The Donald Trump Score Card

I had conversations with lawyers a few years back and remember that a lawyer cannot be a witness in a case, meaning Cohen might not be able to represent Trumpy since he paid Stormy Danny out of his own pocket.

 

Did some one say something about draining a swamp?

 

Kris Kobach is acting as his own attorney and defending himself in the Kansas proof of citizenship voter law case while he is running for governor of Kansas. Kobach wrote the voter ID "SAFE" Act of Kansas.

Kobach served as the operational head of Trump's Commission on Voter Integrity which rarely met and later dissolved. It was supposed to find proof of Trump's allegation that millions of people voted illegally for Clinton instead of Trump to satisfy Trump's 'I never lose' narcissistic trait.


Kobach will represent himself in upcoming trial. Is it a smart move?
by Jonathan Shorman
February 04, 2018 09:02 AM
Updated February 04, 2018 10:00 AM

Kobach will represent himself in upcoming trial. Is it a smart move?

 

The Trump administration used Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974 to justify the import tariffs imposed on solar cells and washing machines.

It used Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to justify import tariffs on steel and aluminum. Section 232 allows an administration to use its discretion as to what constitutes a threat to national security, the selection of the tariffs, and the duration that they will be in effect which could be indefinite.

Tariffs based on Section 232 have been implemented only about six times and mostly for issues regarding petroleum. Section 232 allows the executive branch to impose tariffs without the direct involvement of the U.S. Congress.

The thrust of the tariff action is emanating from the U.S. Commerce Department which is headed by Wilbur Ross. It involves making a case to the ITC when using Section 201 and writing a document that justifies national security interests when using Section 232.



Trump Administration Imposes Solar and Washing Machine Tariffs; Faces Bigger Near-Term Trade Decisions
Robert S. Laruss, Shearman & Sterling
Jan 23, 2018

Trump Imposes Tariffs Faces Trade Decisions

 

Sam Nunberg: Arrest me! Well, ok. Don't arrest me.

 

well, that says what we all have been thinking about Trumpy's picks for top government jobs.

 

My law prof always said, "Only a fool has himself for a lawyer."

 

HA HA HA HA HA HA, Trump just started talking with Emmet Flood...Bill Clinton's impeachment lawyer!

 

Ty Cobb may be on the way out. It appears that not many other legal people want to to take the case for Trump who is supposedly the world's best dealmaker.


Trump Talks With Clinton Impeachment Lawyer About Aiding in Mueller Response
By MAGGIE HABERMAN and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
MARCH 10, 2018

Trump Talks With Clinton Impeachment Lawyer About Aiding in Mueller Response

 

Trump is a celebrity. The dream team of O.J. Simpson might be able to offer assistance.

O.J. Simpson Trial: Where Are They Now?

 

An article about Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.


Are National Security Tariffs Legal?
Todd Tucker
February 16, 2018

Are National Security Tariffs Legal? – Todd Tucker – Medium

excerpt:

"Third, the logic of the report is straightforward. It notes that the Defense Department and government more broadly relies on steel. It notes the domestic steel industry has had negative net income since 2009 and many factories have closed, as imports rose. It suggests young workers do not see steel as viable career path, so do not enter the industry. The report notes that capacity utilization needs to be at 80 percent or higher in order to ensure sustainable profitability, and that the current utilization rate is at 72.3 percent. Thus, even though imports as a share of total domestic consumption stand at “only” 30%, that level is inconsistent with ongoing profitability. The report then uses standard trade modeling exercises to ask what tariff would be needed to get back up to 80 percent. It then reports out a tariff that gets just to the level of production associated with that (90.6 million metric tons) and not higher: 24 percent. All of this makes the exercise seem fact based and like it’s not out to pad the pockets of steel executives."

 

Oil industry falls out of love with Trump
Steel tariffs, jousting over NAFTA and wariness about regulation rollbacks are making oil and gas executives nervous.
by BEN LEFEBVRE and ERIC WOLFF
03/10/2018 06:51 AM EST

Oil industry falls out of love with Trump

 

Why America’s 1994 deal with North Korea failed – and what Trump can learn from it
In 1998, both the US and the international atomic energy agency were satisfied that there had been 'no fundamental violation of any aspect of the framework agreement' by North Korea. But on its own pledges, Washington failed to follow through
Maria Ryan
Friday 4 August 2017 10:22 BST

Why America’s 1994 deal with North Korea failed – and what Trump can learn from it

 

Clinton announcement of U.S. North Korea nuclear agreement in 1994.

Video.

 

Agreed Framework between the United States of America and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Agreed Framework - Wikipedia

 

comic relief


Millions of Americans Demand $130,000 for Not Having Sex with Trump
By Andy Borowitz
February 14, 2018

Millions of Americans Demand $130,000 for Not Having Sex with Trump

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Millions of Americans on Wednesday demanded that Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, issue them checks in the amount of $130,000 for not having sex with Trump.

After Cohen revealed that he had issued such a check to Stormy Daniels, a porn star who he claims never had intimate relations with his client, there was widespread outrage among other Americans who had also not had sex with Trump but had not been paid for not doing so.

“Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy for Stormy Daniels,” Tracy Klugian, a florist in Santa Rosa, California, said. “I just want my check, too.”

Harland Dorrinson, a bank teller in Akron, Ohio, said that he had already e-mailed Cohen to demand payment. “I have never come close to having sex with Trump, and that should be worth something,” he said. “Specifically, $130,000.”

But, even as millions of Americans clamored to be compensated for abstaining from sex with Cohen’s client, others, like Carol Foyler, of Tallahassee, Florida, took a different view. “Never having sex with Donald Trump should be a reward in itself,” she said.

 

Maybe OJ will run down to Walmart and buy Rumpy an extra small pair of gloves?

 

It may be time for a class-action lawsuit.