The Donald Trump Score Card

'Eric isn't that busy': Analyst says Trump will likely nominate one of his kids as VP

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"It is not surprising that he is reaching out to family members. I've speculated half-seriously if Donald Trump had his way for a selection of V.P. nominees, he would choose a member of his own family, choose Ivanka, or Don Jr., because he wants this to be a family business," Sykes said. "He wants this to be a dynasty."

 

Trump trying to continue the delay.


Trump’s new Supreme Court gambit doesn’t even try to hide that it’s a delaying tactic | CNN Politics

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"Trump’s latest request comes at a critical moment because the steps that the Supreme Court takes in coming days will likely decide whether this case — one of the most potentially damaging of the four criminal trials that await Trump — will go to a jury before the election. This is not just a matter of seeking accountability for the ex-president’s bid to stay in power despite losing the last election to President Joe Biden. It could also sway the destiny of the White House since some polls, including a national NBC News survey this month, suggest that some Trump voters may not support him if he’s a convicted felon when they go to vote. In what is expected to be a close election, even small-scale defections from Biden could weigh on the result."

 

Even criminal convictions of Trump may not sway the voters against him, regardless of what they currently say.

After 91 felony charges, his favorability rating has remained a consistent 42%. Before the charges were filed, some probably thought that they wouldn't vote him after that many charges, but his polls numbers still remain reasonably good.

If he's convicted at any of his trials before the election, the voting public can kick the can down the road and say they want to wait for the appeals process to complete before they will say they won't vote for him (which wouldn't happen until after they had already voted).

It's possible that Trump could be acquitted in a criminal case before the election. It would be a victory for him going into the 2024 election.

 

Fani Willis is at risk of being removed from Trump's GA criminal case.

If she lied under oath that she wasn't having an affair with the prosecutor before she took the Trump case, she could be removed from the case. It would be a victory for Trump going into the 2024 election.

 

The Supreme Court, scrambling to save face, may delay Trump's insurrection ruling

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"With it impossible for the court to avoid losing face if it ignores the Constitution’s plain language, a credible delay might be its best hope. Two law professors pointed out in the Wall Street Journal that the 20th Amendment provides that, “if the President-elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President-elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified.” This suggests that the court should judge qualifications only after the election. If Trump loses, the problem goes away, but if he wins the court will face a heavy burden.

Still, the impartial thing for the court to do would be to uphold the Colorado disqualification ruling. But, if the court overturns it, it must do so without demolishing what’s left of the pedestal on which it once stood so high. Following oral argument, it’s not looking good."

 

With slurred speech, Trump claimed that he is intentionally confusing Biden with Obama and Pelosi with Haley.

Next, Trump will be claiming he is intentionally slurring his speech and struggling to get through syllables of words.


A Slurring Donald Trump Gives Unbelievable Excuse for Constant Mix-Ups

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“When I interpose—cause I’m not a Nikki fan, and I’m not a Pelosi fan. And when I purposely interpose names, they said, ‘He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki. From Tricky Nikki. Tricky Nikki. He didn’t know.’ I interposed,” he added, seemingly forgetting the definition of the word “interpose,” which per Merriam-Webster means to put oneself between or intrude.

 

Critics of Thomas want him to recuse himself from Trump's election subversion cases.

Not only was Thomas present, his stolen-election, conspiracy-enthusiast wife, Ginni, was in the courtroom with him in the special guest section.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/09/politics/john-roberts-trump-ballot-supreme-court-analysis/index.html

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"Not since the 2000 case of Bush v. Gore has the Supreme Court been in the middle of an election battle of such potential magnitude. The courtroom was packed Thursday. Several of the justices’ spouses, including Jane Roberts, wife of the chief justice, sat in a special guest section. Lawyer Mark Paoletta, a close friend of Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni, was also in the prime guest section."

