The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump slapped by SLAPP.


Donald Trump ordered to pay The New York Times and its reporters nearly $400,000 in legal fees

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“Today’s decision shows that the state’s newly amended anti-SLAPP statute can be a powerful force for protecting press freedom,” Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoads Ha said, referring to a New York law that bars baseless lawsuits designed to silence critics. Such lawsuits are known as SLAPPs or strategic lawsuits against public participation.

"The court has sent a message to those who want to misuse the judicial system to try to silence journalists,” Rhoads Ha said.

 

“2004”

 

The GOP in WI keeps trying to oust Wolfe.


https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief...n-position-at-wisconsin-elections-commission/

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"A Dane County judge ruled on Friday that Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe is legally in her position as a holdover despite the expiration of her term last summer and that state law does not compel the body’s six commissioners to appoint a new chief election official."

 

The GOP-controlled WI state senate conducted a symbolic vote to 'oust' her, but it has no legal merit.

 

Weissmann thinks the Supreme Court will choose to not hear Trump's immunity claim because it is preposterous.


'Preposterous': Expert says Supreme Court won't bother hearing Trump's immunity claim

 

Trump's remarks at the end of the fraud trial.


Editorial: Trump is always Trump: The fraudster ignores the rules of the court

 

Fox should have dumped Lindell long ago.


Fox News stops running MyPillow commercials in a payment dispute with election denier Mike Lindell

 

Reeves withdraws from federal food program.

Trump endorsed Reeves for governor in 2023.


Mississippi quits child food program amid Republican ‘welfare state’ attack

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"Mississippi is withdrawing from a federal program to feed children during their summer break from school, the governor there announced, characterizing the decision as a way to reject “attempts to expand the welfare state”."


"“Mississippi gave millions of dollars of welfare funds to former NFL quarterback Brett Favre to build a volleyball facility for his daughter’s school, but they won’t take federal funds to feed hungry children. Because helping poor kids is the kind of welfare that Republicans hate,” Boykin said on X."

 

The Trump voters in swing states who are returning to the fold
By TIM REID, NATHAN LAYNE and JAMES OLIPHAN
Filed Jan. 13, 2024, 11 a.m. GMT

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-trump-voters/

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"Chuderewicz-Adams ran successfully for the Plum Borough School District board in November 2021. She campaigned on “parental choice” and against “indoctrination,” part of a wave of conservative women who sought school board seats to contest mask and vaccine mandates and to curtail the instruction of sexuality and racial identity in public schools.

Chuderewicz-Adams likes that Trump speaks without a filter, dismissing the uproar over his “poisoning the blood” comments as alarmist. And she thinks it wrong to single Trump out for the Jan. 6 attack. “It wasn’t a good day,” she said. “But I don’t hold one man responsible.”"

 

On the Ballot in Iowa: Fear. Anxiety. Hopelessness.
Lisa Lerer
Updated Sat, January 13, 2024, 4:30 PM EST

On the Ballot in Iowa: Fear. Anxiety. Hopelessness.

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"ALTOONA, Iowa — Presidential elections traditionally speak to future aspirations, offering a vision of a better tomorrow, the hope and change of Barack Obama or the compassionate conservatism of George W. Bush.

Yet this year, even before a single vote has been cast, a far darker sentiment has taken hold.

Across Iowa, as the first nominating contest approaches Monday, voters plow through snowy streets to hear from candidates, mingle at campaign events and casually talk of the prospect of World War III, civil unrest and a nation coming apart at the seams."

 

On the Ballot in Iowa: Fear. Anxiety. Hopelessness.

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“Voting is a joke, and it’s — what’s the word — fraud because of the machines,” said Maher, 62, who was deciding whether to vote for Trump or Ramaswamy. “If we’re going to get a sham president like Biden again, we’re coming in the back door. We’re going to bypass the president’s power.”

Dave Loebsack, a former congressman and political science professor, said he was worried about political violence, even in places like Iowa. He was shocked by how divisive school board elections had become in his small town of Mount Vernon.

“The fear is driving both sides, and that can drive both sides to extremes as well,” Loebsack said. “This is not a good situation.”"

 

Farming magnate, Rastetter, endorses Trump.


A Major Republican Donor in Iowa Says He's Decided to Back Trump

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“I get back to the guy that’s done it before, rather than the guy that says ‘I’m going to be just like Donald Trump,’” Rastetter, the founder and executive chairman of Summit Agricultural Group, said Saturday. “You look around at the issues on inflation, the border, our status in the world. Everyone can see that we didn’t have problems when Donald Trump was president.”

 

Rastetter is going with Trump who trashed the farmers, not some other GOP candidate who simply promises to trash the farmers.

 

For a second term, Trump has been promising to impose a 10% import tariff on all countries who he thinks are being unfair to him.

That will do wonders for the American farmer.

 

56 percent in new poll willing to see Trump disqualified from ballots in all or some states

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"A majority of Americans in a new survey say they would support the Supreme Court either disqualifying former President Trump from presidential ballots across the country or letting states decide whether to include him on their ballots.

Nearly one-third — 30 percent — of respondents in the ABC News/Ipsos survey said they think the justices should order that Trump be removed from ballots across the country, and 26 percent said they believed the matter should be left up to election officials in each state. Additionally, 39 percent of Americans surveyed said they think the Supreme Court should order Trump be kept on the ballot in all states."

 

A Major Republican Donor in Iowa Says He's Decided to Back Trump

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"Trump’s tenure in the White House was marked by a tit-for-tat trade war with Beijing that put US farmers, largely from Iowa, in the crosshairs. Trump doled out some $28 billion to farmers to soften the blow and he also approved the year-round sale of higher blends of corn-based ethanol."

 

The GOP wants to return to that problem and a magnified version of it as Trump promises to invoke an even larger trade war in a potential second term.

 

A Major Republican Donor in Iowa Says He's Decided to Back Trump

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"Rastetter cautioned against cutting off all trade with China, saying that would harm Iowa farmers who have spent years building relationships with buyers in Asian markets. He also called Trump’s tariff policies “complicated,” because it creates winners and losers."

 

winners:

Countries outside the U.S. that started up new farms to supply the food needs of the U.S. and other countries that were disrupted by Trump's trade wars.

break--even or mitigated damage:

U.S. companies that moved their operations overseas to avoid retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports that were caused by Trump's import tariffs (the opposite of what Trump wanted).

losers:

The American farmers and the U.S. taxpayers who payed at least $28 billion to the farmers for the avoidable damage that Trump caused them.

 

Trump is still bragging about this welfare handout at his rallies, like it was a victory.

He's also still lying that import tariffs are free money coming from other counties to the U.S.

His crowds in Iowa and elsewhere eat it up while blaming the damage he did to them on other people.