The Donald Trump Score Card

Steve Bannon threatens revenge against Mark Esper for Trump revelations

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"Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has vowed revenge against Mark Esper for making shocking revelations against Donald Trump in his new book.

The former defence secretary, in A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times, has made several astounding claims from his time at the White House when Mr Trump was president.

“Now let me be brutally frank Esper, cause your book is going to get ripped apart like Bill Barr’s [book]...So don’t think you are skipping away from this. When we come to power, don’t think you can skip away from this,” the far-right political pundit said in his podcast on Monday.

“You are going to be held accountable for this, bro.”

Mr Esper, in one of the claims, said Mr Trump had questioned why those protesting George Floyd's murder during Black Lives Matter protests couldn’t be shot in the legs.

“The last year of the Trump administration… we prevented really bad things, dangerous things... that could have taken the country in a dark direction,” Mr Esper told CBS in an interview."

 

Rioter Who Stormed Capitol With His Girlfriend Fails to Get Off on Probation

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"A judge sentenced a Georgia man to 45 days in prison Monday for taking part in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Nolan Harold Kidd, 21, testified that he heard the call from then-President Donald Trump to protest the vote certification, and his boss at a Coca-Cola bottling plant granted him leave to answer that call. A judge said Kidd was among the “first wave” of rioters who streamed into the Capitol by breaching a side door. Photos show Kidd with his girlfriend, Savannah Danielle McDonald, draped in Trump gear as they stormed the building steps, took selfies inside, and loitered with the horned QAnon Shaman. Both Kidd and McDonald were arrested in June and the Kidd faced four charges, including disruptive conduct. McDonald will be sentenced Tuesday. Though Kidd asked the judge to consider sentencing him to probation instead of jail time, she declined, claiming it wouldn’t be “appropriate” punishment."

 

Nebraska is now a 'toxic political hellhole' thanks to Trump: author

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"On Monday, writing for The New York Times, Nebraskan author and journalist Ted Genoways outlined how former President Donald Trump helped to kill Nebraska's moderate-conservative brand of politics and replace it with full MAGA cultism.

One of the most obvious ways this can be seen now, wrote Genoways, is Trump's support of the gubernatorial campaign of Charles Herbster, a far-right businessman accused of sexual assault by eight women including a Republican state senator. Many Republicans in the state tried to push him out over the allegations — but thanks to Trump's continued support, he is still in.

"Mr. Herbster sees conspiracies everywhere — conspiracies to destroy him, conspiracies to undermine Mr. Trump, conspiracies to unravel the very fabric of the nation," wrote Genoways. "'This country is in a war within the borders of the country,' he told the crowd at the Starlite Event Center in Wahoo on Thursday, a few days before Tuesday’s primary election. Over more than an hour, Mr. Herbster, dressed in his trademark cowboy hat and vest, unspooled a complex and meandering tale of the threat to America, interspersed with labyrinthine personal yarns and long diatribes about taxes.""

 

To be fair... Trump can think... It just doesn't work out very well when he does.

 

Bannon keeps saying this...

 

It's like the Three Stooges' Curley - "I tried to think and nothing happened"

 

Bannon is obviously frustrated at all the negative remarks from Trump's former administration officials.

The few who have stayed loyal to Trump are the ones he pardoned (Bannon, Manafort, Stone, Flynn).

Meadows is still loyal to Trump and effectively his chief of staff at Mar-a-Lago.

 

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Port Orchard man pleads guilty to Capitol riot charge | king5.com

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"PORT ORCHARD, Wash. — A Port Orchard man pleaded guilty to a charge related to his participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

John Cameron initially faced four charges but ended up pleading guilty to one count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building following an agreement with federal prosecutors.

The charge carries a maximum sentence of six months in prison, five years probation and/or a fine of $5,000.

On Jan. 8, 2021, the FBI received a tip indicating that Cameron had been at the U.S. Capitol riot two days earlier. The tipster provided the FBI with a link to Cameron's Facebook account, which included posts and pictures documenting his trip to Washington D.C. for the "Stop the Steal" rally, according to probable cause documents."

 

Alleged Maine Capitol rioter to be charged with assaulting third officer

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"Kyle Fitzsimons, the first and most seriously accused of four Mainers implicated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot faces additional charges, federal prosecutors have disclosed.

Prosecutors revealed in papers filed Friday with the U.S. District Court for Washington that the government intends to seek another superseding indictment, this time accusing Fitzsimons of assaulting a third law enforcement officer.

Prosecutors disclosed only that the third assault was "recently discovered."

Fitzsimons already faces ten criminal counts, including felonies for assaulting two officers, and misdemeanors for breaching the Capitol with the mob that sought to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over Donald Trump.

Fitzsimons has been jailed since his February 2021 arrest in Lebanon, Maine, where he lived with his wife and their child and worked as a butcher.

Fitzsimons is currently held at the federal jail in Washington. His trial is scheduled to begin with jury selection on June 13."

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/10/elo...er-ban-on-donald-trump-after-deal-closes.html

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"Elon Musk said Tuesday he would reverse Twitter's ban on former President Donald Trump if his acquisition goes through.

"Permanent bans should be extremely rare and really reserved for accounts that are bots, or scam, spam accounts… I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump," Musk said at FT Live's Future of the Car conference. "I think that was a mistake, because it alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice."

"I would reverse the permanent ban," added Musk, who is expected to become interim CEO following the takeover. "I don't own Twitter yet. So this is not like a thing that will definitely happen, because what if I don't own Twitter?""

 

This guy is definitely smoking something.

