The Donald Trump Score Card

Another business venture where he can fuck all the workers and investors, the suckers...again.

 

Steve Bannon not cooperating suggests Trump may have been 'personally involved in the planning and execution' of the January 6 insurrection, Liz Cheney says

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"Based on the committee's investigation, it appears that Mr. Bannon had substantial advanced knowledge of the plans for January 6 and likely had an important role in formulating those plans," Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, said at the meeting.

A day before the unrest, Bannon told viewers of his online show that "all hell is going to break loose," as detailed in a report released this month by the committee. "It's not going to happen like you think it's going to happen," he said, adding that "it's going to be quite extraordinarily different. All I can say is, strap in."

 

Even when a GOP governor is half-sane, a Trumper Lt. Gov. can go rogue.


Idaho lieutenant governor bans vaccine mandates, tries to deploy National Guard during governor's 2-day trip

 

The House has voted to hold Bannon in contempt.


House votes to hold Trump ally Steve Bannon in contempt

 

Nine House Republicans who voted to hold Bannon in contempt (out of 211 Republicans who voted).


Here are the 9 Republicans who broke ranks and voted to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress

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Here are the Republicans who broke party lines:

• Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney
• Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger
• Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer
• Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez
• Michigan Rep. Fred Upton
• New York Rep. John Katko
• South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace
• Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick
• Washington Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler
  
  
  
  

 

And just exactly are they going to do to Bannon while in contempt? Mansion arrest?

 

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton says ‘overthrow’ put Joe Biden in White House instead of Trump
By Todd J. Gillman
Oct 21, 2021 7:02 PM CDT

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton says ‘overthrow’ put Joe Biden in White House instead of Trump

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"WASHINGTON – Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general who as chair of “Lawyers for Trump” tried to overturn Joe Biden’s election in court, said Thursday that he not only still believes Trump won but that Biden’s presidency amounts to an “overthrow.”

He made the comment in El Paso, during a visit to announce a lawsuit to force Biden to resume construction of the border wall Trump started.

A woman in the crowd asked Paxton how many Republican governors “are willing to stand up and proclaim that Trump did win the 2020 election? We have evidence.”

“We’re sick of the overthrow,” she said. “This has been an overthrow, and we expect actually all of you to stand up and proclaim this. With 50 Republican senators, well at least maybe 40 of them, it’s time to do that, take the bull by the horn. We won, we know that. This is an overthrow.”"

 

Trump's latest rhetoric is that his deadly insurrection at the Capitol was a justified protest against what he perceives as an insurrection by the Democrats that overthrew an election that he thinks he won.

 

Opinion | Trump’s New Media Outlet Will Go the Way of His Steaks and Mattresses
The former president promises to take on the biggest competitors in the business. But he has no clue how to run a media company, and it’s not clear he can attract an audience.
Opinion by JACK SHAFER
10/21/2021 06:30 PM EDT

Opinion | Trump’s New Media Outlet Will Go the Way of His Steaks and Mattresses

 

Garland man is latest to be arrested for Capitol riot after feds say he fought with officers

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"A commercial artist from Garland is the latest local resident to be arrested in connection with the Capitol riot in January, after authorities say he threw punches at and tackled one of the officers trying to defend the building.

Robert Wayne Dennis, 61, a graphic and comic book artist, was caught on police body cameras fighting with police officers trying to control the violent mob near the stairs to the Upper West Terrace, according to federal court records.

He is scheduled to have his first court appearance on Friday.

An attorney has not yet been listed for him. Dennis did not immediately return a message left at his company’s phone number.

He is one of about 20 North Texans who have been charged in connection with the violent mob siege of the Capitol on Jan. 6 that resulted in five deaths and left injured dozens of police officers. Nationwide, more than 600 people have been charged for their part in the assault, which prosecutors have said will end up becoming the largest federal criminal case in U.S. history."

 

Leave it to Trump (and Bannon) to precipitate the largest federal criminal case in U.S. history, obstruct an investigation of it by Congress, and re-badge it as a justified protest against a perceived election insurrection that stole the election from Trump.

 

Article about HIV/AIDS that mentions how Fauci became established in DC.

