The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump is going to try to prevent the mini-trial which would reveal information embarrassing to Trump.

Trump has used similar tactics before, such as burying embarrassing information of Stormy Daniels for which he was convicted of 34 felony counts (that had practically no effect on his approval rating).


Trump plans to block hearings in January 6 case before 2024 election

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"In the coming months, Trump’s lawyers are expected to argue that the judge can decide whether the conduct is immune based on legal arguments alone, negating the need for witnesses or multiple evidentiary hearings, the people said.

If prosecutors with the special counsel Jack Smith press for witnesses such as former vice-president Mike Pence or White House officials to testify, Trump’s lawyers are expected to launch a flurry of executive privilege and other measures to block their appearances, the people said.

The plans, which have not been previously reported, are aimed at having the triple effect of burying damaging testimony, making it harder for prosecutors to overcome the presumptive immunity for official acts, and injecting new delay into the case through protracted legal fights."

 

Trump plans to sit back and let the Democrats fight over their nominee.


Donald Trump gears up for Florida rally after keeping lower profile post-debate

 

Trump plans to block hearings in January 6 case before 2024 election

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"Trump has already been enormously successful in delaying his criminal cases, including by succeeding in having the supreme court from taking the immunity appeal in the 2020 election subversion case in Washington, which was frozen while the court considered the matter.

The delay strategy thus far has been aimed at pushing the cases until after the November election, in the hope that Trump would be re-elected and then appoint as attorney general a loyalist who would drop the charges."

 

Trump v. United States: Can presidents get away with anything? | Brookings

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"Interestingly, when asked during oral argument in the circuit court whether he would like to address the issues Meese raises, Trump’s counsel declined the invitation. I expect the invitation was declined for strategic reasons. If the Court finds that former presidents are not immune from prosecution for crimes committed while in office, it will remand the case to the district court for trial. At that point, Trump can challenge the special counsel’s authority to indict and try him. Should his challenge be denied, as it almost certainly would be, he might then seek another interlocutory appeal to resolve this issue. Whatever might happen on appeal, the 2024 election will be long past. Perhaps Trump will be tried then if he has lost, though the current urgency will be lacking. If Trump has won, he will avoid any trial for at least four years, and whether he will be pursued for actions he took eight years before is doubtful."

 

The author Richard Lempert of the Brookings Institute predicted the ruling the the Supreme Court fairly accurately. It didn't dismiss Trump's criminal election subversion case as Trump had hoped but rather remanded it back to the district court for further interpretation.


Trump v. United States: Can presidents get away with anything? | Brookings

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"Although Trump’s Supreme Court brief repeatedly assumes that the actions Trump took to reverse the 2020 election results were official presidential actions, this is not clear. If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s argument for immunity, it is nevertheless unlikely to terminate the prosecution. Rather, it will return the case to the trial court for a determination of whether Trump’s allegedly criminal actions were done in his private capacity as a candidate for election or in his public capacity as a president charged with taking care that the laws are faithfully executed. It would be ironic if a court were to find that Trump could not be prosecuted for alleged law-breaking because challenging the validity of election results accorded with his duty to take care that the nation’s laws are faithfully executed."

 

Kash Patel says he's coming after Trump's perceived enemies for supposedly lying to make Biden president..

Patel wrote the children's book 'King Donald' that intends to brainwash children into thinking Trump has been persecuted.


"We're going to come after you": Kash Patel pledges revenge if Trump wins again

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”We’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections,” Patel said in a recent interview with Steve Bannon, referring to the 2020 presidential election. “We’re going to come after you, whether it’s criminally or civilly. We’ll figure that out. But yeah, we’re putting you all on notice.”

Patel's zeal for Trump landed him in the administration's National Security Council, and he served briefly as chief of staff to acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller. In his final months in office, Trump considered installing Patel as the deputy director at either the FBI or CIA to strengthen his control of the intelligence committee, but was forced to scotch the plan after CIA Director Gina Aspel and Attorney General Bill Barr threatened to resign.

“Patel had virtually no experience that would qualify him to serve at the highest level of the world’s preeminent law enforcement agency,” Barr wrote in his memoir.

 

Billionaire Hoffman is assisting Smartmatic in suing Fox for its election lies that stemmed from Trump.

Fox already lost a $787 million defamation suit filed by Dominion. Fox firing Tucker Carlson was part of the settlement.


Fox News Suffers Blow as Billionaire Joins Lawsuit Against Network

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Smartmatic CEO Antonio Mugica issued a statement refuting the right-wing attacks against it.

“Smartmatic’s technology has counted seven billion votes on six continents with zero security breaches,” Mugica said. “Voters, candidates, and election officials in all of those elections are watching to see if we still stand up for the truth against lies. Rest assured, we do.”

 

DeSantis and Trump are in favor of letting religious groups into the school.

The Satanic Temple is injecting itself into the schools.


