The Donald Trump Score Card

Trumpy Rumpy has a guy in his administration who is adding a question to the census survey. It seems the administration wants to ask people about their citizen status for redistricting purposes. This comes after years of Republican delirium which has roots in fear of outsiders and colored people. While Trumpy Rumpy has never supplied evidence of "voter fraud" and the "3 to 5 million illegals" who he claims voted for Hillary, he now is attempting a second attack on colored people. His first attack was a commission which went nowhere and was led by a bigot. I would like to see a question on the census: Do you want and or support a separate White Nation where only White People have rights? In the event of a positive answer, the voting privilege should be terminated immediately. If Trumpy Rumpy supporters like Alt Right and Klansmen want to create a separate white country, they shouldn't have rights in this one.

 

When Erik is there...he's in it up to his eye-brows. When Republicans dismiss it all, they are in it up to their eye-brows.

 

Looks like "The Barking Dog" (North Korean for Trump) and Rocket Man will meet in May. Get your popcorn ready! Hope they tone down the insults.

 

Maybe they learned something from refusing to work with "The Butcher of Baghdad" Saddam?

 

Yeah if only we hadn't screwed around with the way things were when he was in power. Everybody had its cultures sorted out and in order. Yeah they were bloodthirsty ruthless dictators. But it was a way better situation that how it turned out when we decided to eff with it.

 

Two carnival-barking, paper tiger, narcissistic, reality TV authoritarians.

Trump could offer him a position in his administration (or vice versa).

 

Broidy has been implicated in a Ukraine criminal investigation and activities that involved the UAE.


Trump donor Elliott Broidy named in Ukraine criminal probe

Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy under scrutiny over alleged deal with sanctioned Russian bank VTB.
by Will Thorne & Will Jordan
March 7, 2018

Trump donor Elliott Broidy named in Ukraine criminal probe

From the article:

"The business and lobbying activities of this prominent Republican are coming under increasing scrutiny beyond Ukraine.

Last week a group calling itself LA Confidential leaked emails that appeared to show Broidy and his wife Robin Rosenzweig, deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee, asking for more than $75m to quash an investigation in the US into a multibillion-dollar fraud in Malaysia.

Further revelations came from The New York Times, which reported that Broidy has a lucrative defence contract with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and that he had lobbied President Trump to meet privately with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the leader of the UAE. The emails suggest he has direct access to the US President.

Romanian media have also reported Broidy's role in negotiating arms deals worth potentially millions of dollars.

In 2009, Broidy pleaded guilty in New York to bribing New York state pension officials with almost $1m in return for their $250m investment in an Israel-focused investment fund he helped to manage."

 

Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently implicated Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush agreement by saying that he won a current arbitration court battle.

It's rumored that Trump is upset with her. Trump should simply come to a formal press conference (that he has never conducted to date) and explain it himself.

 

Trump faces trouble if he tries to keep porn star Stormy Daniels silent, legal experts say
Ledyard King and Fredreka Schouten, USA TODAY
Published 2:03 p.m. ET March 8, 2018

Trump faces trouble if he tries to keep porn star Stormy Daniels silent, legal experts say

"On Wednesday, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders thrust the White House into the center of the legal battle when she revealed that Trump's lawyer had won an arbitration proceeding against Daniels. That marked the first time the White House acknowledged the confidential agreement or Trump's role in it.

Asked whether Trump knew about the payment at the time it was made, she said: "Not that I am aware of."

Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti insists otherwise.

“The suggestion that you would have an experienced, educated attorney like Mr. Cohen who would run off, half-cocked without any knowledge of his client, that he would negotiate and draft a detailed agreement that included his client as a party, that he would engage in weeks of negotiation, that he would reach agreement, that he would then send $130,000 in connection with that agreement, that he would then later institute an arbitration proceeding without knowledge of his client, all of this to those of us that practice under the law as attorneys, it’s ludicrous,” Avenatti said on CNN."

 

Trump has some expertise at attempting to stay one level removed from his dirty work. He has engaged in undercover approaches throughout his past, such as using the fake name John Barron in the 1980's to insult people and groups he didn't like, including a wife he was divorcing at the time whose reputation he wanted to smear.

 

The atmosphere hasn't changed much over 14 years.

Comedy video of Trump and Kim Jong-il (father of Kim Jong-un) with references to The Apprentice, Melania (referred to as Trump's fiance), and a bankrupt Trump casino. Circa 2004.

Actor Frank Caliendo plays Trump.

 

U.S. allies have moved ahead with a cooperative, integrated approach on trade while Trump has embarked on a protectionist, zero-sum approach.


U.S. Allies Sign Sweeping Trade Deal in Challenge to Trump
By ERNESTO LONDOÑO and MOTOKO RICH
MARCH 8, 2018

U.S. Allies Sign Sweeping Trade Deal in Challenge to Trump

From the article:

"The United States has “gone from being a leader to actually being the No. 1 antagonist and No. 1 source of fear” on trade, said Jeffrey Wilson, the head of research at Perth U.S.-Asia Center at the University of Western Australia. “If you’re a trade policy maker in Asia, your No. 1 fear is that Trump is going to take a swing at you.”

He added that such fears could prompt countries, however reluctantly, to tether themselves more closely to China. “The U.S. is really delivering the region to China at the moment,” Mr. Wilson said.

