The Donald Trump Score Card

Conservatives are such huge fans of rule of law, I'm sure they'll find an exception.

 

Voting Laws Roundup: October 2021

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"Between January 1 and September 27, at least 19 states enacted 33 laws that make it harder for Americans to vote.

At the same time, lawmakers in many states responded to Americans’ eagerness to vote by making it easier for eligible voters to cast their ballots. Between January 1 and September 27, at least 25 states enacted 62 laws with provisions that expand voting access.

But this expansive legislation does not balance the scales. The states that have enacted restrictive laws tend to be ones in which voting is already relatively difficult, while the states that have enacted expansive laws tend to have relatively more accessible voting processes. In other words, access to the right to vote increasingly depends on the state in which a voter happens to reside."

 

Voting Laws Roundup: October 2021

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"Four states have passed multiple restrictive voting laws. Arkansas and Montana passed four such laws each, while Arizona and Texas passed three each).

Most recently, Texas enacted S.B. 1, omnibus legislation that disproportionately burdens Latino, Black, and Asian voters and makes it harder for those who face language access barriers or who have disabilities to get help casting their ballots. The law also constrains election workers’ ability to stop harassment by poll watchers and bans 24-hour and drive-thru voting, among other measures. In a state where it was already hard to vote, S.B. 1 compounds the barriers faced by Texas voters. The Brennan Center is challenging S.B. 1 in federal court."

 

Voting Laws Roundup: October 2021

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"Between January 1 and September 27, 2021, at least 25 states enacted 62 laws with provisions that expand voting access. These expansive policies ease the processes for requesting and casting a mail ballot, expand early voting time periods, lengthen the deadline by which an elections office must receive and count mail ballots after Election Day, improve access for disabled voters, and strengthen language access provisions, among other measures. Nearly 1,000 bills with expansive provisions have been introduced in 49 states in the 2021 legislative sessions.

Access to the right to vote increasingly depends on the state in which a voter happens to reside. More than two-thirds of the states (17 of 25) that enacted expansive laws did not enact restrictive legislation as well. The 25 states that have enacted legislation with expansive provisions include the four states with mixed legislation (IN, KY, LA, and OK) and four states that enacted both restrictive and expansive laws (MT, NH, NY, and NV)."

 

Voting Laws Roundup: October 2021

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"Eight states extended or made permanent policies first implemented temporarily in 2020 in response to Covid-19, such as sending mail ballots to all voters, implementing curbside voting, and allowing no-excuse early voting.

Three states (CT, NY, and WA) expanded voting rights to people with past convictions, building on national momentum to undo felony disenfranchisement laws.

And six states enacted automatic voter registration (AVR) laws. Connecticut and Delaware adopted AVR legislatively, while Illinois, Maine, Nevada, and New York expanded existing AVR programs."

 

Trump should be criticizing any police officer who obstructed justice and aided his rioters during the Capitol insurrection.

Instead, Trump and his supporters have talked like any police engaging in negligent or corrupt behavior did a good deed. They have used it as an excuse to justify the actions of the rioters.

The only police officer Trump appears to have specifically criticized publicly related to his riot is the one who shot Ashli Babbitt while trying to protect members of Congress whose lives were endangered by Trump and his rioters.

Trump had the opportunity to attend the public viewing of Officer SIcknick at the Capitol who died just after the riot, but he didn't.

Trump has a propensity for siding with the corrupt party.


Brian Sicknick, Capitol Police Officer Slain By Mob, Lies In Honor In Rotunda

 

Statement by Trump which essentially praises any police who may have been derelict in their duty and let his rioters into the Capitol or fraternized with them as they were breaking the law.

Trump:

"It was zero threat, right from the start, it was zero threat. Look, they went in, they shouldn't have done it. Some of them went in, and they are hugging and kissing the police and the guards, you know, they had great relationships, A lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in and they walked out."

 

The PIGS killed each other, and now the Judges are confronting the same damned idiots that got them their positions. Fuck em all, if money is all that matters, then I will teach everyone how to exploit them for every penny they have. Conservatives no longer represent anything more than the KKK and televangelism, and are on the highway to Hell.

 

Too much hugging and kissing...

 

Vocal Trump critic, Kinzinger, may lose his seat due to redistricting.


Pro-impeachment lawmaker Adam Kinzinger admits he may have to quit over redistricting

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"Republican Rep Adam Kinzinger – one of Donald Trump’s most vocal critics in the GOP – says he will review “all of the options” after Illinois’ legislature released a map of new congressional districts that could put him at a disadvantage in getting re-elected.

Mr Kinzinger, who has served six terms in the House, made the remarks after Illinois released a proposed map with 14 Democratic seats and three Republican seats, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

“Following the release of the new congressional maps for Illinois, my team and I will spend some time looking them over and reviewing all of the options, including those outside the House,” Mr Kinzinger said in a statement. He also criticised the process, which would put him in the same district as Democratic Rep Marie Newman, The Chicago Tribune reported.

“This redistricting process has been anything but transparent, which comes as no surprise to anyone. I believe the people of Illinois deserve better,” he said.

