The Donald Trump Score Card

Gableman appears to have used a fake name (John Delta) to hide his identity when he first started complaining about Trump's loss in WI.


“It’s Performance Art”: Inside Republicans’ Absolutely Wild, Ongoing Campaign to Decertify Biden’s Win

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Gableman was an early supporter of Trump’s “rigged election” conspiracy theory: “I don’t think anyone would be here if we all had confidence that this was an honest election,” he said at a Trump rally in Milwaukee on November 7, 2020, hours after networks called the race for Biden.

As the Associated Press reported in September, Gableman’s first email to county election clerks was sent from a Gmail account bearing the name “john delta”; his message, instructing the officials to preserve records related to the 2020 election, wound up in several of their spam folders. Records suggest Gableman was taking some cues from MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, who put on a South Dakota symposium about supposed election fraud last August that was attended by the special counsel, whom he also contacted via email.

“It’s performance art,” says Ann Jacobs, an election official who chaired the Wisconsin Elections Commission during the 2020 cycle and was subpoenaed by Gableman. “It’s not a legal investigation.”

 

Gableman's assistants are Trump loyalists.


“It’s Performance Art”: Inside Republicans’ Absolutely Wild, Ongoing Campaign to Decertify Biden’s Win

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"The state’s Republican-led legislature has given Gableman a $676,000 taxpayer-funded budget for the investigation. A former right-wing state Supreme Court justice, he hired a team of partisans, including Andrew Kloster, a former Trump administration staffer, and Ron Heuer, the head of the Wisconsin Voter Alliance, which unsuccessfully attempted to sue then vice president Mike Pence to prevent him from certifying the 2020 election results—a complaint that a federal judge, James Boasberg, tore to shreds as a “risible” effort to undermine the democratic election. (Heuer has also come under scrutiny for reportedly racist Facebook posts, which he said had nothing to do with the election audit.)

This exercise in slapstick drew praise from Trump himself last month after Gableman baselessly claimed that there had been improprieties in how Wisconsin administered the 2020 election and encouraged lawmakers to decertify its results. It echoes a similar partisan audit Arizona Republicans commissioned last year. But it also underscores how Republicans in swing states Biden narrowly won last cycle are weaponizing the former president’s “rigged election” lies in 2022 and beyond. GOP candidates for key offices in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia are running on “big lie” platforms, while Republican-controlled legislatures in those states are using those 2020 conspiracy theories as the basis for voter-restriction laws and bills that would allow lawmakers to exert more control over the election process. In Wisconsin, much of that legislation has failed to become law, thanks to the state’s Democratic governor, Tony Evers. But Republicans are looking to remove that guardrail in the fall, as a primary field of GOP candidates who have questioned the 2020 results works to defeat him in the 2022 midterm elections."f

 

Wisconsin Conservative Group Finds ‘No Evidence Of Widespread Fraud’ In 2020 Election

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"A 10-month-long review of Wisconsin’s 2020 election conducted by a conservative group in the state found no signs of widespread or significant election fraud, according to a new report of its findings, further disproving continued baseless allegations of election fraud as the battleground state undergoes a contentious partisan election audit."

 

Ex-Pence adviser reveals Trump 'blueprint' for stealing 2024: 'The last presidential election was a dry run'

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"Luttig recounted a Republican plan to have the 2020 election overturned by convincing the Supreme Court to use the independent state legislature doctrine -- but the attempt failed. A second attempt to use an alternate slate of electors also failed when Pence refused to go along with it.

"Trump and his allies and supporters in Congress and the states began readying their failed 2020 plan to overturn the 2024 presidential election later that very same day and they have been unabashedly readying that plan ever since, in plain view to the American public," Luttig claimed. "Today, they are already a long way toward recapturing the White House in 2024, whether Trump or another Republican candidate wins the election or not."

 

Ex-Pence adviser reveals Trump 'blueprint' for stealing 2024: 'The last presidential election was a dry run'

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"The former judge predicted that Republicans will successfully be able to use the independent state legislature doctrine with Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the court.

In preparation for 2024, Republicans are "also in the throes of electing Trump-endorsed candidates to state legislative offices in key swing states, installing into office their favored state election officials who deny that Biden won the 2020 election, such as secretaries of state, electing sympathetic state court judges onto the state benches and grooming their preferred potential electors for ultimate selection by the party, all so they will be positioned to generate and transmit alternative electoral slates to Congress, if need be," Luttig reported.

He concluded: "As it stands today, Trump, or his anointed successor, and the Republicans are poised, in their word, to "steal" from Democrats the presidential election in 2024 that they falsely claim the Democrats stole from them in 2020. But there is a difference between the falsely claimed "stolen" election of 2020 and what would be the stolen election of 2024. Unlike the Democrats' theft claimed by Republicans, the Republicans' theft would be in open defiance of the popular vote and thus the will of the American people: poetic, though tragic, irony for America's democracy.""

