The Donald Trump Score Card

Does Trump want Google to show only alternative good news?

 

huh?

 

Only pro-Trump news.

 

McGahn to split the Trump scene after spending 30 hours with Mueller.


White House counsel Don McGahn will leave Trump administration in the fall
Christal Hayes, USA TODAY
Published 7:49 a.m. ET Aug. 29, 2018 | Updated 11:26 a.m. ET Aug. 29, 2018

White House counsel Don McGahn will leave Trump administration in the fall

excerpt:

"The news of McGahn's departure comes less than two weeks after his cooperation with special counsel Robert Mueller was publicized. McGahn sat down with Mueller's team for interviews that spanned about 30 hours in total, a person familiar with McGahn’s contact with the special counsel’s office told USA TODAY."

 

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I read Trump wants Flood to take over, because of his prior experience in representing Bill Clinton during impeachment.

 

Donald Trump, constitutional scholar
By Dana Milbank
August 28, 2018

Opinion | Donald Trump, constitutional scholar

excerpt:

"His Honor had determined that Google searches for “Trump News” were “RIGGED” so that “almost all stories & news is BAD.” He asserted that mainstream news articles (“fake news”) got priority over material friendly to Trump. “Illegal?” he asked.

Why, yes. Yes, it is illegal. We know this because no less an authority than Trump himself already established a precedent, last month finding Twitter guilty for failing to give Republicans sufficient prominence. “We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once!” he vowed.

The law according to Trump is not always Solomonic. Last week, he decreed that “flipping” — a fixture of trial law in which little fish get immunity to testify against bigger fish — “almost ought to be illegal.” This may have had something to do with his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, potentially flipping against him.

By contrast, Trump ruled that Cohen’s actual crimes ought to be legal. “Cohen plead guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime,” Trump tweeted after Cohen admitted he attempted to affect the election by using unreported funds to buy the silence of women alleging affairs with Trump."

 

Trump is now claiming Google is illegally suppressing good news about him. This claim coming from someone who has secretly used his buddy, David Pecker, to not only suppress stories that were unfavorable to Trump but to bury them using 'catch and kill'. It's similar to the murky NDA scheme Trump used with his personal attorney, Cohen, to bury his unsavory relationships with women.

At the same time, Trump used Pecker's National Enquirer to bash Hillary Clinton. The National Enquirer's formal endorsement of Trump was the first time that it had formally endorsed a presidential candidate.

Trump's arrangement with Pecker can be construed as campaign activity involving payments that weren't reported, leaving Trump open to possible criminal indictments.


Bad news for Trump: Darcy cartoon
By Jeff Darcy
Updated Aug 28; Posted Aug 28

Bad news for Trump: Darcy cartoon

excerpt:

"In a scheme called 'Catch and Kill', Pecker routinely bought the rights to stories damaging to Trump and buried them, literally locking the information in a National Enquirer safe. Among the stories he paid for and suppressed, was Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal's story of her long term affair with Trump.

While Pecker used his money to buy and bury unflattering Trump stories, he used the cover of the Enquirer to routinely bash Hillary Clinton with outrageous headline claims and photos.

The immunity deals and Duncan's comments are bad news for Trump because of what they signal. And the immunity deals are especially bad because of what jurisdiction they are in.

It is the Southern District in New York City that's handling the Cohen case. It's the State of New York that is bringing the case against the Trump Charity Foundation and Organization, not Mueller. Trump firing Mueller or Rosenstein will not stop the prosecution of those cases."

 

Remember When Sarah Sanders Said ‘When You’re Attacking FBI Agents… You’re Losing’?
by Rachel Dicker
Feb 2nd, 2018, 3:04 pm

Remember When Sarah Sanders Said ‘When You’re Attacking FBI Agents… You’re Losing’?

 

The talk of withdrawing from the plea deal may have been a ploy by the wife of Papadopoulos to drum up social and financial support for him.


After weeks of uncertainty, Papadopoulos decides to accept plea deal with Mueller
By Matthew Mosk and Lucien Bruggeman
Aug 29, 2018, 5:34 PM ET

Papadopoulos accepts plea deal with Mueller after weeks of uncertainty

 

The Trump administration has been getting desperate to reach some sort of trade agreement with Mexico that it can claim as a success. Nieto lost the election and will be replaced in December with Obrador who is described as being at the opposite end of the political spectrum compared to Nieto. Trump should have spent time building a coalition with Nieto when he had the chance.