The new agreement — known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership — drops tariffs drastically and establishes sweeping new trade rules in markets that represent about a seventh of the world’s economy. It opens more markets to free trade in agricultural products and digital services around the region. While American beef faces 38.5 percent tariffs in Japan, for example, beef from Australia, New Zealand and Canada will not."

 

North Korea is the ultimate test of Trump’s dealmaking
Trump says he’s a master dealmaker. The talks with Kim Jong Un will show if he’s telling the truth.
By Yochi Dreazen
Mar 9, 2018, 12:04am EST

North Korea is the ultimate test of Trump’s dealmaking

"Donald Trump campaigned for the White House as a master dealmaker, the sort of tough and cold-eyed businessman who wouldn’t be afraid to make a big bet if he thought he had a decent shot at even bigger payoff.

It’s not just that Trump hasn’t been able to nail down deals on domestic issues like healthcare, trade issues like NAFTA, or foreign policy issues like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s that Trump hasn’t really even tried, avoiding direct talks with political rivals or foreign leaders and instead preferring to simply sit on the sidelines and see what his aides could come up with.

The White House’s surprise announcement Thursday night that Trump would hold face-to-face talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over his nuclear program marks a startling break from that pattern — and the first time in his presidency that Trump has been willing to try negotiating the kind of long-shot deal that candidate Trump routinely said he could make."

 

An article by Reynolds highlights some of the negative spillover effects of tariffs on the economy.

Smoot and Hawley lost their seats in the 1932 election.


The Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Great Depression
By Alan Reynolds
May 7, 2016 3:27PM

excerpt:

"A number of seemingly separate explanations of the Great Crash fit together quite well once the importance of anticipated tariffs is acknowledged. Charles Kindleberger, in Manias, Panics, and Crashes, describes some structural collapse in the financial system: “Lending on import, for example, seems to have come to a complete stop.” But refusal to finance imports makes perfect sense if lenders were correctly anticipating steep tariffs ahead. There were early cancellations of import orders in 1929 that likewise reflected rational expectations, and import prices were among the first to fall.

A lot of stock was being bought on margin-that is, the buyer put up 25 to 50 per cent of the price and his broker went to the bank to borrow enough to cover the rest temporarily. The chairman of the Federal Reserve Board had warned the banks to curb these broker or “call” loans as early as February 1929, and the Fed nearly doubled the discount rate from 1927 to August 1929, partly in the hope of curbing stock market “speculation.” Most of the broker loans in 1928-29 were not from the banks themselves, however, but were instead re-lent to brokers on behalf of domestic business and foreign banks, businesses, and individuals.

The massive withdrawal of foreign lenders from the broker-loan market in early October probably reflected the correctly anticipated decline in the value of the collateral for those loans (stocks), and the fear among foreign capitalists that they would have to liquidate such assets to stay solvent in a world of high tariffs. The process contributed to the crash as both cause and effect. There was a scramble for liquidity by both the lenders and the owners of stocks. As stock prices fell, brokers required that their customers put up more money to meet the margin requirement. If stockholders couldn’t come up with the cash, brokers could sell the securities to raise the money. Either way, owners and brokers were pressed to unload stocks, thus perhaps accelerating (but not causing) the stock market decline."

 

Trump rarely visits states outside Florida. When he does, it's the rust belt area states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and W. Virginia, and even those visits are few.

By foregoing even a small amount of his weekend mansion time, Trump could spend a great amount of time with what he referred to in his campaign as the forgotten people, the ones he has forgotten about as President.


The road less traveled: Trump to make first California trip after largely homebound first year
Gregory Korte, USA TODAY
Published 11:43 a.m. ET March 8, 2018

The road less traveled: Trump to make first California trip after largely homebound first year

 

trump is not smart, so Kim will play him like a fiddle.

 

Saddam was a POS but he did hold the peace and order in that country. He treated minorities well. The Christians did well under his government. Women got equal pay and equal treatment because of the laws. Some of the Shia and some of the Kurds were mistreated but some Kurds were allied with Saddam. Talabani call Saddam a friend. His sons were the true POS abusive jerks. I do think Saddam took part in the killing of Qassim in the early sixties. The destabilization after the 1991 Gulf War was worse. Iraq's people had electricity and safe water when he was in power. Before 1991, the Iraqi Dinar used to buy three and a half dollars. Look at the rate today!

 

It seems Rump's lawyer Cohen used the Trump ORG email to negotiate the settlement of cash for silence out of court agreement with Stormy Daniels. Boy, that sure looks like Cohen lied and Cohen was doing all that for Rumpy Trumpy!

 

Trump and his people have trouble dealing with a porn star and yet they are somehow going to negotiate with Kim Jong-un and save the world from nuclear destruction.

 

All of that work by Cohen who didn't even know that his client was Trump, and Trump didn't know anything. Who was it for? 'John Barron'?

Conforming to Trump's 'winning' obsession, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders (a.k.a. Huckleberry Fib) said Trump won a victory in the latest court arbitration process initiated by Cohen to keep Stormy quiet, even though Trump supposedly wasn't involved in any of this.

Who cares if it implicates Trump in campaign contribution criminal activity, as long as it is perceived at the moment as another 'win'. Trump: "Gonna win so much people will say we can't take it anymore."

District attorney Vincent Bugliosi once said that the words 'Helter Skelter' on the walls at the murder scenes were tantamount to Manson's fingerprints and were enough to convict him, even though he got others to do some of his dirty work.