The Donald Trump Score Card

The longer that Trump's trade war goes on (the one he said would be so easy to win), the more established alternative suppliers of U.S. farm products such as soy will become. It can make it difficult for Trump to restore the U.S. farmers to the export levels and prices they once had.

 

Yep...trade wars have consequences. There’s fewer economic goodies to go around and those combatants with the weakest economies loose the most. Wonder if the US or China have the more robust economy right now.

 

Even Graham, who is known to go off his rocker in the name of supporting Trump, has conceded on the Trump Ukraine computer server conspiracy.


Graham says he's '1,000 percent confident' Russia, not Ukraine, hacked DNC
By Justin Wise
12/03/19 05:24 PM EST

Graham says he's '1,000 percent confident' Russia, not Ukraine, hacked DNC

excerpt:

"Trump and some of his GOP supporters in Congress have pushed a conspiracy theory that Ukraine tried to meddle in the 2016 election to help Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

"It was the Russians. I'm 1,000 percent confident that the hack of the DNC was by Russian operatives, no one else," Graham told reporters on Capitol Hill.

"I have no evidence [Ukraine] did. Russia stole the emails, not the Ukraine," he added.

Asked about whether Trump was muddying his defense by pushing the claim, Graham said he thinks it's "always wrong to say things that can't be proven.""

 

Why do you think he isn't actually a psychiatrist? He has an M.D., and you've shared with us his license as a psychoanalyst. He's a Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus with the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and recently retired as an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He's currently on the faculty of the New Center for Psychoanalysis (Los Angeles) and works in the field of addictions. So I think this would qualify him as an expert. How desperate you seem to protect your Daddy figure in the U.S. Oval Office! A "real" psychoanalyst would have a field day with that. Milo Yiannopoulos, another fan, used to call Trump "Daddy". Could it be that you have the same fixation?

 

Thats a researcher, administration, not a psychiatrist

Helped write a book with a dozen others on Trump

Doesnt a little red flag go up in your head as the why they can only find a dozen psycholigists across the country to say stuff like that?

Would be career suicide for an actual psychiatrist to say stuff like that on public record

 

Doesn't make him not a psychiatrist. Actually, he's written several books. The Heart of Addiction (HarperCollins, 2002) was described as a “revolutionary advance” in understanding how addictions work. Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction (HarperColliins, 2011) won Library Journal Best Book award in its category 2011.The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry is a , critical analysis of the current treatment paradigm in the U.S. Are the law professors with J.D.s who testified today before the House not lawyers? If they have law degrees, are members of the bar, and are licensed to practice, they're lawyers. A researcher in psychiatry who has been on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and trains psychoanalysts cuts more ice than some local shrink in private practice.

Getting back to Daddy, you certainly seem to be going all out to discredit anybody who casts aspersions on your Father Figure. One wonders.

 

Meanwhile, under Macron:

"Railway workers, teachers and emergency room medics have launched one of the biggest public sector strikes in France for decades, determined to force President Emmanuel Macron to abandon plans to overhaul France's pension system."

Striking unions cripple France

 

President Trump has one last chance to keep tax returns, financial records secret: the Supreme Court
Richard Wolf, USA TODAY
Published 5:00 a.m. ET Dec. 5, 2019 | Updated 8:11 a.m. ET Dec. 5, 2019

Donald Trump's taxes, records: Only Supreme Court can protect them now

excerpt:

"While the president is on a losing streak in federal and state courts, his lawyers hope for a more friendly reception at a Supreme Court partially remade in Trump's image. Two of the nine justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, are his nominees.

"This is going to be a real test for both Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh – whether they are willing to follow the rule of law and Supreme Court precedent even if it means ruling against the president who put them on the bench," says Brianne Gorod, chief counsel for the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center.

The court traditionally has shown great deference to Congress' role in overseeing the executive branch. The New York prosecutor's case, meanwhile, may be helped by the court's 1997 decision allowing a private lawsuit against President Bill Clinton to proceed, as well as its 1974 ruling that President Richard Nixon had to turn over damaging White House tapes.

On the other hand, the court's conservative justices may want to intercede on the president's behalf if they see the various probes as a form of harassment – even if they don't buy his lawyers' assertion that he is immune from criminal investigation while in office."

 

Trump tries to draw dignitaries down to his mud level and turn the world stage into a competition reality TV show (Trump's job before becoming President) or a big time wrestling event where the opponents insult each other before the match. Trump is someone who does the insults but never does the physical fight because, in his mind, he might be treated unfairly.

An example was when Trump posted an insult tweet to Macron as his plane was landing for a meeting with world leaders to discuss NATO. Another was when he deliberately arrived late to disrupt the women's session of an economic summit. Still another example was his tweet insult to Sadiq Khan as his plane was landing in UK for a state visit.

Trump is well known for his propensity to take a dump in the punch bowl, an attribute his loyalists embrace as an asset.