 

Still stressed: Americans' political diet harmful to overall health

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"Similar to the 2017 findings, the 2020 surveys found that an estimated 40% of Americans identified politics as a significant source of stress. Additionally, between a fifth and a third of adults (50 million to 85 million people) blamed politics for causing fatigue, feelings of anger, loss of temper and triggering compulsive behaviors. About a quarter of adults reported they’d given serious consideration to moving because of politics.

That the results remained mostly stable after nearly four years is cause for alarm, Smith said.

“This second round of surveys pretty conclusively demonstrates that the first survey was not out of left field — that what we found in that first survey really is indicative of what many Americans are experiencing,” Smith, chair and professor of political science, said. “It’s also unpleasant to think that in that span of time, nothing changed. A huge chunk of American adults genuinely perceive politics is exacting a serious toll on their social, their psychological and even their physical health.”"

 

Trump-backing county clerks broke into voting machines to 'prove' fraud

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"On Wednesday, it was revealed that a second Trump-backing county clerk in Colorado not only bought in to the stolen election conspiracy theory, but also tampered with his county’s voting machines in order to prove it. Dallas Schroeder, the Elbert County clerk, made copies of the hard drives containing voting data from the Dominion Voting System machines used during the 2020 election, according to 9 News in Denver.

While Schroeder kept one of the copies for himself, he reportedly gave the second to an unidentified lawyer. The identity of that second source has not been publicly revealed, but has been shared under seal with the judge who is currently presiding over a lawsuit against Schroeder for tampering with election machines.

While it’s not publicly known who Schroeder shared the hard drives with, it does seem clear that whoever it was passed the data around. According to the Daily Beast, the information from Elbert County machines has been cited in court by MyPillow CEO and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell. The Daily Beast also reported that Schroeder has been in contact with Shawn Smith and Mark Cook, two conspiracy theorists who have ties to Lindell. The county clerk also reportedly used a device borrowed from Cook to copy the data, per Reuters."

 

Trump-backing county clerks broke into voting machines to 'prove' fraud

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"Peters, the other county clerk who has been pushing the election fraud conspiracy and who leaked her county’s voting machine passwords to far-right website The Gateway Pundit, has also been connected to Mike Lindell. Peters appeared at Lindell’s farcical Cyber Symposium, in which he promised data proving election fraud but delivered none; she also stayed at a “safe house” provided by Lindell to evade FBI questioning.

While Peters and Schroeder face potential legal consequences for cracking open their county’s voting machines and stealing information, other county clerks in Colorado are dealing with security risks. According to ABC News, conspiracy theorists have threatened the lives of clerks who they believe are trying to hide the supposed fraud. In response election officials across the state have started wearing bulletproof vests and participated in active shooter trainings to protect themselves.

The situation is a reminder that there are real consequences when people fall prey to conspiracy theories. Those people can — and often do — become a danger to themselves and to others when they’re this disconnected from reality."

 

An alleged 5 million undocumented immigrants being used for voter fraud in AZ which has 7 million total residents.

 

Problems abortion could have prevented

 

Meadows wants to depose the Jan. 6 committee about his refusal to be deposed.


Mark Meadows Seeks To Depose Jan. 6 Committee About His Own Refusal To Be Deposed - Above the Law

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"Meadows, who is likely counting on the case disappearing after Republicans take back the House in November and nix all investigations of the Capitol Riot so they can spend more time getting to the bottom of Hunter Biden’s Laptop, the Greatest Political Scandal of All Time, proposes many, many rounds of dueling pre-trial motions. He also insists on his right to depose the Committee members on the topic of his own refusal to be deposed.

“Defendants note that Plaintiff Meadows has suggested that discovery might be appropriate on whether he acted in an official or unofficial capacity regarding President Trump’s various efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election,” Committee counsel Doug Letter writes. “Defendants find this a perplexing position for two reasons.”

The Committee argues that no discovery is needed, since Meadows hardly has to ask them about his own conduct in the lead up to the Capitol Riot."

 

Trump Kept Asking if China Was Shooting Us With a 'Hurricane Gun'

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"Near the beginning of Donald Trump’s time in office, the then-president had a pressing question for his national-security aides and administration officials: Does China have the secret technology — a weapon, even — to create large, man-made hurricanes and then launch them at the United States? And if so, would this constitute an act of war by a foreign power, and could the U.S. retaliate militarily? Then-President Trump repeatedly asked about this, according to two former senior administration officials and a third person briefed on the matter.

“It was almost too stupid for words,” said a former Trump official intimately familiar with the then-sitting president’s inquiry. “I did not get the sense he was joking at all.”

The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, tell Rolling Stone that Trump began interrogating national-security officials and other staffers about the alleged weapon during the first year of his presidency, and his question would pop up sporadically until at least 2018. Two of the sources recalled that as Trump got deeper into the second year in his term, he started to drop the topic, and occasionally joked about it.

In certain circles within the upper ranks of Trumpland, the then-leader of the free world’s query became such a mockable occurrence that it became known among some as the “Hurricane Gun” thing.

“I was present [once] when he asked if China ‘made’ hurricanes to send to us,” said the other former senior official. Trump “wanted to know if the technology existed. One guy in the room responded, ‘Not to the best of my knowledge, sir.’ I kept it together until I got back to my office… I do not know where the [then-]president would have heard about that… He was asking about it around the time, maybe a little before, he asked people about nuking hurricanes.”

This patently boneheaded line of inquiry from Trump, which has not been previously reported, was merely one instance in an administration overflowing with Trump’s rampantly absurd, conspiracy-theory-powered ideas and policy proposals, many of which were ignored or shot down, thus avoiding additional atrocities. Last week, it was revealed that Trump’s former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper wrote in his new memoir that his ex-boss wanted to attack Mexico with missiles — during peacetime between the two nations — and then try to pin the blame on another country."