Satanists in Florida offer to fill school counselor roles after DeSantis law

 

Trump accused of swindling millions from his fans for a bogus 'election defense fund'

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"The epitome of this, of course, is the former president, who booked a quarter of a billion dollars after the 2020 election by telling people he was going to set up an official election defense fund," he continued. "And, of course, the money didn't go to that, but they pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars in two months after the election, and it was going — it ended up in a super PAC that he controls and that he can spend on anything, including, of course, his legal defense, not election defense, his legal defense, his personal legal defense."

 

Former Trump attorney, Jenna Ellis, accuses Trump of turning RNC into a slut walk.

Ellis pleaded guilty in Trump's GA criminal case of trying to overthrow the 2020 election.


Trump Has Turned RNC Into a “Slut Walk,” Republicans Complain

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“The RNC is trading Lila Rose for Amber Rose. Pro-life for pro-abortion. Live Action for Slut Walk. That’s a reflection of Trumpworld over God’s truth,” she wrote, referring to Amber Rose organizing a 2015 SlutWalk protest in Los Angeles to raise public awareness of gender inequality. Rose is reportedly scheduled to speak at the upcoming Republican National Convention. “Christians and conservatives should not support this,” Ellis added.

Ellis, who pleaded guilty to charges that she attempted to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, was recently barred from practicing law in the state of Colorado for three years. Ellis struck a plea deal with Fulton County prosecutors in October and testified that while Trump knew he lost in 2020, he was adamant on staying in the White House.

 

The GOP House Select Committee on the Weaponisation of the Government has canceled it's meeting with Alvin Bragg now that Trump's sentencing hearing for his NY criminal conviction has been delayed until at least September.

The meeting had been planned for the day after Trump sentencing so that the GOP could lambaste Bragg and try to save Trump's face.

The sentencing hearing was delayed because of the lucky break Trump received from the Supreme Court on its immunity ruling.

 

RNC committee agrees to drop the promotion of federal limits on abortion, realizing the damage it will do to Trump's campaign.

If Trump is reelected, the RNC is expected to return to pandering to groups that want strict restrictions on abortion.


https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/08/rnc-platform-national-abortion-limits-00166788

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"Unlike the party’s platform passed in 2016, the text does not include a 20-week federal limit on abortions or call for states to pass the Human Life Amendment, which proposes to amend the Constitution to say that life begins at conception. The text instead says that states are “free to pass laws protecting” the rights granted in the 14th Amendment."

 

Win for Trump, surprise on abortion: Takeaways from historic Supreme Court term

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"Presidents, the majority said, have absolute immunity for core presidential responsibilities − and they have a presumption of immunity for other official acts. Prosecutors can still go after actions Trump took in his capacity as a candidate, and they can make a case for why some of his actions as president should not be immune. But the extra hurdles make it basically inevitable Trump won’t face trial before the November election.

In their dissent, the court's liberal justices said the majority gave Trump “all the immunity he asked for and more.”

But Chief Justice John Roberts said the dissenters' "tone of chilling doom" discounts the fact that the majority ruled that only Trump's official discussions with his attorney general are absolutely immune from prosecution, and directed the lower courts to apply the new immunity rule to other aspects of the charges against Trump."

 

Cannon has deleted a paragraph from the prosecution in the documents case indictment because she says it's prejudicial.


Judge Cannon denies Trump bid to dismiss certain counts, but strikes paragraph from classified documents indictment

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"Defense lawyers said the paragraph was prejudicial because it was not connected to any crime charged in the indictment, which accuses Trump of illegally retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday agreed that the inclusion of the language in the indictment was “not appropriate.”"

 

Biden should be mopping the floor with Trump.


Schiff, Murphy Express Alarm Over Biden: He Should Be “Mopping the Floor With Donald Trump” – Mother Jones

 

Trump filed a motion in the documents case that accuses Jack Smith of trying to damage his election campaign. It also mentioned Biden's poor debate performance. Those two remarks turned the filing into a campaign speech.

It remains to be seen if Cannon will remove that language from Trump's brief. She's been unusually protective of Trump and scornful of Jack Smith, chastising Smith for going over a 500-word limit in an abstract and threatening to not even read further briefs of Smith if he does it again.

 

Makes one wonder who is really pulling the strings. Joe couldn't have done much worse if he had planned it.

What really concerns me, if the Tangerine Tyrant does win, what will become of late night TV? That's the best part of the show, putting his dumb shit out there...

 

Trump is running away from Project 2025 which uses him as its template.


Trump is 'running scared' from 'toxic' plan that has his ideas all over it: analysis

 

Trump is still doing his bacon rants that he's been doing for years.

He says people in the U.S. don't eat bacon anymore.

He keeps saying that the price of bacon went up by a factor of four.


'We don't eat bacon anymore': Rally witness claims Trump rants are getting more 'surreal'

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"This is not true. Bacon prices in the last full year of Trump's presidency averaged $5.58 per pound, peaked at $7.31 per pound in 2022, and at the last monthly statistics stood at $6.82 per pound. Moreover, wages have been rising faster than prices for over a year, so on a purchasing power basis, bacon is at more or less the same price it was for most of the Trump presidency."