The Donald Trump Score Card

Besides promoting his delusional rhetoric against immigrants, reasons why Trump is campaigning late in non-competitive states include raising campaign money that he is lacking compared to Harris and trying to garner popular votes to improve his post-election image if he loses the popular vote again for the third time after his popular vote loss to Hillary Clinton (3 million) and Joe Biden (7 million).

 

Trump is taking an incident involving a migrant in Aurora which has a population of about 400,000 and making it sound like the entire state of Colorado is occupied by migrants who took away the freedom and life of Coloradans.

Such statements by Trump support the assertion that he's delusional.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/12/trump-racist-rhetoric-immigrants-00183537

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“He’s been taking Americans and his followers on a journey since really 2015 conditioning them … step by step instilling hatred in a group, and then escalating,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University who writes about authoritarianism and fascism and has been outspoken about the dangers of a second Trump administration.

“So immigrants are crime. Immigrants are anarchy. They’re taking their jobs, but now they’re also animals who are going to kill us or eat our pets or eat us,” she continued. “That’s how you get people to feel that whatever is done to them, as in mass deportation, rounding them up, putting them in camps, is OK.”

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/12/trump-racist-rhetoric-immigrants-00183537

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"He is no longer just talking about keeping immigrants out of the country, building a wall and banning Muslims from entering the United States. Trump now warns that migrants have already invaded, destroying the country from inside its borders, which he uses as a means to justify a second-term policy agenda that includes building massive detention camps and conducting mass deportations.

In his lengthy speech Friday, Trump delivered a broadside against the thousands of Venezuelan migrants in Aurora. And he declared that he would use the Alien Enemies Act, which allows a president to authorize rounding up or removing people who are from enemy countries in times of war, to pursue migrant gangs and criminal networks."

 

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"A Swansea man was found guilty of four charges in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot on Thursday.

According to court documents, Michael St. Pierre was found guilty of obstructing officers during a civil disorder, destruction of government property, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building or grounds and act of physical violence at the Capitol building or grounds."

 

SC man who led mob at Capitol riot and called out "Where you at, Nancy?" pleads guilty.


https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article293836224.html

 

Man from Montana sentenced to 24 months in prison for rioting at Capitol.


https://www.krtv.com/news/crime-and-courts/montanan-sentenced-for-u-s-capitol-riot

 

MA man who called to storm the Capitol has been convicted.


Jan. 6 Capitol riot: Michael St. Pierre of Swansea, MA convicted – NBC Boston

 

Trump Says No to Debates and Opts for Fox News Town Hall
He will field questions from an all-female audience in a taped event, after he turned down a Fox News invitation to debate. Vice President Kamala Harris will take part in a CNN town hall that will air live.
Michael M. Grynbaum and Simon J. Levien
Updated Oct. 11, 2024, 10:36 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/10/11/us/harris-trump-election

 

Iran has been trying to retaliate against Trump who ordered a drone strike in January 2020 that killed Soleimani on Iraqi soil as he arrived for a meeting with Iraqi officials.


https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/11/iran-trump-assassination-plans-00183488

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"But Iran’s efforts to kill Trump and former senior officials it has blamed for the Soleimani strike are even more extensive and aggressive than previously reported, according to a dozen officials familiar with the Iranian assassination threat.

“This is extraordinarily serious,” said Matt Olsen, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for national security. “Iran has made it very clear that they are determined to seek retaliation against former officials in connection with the Soleimani strike.”"

 

Trump asks for military aircraft to transport him that have anti-missile capability.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/11/politics/donald-trump-security-requests/index.html

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"After two attempted assassinations and an ongoing threat from Iran, Donald Trump’s campaign has ramped up requests for security, including transport by military aircraft and additional security measures on the ground at the former president’s campaign stops, three sources familiar with the discussions told CNN.

Trump’s campaign wants to use these resources – including access to military aircraft with deterrent systems to protect against surface-to-air missiles – as the former president crisscrosses the US during the final weeks of the presidential campaign."

 

what happened to Trump's own billions and his old promise to use his own money to campaign? What a grifter. One would hope billionaires are brighter than he is and know he will lose.