 

Yeah... What could go wrong?

 

Meanwhile, Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani is on a trip to Ukraine to try to find a fictitious computer server that Hillary allegedly refused to turnover to the FBI that supposedly has her deleted emails that are said to have evidence of a plot to sabotage Trump's 2016 campaign.

During a nearly one-hour rant, Trump himself said on his beloved Fox & Friends that this is what the word is while the TV show hosts were trying to not laugh.

 

Another example.

Trump arrives at G20 complaining about allies Germany, India and his host, Japan
David Jackson, USA TODAY
Published 9:04 a.m. ET June 27, 2019 | Updated 8:42 p.m. ET June 27, 2019

Donald Trump arrives at G20 after bashing allies - including his host, Japan

 

Trump had a chance to conduct a stately visit overseas and return home with a better posture to face impeachment hearings.

Instead, he embarrassed himself overseas and came home early with his tail between his legs.



Trump’s effort to rise above impeachment fray thrown off course on chaotic NATO trip
David Jackson and John Fritze, USA TODAY
Published 2:00 a.m. ET Dec. 5, 2019 | Updated 7:37 a.m. ET Dec. 5, 2019

Donald Trump's impeachment strategy goes awry at London NATO meeting

excerpt:

"WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and his aides saw this week's NATO meeting as a chance to showcase his leadership on the world stage and rise above the political fray while "crazy" Democrats back in Washington sought to impeach him.

It didn't work out quite that way.

Instead, Trump was mocked by some world leaders in a moment captured on video, fought openly with others, misstated U.S. policy on Iran and canceled a highly anticipated news conference, all obscuring his message on global leadership, amplifying his problems back home and giving political ammunition to his critics."

 

Donald Trump's impeachment strategy goes awry at London NATO meeting

"Trump was elected to stand up to world leaders. He did just that," said Frank Luntz, a longtime GOP consultant. "I just wish it wasn't our NATO allies."

 

How Will The Supreme Court Rule In The Battle Over Trump’s Tax Returns?
By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux
Dec. 3, 2019, at 6:00 AM

How Will The Supreme Court Rule In The Battle Over Trump’s Tax Returns?

excerpts:

"As for why New York state prosecutors are suing for Trump’s tax returns, it’s part of a broader criminal investigation into Trump and his family business’s role in hush-money payments made to keep multiple women from sharing allegations of their affairs with Trump before the 2016 election. Both Trump and his company reimbursed Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, for one $130,000 payment, and New York prosecutors are now exploring whether that reimbursement violated any state laws — including whether the expense was falsely accounted for. It’s not entirely clear how Trump’s tax returns fit in, but they could perhaps help illuminate if a crime like bank fraud was committed. Prosecutors have also emphasized in legal filings that the tax returns aren’t related to Trump’s work as president and therefore should not be subject to presidential immunity."


"What is Trump’s legal argument?

In many of the legal disputes swirling around Trump, he’s leaned on a bold defense: The chief executive is immune to all investigations — whether they’re criminal, civil, or congressional — as long as he’s in the White House.

In the New York case, his personal lawyers have claimed that as president, Trump can’t be touched by any part of the criminal process. Trump’s lawyer even went as far to argue that if the president shot someone while in office, local authorities wouldn’t be able to act. But they’ve also argued that even if that broader argument doesn’t hold, state courts don’t have the constitutional authority to criminally investigate or prosecute the president. That’s not an issue the Supreme Court has ruled on directly before, although that doesn’t mean the justices will embrace Trump’s argument.

In the House case, Trump’s argument is also quite sweeping. His attorneys have contended that Congress doesn’t actually need the records for legislation, making their request invalid."


"And what have lower courts said about it?

Trump and his lawyers are going into their Supreme Court battle with very little support from the lower courts. Two trial court judges and two federal appeals court panels all rejected Trump’s arguments and ruled that his accounting firm needs to turn over the tax returns to New York prosecutors and the House Oversight Committee."

 

Karen McDougal is now suing FOX News for slander. Her lawsuit contains detail of how David Pecker and Michael Cohen negotiated her payment to buy her silence concerning her affair with Trump. That fat boy is in a heap of trouble now!

 

Today Trump threatened to call Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Joe Biden, and Hunter Biden, and more people to come before the Senate in his trial … as if he is in control of the Senate. He must be calling on favors from all the Republican Senators whom he raised money for? I say if they took Trump's money then they cannot take part in the Senate Trial. Additionally, when Trump threatened to call Pelosi, Biden, and Adam Schiff, he provided us living proof of his angry state of mind. The man is vindictive.

 

Post of a blogger:

"Be a man, Trump. Take the stand and explain yourself in front of the country, instead of hiding behind your keyboard on Twitter taking potshots at any and everyone who opposes you."

 

The Donald Trump Score Card