The Donald Trump Score Card

Kavanaugh and his pals on the court also think very little of the part in the constitution which talks about "The Supreme Law of The Land." They like to give more power to the states. That's exactly what the Confederacy wanted. Read The Constitution of the Confederate States of America.

 

Kavanaugh is just pissed off because they hadn't brought his third beer to the table by the time protesters showed up...

 

U.S. court says some Trump financial records must be handed to House panel

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"WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday largely upheld a congressional subpoena seeking financial records from former President Donald Trump’s accounting firm Mazars, but said some of the lawmakers' requests went too far.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously ruled that the Democratic-controlled House Oversight Committee can obtain records from a period surrounding Trump's 2016 campaign and his time in office.

The court said the subpoena's scope was "overbroad" for many of the records, including some related to the federal lease for Trump's former Washington, D.C., hotel. It said lawmakers can only subpoena documents closely tied to legislation they are considering.

A lawyer for Trump and a Mazars spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Trump has decried the probe as politically motivated. Friday's opinion rejected or declined to take up several of Trump's legal arguments, including that the subpoenaed information could not be used for legislation."

 

Boris Johnson: Reports about the 'death of democracy' in the US are 'grossly, grossly exaggerated'

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"UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he's not concerned about the state of US democracy after the 2020 election.

"I think that reports of the death of democracy in the United States are grossly, grossly exaggerated," Johnson told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday.

Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged. Trump and his team made multiple attempts to overturn the election results, and on January 6, 2021, Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol as Congress was about to certify the election results.

Johnson, who was born in New York City, called America a "shining city on a hill," adding that it will continue to be so.

"The mere fact that Joe Biden has stepped up to the plate in the way that he has shows that instincts of America are very much in the right place," Johnson said. "Look, there were some weird and unattractive scenes... but I don't believe American democracy is under threat.""

 

Now 'former UK Prime Minister'.

 

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Article from January 2022.


Fears of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters’ Towns, Study Finds (Published 2021)

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"Race is also an important driver. When we look at the counties that the 716 people arrested or charged for storming the Capitol came from, where they live, what we see is more than half live in counties that Biden won. They do not mainly come from the reddest parts of America. They also come from urban areas such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Houston, and Dallas. But the key characteristic uniting them is that they come from counties where the white share of the population is declining fastest.

These facts dovetail with a popular right-wing conspiracy theory called the “great replacement.” Coined by the French far-right writer Renaud Camus, cited as inspiration by the mass murderer who attacked two mosques in New Zealand, and popularized in the United States by right-wing media personalities such as Tucker Carlson, the central idea is that majority white populations are being replaced by minorities and that liberal leaders are deliberately engineering white demographic decline through immigration policy."

 

Article from April 2021.


Fears of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters’ Towns, Study Finds (Published 2021)

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"But instead he found something very different: Most of the people who took part in the assault came from places, his polling and demographic data showed, that were awash in fears that the rights of minorities and immigrants were crowding out the rights of white people in American politics and culture.

If Mr. Pape’s initial conclusions — published on Tuesday in The Washington Post — hold true, they would suggest that the Capitol attack has historical echoes reaching back to before the Civil War, he said in an interview over the weekend. In the shorter term, he added, the study would appear to connect Jan. 6 not only to the once-fringe right-wing theory called the Great Replacement, which holds that minorities and immigrants are seeking to take over the country, but also to events like the far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 where crowds of white men marched with torches chanting, “Jews will not replace us!”

“If you look back in history, there has always been a series of far-right extremist movements responding to new waves of immigration to the United States or to movements for civil rights by minority groups,” Mr. Pape said. “You see a common pattern in the Capitol insurrectionists. They are mainly middle-class to upper-middle-class whites who are worried that, as social changes occur around them, they will see a decline in their status in the future.”"

 

Trump says Giuliani in hospital for heart ‘because of what they put him through’

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"“Under the greatest mayor in New York City in history, Rudy Giuliani, and he doesn’t know I was gonna say that, he’s watching,” Mr Trump began, before noting that his former advisor who’s a staunch defender of the twice-impeached president’s Big Lie, was in hospital “getting well”.

“He had a heart problem,” he said, before casting the blame for that heart problem on an unspecified “they”. “He’s in a hospital. Can you believe it what they put Rudy through?”

Mr Giuliani this week was subpoenaed by the Fulton County, Georgia grand jury investigating the former president’s attempts to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, alongside South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and many advisors and attorneys who played key roles in the scheme to overturn the results."

 

So, going to jail for being part of an armed insurrection won't cause a decline in their status in the future?

These people are not very bright, are they...

