The Donald Trump Score Card

Judge Cannon stopped hearing arguments about the validity of Jack Smith as special counsel around the third week in June 2024.

She dismissed the federal documents case against Trump on July 15, 2024.

That's about a three-week time span. For Judge Cannon, it was a very quick decision on such a critical issue.

Cannon was known to sit for months on other issues in the documents case that were not nearly as profound as ruling that a special counsel appointed by an AG doesn't has the authority to prosecute. It's a profound ruling that should have taken months or years to resolve in other courts and probably will be when it is eventually put to the courts in a meaningful fashion (as opposed to being justified by an amicus brief by Meese).

 

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
Oscar Wilde

 

Lawyers allowed into Giuliani's NYC apartment after he misses deadline to turn over assets

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"U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman ordered Giuliani last week to give the election workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, many of his prized possessions. Among them: his $5 million Upper East Side apartment, a 1980 Mercedes once owned by movie star Lauren Bacall, and a variety of other belongings, from his television to a shirt signed by New York Yankees legend Joe DiMaggio to 26 luxury watches."

 

Musk joined Trump with call to Zelensky.


https://www.axios.com/2024/11/08/musk-trump-zelensky-ukraine-call

 

Musk is starting to look like another 'minister of everything' in a second Trump term, similar to Jared Kushner during Trump's first term.

Musk is worth about $250 billion.

 

All this left wing wailing makes me want to go back and re-watch the scene in Terminator where the liquid metal terminator lands in the vat of molten steel, and all his various forms rise to the surface in various contorted (and agonized) forms.

 

A blossoming, right-wing, authoritarian oligarchy in America, the likes of which has never been seen before.

 

Special counsel Jack Smith expected to wind down Trump prosecutions: Sources

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In addition, a decision is pending before a state appeals court regarding whether Trump must pay all or part of a nearly $500 million judgment in the civil fraud case brought by the New York Attorney General Letitia James.

"No matter what the next administration throws at us, we're ready. We're ready to respond to their attacks," James said Wednesday. "We will continue to stand tall in the face of injustice, revenge, or retribution."

Trump also owes former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll about $90 million after juries in two civil cases found that he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s then defamed her.

"Mr. Trump's election to the presidency does nothing to change either the fact, as determined by two separate juries, that he sexually assaulted and defamed Ms. Carroll, or the applicable legal principles under which he was held liable for that conduct," Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan said in a statement provided to ABC News.

 

All of the people who wrecked their lives and some who gave their lives for Trump at the insurrection in the name of his lies about the 2020 election could have accepted reality at the time and waited.

In hindsight, he was reelected anyway.

 

Summary of Project 2025


After Trump's reelection, conservatives promote Project 2025

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"While the Trump campaign separated itself from Project 2025, Trump’s name is mentioned over 300 times throughout the document."

 

Trump's rioters celebrate his White House return.


Rioters who stormed Capitol after Trump's 2020 defeat toast his White House return

 

Man who smashed door moments before Ashli Babbitt was killed is sentenced to eight years in prison.


Man who smashed door moments before officer killed Capitol rioter gets 8 years in prison

 

Trump will probably pardon him

Trump has said that he will review each case to see if a pardon is warranted.

Trump could easily do a blanket pardon for all of them shortly after taking office.

He has defended his rioters to the extreme and insulted the police who defended the Capitol..

Trump has played the Jan. 6 rioters version of the National Anthem at the start of his rallies while he stands and salutes them, like reciting The Pledge of Allegiance (but to Trump).

 

Just after being sentenced to eight years in prison, Jan. 6 rioter seeks what he calls a 'full pardon of patriotism' based on Trump's 2024 election win, which he thinks means that Trump actually won in 2020 but the election was stolen from him, which he thinks vindicates his violent behavior at the Capitol.


Convicted Jan 6. rioter seeks pardon based on Trump's win

 

Trump has been talking the same way since he lost the 2020 election.

 

He had that flake Musk on a call with Zelenskyy today.

Are you still here?

 

Trump set to move fast on tax cuts if GOP takes full control of Congress
Jacob Bogage
Thu, November 7, 2024, 6:17 PM EST

For Trump and Republicans in Congress, ‘everything is in play’ on tax cuts

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"Trump ran on a promise of extending individual tax cuts - which reduced what taxpayers in every income bracket paid - and a bevy of other expensive new changes. He pledged to exempt tipped wages and overtime pay from taxes, along with Social Security benefits, which could rapidly accelerate the insolvency date for social safety-net programs. His 2017 law cut the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent, but Trump on the campaign trail said he hoped to lower it to 15 percent."

 

A more appropriate title would have been: "Trump set to move fast on increasing the national debt at an even higher rate."

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/07/politics/susie-wiles-trump-chief-of-staff/index.html

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"During Trump’s first term, his chiefs of staff struggled to prevent a roving cast of informal advisers, family members, friends and other interlopers from getting inside the White House to meet with him. Trump is often influenced on an issue by whoever he speaks to last, a fact that is well known within his circle and one that made life difficult on his top aides."

 

Trump promised no taxes on Social Security benefits. It's too soon to plan on that change, experts say

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"But nixing those taxes may be a difficult task, even if Trump has a Republican majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Any changes to Social Security would require at least 60 Senate votes, and Republicans would therefore need some Democratic support to pass those changes.

Just eliminating taxes on benefits, without any other changes to make up for that loss in revenues, would worsen the program's current funding woes, experts say.

"It's hard for me to imagine that Democrats would be willing to provide votes to get over that 60-vote threshold and weaken Social Security solvency," said Charles Blahous, senior research strategist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, who has also served as a public trustee for Social Security and Medicare.

"I think a lot of Republicans would have heartburn about it, too," he said."