 

Another reason Trump is visiting non-competitive states is to issue threats to people he doesn't like.

Trump visits California to threaten Newsom again.


Trump Threatens to Withhold California's Aid, Let It Burn

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"He made the threat while delivering a long, meandering diatribe during his rally, where he claimed he’d bring “revitalization of our country” and railed on Governor Gavin Newsom (who he refers to as Newscum) about water conservation. Trump promised he’d somehow change the water issues in California without actually proposing how he’d manage to solve the problem other than to say, “We’re going to take care of your situation, and will force it down his throat. And we’ll say, Gavin, if you don’t do it, we’re not giving any of that fire money that we send you all the time for all the fire, forest fires that you have. It’s not hard to do.”"

 

Make America Rake Again.


Make America Rake Again: Finland baffled by Trump's forest fire raking claim

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"For his part, Sauli Niinistö appears to recall the conversation somewhat differently. He said although he told Trump that the Finns took care of their forests, he did not specifically recall mentioning raking as part of the planning.

In an interview reported by Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat, Niinisto said he met Trump briefly in Paris earlier in November, and on the topic of the California wildfires told him: “Finland is a country covered by forests,” and that to avoid forest fires “we have a good surveillance system and network”"

 

Trump Threatens to Withhold California's Aid, Let It Burn

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"Tomorrow, Trump ventures to rally in another state poised for water challenges, Arizona, which faces Colorado River water cuts of 18 percent, more than 500 thousand acre-feet next year."

 

Trump in the 2024 election cycle is complaining to billionaires that they aren't giving him enough campaign money.

Article from June 2016


Donald Trump’s big money bait-and-switch
by Dave Levinthal
June 17, 2016

Donald Trump's big money bait-and-switch

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Trump on self-funding his presidential campaign:

“Part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich. So, if I need $600 million, I can put up $600 million myself. It’s a huge advantage.” — interview with ABC News in March 2011 ahead of aborted 2012 presidential run

“I don’t need anybody’s money. It’s nice. I don’t need anybody’s money. I’m using my own money … I’m not using donors. I don’t care. I’m really rich.” — announcement speech on June 16, 2015

“You know the nice part about me? I don’t need anybody’s money.” — from an interview in August 2015 in Iowa

“I’m self-funding my own campaign. It’s my money.” — during a speech in Iowa on Feb. 1, 2016

“I don’t believe I have been given any credit by the voters for self-funding my campaign, the only one. I will keep doing, but not worth it!” — from a tweet Feb. 2, 2016

 

Article from June 2016


Donald Trump’s big money bait-and-switch
by Dave Levinthal
June 17, 2016

Donald Trump's big money bait-and-switch

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"On the other hand, Trump’s turn toward fueling his White House ambitions with cash from special interests and political megadonors undermines what’s been one of his most effective marketing messages: that he’s beholden to no one and can’t be bought because he’s a rich man who’s self-funding his campaign.

Now Trump is no longer spurning super PACs and eschewing tony private fundraisers tailor made for 1 percenters. Rather he’s tolerating, if not embracing, the post-Citizens United era of cash-flush politics that, until recently, Trump considered anathema to his largely anti-establishment presidential bid.

That may surprise some likely voters, who in a recent Center for Public Integrity/Ipsos poll ranked Trump well ahead of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton — an avowed campaign finance reformer — on the question of which candidate, if elected president, would do the most to make elections less reliant on big money."

 

Data shows migrants aren’t taking jobs from Black or Hispanic people, despite what Trump says

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"WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promises the biggest deportation event the U.S. has ever seen if he is elected — a promise he has predicated, in part, on the notion that immigrants in the U.S. legally and illegally are stealing what he calls “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs.”

But government data show immigrant labor contributes to economic growth and provides promotional opportunities for native-born workers. And a mass deportation event would cost U.S. taxpayers up to a trillion dollars and could cause the cost of living, including food and housing, to skyrocket, economists say."

 

The golf courses (like Trump owns) always have enough water, even in times of severe drought when the general public is ordered to conserve water.