The Donald Trump Score Card

Wow

 

That post was in June 2023.

As bad as jury nullification in ultra-conservative Fort Pierce sounded, it turned out to be far worse than jury nullification.

Cannon threw out the entire documents case in July 2024 before it could even go to trial for a possible Trump win via jury nullification.

 

Opinion: Judge Aileen Cannon is flat-out wrong, again

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"After Watergate, Congress passed the Ethics in Government Act to create special prosecutors who could be removed only for cause and who were completely independent of the attorney general. The Supreme Court, in 1988, upheld the constitutionality of this statute. But after several lengthy investigations, including the Whitewater investigation of President Clinton, the act was allowed to lapse and was not renewed.

A new mechanism was created to allow independent investigations but with more accountability. The attorney general appoints special counsels and by internal Justice Department regulations assures them of independence. This provides public confidence in the investigation that would be lacking without that independence, which is particularly desirable when the person being investigated is a president or former president or one of their family members or a high-level government official. Because of the Article II powers, this mechanism, as much as the earlier law, is constitutional.

Special counsel Jack Smith could appeal Judge Cannon’s ruling to the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. But that process will take months and it would ultimately likely go to the Supreme Court. The expeditious solution for this case is for Atty. Gen. Garland to have the Justice Department, through a U. S. attorney, refile the indictment against Trump. This would bypass Cannon’s problems with the special counsel."

 

Cannon could have ruled as far back as February 2024 or even earlier. She sat on it for over four months until Clarence Thomas gave her the green light in early July by saying as part of his opinion in the presidential immunity ruling that he thought Jack Smith didn't have the authority to prosecute Trump, a statement he made as an extra that didn't have anything to do with the immunity ruling.


'Something stinks': Questions raised over timing of Judge Cannon's pro-Trump ruling

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"Why not dispose of that issue in February? We hear the oral argument including friends of the court which never happens," she began. "This is at the end of June, the beginning of July and then she sits on a 93-page opinion for that long?"

"But the reality is once [Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas gave her the green light to file her dismissal, that is when she did it," she added. "And for her to drop that on the first day of the RNC stinks. Something is rotten in Denmark, and I'm going to say it is Aileen Cannon."

 

Jack Smith is appealing to the 11th Circuit Cannon's dismissal of the documents case.

Clarence Thomas is the Supreme Court justice who overseas the 11th Circuit.

He is the sole member of the Supreme Court who used his opinion in the pro-Trump immunity ruling in July to inject his extraneous opinion that Jack Smith doesn't have the authority to prosecute Trump. Hearing the signal from Thomas, Cannon dismissed the documents case against Trump two weeks later.

 

Questionable whether the six conservative members of the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas in particular, and Aileen Cannon would be making such rulings if cases involved Biden or another Democrat instead of Trump.

Special counsel David C. Weiss has prosecuted Biden's son and won a conviction, yet the conservatives don't seem to be saying that Weiss didn't have the authority to do it.

 

Hunter Biden, Citing Trump’s Classified Documents Ruling, Seeks Dismissal of Cases

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"Hunter Biden asked a federal court in Delaware on Thursday to toss out his conviction in his gun case, citing the dismissal of charges against former President Donald J. Trump in his classified documents case in Florida.

On Monday, a federal judge in Florida, Aileen M. Cannon, threw out the case against Mr. Trump, saying the special counsel overseeing his prosecution, Jack Smith, had been unconstitutionally appointed.

Hunter Biden, President Biden’s younger son, who has been by his father’s side in recent days as the president faces mounting calls to exit the race, also cited a concurring opinion that Justice Clarence Thomas wrote when the Supreme Court expanded presidential immunity. In it, Justice Thomas raised doubts about how Mr. Smith got his job."

 

If the conservatives on the Supreme Court and Aileen Cannon think that their rulings will benefit only conservatives, they are mistaken. What they have done is establish a vast playing field for protracted, ongoing legal battles, the ones that Chief Justice Roberts said he feared would happen if Trump wasn't granted immunity.

Roberts' flimsy argument in the Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling was based in part on a remark George Washington made that stated that the U.S. needs an energetic presidency not mired by fighting between parties.

The rest of his argument was mostly his personal interpretation of selected lines in the Federalist Papers that were written circa 1788.

 

Trump Campaign Prepares Attack Plan for Harris in Case Biden Withdraws

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"The Republican National Committee is closely tracking possible changes on the Democratic ticket, and is leaving open the possibility of lawsuits related to the potential transfer and use of Biden campaign funds, according to one official with knowledge of the matter.

For instance, if a new committee is created for Ms. Harris, and donors who have already donated the $6,600 maximum to the Biden-Harris campaign try to donate to her, Republicans are likely to sue, arguing it’s an over-the-limit donation, the official said. They’re also watching whether Ms. Harris as the presumptive nominee would try to access money before she is formally nominated by her party.

And should the Biden team try something untested, like transferring its money to a super PAC that supports a candidate, a lawsuit is also likely to follow, the official said.

Even if such lawsuits don’t stop the actions, they could gum up the gears of the new Democratic ticket moving forward and highlight the chaos that Democrats have been facing."

 

Mark Zuckerberg Sucks Up to Trump After He Threatened to Jail Him

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"Trump has previously said he didn’t appreciate Zuckerberg sucking up to him. “Last week, the weirdo—he’s a weirdo—Mark Zuckerberg came to the White House, kissed my ass all night,” Trump said at a rally in 2022.

