The Donald Trump Score Card

‘A wise investment’: Trump’s $6,000 gift to Kamala Harris comes back to bite him

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"Within hours of Biden’s historic decision breaking on Sunday, and with a new possible Trump v Harris battle heaving into view, Trump’s uncomfortable donation resurfaced on social media. Jared Moskowitz, a Democratic congressman from Florida, posted a photo of the check on his X feed with the words: “Was a wise investment.”

Michael Steele, former chair of the Republican National Committee, snarked: “When Trump wrote that check to re-elect Kamala Harris in 2011, I bet he didn’t think she’d cash it in 2024!”

In fact, the $5,000 donation was just one of several gifts from the Trump family to Harris at the time when she was working as California’s top prosecutor. Records held by the California secretary of state note the largest $5,000 donation, but also give details of a further $1,000 check from Trump to Harris from February 2013 at the start of her re-election campaign as the state’s attorney general.

Trump’s daughter Ivanka is also listed on the database as having given Harris $2,000 for her re-election committee in June 2014."

 

Marine accused of doing a Nazi salute during Capitol riot is sentenced to nearly five years in prison.


Marine accused of flashing a Nazi salute during the Capitol riot gets almost 5 years in prison

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/21/joe-biden-drops-out/

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"In abandoning his reelection campaign, Biden joins two other incumbent presidents in modern history who chose not to seek reelection: President Harry S. Truman in 1952 and President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968. Those presidents’ announcements, however, came months earlier and gave their party far more time to regroup for the general election. Even so, Democrats lost both elections.

Also, Truman and Johnson had both already served more than one term, having come to office upon the death of their predecessor. Truman, taking office after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death in 1945, had completed nearly two full terms."

 

The big tech and big social media billionaires like Musk, Thiel, and Horowitz are now wholeheartedly supporting Trump, the Trump who said he was against Bid Tech and Big Social Media and was for the little guy farmer and coal miner.


Elon Musk reacts to Biden dropping out: 'My smartest friends' are 'excited about Trump'

 

Trump's campaign quickly pivots to Harris after Biden announces decision to leave the race

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"The chaos now engulfing the Democratic Party as it scrambles to find a new candidate comes just days after the conclusion of the Republican National Convention, where Republicans rallied around Trump, presenting a united front, after he narrowly survived an attempted assassination at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley cast the unfolding situation as “quite a split screen.”

“We are a completely unified party,” Whatley said in an interview on Fox News Channel, while “the Democrats are in free fall.”"

 

Trump's campaign quickly pivots to Harris after Biden announces decision to leave the race

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“Joe Biden cannot take himself out of a campaign for President because he is too mentally incompetent and still remain in the White House,” LaCivita and Wiles wrote in their memo. “Biden is a national security threat in great cognitive decline and a clear and present danger to every man, woman, and child in our country.

Trump’s campaign had tried to goad Biden to stay in the race, including by casting Democrats’ efforts to replace him as a “coup.”

 

Trump has done a reversal on his views about Bitcoin.

He says he will create a Bitcoin strategic reserve if he becomes president again..

 

Now that Harris could become the nominee, Trump might regret that he selected a white male clone of himself.

Harris is female, African-American, and has an Asian background.


Why Kamala Harris shouldn’t have to choose between identifying as Black or South Asian

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"But that doesn’t mean that her Indian heritage isn’t part of her identity, either. Harris’s late mother, Shyamala Gopalan, has long been a prominent part of her story. Gopalan, a breast cancer researcher who grew up in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, graduated from college at the age of 19 and immigrated to the Bay Area in 1959 to attend graduate school at the University of California Berkeley. There she met Donald Harris, a fellow graduate student who later became a professor of economics."

 

Trump is showing his unifying, humble attributes post-shooting..

While attacking immigrants at his rally in Grand Rapids, MI, Trump joked that immigrants saved his life because he turned his head toward the chart about immigrant as the gunshots rang out.


Donald Trump: Joe Biden is a sick, weak, pathetic man

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"He cracked jokes about the shooting, saying how immigrants saved his life, referring to the immigration chart that he turned to look at in the seconds before he was fired upon.

He used the moment to hit back at Democrat assertions that he is a threat to democracy.

“I took a bullet for democracy,” he said, to rapturous applause."

 

Trump thinks he's more humble than anyone would ever understand.

 

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."

 

'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."

 

The informal amicus brief by Ed Meese of the Reagan administration (who isn't even an attorney involved in the Trump documents case) must have really moved Aileen Cannon to conclude that Jack Smith didn't have the authority to prosecute Trump and to dismiss the case entirely.

Cannon brought Meese right into the courtroom and gave him 30 minutes to make his case, a gesture that's almost unheard of (except for someone like Cannon who has entertained just about every slapstick narrative that defends Trump).

 

Trump is talking like he wants a refund from the Democrats for all the money he spent attacking Biden during the 2024 campaign.

He claims they knew Biden would drop out all along and tricked him into spending the campaign money attacking the wrong person. He says it's fraud.


Trumpworld is really mad that Biden's no longer running

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"So, we are forced to spend time and money on fighting Crooked Joe Biden, he polls badly after having a terrible debate, and quits the race," Trump wrote on his social-media platform, Truth Social. "Now we have to start all over again."

Trump added that he thought the GOP should be "reimbursed for fraud."

 

Trump was still doing his shark vs. shock narrative at his rally in Grand Rapids, MI over the weekend.

He was nearly assassinated, and yet he's still worried about sharks and the battery in an electric boat.


https://www.hindustantimes.com/worl...r-rant-at-michigan-rally-101721537504055.html

 

Trump's now the oldest candidate by far.

Trump is 78.

Harris is 59.

 

https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article290307084.html

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"Even with such a dramatic change months before the election, it’s unlikely that the 2024 Democratic nomination will truly resemble the 1952 convention.

Convention delegates are far more tied to their state’s primary election results these days, making the past several decades of conventions more of a formality and less of a fierce competition between the party’s powerbrokers.

Moreover, it’s likely that Democrats will move quickly to coalesce behind their next nominee — likely Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Biden has endorsed — long before the August convention.

Many are calling for a virtual roll call to be held in early August to gauge delegates’ support for Harris, including two Kansas Democrats running for Congress. If a majority of delegates are behind her, it’s unlikely to be an open or brokered convention like what was seen in 1952."

 

Harris has support of delegates to become nominee.


Harris has support of enough Democratic delegates to become party’s presidential nominee: AP survey

 

Secret Service director annoys members of Congress with vague answers to questions about assassination attempt on Trump.


https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/22/secret-service-director-trump-shooting-hearing-00170470