The Donald Trump Score Card

He’s a little easier to tune-out these days…..

 

GOP loses at nitpicking an issue involving three signatures to try to keep a Democrat off the primary ballot for a general election to challenge Grassley's U.S. Senate seat.


Iowa Supreme Court rules Democratic Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer will remain on primary ballot after GOP challenge

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"Iowa Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer's name will appear on the June Democratic primary ballot, per a Friday ruling by the state's Supreme Court which reversed a lower court decision that said she didn't qualify for the race.

The ruling comes as a relief for Finkenauer — an ex-state lawmaker and former congresswoman — as she gears up for a general election race against Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who has served in the upper chamber since 1981 and is running for reelection in a state that has trended conservative in recent election cycles.

On Sunday, a Polk County district court judge ruled that Finkenauer "shall not be included on the primary ballot for the Democratic Primary for US Senate" due to questions regarding submitted signatures from two counties. The Finkenauer campaign immediately appealed the decision to the Iowa Supreme Court.

"We reverse the judgment of the district court and direct that the petition be dismissed," the court said in its ruling.""

 

Why Hasn’t Trump Been Indicted Yet? We Have Five Theories.
By Jeremy Stahl
April 17, 2022 7:00 PM

Why Hasn’t Trump Been Indicted Yet? We Have Five Theories.

 

Mark Meadows is 'racking up' crimes: GOP strategist says Trump's White House felt rules didn't apply to them

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"After a discussion about the Republican Party's "less desirable" candidates that are far right-extremists or not-ready-for-prime-time Republicans, GOP political strategist turned to address Meadows' troubles with the law. Meadows was using a mobile home in North Carolina as his address, but he never lived there and, it's possible, never even visited.

This week the North Carolina Board of Elections voted to expel Meadows from the voter rolls since he didn't live there and currently lives in Virginia.

"That leaves open the question of whether Mark Meadows misrepresented his domicile in 2020, a federal crime punishable by up to five years in prison and whether he committed voter fraud in the 2020 election," said host Aymon Moheldin.

"It's disgraceful," said Del Percio. "It's an embarrassment. I do wonder if he is guilty of that and then you add the pending referral to DOJ about refusing to appear before Congress and ignoring the subpoena. That's another criminal charge. It seems like Mark Meadows is just kind of racking them up right now. But most of all, it shows that there is no way that Mark Meadows or the Donald Trump administration felt the rules applied to them. And that's what -- that is the clear intent here."

Moheldin also mentioned the two people in The Villages, a Florida retirement community, who confessed to voter fraud. One is a confirmed Trump supporter. For a party that seems to be passing a lot of laws to stop voter fraud, Moheldin said that none of them seem to be coming out to denounce actions of voter fraud by their own people."

 

The GOP has gone quiet about the voter fraud cases that have become increasingly embarrassing for them and Trump, including one involving Meadows who was Trump's chief-of-staff at the White House and who is essentially Trump's current chief-of-staff at Mar-a-Lago.

 

Biden and Trump release very different Easter messages

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"President Biden and his immediate predecessor issued Easter messages that were as different as the men themselves. Other living presidents weighed in as well.

Biden, who wished the nation a “Happy Easter” on Twitter, invoked the teachings of Christian savior Jesus Christ in his missive.

“As we reflect today on Christ’s Resurrection, we are reminded that with faith, hope, and love — even death can be defeated,” the president tweeted. “From our family to yours, we wish you hope, health, joy, and the peace of God, which passes all understanding. Happy Easter and may God bless and keep you.”

Easter is a Christian festival commemorating the resurrection of Jesus three days after his death by crucifixion. For many Christians, Easter weekend is the end to the Lenten season of fasting and penitence.

Former president Donald Trump used the holiday to launch a passive-aggressive attack on his perceived enemies on Earth, including New York attorney general Letitia James, whose office is investigating Trump."

 

Turn it into a reality TV show with Trump as the host.