 

According to Rand Paul, Britain has the right to invade ‘Murica.

 

Top Trump officials pushed for $700m ‘national security’ loan to trucking company

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"According to the report, which was prepared by select committee staff, Trump administration political appointees “flagrantly disregarded” a Defense Department assessment that a trucking company called Yellow Trucking was not “critical to national security” and therefore ineligible for a loan under a program authorised for such companies under the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.

Despite the objections of career Pentagon officials, the administration authorised a $700m loan — an amount which used up 95 per cent of the funds appropriated for the program — and did so under generous terms which violated CARES Act requirements."

 

Trump Officials Awarded $700 Million Pandemic Loan Despite Objections

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"The loan raised immediate questions from watchdog groups because of the company’s close ties to the Trump administration and because it had faced years of financial and legal turmoil. The firm had lost more than $100 million in 2019 and was being sued by the Justice Department over claims that it had defrauded the federal government for a seven-year period. It recently agreed to pay $6.85 million to resolve allegations “that they knowingly presented false claims to the U.S. Department of Defense by systematically overcharging for freight carrier services and making false statements to hide their misconduct.”

To qualify for a national security loan, a company needed certification by the Defense Department."

 

Trump Officials Awarded $700 Million Pandemic Loan Despite Objections

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"WASHINGTON -- A Kansas trucking company received a $700 million federal loan after what appear to be "missteps" by the Treasury Department and the Department of Defense, the Congressional Oversight Commission said in a report released Friday.

Commissioners want to know who determined that the money-losing company, known at the time as YRC Worldwide, was "critical to national security" and thus qualified for the national security loan program, which was authorized last year near the start of the covid-19 pandemic.

The company got the loan after spending $570,000 on lobbying last year, the report notes. The previous year, it had spent nothing, the report stated.

"The Commission makes note of the correlation between lobbying the government and Yellow's ability to secure a $700 million loan," the report stated.

U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., one of three people now on the commission, said Friday that the company didn't appear to qualify for the narrowly tailored program."

 

Trump Officials Awarded $700 Million Pandemic Loan Despite Objections

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"Yellow had many connections to the Trump administration. The company had financial backing from Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm with close ties to administration officials. Mr. Trump had selected the company’s chief executive, Darren D. Hawkins, to serve on a coronavirus economic task force. And he had nominated the company’s former chief executive, William D. Zollars, to the U.S. Postal Service’s board of governors."

 

Hmmmm.... This basically how oligarchs are made.

 

NY attorney general's office says it's nearly done unraveling Trump's 'Russian nesting doll' | CNN Politics

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"The statute of limitations for various laws under consideration goes back several years, but the tolling agreement with the Trump Organization that paused the clock expires on Saturday. Even as the agreement expires, it could still be several weeks before the attorney general’s office decides its next step in the investigation.

The comments came during a court hearing Monday, when New York state Judge Arthur Engoron held Trump in civil contempt and fined him $10,000 per day for failing to comply with a subpoena for documents relating to New York’s investigation into the Trump Organization’s finances.

Lawyers for the New York State Attorney General’s Office provided a glimpse into their investigation, which has spanned three years, after the judge asked them to explain what is taking so long and where it is heading.

“Given the upcoming end of the tolling agreement we will likely need to bring some kind of enforcement action in the near future to preserve our rights,” Wallace said. He noted that before they file the attorney general’s office has agreed to meet with the Trump Organization attorneys and “allow them to make their case” and discuss what any “appropriate resolutions might look like.”"

 

Trump obstructing the investigation.

 

Some of the goons on the ground will suffer punishment (as usual) , while the instigators on top ( republicans trying to overthrow the government) will continue in their lying , bullshit lives. (as usual)

 

They will have new goons for 2024.... Seems to be an un-ending supply these days.

 

$10k a day is pretty cheap to stay out of jail when you're stoopid rich...

 

And here's what I don't get----the media CONSTANTLY assumes that the republicans will take the house and senate races. Constantly. How the hell do they figure?

 

Donald Trump worried 'dangerous' fruits could be thrown at him by protesters, a new deposition reveals



Donald Trump said "pineapples, tomatoes, bananas, stuff like that" could be thrown at him at protests.
Trump's concerns were revealed Tuesday night, in his sworn deposition for an upcoming Bronx trial

The case alleges Trump directed his security guards to attack protesters outside Trump Tower in 2015.

 

It's just click-bait.

While it's true the Republicans may take the house, it's much less likely they'll take the Senate