The Donald Trump Score Card

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    Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has paid his first voter fraud bounty. It went to an unexpected recipient

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    "AUSTIN — Nearly a year after offering up a hefty bounty for evidence of voter fraud in the wake of Donald Trump’s loss, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has handed out his first reward.

    But instead of going to an informant who smoked out fraud by Democrats, Patrick’s five-figure payout went to a progressive poll worker in Pennsylvania whose tip led to a single conviction of illegal voting by a registered Republican.

    The unexpected outcome reveals the political dangers of cash bounties. With few strings attached, and more cases of alleged GOP voting fraud still in Pennsylvania courts, Patrick may be asked to shell out even more cash to his opponents.

    This case also undercuts unsubstantiated GOP concerns that widespread voter fraud helped hand the White House to Joe Biden, political experts said. In Pennsylvania, a state that was central in Trump’s attempts to overthrow the election, around five cases of voter fraud from last year’s election have been prosecuted, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer — four involved Republicans."
     
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    Billionaires who killed the GOP are now turning it into an anti-American insurgency -- along the lines of the Confederacy

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    "It's exactly the philosophy that today animates the new voting laws put into place over the past six months in Florida, Georgia, Texas and multiple other states.

    Racists and big money seized the GOP, and the GOP then drained 40 years of wealth from the Middle Class.

    The merger of racism and big money reached its first peak in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan, who openly ran on "states' rights" and the argument that government was the cause, not the solution, to the nation's problems. Just leave everything to the morbidly rich and their magical "free market" and America, Saint Ronnie promised us, would become a paradise. At least for white people.

    But it didn't work out that way for white people or anybody else; instead, the top 1 percent of Americans succeeded in grabbing well over $10 trillion from the middle class over the next forty years and have now largely ringfenced their wealth with bought-off Republicans declaring they'll never, ever vote to raise taxes on the morbidly rich.

    And the billionaires and racists who seized the GOP are now turning it into something not seen in a major American political party since the Civil War. It's become an anti-American insurgency, along the lines of the Confederacy.

    Many of the same wealthy individuals and corporations that brought Reagan to power continue to pour billions into the GOP, an effort that in 2016 brought authoritarian Donald Trump to the White House and threatens to do so again in 3 years."
     
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    DOJ recommends 2 months jail time for MAGA rioter who brought his 10-year-old son to the Capitol

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    "In March of this year, Boyd Camper was charged with four federal crimes in relation to his participation in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. This Tuesday, the Department of Justice recommended that he spend two months in jail, NBC4's Scott MacFarlane reports.

    According to MacFarlane, the FBI says Camper initially claimed that "several busloads of Antifa members, escorted by State Police, were brought to the Capitol to wreak havoc." But in an earlier TV interview, he declared, "We're going to take this damn place. If you haven't heard it's called the insurrection act and we the people are ready."

    "Camper confirmed his presence inside the Capitol Building during a video interview with CBS News that was subsequently posted online," court papers read. "In the video, the interviewer introduced a person on the grounds outside the Capitol building as Boyd Camper from Montana. Wearing a blue jacket and camouflage hat, Camper acknowledged that he was inside of the Capitol."

    Although Camper brought his 10-year-old son with him to the Capitol, he left the child outside with a friend when he illegally entered the building on January 6th."
     
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    Trump won Utah in 2020 by over 20%.


    Utah lawmaker fans flames, calls for audit of 2020 election. Will it catch fire or go up in smoke? | Usa today news

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    "A crowd of about 200 people rallied on Utah’s Capitol Hill and packed an overflowing committee hearing on Wednesday to support a Republican lawmaker who’s calling for an Arizona-style election audit in the state.

    Even though President Donald Trump handily won Utah in 2020, that doesn’t deter Rep. Steve Christiansen, R-West Jordan, who told the cheering crowd he’s seeking a widespread, “forensic” audit in Utah because the issue of “election integrity” goes “much, much deeper than Donald J. Trump.”"
     
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    Methinks Patrick will be rewording his bounty requirements like *unless it's somebody on our team...
     
