The Donald Trump Score Card

Two Capitol Riots. Two Very Different Results.

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"He speculated that Brazil strongly rebuked the rioters because many Brazilians are old enough to remember the violent military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985. “The United States hasn’t lived through a dictatorship, a period of authoritarianism,” he said. “We never want that to return in our country.”"

 

The New Jan. 6 Testimony Against Trump Will Be Devastating at Trial

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"Trump’s reported statements are loaded with cruelty, self-interest, and abandonment of allies. It becomes indisputable that he was using his most violent followers to try to override the voters’ will and keep himself in power.

The statements that ABC reported are new, in part, because witnesses like Scavino and Mark Meadows, the Trump White House chief of staff, didn’t speak with the House Jan. 6 committee.

Scavino still works for Trump’s campaign. Per ABC, he’s been so close and “so supportive of Trump over the years that … in 2020 … Trump joked that … Scavino was ‘the most powerful man in politics.’ ” That will make his testimony especially compelling."

 

A counter-video needs to be made: 'So Satan Made A Trump'

 

Trump lost again on his bid to stop the second penalty phase of the Carroll case.

On Monday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit declined to re-hear Trump's case.

Trump can appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.


Trump Loses Federal Appeal on Immunity in E. Jean Carroll Case

 

Trump says trying to overthrow 2020 election was part of his official duties as president.


Trump motion to dismiss Georgia case cites Biden DOJ's recent defense of presidential power

 

Celebrity defense attorney Alan Dershowitz said at Trump's first impeachment trial that Trump's coercion of the president of Ukraine to dig up dirt on candidate Joe Biden by withholding U.S. defense money was in the national interest because it would help Trump be reelected, which is in the national interest.

People in the room groaned at the remark.

By Dershowitz's thinking, inciting a riot and holding a knife to the throat of Americans to force them to overthrow the 2020 election is also in the national interest because reelecting Trump is in the national interest.

 

Stone reportedly talked about assassinating Nadler and Swalwell.

At the time, Nadler announced that the House Judiciary Committee would be investigating Trump’s commutation of Stone's prison sentence in July 2020.

Trump later pardoned Stone completely in December 2020 along with Manafort and Charles Kushner.


Roger Stone Discussed Assassinating Dems Before 2020 Election: Report

 

This next one is older, but worth seeing!

I clicked the commercial off quickly!

 

In the days following the insurrection, Ramaswamy said it was a disgrace.


Vivek Ramaswamy Celebrates ‘Happy Entrapment Day’ 3 Years After Crying Over Jan. 6 Insurrection | Video

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“This might be controversial to say, but I think that when I saw the disgrace that unfolded at the footsteps of the Capitol on Jan. 6, I cried. I was in tears when I watched on television that day.

 

Ramaswamy continues to promote increasingly fringe truth narratives about the Jan. 6 insurrection.


Vivek Ramaswamy Celebrates ‘Happy Entrapment Day’ 3 Years After Crying Over Jan. 6 Insurrection | Video

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"For his ninth truth, Ramaswamy wrote, “TRUTH #9: Pipe bombs were placed near the DNC & RNC headquarters on January 5, 2021, with many irregularities including Kamala Harris showing up at the DNC headquarters on the morning of Jan 6 – without Secret Service or any other law enforcement spotting the pipe bombs, only for both pipe bombs to be found later on Jan 6.”

He continued, “Yet strangely the government still hasn’t said a *peep* about the perpetrator – despite available surveillance footage of the pipe bomber (which has not been fully released). A CBS reporter recently exposed the DOJ’s notable silence on this investigation. What really happened?”"

 

Ashcroft melts down when asked about his threat to throw Biden off ballot.


Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft Flubs Biden Ballot Push

 

Trump calls on Biden to release those jailed in connection to Jan. 6

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"A CBS News poll released Saturday found two-thirds of Republicans support Trump's suggestion to grant pardons to those involved in the Jan. 6 attacks.

"It's disgraceful for Donald Trump to be saying what he's saying," said former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney on "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "You can't say that you're pro-law enforcement if you then go out and you say these people are hostages."

In a campaign speech in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, on Friday, Mr. Biden called the rioters "Trump's mob" — highlighting a key theme of his reelection campaign.

"Trump's mob wasn't a peaceful protest; it was a violent assault," Mr. Biden said. "They were insurrectionists, not patriots. They weren't there to uphold the Constitution; they were there to destroy the Constitution.""

 

Trump claims he didn’t have ‘fair notice’ that Georgia actions could be illegal

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"Asked by the judge whether Mr Trump should then face trial in 2025, if he wins, Mr Sadow suggested that he shouldn’t be on trial until at least January 2029, at the end of his term.

“The answer to that is, I believe that under the Supremacy Clause and his duties as president of the United States, this trial would not take place at all until after he left his term of office,” Mr Sadow said."

 

Trump team argues immunity.


Trump motion to dismiss Georgia case cites Biden DOJ's recent defense of presidential power

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"Presidential immunity is so far-reaching it encompasses behavior that occurs at the “outer perimeter” of a president’s “official responsibility,” the motion argues — citing a Supreme Court case about a president’s civil liability and extrapolating the logic into the criminal sphere."

 

Special counsel probe uncovers new details about Trump's inaction on Jan. 6: Sources

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"Sources said Scavino told Smith's investigators that as the violence began to escalate that day, Trump "was just not interested" in doing more to stop it.

Sources also said former Trump aide Nick Luna told federal investigators that when Trump was informed that then-Vice President Mike Pence had to be rushed to a secure location, Trump responded, "So what?" -- which sources said Luna saw as an unexpected willingness by Trump to let potential harm come to a longtime loyalist.

House Democrats and other critics have openly accused Trump of failing to do enough that day, with the Democrat-led House select committee accusing Trump of committing "an utter moral failure" and "a clear dereliction of duty." But what sources now describe to ABC News are the assessments and first-hand accounts of several of Trump's own advisers who stood by him for years -- and were among the few to directly engage with him throughout that day."

 

Someone attempted to swat Jack Smith's home but it was thwarted.


Special counsel Jack Smith was targeted by attempted swatting on Christmas Day