The Trump administration needs to inform Congress 90 days in advance about changes in the trade policy, which leaves little time for Trump to make changes with Mexico that involve NAFTA before Obrador takes office. Within the framework of NAFTA, Canada needs to agree to whatever agreement was made between the Trump administration and Mexico before it can be implemented.

Regarding Mexico ultimately paying for the wall, Trump can wait until Mexico ultimately pays for it and then he can build his wall.

 

U.S. dairy subsidies equal 73 percent of producer returns, says new report
Written by RealAgriculture News Team
February 9, 2018

U.S. dairy subsidies equal 73 percent of producer returns, says new report

excerpt:

"Clark calls the subsidies “an 800-pound gorilla in the room,” with the U.S. dairy industry demanding increased access to Canada’s supply managed market in the current North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations.

“U.S. politicians have been quick to demonize Canada for its different system. Fair trade is in the eye of the beholder. For example, some 41 countries, including the U.S., has WTO approved tariff-rate quotas. The U.S. challenged Canada’s rights to use their quotas within NAFTA over 20 years ago. The U.S. lost. But the U.S. does tend to cast a very broad net when they complain about trade,” said Clark."

 

Trump nixes 2019 pay raises for civilian federal employees. It's a budget cut of $25 billion, which is about the minimum construction amount his wall would cost. He also proposed $143 billion in cuts to federal workers in May 2018.


Trump says civilian government employees won't receive raises in 2019, citing budget strain
by Tucker Higgins
August 30, 2018

excerpts:

"President Donald Trump said Thursday that civilian employees of the federal government will not receive raises in 2019.

In doing away with the 2.1 percent across-the-board pay increase that was scheduled to take effect in January, Trump said he was working "put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course.""


"The Trump administration proposed $143.5 billion in cuts to federal employee compensation in May, including substantial decreases in retirement funding. Also that month, Trump signed three executive orders that made it easier to fire civilian employees and put new limits on union activity. A federal judge invalidated many of the provisions in those executive orders on Saturday."

 

President Trump Said He's Replacing NAFTA With His Own Deal. That's Not Exactly Right
By Justin Worland
August 27, 2018

Trump Said He's Replacing NAFTA With His Own Deal. That's Not Exactly Right

excerpt:

"Moreover, revising NAFTA would require Congressional approval and Congress might reject a deal that doesn’t include all three countries. Earlier this year, 36 Republican senators including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calling on Trump to keep the deal intact while modernizing it. Trump could try to abandon the deal without Congressional approval, but the move would likely draw legal challenges.

Perhaps more significantly, skeptics of the new deal have grounds to question whether the White House was entitled to negotiate a new trade deal in the first place. A 2015 law requires the Administration to inform Congress 90 days before beginning trade negotiations. The White House told Congress last year that it would renegotiate NAFTA, but never said it would start talks on an entirely new deal. (The Administration said Monday that it believes that it has met its legal requirement).

Regardless of Trump’s claims of reaching an entirely new trade deal, the new agreement does seem to bring the three countries much closer to a potential NAFTA rewrite more than 25 years after it took effect. The deal resolves several thorny debates between the U.S. and Mexico including how much of a car’s content needs to be made in the region to qualify for tariff exemption, the minimum wage for some autoworkers and how to treat Mexico’s energy sector, which was closed to U.S. investment when NAFTA was first drafted.

Trump may yet get Canada and Mexico to agree to a new deal, but the announcement Monday was part of the process, not, as Trump seemed to suggest, the end result."

 

Trump rages against fake everything
by Haley Britzky
August 30, 2018

Trump rages against fake everything

excerpt:

"President Trump raged on Twitter Thursday morning against the "totally dishonest" media, lashing out at the heads of NBC and CNN, before turning his ire to "fake books."

The big picture: His tweetstorm comes after continued attacks on Google and other Big Tech giants for allegedly silencing conservative voices. For Trump, it's not just "Fake News" anymore — he's waging a war on fake everything."

 

This made my day. Trouble for Trump: Disapproval at a high, 63% back Mueller, half favor impeachment
On the other hand, Trump is bragging about an approval rating that doesn't seem to exist.
https://nypost.com/2018/08/27/trump-boasts-about-approval-rating-that-doesnt-seem-to-exist/
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/27/poli...Most+Recent)&utm_content=Yahoo+Search+Results
It seems he got the disapproval rating confused with the approval rating.