The Donald Trump Score Card

U.S. Supreme Court denies request by RFK Jr. to remove his name from ballots in WI and MI.


Supreme Court denies RFK Jr.’s request to be taken off Michigan, Wisconsin ballots

 

Undertaker enters the ring: Trump’s (very late) appearance in Traverse City

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"The exhaustion in the crowd may have led to at least three medical incidents (two while Trump spoke, and one before he arrived), with people falling and needing help from doctors and first responders. During the third incident, the ex-president and Republican standard bearer asked an aid to play Pavarotti’s “Ave Maria” over the sound system—a score he has used before at campaign events when he tires of talking policy at the lectern.'

 

Former Capitol police officers campaign for Harris.


Former Capitol police officers hit the trail as busy Harris campaign surrogates

 

Trump once again declares amnesia.

This time he says he doesn't know the comedian at his rally who made the disparaging remarks about Puerto Rico.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/10/29/2024-election-campaign-updates-harris-trump/

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“I have no idea who he is,” Trump said of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. About a minute of the interview was published online in advance of its scheduled airing later Tuesday night.

 

Bob's Burger actor is sentenced to a year in prison for his role in Trump's insurrection at the Capitol.


Bob's Burgers actor Jay Johnston sentenced to a year in jail for US Capitol riots

 

Trump's supporters don't see that someone like Musk could damage their own ability to try to compete in the marketplace..

They see someone dressed in black with a black MAGA cap who is on the stage and jumping up and down for Trump.


https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/28/fiona-hill-explains-trump-musk-putin-00185820

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"What we’ve seen in a host of other countries is that where you get an oligarchy in control, you also have a more autocratic leadership. You start to see the chipping away of the rule of law. You start to see the squeezing of the economy, as there’s deregulation in favor of particular interests and then a much more reduced space for other people to enter into the economy."

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/28/fiona-hill-explains-trump-musk-putin-00185820

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"Musk is something that we’ve never really seen before. People refer back to the Rockefellers and Andrew Carnegie and the robber barons of the Gilded Age, or the billionaires that emerged in Russia in the 1990s and 2000s. Musk is beyond that in his wealth and influence. He’s on track to become the world’s first trillionaire. His personal wealth is about the same as a medium-sized country. His bonuses are on the scale of the defense budgets of a whole host of countries.

So not only is Musk trying to bankroll Trump’s reelection, but he’s talking to Putin. He’s talking to people in China and elsewhere. Musk has global business interests. He’s part of a rich and powerful class of people who see themselves as global peers.

For members of this group, they aren’t driven by the people they represent or the companies that they represent, but by the peer group that they are in, which is an extraordinarily small group of people that are either billionaires on this scale or the leaders of major countries like [Chinese President] Xi and Putin and also potentially Trump. Their interactions are all about them figuring out how to exercise power together."

 

America's emerging oligarchy.

A small group of Deep State wealthy elites, a personality cult leader, and a collection of various dictators from around the globe,


https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/28/fiona-hill-explains-trump-musk-putin-00185820

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"Putin also apparently is in regular contact with Elon Musk. What do you think is happening there?

People are always asking, ‘Why does Trump admire Putin?’ One could also ask, ‘Why does Trump admire Musk?’ Because Elon Musk is now probably the single largest contributor and most vocal proponent for Trump’s reelection campaign. We’ve seen him at rallies with Trump. We’ve seen him offering prizes to potential voters for Trump. He’s constantly talking about the literally millions of dollars that he is spending in support of Trump. Musk and Trump both see themselves as members of an extraordinarily powerful class of rich men who want influence on a global scale."

 

Trump lists as his virtues what Harris lists as his malice.


Trump threatens to drown out his own closing message in the final days of the election

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"Harris has spent her closing weeks trying to convince a polarized nation that Trump is someone who is determined to upend political norms, believes the Jan. 6 attack was a good thing, wants to befriend authoritarian leaders across the globe and wants to use the power of the federal government to attack his political enemies.

Meanwhile, Trump has spent his closing weeks trying to convince a polarized nation that he is someone determined to upend political norms, believes the Jan. 6 attack was a good thing, wants to befriend authoritarian leaders across the globe and wants to use the power of the federal government to attack his political enemies."

 

Another photo from Trump's hate rally at Madison Square Garden.

 

Article from 2017 when Trump was throwing toilet paper rolls to a cheering crowd in Puerto Rico after the island was wrecked by a hurricane.


Trump defends throwing paper towels to Hurricane survivors in Puerto Rico

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“And I came in and there was a crowd of a lot of people. And they were screaming and they were loving everything. I was having fun, they were having fun,” he added. “They said, 'Throw 'em to me! Throw 'em to me Mr. President!”

 

A hurricane disaster in Puerto Rico in 2017 killed thousands. Trump described it like it was a love fest for himself.


https://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/646997771/fact-check-puerto-rico-was-an-incredible-unsung-success

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"What is your death count as of this moment?" he asked local officials. "17? 16 people certified, 16 people versus in the thousands."

He then went to a church where supplies were being distributed to those in need and tossed paper towels into the crowd like they were free T-shirts at a sporting event.

"There's a lot of love in this room," the president said, "a lot of love."

 

Rove says Trump will win the 2024 election by winning MI, PA, or GA.


Rove: Trump will win White House with either Georgia, Pennsylvania or Michigan victory

 

New probe confirms Trump officials blocked Puerto Rico from receiving hurricane aid

 

Trump withheld $20 billion of hurricane relief from Puerto Rico, but some were overjoyed that Trump was throwing rolls of toilet paper at them.

 

Judge says no more delays in couple's Capitol riot case.


No more delays, judge says in Celina couple’s Capitol riot case - LimaOhio.com

 

I helped write the manual for diagnosing mental illness. Donald Trump doesn’t meet the criteria

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"I believe that Trump is a mirror of the American soul, a surface symptom of our deeper societal disease. He may not be crazy, but we certainly were for electing him. We mustn’t waste this Trumpian dark age. If we don’t learn from it, we will keep making the same mistakes."

 

Jan. 6 riot suspect accused of plotting to murder FBI agents had a gun at the Capitol: Feds

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"A Tennessee man facing federal charges for plotting to kill FBI employees investigating him for his role in the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol allegedly was carrying a gun that day, according to new testimony revealed at trial."

 

Indiana men face federal charges for involvement in Capitol riot.


Fort Wayne men facing federal charges in connection to Jan. 6 Capitol riot

 

Father and son from NJ charged for their roles in Capitol riot.


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/nyregion/jan-6-charges-new-jersey.html