The Donald Trump Score Card

Capitol attack panel’s message to Steve Bannon: we won’t forget about you

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"Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the special committee investigating the deadly 6 January US Capitol attack, said on Sunday the pursuit of a criminal contempt referral against Steve Bannon was “the first shot over the bow” for allies of Donald Trump defying subpoenas to testify.

“It’s very real, but it says to anybody else coming in front of the committee, ‘Don’t think that you’re going to be able to just kind of walk away and we’re going to forget about you’,” Kinzinger, a vocal critic of the former president, told CNN’s State of the Union.

He added that the committee would not rule out calling Trump himself to testify, though he acknowledged that such a move was not imminent.

Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, has declined to appear before the committee, or respond to the subpoena demanding documents and testimony, claiming executive privilege. The committee will decide on Tuesday whether to make a criminal contempt referral to the full House of Representatives."

 

Even after Trump fired him and he was arrested on fraud charges, Trump took Bannon back into his administration (unofficially) to help try to overthrow the 2020 election.

Trump pardoned Bannon in the final hours of his presidency.

It gives an idea of the type of recycled garbage Trump might select for a second term.


Steve Bannon: The Trump-whisperer's rapid fall from grace

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"Until August 2017, Steve Bannon was arguably the second most powerful man in Washington. The president's one-time chief strategist was the puller of strings, the Trump-whisperer, revelling in his role as an agent of chaos.

After the 2016 election, he was among "the best talent in politics" - in Trump's words.

Then he became "Sloppy Steve", a derogatory nickname used by the US president after Bannon was quoted in a book saying several things that appear to have made his former boss unhappy.

One example that made headlines was that the president's son, Donald Trump Jr, had committed a "treasonous" act in talking to Russians.

Bannon's backers cut their ties with him, he left the powerful right-wing media empire Breitbart, and the future of the man behind some of Trump's most headline-grabbing policies was left up in the air.

And then in August 2020, more bad news. Bannon was arrested and charged with fraud over an online fundraising scheme to build a wall on the US-Mexico border."

 

It rallies the people around him and also works to embolden them..... To do something, the what could get scary.

 

Capitol Police Sergeant: Honoring Flag From Jan. 6 Attack Is a 'Total Disgrace'

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"A Capitol Police sergeant has spoken out, saying that it was a “total disgrace” that attendees at a rally for Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate recited the Pledge of Allegiance to a flag purportedly carried during the January 6th insurrection.

Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, who defended the Capitol during the insurrection, spoke to CNN’s Jim Acosta on Saturday, telling the anchor that rioters attacked him with a flag pole and chemicals. “That flag that they’re probably holding right now,” Gonnell said, referring to the flag rally-goers pledged their allegiance to, “That probably was the flag that they hit me with.”"

 

Gonnell and other who defended the Capitol are still coping with what Pence and other GOP members have said was just one little ole day (of normal tourism).


Capitol Police Sergeant: Honoring Flag From Jan. 6 Attack Is a 'Total Disgrace'

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"Gonnell said that he still deals with the lingering effects that day had on him physically and mentally. “When you hear the former vice president saying that [was just] one day in January, well, I’m still living through that one day and still counting,” he said. “My injury has not gone away because that [was] one day in January,” he said. “So all those people that are trying to play it off and diminish the danger that we encountered that day — not only to ourselves but to our democracy and our government — it’s very challenging for us.”

Speaking on Saturday at a tribute to fallen law enforcement officers and those who defended the Capitol, President Joe Biden acknowledged the sacrifices officers made that day, saying, “because of you, democracy survived.”

“Nine months ago, your brothers and sisters thwarted an unconstitutional and fundamentally un-American attack on our nation’s values and our votes. Because of you, democracy survived,” Biden said. “Because of these men and women, we avoided a catastrophe, but their heroism came at a cost to you and your families.”

 

Pence might contemplate saying that Pearl Harbor and 9/11 were just one-day events. Just a routine day of outside visitors touring the U.S.

 

Sooner or later, the PIGS will figure out they killed each other at the riot, and insults are the least of their problems.

 

Pence doesn't appear to have visited Congress when Sicknick's body was being honored.

Pence was on the receiving end of the violence of Trump's rioters and could have easily ended up like Sicknick.


Congress pays tribute to fallen Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick

 

Five Rioters Elect to Represent Themselves. It’s Going as You’d Expect.

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"You have to admire their confidence, if nothing else. At least five of the more than 640 people charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot seem determined to prove themselves fools for clients, having asked and been granted the right to represent themselves in court. One is Pennsylvania restaurant owner Pauline Bauer, a self-proclaimed sovereign citizen who has repeatedly interrupted the judge presiding over her case, telling him she didn’t want “any lawyering from the bench.” That judge, Trevor McFadden, has jailed both Bauer and New York man Brandon Fellows, who may have accidentally perjured himself on the stand. Fellows told the court he had asked his previous attorney if he could get McFadden replaced by contacting the judge’s family—a potential obstruction of justice, the judge then told him. McFadden then added he’d be considering that action in Fellows’ riot case."