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    Half the damned GOP still claims the sun revolves around the earth, and their population is imploding faster than any other on the damned planet, but this guy claims they aren't a fucking self-destructive lynch mob, but an insurgency. Billionaires did not create the lynch mob, they merely exploited it for all its worth, starting with the introduction of televangelism. Donald Duck has a huge evangelical following, and would never have been elected without their insane belief that he's been sent to prepare the way for Jesus.

    Go ahead, claim televangelism is an insurgency.
     
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    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/21/tru...n-40percent-on-news-of-social-media-deal.html

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    "Trading in the stock of SPAC company Digital World Acquisition Corp. was briefly halted Thursday after its price skyrocketed on extremely heavy trading volume after news of a merger that would launch former President Donald Trump’s planned social media platform.

    Digital World Acquisition was the single most actively traded stock on the Fidelity platform Thursday, and was by far the most traded stock on the consolidated tape of New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq listings.

    Buy orders for DWAC — a so-called special purpose acquisition company set up to raise capital in the public markets to purchase private firms — outnumbered sell orders by nearly three-to-one on Fidelity’s platform.

    Just two hours into the trading session, more than 210 million shares of DWAC had already changed hands, according to FactSet."
     
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    Yes, boys and girls, this is how the bad people make and hide money.
     
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    300 million he should be setting aside for legal purposes.
     
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    Trump is going public by taking advantage of Wall Street's blank-check boom - CNN

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    "For Trump, going public via a SPAC will allow him to raise money to scale up TRUTH Social without the scrutiny of a traditional IPO.

    Trump said the social network plans to begin a beta launch for invited guest in November and roll out nationally during the first quarter of next year. And the firm plans to launch a subscription video on demand service, TMTG+, that will feature "non-woke" entertainment programming and podcasts.

    Trump Media & Technology said its growth plans will initially be funded by $293 million in cash sitting on the shell company's balance sheet.

    The companies said that deal can "fuel TMTG's scale up, including to provide world class leading technology services to build strong and secure social networks and diverse media offerings."

    "Given the total addressable market and President Trump's large following, we believe the TMTG opportunity has the potential to create significant shareholder value," Orlando, the CEO of the blank-check firm, said in a statement."
     
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    Trump is going public by taking advantage of Wall Street's blank-check boom - CNN

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    "In theory, Trump could have gone the more traditional route of raising money for his new firm through a venture capital firm. However, Ritter, the University of Florida professor, said that option may have been closed to Trump.

    "It might have been difficult to find someone that wanted to taint themselves with the Trump brand name," Ritter said.

    Ritter urged investors to tread lightly with the Trump SPAC given the former president's background.

    "There is a good chance this could be a very successful social platform. But this is also a guy with a history of being very legalistic," Ritter said, citing the "huge number of lawsuits" Trump has been involved with.

    Trump and the Trump Organization also remain under various investigations. Trump filed a lawsuit this week against the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection and the National Archives in a bid to keep records from his presidency secret by claiming executive privilege."
     
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    Most of Trump's companies have been private, but he did hold at least one public company which makes it easier to assess its performance.


    Trump is going public by taking advantage of Wall Street's blank-check boom - CNN

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    "This is not Trump's first foray with Wall Street.

    In his only previous IPO, Trump raised $140 million in 1995 from public investors for Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts.

    But the casino company posted losses every year it was public — losing more than $600 million between 1995 and 2004, a previous CNN analysis of filings showed.

    Despite the losses, the company paid Trump handsomely each year through salary, bonuses, options and complex consulting and licensing deals.

    A decade after going public, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts filed for bankruptcy."
     
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    Trump is no longer president.

    He wasn't the people's favorite president.

    Various objective polls show that he had one of the worst approval ratings domestically and internationally in history for U.S. presidents.

    Countries run by strongmen were the few who had a favorable view of him.
     
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    Before Trump was elected, his supporters would mistakenly make remarks that he was a CEO and that would run the country great because of being a CEO, when in fact his businesses were private.

    In the one example where he did have a public company, it failed terribly.
     
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    It failed terribly for the public investors who lost their money. Trump lined his pockets with it.
     
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