Every decade, state legislatures redraw congressional district maps after a census. Both of Illinois’ state legislatures have Democratic majorities and Gov JB Pritzker is also a Democrat."

 

Trump makes another statement demanding that AZ redo the election or declare him the winner of the 2020 election.


Trump Drops Bonkers Statement on Arizona Demanding ‘Either a New Election’ or For Him to Be ‘Declared the Winner’
By Josh Feldman
Oct 15th, 2021, 4:40 pm

Trump Drops Bonkers Statement on Arizona Demanding ‘Either a New Election’ or For Him to Be ‘Declared the Winner’

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"Trump concluded his statement by declaring, “Either a new Election should immediately take place or the past Election should be decertified and the Republican candidate declared the winner.”

Earlier this week Trump threatened that if Republicans don’t take his baseless claims of election fraud seriously, their voters won’t turn out in 2022 or 2024."

 

Even nearly a year ago after the 2020 election, that statement would have been crackpot.

Nearly a year after the election, it's pathological to the extreme.

 

sedition?

 

Article from January 2021.


Proposed law would allow Arizona Legislature to overturn presidential election results
Not clear if or how election law proposed by Arizona Rep. Shawnna Bolick would work in practice
By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services
Jan 30, 2021
Updated Feb 13, 2021

Proposed law would allow Arizona Legislature to overturn presidential election results

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"PHOENIX — A Republican lawmaker wants to allow the Arizona Legislature to overturn the results of a presidential election, even after the count is formally certified by the governor and secretary of state — and even after Congress counts the state’s electors.

The proposal by Rep. Shawnna Bolick of Phoenix contains a series of provisions designed to make it easier for those unhappy with elections to go to court.

Included would be allowing challengers to demand a jury trial and, more to the point, barring a trial judge or an appellate court from throwing out the case, even for lack of evidence, before the jurors get to rule.

That would affect the rules of court procedures that are set up and overseen by the Arizona Supreme Court, on which her husband, Clint Bolick, serves.

But the most sweeping provision would say that, regardless of any other law, the Legislature retains ultimate authority in deciding who the state’s presidential electors are.

And it would spell out that lawmakers, by a simple majority, could revoke the formal certification of the election results and substitute their own decision at any time right up to the day a new president is inaugurated."

 

As expected, Trump is upset that the DOJ restored McCabe's pension.


Trump criticizes Justice for restoring McCabe's benefits

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"Former President Trump criticized the Justice Department on Friday for restoring former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s retirement benefits.

McCabe was fired by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions just a day before he was set to retire due to allegations he lied about leaking Hillary Clinton’s use of her private email server while she was secretary of State.

“Isn’t it terrible that all of Andrew McCabe’s benefits, pensions, salary, etc., were just fully reinstated by the Justice Department? This is yet another mockery to our Country. Among other things, McCabe’s wife received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Hillary Clinton and the Democrats while Crooked Hillary was under investigation, which was quickly dropped, of course,” Trump said in a statement.

“What a bad chapter this has been for the once storied FBI—I hate to see it happening, so many GREAT people work there,” he added."

 

McCabe received a favorable decision by the DOJ.

His pension was fully restored.

He received his missed pension payments of about $200,000 while the case was being litigated.

His firing was taken off the records.

He received his commendations for his service to the FBI.

The government will pay his law firm $500,000 for the legal costs.

 

The government should send that bill to Trump... Payable immediately, $500,000.00

 

Trump had Jeff Sessions fire McCabe in March 2018 on the weekend of his birthday and about a day before he was to retire.

Trump fired Sessions later in 2018.

Whitaker served as acting AG temporarily.

Trump installed Barr as AG.

Deputy AG Rosenstein resigned (and with a bizarre resignation letter praising Trump).

Trump nominated Rosen as Deputy AG.

Barr resigned shortly before Trump's insurrection at the Capitol and his deputy, Rosen, assumed the AG post.

Trump tried to oust Rosen (whom he had nominated), bypass his deputy, Donoghue, and install a truther enthusiast, Clark, to help overthrow the 2020 election.

 

Trumper pleads guilty to threatening Stephanopoulos family.


‘Armed and Ready’: Trumper Pleads Guilty to Threatening George Stephanopoulos’ Family

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"A California Trump supporter pleaded guilty to sending threatening text messages to a family member of ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced Friday. Robert Lemke was charged in January for sending the ominous texts to both Stephanopoulos’ family member and the brother of U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to attack them for stating Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Some of Lemke’s texts were sent on Jan. 6, the same day Trump supporters rioted at the U.S. Capitol. “We are nearby, armed and ready. Thousands of us are active/retired law enforcement, military, etc. That’s how we do it,” he wrote.

“Rather than attempting to effect change through legal discourse or any of the other freedoms of expression that all Americans enjoy, he instead sent threatening messages to the family member of a journalist,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. “Inevitably, elections result in frustrations for some—that is part of the political process—but trying to instill fear in others by threat will not be tolerated by law enforcement.”"