The Donald Trump Score Card

The video on page 286 of David Cay Johnston's assessment of Trump is similar.

Johnston described Trump as being quick with his mouth to try to make himself look intelligent in front of people even when he didn't know what he was talking about. Johnston gave an example of purposely stating bogus casino information to Trump who didn't know any better and agreed with the statement to try to look intelligent. It might be called a P.T. Barnum type of skill to impress people rather than an intelligence.

The Donald Trump Score Card

 

Bornstein was Trump's doctor for three decades.

Trump will now likely be saying he hardly knew him and that he probably wouldn't recognize him if he was in a room with him.



Harold Bornstein: Exiled from Trumpland, doctor now ‘frightened and sad’
by Kyle Swenson
May 2 at 6:25 AM

Harold Bornstein: Exiled from Trumpland, doctor now ‘frightened and sad’

excerpt:

"Trump’s New York inner circle often seems stocked with blaring characters tuned to the president’s own unique frequencies. There was Sam Nunberg, a fast-gabbing political operative. Omarosa Manigault Newman, a merciless reality television contestant. Michael Cohen, the tough-guy lawyer. Unbending loyalty knit them all to the man whose name was plastered on the building.

But as Trump’s tenure in the White House grinds on, squeezed by a special prosecutor, low approval ratings and the legal fallout from his alleged relationship with porn star Stormy Daniels, each of those old guard loyalists has slipped away. Nunberg repudiated the president in a bizarre blitz of cable news appearances. Manigault used a stint on “Celebrity Big Brother” to knock the administration. And Cohen, Trump’s attack-dog defender, is now the subject of a criminal investigation and featured in an unflattering light in the National Enquirer.

Bornstein, who served as Trump’s physician for more than three decades, is the latest longtime Trump figure to publicly split from the president. The repudiation did not stop with the doctor’s revelation about the February 2017 visit. On Tuesday, Bornstein told CNN he did not write the 2015 glowing review of the president’s health, a typo-pocked assessment that brought the doctor scrutiny.":

 

Trump said he's 100% sure on Iran and it turns out Nothingyahoo was telling a false tale. IAEA and the European leaders have all said Nothingyahoo was wrong.

 

Cuomo, Santorum spar over Trump's honesty - CNN Video

 

Ty Cobb exits Trump’s legal team
Trump is losing yet another lawyer.
By Andrew Prokopandrew
May 2, 2018, 12:48pm EDT

Ty Cobb exits Trump’s legal team

excerpt:

"But Cobb was perhaps most famous for his repeated erroneous predictions that Mueller’s investigation would soon conclude. “By Thanksgiving,” he said in August. By the end of the year, he said in November. “Shortly after the first of the year,” he said in December. “In 4-6 weeks,” he said this January.

He was wrong every time. No end to the investigation is currently within sight."

 

Reminds me of Bob in What About Bob? -- I NEED--I NEED- I NEED! He must have had a pretty loveless life as a child.

 

My latest score for Donny??

- (Negative) 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999e+99999999999999999999999999999999999999999

 

Mark it zero, Smokey!

 

Now there is a major fight brewing with the DOJ. Rosenstein is refusing to give documents to Congress. My guess is Republicans in Congress are trying to obstruct.

 

I would take that + out, someone might think you are mitigating the negative numbers.

 

Rudy Giuliani says Trump reimbursed Cohen for Stormy Daniels payment - CNNPolitics

 

You're not alone:

History experts in New York Times op-ed: Trump worst president ever, Obama in top 10

 

Doctors 2, Trump 0

Dr. Harold (Fraggle Rock) Bornstein


In December 2015, Bornstein said that Mr. Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” only it turns out Trump dictated the letter himself.




Dr. Ronny (The Candy Man) Jackson

Trump’s nominee to head the VA is reported to drink too much and hands out medication like candy i.e. the name Candy Man

 

The Freedom Caucus is using a ploy to try to claim that the DOJ is obstructing justice (one of the possible criminal acts for which Trump is probably being investigated). Trump has fabricated counter-scandals in the past to try to deflect attention from his scandals. An example is his hiding behind the fake name 'John Barron' to spread slime about his wife he was divorcing in the 1980's.

In a similar vein, in an interview with Sean Hannity on May 2, 2018, Giuliani called Comey a liar but implied that Trump is Mr. Honesty. This is the same interview that Giuliani admitted that Trump has been lying about the situation with Cohen and Stormy by saying that Trump indeed had reimbursed Cohen for the payment to Stormy that Trump had previously claimed he didn't know about.

 

It's a tangled web that is still being untangled. The way it appears at this point:

Cohen has said previously that Trump didn't reimburse him for the payment to Stormy, directly or indirectly.

Trump said in April 2018 on Air Force One that he knew nothing about the payment to Stormy.

Giulini is now saying that Trump reimbursed Cohen for the payment.

Giuliani claims that Trump probably didn't know (or forgot?) about Cohen's payment to Stormy, yet he says Trump reimbursed Cohen for a payment he supposedly didn't know about.

???

 

And if the above isn't confusing or deceptive enough:

Why would Trump even reimburse Cohen for an agreement that he (Trump) didn't sign?

Not to mention Cohen, to facilitate the transaction, setting up an LLC in Delaware which has shady business laws which permit shady transactions.

The way this situation looks, Trump uses underhanded mafia style tactics.

If he used these tactics on Stormy, in what other situations has he acted similarly?

 

If Cohen's payment turns out to be an illegal campaign contribution, Trump could potentially be implicated in a conspiracy to cover it up.

 

Trump has shown throughout his life that he likes to play on the edge of the law, finances, and relationships with women, a precarious history for someone who is now President. Some of it appears to be coming back to haunt him.


Yes. Violating Certain Campaign Finance Laws Is a Criminal Offense
If the documents that Donald Jr. was emailing about are deemed valuable, soliciting them is a criminal offense. A legal expert weighs in.
By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
July 13, 2017

Yes. Violating Certain Campaign Finance Laws Are Criminal Offenses

excerpt:

"While most of campaign finance laws are enforced administratively (when they are bothered to be enforced) by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) with civil fines, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has concurrent criminal jurisdiction over willful violations of the campaign finance laws, including the longstanding prohibitions on federal candidates receiving contributions from foreigners.

This is the part of the law (52 USC § 30121), which appears to have been violated by the Trump campaign when they solicited foreign campaign contributions from members of Parliament in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world in the summer of 2016. If special counsel Robert Mueller is looking at potential crimes by the Trump campaign, then that is some low hanging fruit as MPs literally complained about it in real time.

But this law could have also been violated in the Donald Trump Jr./Natalia Veselnitskaya meeting. As President Obama’s former White House counsel Robert Bauer explains at the Just Security blog: The criminal prohibition on foreign contributions to federal candidates includes the solicitation of such contributions. And the law is not limited to asking for classic contributions like cash money. He notes that the law covers “things of value” as well. Should Mr. Trump (the younger), or Kushner, or Manafort or even Veselnitskaya be charged with violating this part of the law, they will likely argue that the offer of damaging information about Secretary Clinton wasn’t “a thing of value.” But that’s not the same thing as saying 52 USC § 30121 is not a criminal statute."