 

Sarah Palin hits comeback trail with fellow loose cannon Trump at her side

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"Fourteen years after her star power and incendiary rhetoric rallied crowds in her bid for the US vice-presidency, Sarah Palin takes the stage again on Saturday night – with a very different man at her side than during the 2008 election.

Palin was the running mate of presidential nominee John McCain, a war veteran and Republican party stalwart who was this week posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Joe Biden.

This weekend, however, as Palin seeks election to Congress, the headliner at her campaign event in her native Alaska is Donald Trump, the former president and longtime nemesis of McCain. The before-and-after contrast says much about the evolution of the Republican party over the past decade.

It was Palin, then the governor of Alaska, who in the 2008 race arguably did more than anyone to set the stage for Trump’s raucous, racist demagoguery that took him all the way to the White House in 2016. Both candidates elevated celebrity and charisma above knowledge or expertise.

Now the wheel has turned and it is Trump seeking to give Palin a boost as the 58-year-old chases Alaska’s sole seat in the House of Representatives, made vacant by the death of Don Young, who held it for 49 years.

“Sarah Palin was really Donald Trump before Donald Trump if you think about some of the things that she said in 2008 on the campaign trail,” said Wendy Schiller, a political science professor at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island."

 

Pro-Trump insurrectionists called upon Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to protect and promote them.


'One loud voice!': Capitol riot preceded by months of mobilization by organizers linked to Mike Flynn

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"One of the most crucial questions for both the FBI investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol and the House Select Committee inquiry is the connection between President Trump and the militant groups that carried out the attack.

The next hearing of the January 6th Committee, scheduled for July 12 and led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), reportedly “plans to detail known links and conversations between political actors close to Trump and extremists,” according to the New York Times.

While it is not clear what evidence the committee will present, a network of operatives surrounding retired Lt. General Michael Flynn — an inspirational figure for rank-and-file Trump supporters protesting the outcome of the election — helped build an infrastructure for months in advance that stoked anger, called on the president to invoke the Insurrection Act, and amplified his call to supporters to be in Washington for a “wild rally” on Jan. 6.

One of the initiatives that sprung up around Flynn, Trump’s former national security advisor who was seeking a pardon after the US Department of Justice dismissed charges for lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador, was called Operation Voter Integrity."

 

Seems like a great mom.

Is he constipated?

 

Trump backed Dr Oz for Senate seat because he called him a ‘healthy specimen’

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"Donald Trump has admitted he backed Mehmet Oz for the vacant Pennsylvania Senate seat because the TV doctor once called him a “healthy specimen”.

In an interview with One America News, the former president revealed he had been swayed to support Dr Oz in the Republican primary due to flattering remarks.

“I know Oz for a long time and he’s been very nice to me over the years,” Mr Trump said.

“And that, you know, influences you in all fairness. I’ve really liked him. I’ve been on his show.

“He always treated me well. He said I’m a very healthy specimen which I liked very much. He said ‘if you lost a couple of pounds that would be OK too’, but that’s alright.”

Mr Trump’s endorsement of the Turkish-American heart surgeon sealed his narrow win over former hedge fund chief executive David McCormick by a margin of less than 1,000 votes in last month’s primary."

 

I thought it was a hair problem.
Trump tells crowd that Rudy Giuliani is in hospital with heart problem ‘because of what they put him through’ (msn.com)

 

DOJ: Oath Keepers had 'death list,' brought explosives to Washington, D.C. area - UPI.com

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"July 9 (UPI) -- The Justice Department is expected to present evidence showing a member of the Oath Keepers carried explosives to the Washington, D.C. area, while another kept a "death list" before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents.

The papers filed Friday list evidence prosecutors for the government plan to use against the nine Oath Keepers during their trial in September. They include the Justice Department's allegation that group member Jeremy Brown traveled to Northern Virginia with grenades in his vehicle.

"On September 30, 2021, pursuant to an authorized search warrant, the government seized two illegal short barrel firearms from Brown's residence and military ordinance grenades from Brown's RV - the same RV that Brown used to travel to Washington, D.C. on January 6," Assistant U.S. Attorney Troy Edwards said in the filing.

Prosecutors said the evidence shows the Oath Keepers were prepared for violence to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to Joe Biden. The filing also names a number of cooperators who had close contacts with the Oath Keepers."

 

DOJ: Oath Keepers had 'death list,' brought explosives to Washington, D.C. area - UPI.com

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"In addition, the filing shows the government plans to introduce evidence Watkins possessed bomb-making instructions and held training camps in Ohio focused on military tactics. The Justice Department also alleges Oath Keepers members held a training session on "unconventional warfare" in Florida, as well as an exercise on "hasty ambushes" in North Carolina before the Jan. 6 attack."

 

specimen

noun

a sample for medical testing, especially of urine.

 

Florida.