As Trump and Elon Musk continue to cozy up, perhaps frenemy Zuckerberg doesn’t want to be left out of the action. Or perhaps he’s just trying to save himself from getting thrown in jail."

 

Trump has threatened Zuckerberg.


Mark Zuckerberg Praises ‘Badass’ Trump Response After Assassination Attempt—But Doesn’t Endorse Him

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"Zuckerberg’s comments praising Trump come days after the ex-president seemed to warn the CEO against wading into the election on Truth Social, saying that if elected, he would “pursue Election Fraudsters at levels never seen before, and they will be sent to prison for long periods of time. We already know who you are. DON’T DO IT!” “ZUCKERBUCKS, be careful!” Trump added, using the nickname Republicans have used to criticize Zuckerberg's financial help in the 2020 election."

 

Another issue that doesn't seem to have been raised much is whether Biden will even remain president for the rest of his term.

Biden could let Harris assume the presidency before the DNC convention as a way of removing himself from the picture if it is deemed he's too much of a detriment to the party. It would give Harris an incumbency advantage of sorts heading into the November election, albeit at the expense of Biden stepping down which arguably could be seen as a loss of incumbency advantage (it's a question of whether Biden being a sitting president is considered to be more of an advantage than how much of a detriment his physical and mental condition is currently perceived to be). It would also open up a VP position that could be filled by a new person to showcase for the election, although a new VP would require a majority vote in both houses of Congress.

Presidents have promoted their VP to be the next elected president when the president has been in a second elected term and is not eligible to run again. In Biden's case, he is still eligible to run again but would still be president (assuming he doesn't leave the presidency completely) while promoting his VP to be the next president. It's a somewhat awkward position to assume.

Harris would still be eligible to run for two more terms as president even if she currently assumed the presidency from Biden, similar to Johnson who was eligible to run for two more terms after serving as the VP for Kennedy because he hadn't yet completed two years as president during the remainder of the Kennedy term after his assassination.

 

The Trump dynasty.


Five big takeaways from Trump's convention speech

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"The convention ended with the usual family gathering on stage. But Trump's clan is more than just a show - they are now truly Republican power brokers with the potential makings of a dynasty.

Trump's sons, Eric and Don Jr, were given high-profile speaking slots, and Don Jr was reportedly a key influence over his father's vice-presidential pick.

Earlier in the week Eric's wife, Lara Trump, took to the stage. As co-chair of the Republican National Committee, she will play a key role in the election campaign.

The convention also heard from little-known members of the clan, such as his eldest granddaughter, Kai Trump, a keen golfer. Aged 17, she will not be eligible to vote in November.

Other Trumps had much lower profiles. Melania Trump turned up on the final night in a rare public appearance, but she did not take to the podium to speak as US candidates' wives usually do on such occasions."

 

The Trump family is already a dynasty.

 

I think it’s over if Trump loses and is finally out of the picture. I don’t see any of the sons going very far at all. I don’t think they are as popular with the GOP and voters as everyone thinks. They’re popularity is from riding on daddy’s coattails.

 

The two balcony muppet guys should run against each other for president in 2024.

Same age group as Trump and Biden.

But at least they'd be funny. And more intelligent.


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GOP quiet on Trump's unfounded claims that so many of his rioters were told by Capitol Police to go inside the Capitol.

This has become Trump's stock lie to try to defend his riot. The riot is supposedly the fault of the police.

Trump continues to claim his rioters were horribly treated.


Virginia Republicans mum on Trump’s remarks about Jan. 6 at Chesapeake rally – The Virginian-Pilot

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"Virginia Republicans aren’t pushing back against former President Donald Trump’s recent assertions that police told rioters to enter the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

During his June 28 rally in Chesapeake, Trump called for the release of the “J6 hostages” who were jailed, and praised a Supreme Court decision last month that makes it harder to charge the rioters with obstruction. He said many who stormed the Capitol were “horribly treated.”"

 

Virginia Republicans mum on Trump’s remarks about Jan. 6 at Chesapeake rally – The Virginian-Pilot

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Harry Dunn, a former Capitol Police officer, criticized Trump’s assertions about police inviting rioters inside. He said the refusal of some legislators to condemn those remarks were shameful.

“It’s a slap in the face,” Dunn told the Pilot on Thursday. “Officers were assaulted, violently and visciously. If you look at (images of) the west front, the tunnel as it has been called, officers were giving it their everything to keep those people out of the building.”

 

Trump is upset about spending by Zuckerberg in 2020 that he claims without evidence went to Biden.

Trump has threatened Zuckerberg with prison if he does it again.


Posts misrepresent Mark Zuckerberg’s election spending

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"Zuckerberg didn’t donate directly to Biden’s 2020 campaign, federal campaign finance records show. He and his wife donated at least $400 million to two nonprofit organizations which distributed grants to state and local governments to help them conduct the 2020 election during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The donations came at a time when election offices were trying to transition to mail voting. The money helped pay for material and services such as equipment to process mail ballots, protective equipment to curb the spread of the coronavirus, and drive-thru voting locations, The Associated Press reported."

 

Pro-Trump, pro-supposedly law-abiding Boebert has been issued court date for going over 91 mph and not paying fine on time.

Boebert is known for her yelling at Biden during the SOTU while he talked about his deceased son.


Lauren Boebert given court date for failing to pay speeding ticket