The Donald Trump Score Card

Paxton should go to the Supreme Court and simply say, "I feel disenfranchised that Trump lost. Now gimme all those states Trump lost."

 

Matt Maisel
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Nov 21, 2020
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Act 77 passed with majority Republican support in a GOP-controlled legislature in 2019. It allowed for mail-in voting and eliminated straight party ticket ballots. It passed the House 138-61, with only one GOP "No" vote. It passed the Senate 30-20 with all GOP voting "Yes".

 

Trump can't settle privately in court to hide his loss this time like he has done many times in the past



'It Is Roiling Him': Reporter Maggie Haberman Unpacks Trump's Refusal To Admit He Lost

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"[Trump] can't handle the concept of the label 'loser,' " Haberman says. "He has never before encountered a problem that he couldn't sue away through the court system or spin away. ... This is just an objective fact that he can't do anything about. It is roiling him."

Haberman has covered Trump for The New York Times for more than four years. Before then, she wrote about him for the New York Post, New York Daily News and Politico. She describes the president as a "self-destructive" individual who tends to crave most what he does not — or cannot — have."

 

And he has to pay back over 400 million in loans, plus the loans from Deutsche Bank which have a mystery co-signor, and do that while sitting in a prison cell. Maybe they will let him have Michael Cohen's old cell?

 

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Aww... Poor DiaperDonny the loser.

 

With Texas AG facing federal probe, lawsuit to help Trump comes amid whispers of pardons

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"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took the lead in the long-shot legal bid to overturn Trump's 2020 election defeat just two weeks after reports surfaced that he is the subject of an FBI investigation into allegations he abused his office to benefit a wealthy donor -- a thorny problem Trump could eliminate with a presidential pardon."

 

Corrupt to the bone!

 

With Texas AG facing federal probe, lawsuit to help Trump comes amid whispers of pardons

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"This was an act of some bizarre-world desperation. I don't know what drove it," Marc Elias, the lead attorney for the Democrats fending off a barrage of election lawsuits from Trump and his allies, said in an appearance on CNN.

"I don't know if it's politics, or I read that it may be because Paxton is fishing for a pardon," Elias said. "I don't know what's behind it, but this is honestly a bizarre lawsuit."

"The idea that Texas could sue four other states because Texas didn't like their elections? Well, guess what, Texas? There are a whole bunch of states who don't like the way you disenfranchise voters in Texas," Elias added, in apparent reference the state’s controversial efforts to limit alternatives for voters during the coronavirus pandemic.

 

The Republicans are all worked up about Hunter Biden and Eric Swalwell but totally silent on Paxton?

 

Federal judge casts doubt on Trump's Wisconsin lawsuit

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"MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge Thursday cast doubt on President Donald Trump’s lawsuit that seeks to overturn Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin, declaring it “incredible” that Trump didn’t raise the issues before the election and that siding with him would be “the most remarkable ruling in the history of this court or the federal judiciary.”

Trump is pursuing extraordinary attempts to overturn Biden’s win with a pair of lawsuits in Wisconsin, in federal and state courts. In the state case, Trump wants to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots and in the federal case he wants to give the GOP-controlled Legislature the power to name Trump the winner.

U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig, a Trump appointee, marveled at the president’s request at Thursday’s hearing. Ludwig said he hoped to rule in the next couple of days."

 

$100,000 diamond given to Hunter Biden by Chinese tycoon reportedly part of tax probe

 

'Seditious abuse of judicial process': States fire back at Texas' Supreme Court election challenge
Rebecca Shabad and Dareh Gregorian and Geoff Bennett and Josh Lederman and Haley Talbot and Deepa Shivaram and Pete Williams
Thu, December 10, 2020, 4:53 PM EST

'Seditious abuse of judicial process': States fire back at Texas' Supreme Court election challenge

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"But it is hard to imagine what could possibly undermine faith in democracy more than this court permitting one state to enlist the court in its attempt to overturn the election results in other states," said the state's Democratic attorney general, Josh Kaul.

The response from Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, a Republican, called Texas' action an "attack on Georgia’s sovereignty" that should be dismissed outright.

A coalition of 23 Democratic states and territories also submitted a brief opposing Texas' bid, as did the Republican attorney general of Ohio, Dave Yost, who argued that what Texas was seeking "would undermine a foundational premise of our federalist system: the idea that the States are sovereigns, free to govern themselves."

 

So...

 

America is going to have some troubles. 1/3 of the country claims to be Irish anyway so I guess they will get the authentic experience.

