then we build from there," the attorney general said. "And that is a process that we will continue to build until we hold everyone accountable who committed criminal acts with respect to January 6."

 

Trump slams Russian invasion of Ukraine as "crime against humanity"

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"Hannity put it to Trump that he was criticized last month for praising Putin's recognition of two breakaway "republics" in eastern Ukraine as independent as "genius" and "smart," adding: "I think you also recognize he's evil, do you not?"

"Well, I was referring to the fact that he said this is an independent nation, talking about Ukraine," responded Trump, without addressing Hannity's question on whether Putin is evil."