During his administration, Trump threatened to fire him, which he couldn't easily do because Fauci is a civil servant, not an appointee


At gathering of HIV/AIDS pioneers, raw memories mix with current conflicts

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"Anthony Fauci, an immunologist at NIH, also helped change the course of the epidemic. A clinician who struggled to keep his research afloat in the early years because caring for dying AIDS patients sapped so much of his time, Fauci explained that in 1984, he took an offer to head the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda in part out of frustration. "I was not particularly enamored of administration, but I felt that infectious disease and certainly HIV/AIDS was not going in the right direction and did not have the support I thought it should have," Fauci said. "That opened my life to things I never would have been prepared for as a clinician, as a scientist." Under Fauci's leadership, NIAID became the single largest funder of HIV/AIDS research in the world. His own lab's research also has helped clarify fundamental relationships between the virus and the immune system."

 

Fauci in the 1980's.

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The article mentions during the 1980 's that one person in the world was dying of HIV/AIDS every half-hour.

In the U.S. during the current delta variant surge, about 1400 per day are dying of COVID in the U.S. That's about one per minute.

 

Cawthorn went further than Trump.


Fauci blasts North Carolina congressman calling for criminal 'consequences': 'Where does he come off?'

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"Dr. Anthony Fauci fired back Friday on Fox News at a freshman congressman's call for a potential criminal investigation against him if the GOP retakes the House of Representatives in 2024.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., on Tuesday called Fauci a "punk" and accused him of using his newfound prominence to further his career.

"I normally have a great amount of respect for the people who work here on Capitol Hill, knowing that although we have different ideas on how to accomplish it, we are all trying to work for the betterment of the American people … right now that is not the case with Anthony Fauci," Cawthorn alleged, ripping the National Institutes of Allergy & Infectious Disease director for combative testimony before Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

Cawthorn went on to accuse Fauci of being a "pawn" of the Chinese Communist Party and promised that if Republicans regain the Speaker's gavel, he will "make sure consequences are doled out."

"We want to prosecute this guy to the full ability of the law," he said."

 

Jailed MAGA rioters sing Star Spangled Banner every evening.


Jailed MAGA rioters have formed a 'Patriot wing' in DC prison where they sing 'Star-Spangled Banner' every night: report

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"Jailed supporters of former President Donald Trump who participated in the January 6th Capitol riots have banded together at the D.C. Correctional Treatment Facility to form a so-called "Patriot Wing" of the prison.

Vice News reports that the jailed MAGA rioters are creating their own newsletters that they pass around amongst themselves and that they sing "The Star Spangled Banner" to one another every night at 9 p.m.

While details like this may seem amusing, Vice News interviewed some extremism experts who say that the MAGA rioters' bonding experience is likely only furthering their radicalization."

 

Cawthorn wants to jail Fauci, and he has said he wants to bust Trump's rioters out jail in DC whom he labels as political prisoners.

 

Who is Wuhan-Linked Patrick Orlando, the Man Taking Donald Trump’s Media Company Public?
By Jarrett Banks and John Jannarone
IPO Edge
Thu, October 21, 2021, 5:27 PM

Who is Wuhan-Linked Patrick Orlando, the Man Taking Donald Trump’s Media Company Public?

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"Meet Patrick Orlando, the CEO of Digital World (which raised $300 million earlier this year and has a little less on hand) as well as two other SPACs. According to filings searched using Sentieo, an AI-enabled research platform, Mr. Orlando is the CEO of Benessere Capital Acquisition Corp. (ticker: BENE), which is based in Miami as well as CEO of of Benessere Capital, LLC, an investment consulting and investment banking firm he founded in Miami in October 2012. Bloomberg recently reported Benessere is near a deal with Florida-based hydrogen fuel firm ECombustible, but it hasn’t been formally announced.

Perhaps more interesting is Mr. Orlando’s role as CEO of Yunhong International (ticker: ZGYH), another SPAC where he is CEO. Yunhong International is located in an office building in Wuhan, China, according to SEC filings. That same address is shared by Yunhong Group, which sells an array of supplements such as “Natural Brain Booster Capsule” and “Bitter Gourd Peptides”"