 

Ivanka Trump says she was deposed for 5 hours in inaugural spend probe. Here’s what she failed to mention
Dan Mangan, Christina Wilkie, and Kevin Breuninger
Published Thu, Dec 3 202012:58 PM ESTUpdated Fri, Dec 4 20205:25 PM EST

Ivanka Trump says she was deposed for 5 hours in inaugural spend probe. Here's what she failed to mention

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"Ivanka Trump’s tweet condemning the suit as “politically motivated” included an email that indicates she told managers of her father’s hotel in Washington to charge “fair market rate” for its services during the inauguration after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election.

But what the senior White House advisor did not mention is that she only said that after being warned by a top inaugural committee official of the “quite high” minimum rate of $3.6 million for food and beverage and use of the banquet halls during inauguration week that the committee was being quoted by the Trump International Hotel.

Nor did Ivanka Trump mention that the mere fact of having an incoming president having his inaugural committee buy goods and services from a hotel he owned was unprecedented in U.S. history, much less when that hotel wanted to charge that committee, a nonprofit entity funded by private donors, millions of dollars for those services.

Ivanka Trump’s effort to spin news of the deposition comes as President Donald Trump’s company faces a criminal probe by the Manhattan district attorney’s office that relates to his income taxes, as that company is under investigation by the New York state attorney general for possible misstatement of asset values and as her father is being sued by a writer for defaming her after the writer said he raped her in the 1990s."

 

Relax, A Trump Comeback In 2024 Is Not Going To Happen
By John F. Harris
Thu, December 10, 2020, 4:30 AM EST

Relax, A Trump Comeback In 2024 Is Not Going To Happen

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"There are three primary reasons to be deeply skeptical that Trump’s moment of dominating his party and public consciousness will continue long after Jan. 20.

Most important are the abundant precedents suggesting Trump does not have another important act in national politics. The perception that Trump will remain relevant hinges on the possibility that he is a unique historical figure. Trump, however, is singular in one sense only: No politician of his stripe has ever achieved the presidency. In multiple other ways, he is a familiar American type, anticipated by such diverse figures as Joseph McCarthy, George Wallace, and Ross Perot.

Like Trump, they all possessed flamboyant, self-dramatizing personas. They tapped into genuine popular grievance toward elites, and had ascendant moments in which they caused the system to quake and intimidated conventional politicians of both parties. In every case, their movements decayed rapidly. Cults of personality in American politics are quite common. But they never live long, and Trump has offered no reason to suppose he will be an exception."

 

Relax, A Trump Comeback In 2024 Is Not Going To Happen

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"That’s the second reason Trump is not well-positioned to retain his hold on public attention: He has largely abandoned any pretense that he thinks about anything other than his personal resentments, or that he is trying to harness his movement to big ideas that will improve the lives of citizens. When he vaulted into presidential politics five years ago, Trump’s still-potent gifts — for channeling anger, for mockery, for conspiracy theory — were once channeled to an agenda that fellow Republicans were largely neglecting, over trade, immigration, globalization, and perceptions of national decline. These days, no one can follow Trump’s Twitter feed and believe that he cares more about the public’s problems than his own, and that is not a recipe for sustaining political power.

Here is the third reason to be bearish on Trump’s future: Politics never stands still, but Trump largely does. As he leaves the White House, Trump should be haunted by a stark reality — if he had any capacity for self-calibration, he wouldn’t be leaving the White House at all. He’s got one set of political tools. When things are going well, his instinct is to double down on those. When things are going poorly, his instinct is to double down on those. In political terms, the pandemic demanded modulation of Trump’s blame-casting brand of politics — but also would have lavishly rewarded him if he had done so."

 

Delusional Trump Tells Hanukkah Party Guests 'We're Gonna Win' Election He Just Lost
Lee Moran·Reporter, HuffPost
Thu, December 10, 2020, 3:37 AM EST

Delusional Trump Tells Hanukkah Party Guests 'We're Gonna Win' Election He Just Lost

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"President Donald Trump falsely declared during a White House Hanukkah party on Wednesday that “we’re gonna win this election in a landslide” if “certain very important people” have wisdom and courage.

Trump’s bogus claim prompted guests to chant “four more years.” To be clear, Trump lost the election and Joe Biden is now the president-elect."

 

Looks like there are 3 involved, SO FAR...
Joe Biden's brother James is also caught up in federal probe: report

 

This is why Democratic AGs should sue Texas, and Paxton, in particular, for conduct unbecoming of a state attorney general.