 

to post 7580-------and one has to wonder why it's impossible to break through those defenses. Is willful ignorance actually stupidity? I find it hard to believe that 74 million trump voters could be said to be stupid. Aside from psychological musings, how is it literally possible to take a person like trump seriously. A man that has changed the social mores, the written and unwritten rules of a so-called (semi) polite society into a squabbling mass of nearly uncontrolled , historically forgetful ,vengeful adults? And in such a short time? Would a more thoroughly educated populace elevate the exchange of ideas? Would a more equatable monetary system with so few having so much and so many feeling put upon by having so little ,ameliorate some basic attitudes towards one another and our society in general? Are so many millions so unhappy that they may be willing to forego the freedoms that we have had to elect such a flawed human as trump happens to be?
I'd like to remind people that after we defeated Germany, Italy and Japan in the second world war---that we did not occupy and subjugate those countries. In fact, we helped to rebuild them. It would behoove anyone to compare what Russia did after that war to what the USA did. Quite the comparison. We've come to an important time in our history. We're a young country relative to most others-----what's coming? Are we destined to continue----or---

 

Boy, he wants to keep a tight grip on that GOP- SMH!!
I said it before, they had an opportunity to completely sever ties with that grifter during the impeachment for Jan 6, and now they’re really going to feel the regret if they haven’t started to, yet. Man, oh man……

 

Haley closer to being assigned Secret Service protection.


Haley moves closer to getting Secret Service protection after congressional panel votes in favor

 

‘Jesus Christ!’ Reporter on Hot Mic Stunned By Trump Courthouse Rant About Hush Money Trial

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"The theme of an unfair “double standard” was prevalent throughout Trump’s four-minute diatribe, which caused one reporter to remark, after Trump had left the building, “Jesus Christ!”

When another reporter asked what he meant, the reporter said “I’m going to have to go back and count how many ‘unfairs’ there were!”"

 

Hickman to leave post.


Arizona Republican who resisted pro-Trump pressure in 2020 to stand down

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"A Republican elected official in Arizona who protected the vote and withstood a barrage of pressure and threats in 2020 from within his own party to sway the election toward Trump announced on Thursday that he will not seek re-election.

Clint Hickman, a supervisor in Maricopa county, the state’s largest county that includes Phoenix, faced death threats for doing his job to confirm the county’s vote totals in 2020, when the state narrowly chose Joe Biden. State Republicans then initiated a sham “audit” of the county’s results, a costly hand count that took months only to conclude that Biden did indeed win."

 

Trump's attorneys are still barking in court about what they say is election interference.

Judge Merchan says that the NY hush money is planned to start on March 25. It is expected to last six weeks.


https://www.salon.com/2024/02/15/po...mps-ny-criminal-trial-could-completely-upend/

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“It is completely election interference to say you are going to sit in this courtroom in Manhattan when there is no reason for it,” Blanche said, adding “it’s truly an impossible position for anyone to be in.”

 

Trump has a good chance of winning enough delegates before the March 25 trial date.

March 5 is Super Tuesday. If he has more than 50% of the vote in the CA primary, he wins all of the delegates. The GOP changed the rules for the CA primary for 2024.

 

Trump told them to protest at the Capitol.


Over 200 Jan. 6 defendants say they came to Capitol because Trump told them to: Report

 

Trump wants to take financial control of the RNC.

Nikki Haley's campaign manager Betsy Ankeny called the moves "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic."

Ronna McDaniel won a fourth term as head of the RNC in January 2024. Trump wants her to step down. She said she would do what's in the interest of the party. It's expected that she will step down for Trump.

 

The Good Republicans’ Last Stand

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"Trump is campaigning to return to the presidency on four big promises:

1. to elevate himself above the law and evade accountability for the many crimes of which he has been accused and indicted, including attempting to overthrow an election by violence;

2 . to round up and deport millions of people;

3. to impose heavy tariffs across the board and return the country to the protectionist policies that deepened the Great Depression; and

4. to resign from America’s democratic alliances and replace them with an isolationist foreign policy aligned with the world’s dictatorships."

 

Trump having hallucinations about migrants.


Despite What You've Read In the New York Times, Trump Actually Looks Terrible

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“They rush into the store and they walk out with television sets. I mean I saw one the other day walking out with a refrigerator. I said ‘he’s a pretty strong guy’”.

 

Miles officially charged with rioting at Capitol.


Gay adult star officially charged for crimes involved with the Capitol Riot

 

Three co-defendants plead guilty to rioting at Capitol.


Three co-defendants in Bentonville man’s Capitol riot case plead guilty | Arkansas Democrat Gazette

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"Michael St. Onge of Brevard, N.C.; Kyle Kumer of Kansas City, Mo.; and William Stover of Elizabethtown, Ky"