Jailed MAGA rioters getting into 'middle school lunchroom' fights over donations: NPR

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"There is a lack of camaraderie among the Jan. 6 defendants being held together inside the jail in Washington, DC.

"Inside the Washington, D.C., jail, where a group of defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol have been held for as long as a year or more, a bitter divide is growing, current and former inmates say," NPR reported Thursday. "A combination of that intense proximity, the stress of criminal cases and a fight over more than a million dollars donated to support the defendants has contributed to the rift."

Over 800 people have been charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

NPR spoke to a dozen current or former inmates for the story, with one saying the problem as "too many rats together in a small cage for too long."

"Tempers naturally get short," he explained, with "cliques solidifying further into independent 'camps' as time progresses."

The Jan. 6 defendants being held in DC are all in the section C2B.

"And so the decision to hold a disparate group of alleged Capitol rioters from all over the country — including people linked by prosecutors to the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and QAnon — in one section of the jail for a protracted period has had unintended consequences. Initially, the inmates seemed so unified and bonded that a defense attorney told a judge the jail had developed a 'cult-like' atmosphere. Experts on extremism worried that the jail was radicalizing the inmates," NPR reported. "But recently, conflicts have blown up between the inmates and grown into what another attorney referred to as a "schism" and what an inmate compared to a 'middle school lunchroom.'""

 

They were already radicalized by Trump.

 

MAGA rioter boasts of his 'high IQ' before asking judge for permission to fight prison guards

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"The incident began when Josiah Kenyon asked U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols for permission to speak during the hearing, according to a report from Politico's Kyle Cheney.

After Nichols warned that Kenyon might want to consult with his attorney first, Kenyon shot back: "I have a high enough IQ range to not screw up there, boss."

Kenyon then proceeded to ask Nichols to "acknowledge that he had a right to defend himself if prison guards in DC tried to assault him," Cheney reported.

"I’m not making any finding one way or another about that," Nichols responded.

"Okey-doke," Kenyon said."
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Trump endorsed Vance instead of Josh Mandel for the Ohio U.S. Senate race.

Mandel visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Trump reportedly said that he thought Mandel was weird.

Mandel bears a resemblance to Howdy Doody.


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Actually, I've known for many years that Republicans are dumb fucks.

 

Option 3: “Charge Donald Trump in Criminal Court” - should be the only plan of action!!

 

IQ can't be that high if you just called the Judge deciding your case "boss"...

 

These MAGA idiots go into court and say the damndest things, and think it’s quite ok. Idiots! TO THE BOOTYHOUSE!!

 

NOBODY should be in office that long.

 

The people in Iowa aren’t too bright.
Grassley is 88.

 

Yeah, he has nasty words for Trumph, plus this guy is guilty - and will sit his ass in jail until the July sentencing....but what do you guess he'll get? $500 fine, 25 hours of community service, sentence commuted to time served.. Continued big whoop. Nobody's seen any real sentencing....

 

Trump Supporters Explain Why They Believe the Big Lie

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"For many of Trump’s voters, the belief that the election was stolen is not a fully formed thought. It’s more of an attitude, or a tribal pose. They know something nefarious occurred but can’t easily explain how or why. What’s more, they’re mystified and sometimes angry that other people don’t feel the same.

As a woman from Wisconsin told me, “I can’t really put my finger on it, but something just doesn’t feel right.” A man from Pennsylvania said, “Something about it just didn’t seem right.” A man from Arizona said, “It didn’t smell right.”

The exact details of the story vary—was it Hugo Chávez who stole the election? Or the CIA? Or Italian defense contractors? Outlandish claims like these seem to have made this conspiracy theory more durable, not less. Regardless of plausibility, the more questions that are raised, the more mistrustful Trump voters are of the official results."

 

Trump made a similar remark to Raffensperger during his coercion call when he tried to have him overthrow the Georgia election. Trump said his election loss didn't pass the smell test.