The Donald Trump Score Card

Like shitting on the walls?

 

Yeah, that probably qualifies as doing something they probably shouldn't have....

 

I don't even know how to shit on a wall... Must be a MAGA thing.

 

Oh, I'm sure they practiced it at home first. Probably part of the MAGA training module #3.

 

Not a good look for someone who wants to be the next president

 

Kelli Ward pleads Fifth.


Arizona GOP Chair pleaded the Fifth, Jan. 6 committee attorney says

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/04/trump-classified-documents-meadows/

excerpt:

"Aides who had worked in Donald Trump’s White House were not surprised this summer when the FBI found highly classified material in boxes at Mar-a-Lago, mixed with news clippings and other items.

They’d seen such haphazard collections before.

During his four years in office, Trump never strictly followed the rules and customs for handling sensitive government documents, according to 14 officials from his administration, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss what they called Trump’s mishandling of classified information.

He took transcripts of his calls with foreign leaders as well as photos and charts used in his intelligence briefings to his private residence with no explanation. He demanded that letters he exchanged with North Korean dictator Kim Jon Un be kept close at hand so he could show them off to visitors. Documents that would ordinarily be kept under lock and key mingled with piles of newspaper articles in Trump’s living quarters and in a dining room that he used as an informal office."

 

Expect Big Mac and ketchup stains on the seized government documents.

 

Chain of custody issues with government property during the Trump administration.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/04/trump-classified-documents-meadows/

excerpt:

"The White House normally establishes a “chain of custody” for classified documents, said Larry Pfeiffer, the senior director of the White House Situation Room in the Obama administration and a former CIA chief of staff. “They log [the documents], track them, give them numbers. If anyone says, ‘Hey, whatever happened to that memo given to the president?’ the [staff secretary] can say, ‘Hey, it’s in the national security adviser’s office.’ ”

Former officials credited Kelly and then-Staff Secretary Rob Porter, as well as his successor, Derek Lyons, with trying to impose some order on Trump’s chaotic ways. But it was a struggle. John Bolton, a former national security adviser to Trump, said Trump sometimes asked to keep material after intelligence briefings, with no clear pattern as to what he wanted. Sometimes, Bolton said, he would ask the president to give documents back. “It was very erratic,” he said. “Some things would catch his attention, and other things wouldn’t.”"

 

Trump has shown that he is highly prone to not maintaining proper chain of custody.

Yet Trump was trying to overturn the 2020 election by selectively discarding ballots in Biden-popular regions by claiming that chain of custody of ballots had been breached.

 

Trump appeals 11th Circuit decision to Supreme Court.


Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in seized documents case

excerpt:

"Former President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling restoring the Justice Department's access to classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.

"The Eleventh Circuit lacked jurisdiction to review, much less stay, an interlocutory order of the District Court providing for the Special Master to review materials seized from President Trump’s home, including approximately 103 documents the Government contends bear classification markings. This application seeks to vacate only that portion of the Eleventh Circuit’s Stay Order limiting the scope of the Special Master’s review of the documents bearing classification markings," Trump's lawyers write."

 

Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in seized documents case

excerpt:

"Elsewhere in the new application, Trump indicated his desire to include the documents marked as classified in the churn of challenges his lawyers will get to hash out before Dearie as part of the special master process. He re-upped arguments – viewed with extreme skepticism by a broad range of legal experts – that the Presidential Records Act may shield him from criminal charges brought for how he handled the materials. Trump also hinted at the idea that he may have declassified the records in question. As he has in earlier stages of the litigation, however, Trump stopped short of making the assertion outright.

On Tuesday, Trump told the Supreme Court that Cannon had the authority to refer “these matters to a special master to determine whether documents bearing classification markings are in fact classified, and regardless of classification, whether those records are personal records or Presidential records, such that their disposition may be managed properly under the PRA.”

“The Government’s position presumes certain documents are in fact classified, affording President Trump no opportunity to contend otherwise. This presumption is at the core of the dispute,” he said."

 

He's got the judges in his back pocket...

 

Gosh, I wonder how the supreme court will rule....being the fair and even harbingers of justice they are today...I'm sure they will do the right thing...

 

Trump Asks Clarence Thomas To Throw Out 11th Circuit Order

excerpt:

"TFG has filed an “Application” asking Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to vacate the order of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that had stayed Judge Aileen Cannon’s injunction concerning the Special Master’s review of classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago pursuant to a court-authorized search warrant.

The filing, which repeatedly characterizes tfg as “President Trump,” claims that the 11th Circuit didn’t have jurisdiction to review Judge Cannon’s order.

Normally, I wouldn’t expect this to go anywhere, but who knows how Clarence will act."

 

Trump goes to Supreme Court over Mar-a-Lago search and seizure of documents | CNN Politics

excerpt:

"Bid pulls Supreme Court into another ‘messy’ Trump dispute

Trump’s application is landing at the Supreme Court’s door step as it embarks on a new term where the justices will consider several high-profile cases.

The Supreme Court, with its current conservative majority, is already viewed by the American public as partisan following a string of controversial rulings this year, including overturning Roe v. Wade, and will likely make the Mar-a-Lago search even more of an issue in the upcoming congressional midterm elections.

Trump appointed three of the current justices: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

In addition, the justice who receives Supreme Court emergency requests out of Florida is conservative Thomas, although he is almost guaranteed to refer the petition to the full court to consider.

Thomas’ wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, promoted efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and has testified before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack.

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said the appeal is intended to delay the Justice Department’s investigation into the former President, if possible.

“This is part of the delay strategy,” Honig said on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” noting Trump lost at the appeals court. “So either he accepts that loss and those documents don’t go to the special master and they go right over to DOJ, or his only remaining recourse is to try to get the Supreme Court to take it, and that’s the course he’s taking now.""

 

Trump goes to Supreme Court over Mar-a-Lago search and seizure of documents | CNN Politics

excerpt:

"Honig said it’s a “close call” if the court will take up the case.

“The Supreme Court typically likes to stay out of messy, political disputes,” Honig said. “On the other hand, when it comes to sort of unique, novel issues of constitutional law, of separation of power, of issues like executive privilege and classification of documents, that’s sort of why the Supreme Court exists – to adjudicate those high level disputes between branches that involve sort of core constitutional principles.”"

 

Former prosecutor predicts Trump is about to get 'bench-slapped' by the Supreme Court

excerpt:

"He "is arguing this was not an appealable final order. You can't just appeal any order that a trial court enters," she said. "It has to be a certain type of order under 1292, a final appealable order, and they say this is not. Of course, the 11th Circuit has already addressed this issue and talked through the legal insider sort of issues involving granting or excluding a stay, which is what DOJ asked here. They wanted a stay of Judge [Aileen] Cannon's orders that didn't permit them to use classified documents. This goes up to the Supreme Court. It seems like it should be a pretty pro forma discussion."

She went on to say that there's a risk for Trump in this case and that nothing good will happen.

"And he could well find himself getting bench-slapped by the Supreme Court," she continued. "One of the real issues working not too far below the surface is that Judge Cannon herself really should not have entertained jurisdiction to hear this matter at all. DOJ has argued from the get-go that she lacks equitable jurisdiction. She made a very shaky finding in this regard. Now that entire ball of wax is sitting in the Supreme Court, and I don't think this will go well for Trump, even though this has been where he's wanted to be all along thinking the court would be favorable towards him.""

 

She learned it from Trump himself, huh?