 

Five Rioters Elect to Represent Themselves. It’s Going as You’d Expect.

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"A second New Yorker, Eric Bochene, attempted to submit a “fee schedule” after being authorized to represent himself last month, apparently to charge the court for his work on his own case. Included on Bochene’s bill were fees of $250,000 for appearing at hearings “under protest and duress” and $5 million for a “forced giving of bodily fluids.” His schedule filing was denied by a judge, who said the defendant’s argument “lacks merit.” New York civil rights lawyer Ron Kuby said that in 40 years of practicing law he had seen zero defendants win their own acquittal."

 

As Trump Thunders About Last Election, Republicans Worry About the Next One

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"“He doesn’t want other people to win without groveling to him. That’s the threat,” Ms. Comstock added. “It’s not about winning. It’s all about him. And that’s what’s so stupid about Republicans even trying to deal with him, because you never know when he’ll drive the car off the cliff.”

One of the most concerned is Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader.

Mr. McConnell has told colleagues that he is concerned Mr. Trump’s campaign to relitigate the 2020 election could depress confidence among Republican voters and hurt the party’s chances at winning back the majority it lost this year after Democrats captured Georgia’s two Senate seats. Republican leaders warned Mr. Trump at the time that by blaming fraud for his loss, he would convince many of his supporters in Georgia that their votes in the Senate runoff election on Jan. 5 wouldn’t count, deterring them from participating."

 

As Trump Thunders About Last Election, Republicans Worry About the Next One

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"Such radicalization comes at a cost, said David Jolly, a former Republican congressman from Florida who is critical of the former president. At a time when the larger political trends are pointing toward trouble for the Democratic Party in 2022, he said, Mr. Trump’s actions risk interfering with what should be a good environment for Republicans.

“This should be a 100 percent, straight-up referendum on Biden,” Mr. Jolly said. “Instead, you have Trump the narcissist trying to inject himself into what should be a glide path for Republicans to an incredibly successful election, by making it all about him.”"

 

Trump hasn't stated clearly what he believes to be the remedy for his allegations of massive voter fraud.

More forensic audits, even in states he won.
Legislation to selectively restrict voting by Democrats.
Installing Trump loyalists in government positions that oversee elections.
Overturning the elections in swing states Trump lost in 2020.

The first two have occurred. Efforts are underway for the third.

The last one will never happen, yet Trump has demanded recently that AZ overturn the 2020 election or redo its election altogether a year after the election.

 

In Illinois, new reports reveal Trump Republicans’ fundraising strength

ADAM KINZINGER/CHRISTINA LAUF

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"The remap, however it ends up, presents no easy district for GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, leading a crusade against Trumpism, which has bolstered his fundraising ability. To date, he has raised $2,517,283 and has $3,351,167 cash-on-hand after spending $689,766.

Kinzinger is weighing whether to run for another term, and if he does, he will need the cash for an inevitable GOP primary with the strongest challenger so far — super Trump loyalist Christina Lauf. Leveraging anti-Kinzinger sentiment among Trumpers, she raised $809,652 and has a $216,804 balance after spending $592,847.

Lauf’s fundraising results suggest that if Kinzinger runs again, the Republican primary will be an expensive national referendum on Trump and Trumpism."

 

Donald Duck is eating the assholes for lunch, and they deserve to grovel. Especially McConnell, who deserves all the attention Donald Duck can give him.

 

Republican senator casts Trump as election loser destined to lose 2024 nomination

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""I don't know that," Cassidy intoned. "President Trump is the first president, on the Republican side at least, to lose the House, the Senate, and the presidency in four years. Elections are about winning."

The Louisiana Republican ventured further by saying he thinks Trump, who does poll well among Republicans looking ahead to 2024, might lose the GOP nomination contest.

“Well, if you want to win the presidency, and hopefully that's what voters are thinking about, I think he might," he said in the Axios on HBO interview.

Cassidy also said he would not vote for Trump in 2024."

 

So much winning.

 

Trump quote from May 2016.

“We’re going to win. We’re going to win so much. We’re going to win at trade, we’re going to win at the border. We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go ‘Please, please, we can’t win anymore.’ You’ve heard this one. You’ll say ‘Please, Mr. President, we beg you sir, we don’t want to win anymore. It’s too much. It’s not fair to everybody else.’ And I’m going to say ‘I’m sorry, but we’re going to keep winning, winning, winning.'"

 

If Donald Duck can destroy the GOP, its only because they represent the same mindless mob the GOP and Tea Party inspired. Conservatives could not care less about who is running for what office, they'll vote for whoever promises to destroy our government, and only vote for someone else like Obama and Biden, when its obvious their own political candidates are driving the entire economy into the dirt. Fuck em all, Donald Duck can trash them out all he wants, and the sad truth is conservatives will still vote for the next asshole like him, the minute the economy is going well.