The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump wins acquittal, Ukraine saga over

 

The Trump administration over three years has dwindled down to his personal deep state of Pompeo, Mulvaney, Barr, and Giuliani (shadow minister of everything).

When he was appointed by Trump as Secretary of State, Pompeo promised to correct the low morale in the State Department which he later helped wreck with his involvement in Trump's Ukraine scandal. After claiming he was supportive of everyone at the State Department, Pompeo suffered an emotional meltdown when he was unable to answer an NPR reporter who asked him to explain what he did to support Ambassador Yovanovitch who Trump and Giuliani disposed.

Mulvaney is the head of the federal Office of Management and Budget and was involved in Trump's withholding of U.S. taxpayer money to Ukraine. He very rarely does a press conference. Before he started working for Trump, he referred to Trump as a "terrible human being" and said Trump was unqualified to hold the office.

Mulvaney is also Trump's acting Chief of Staff which doesn't require a Senate confirmation. It's unclear why Trump has kept Mulvaney in the acting status for so long. It's as if Trump expects to shuffle his cast members yet again.

Barr and Giuliani have been globetrotting to try to muster evidence to support conspiracy narratives including one about a supposed missing network server allegedly in Ukraine that is said to contain Hillary's deleted emails which supposedly contain evidence of behavior related to yet another conspiracy narrative about her.

Trump may eventually stab these people in the back like he has everyone else and they may resign on their own accord. It leaves to the imagination what the composition of his adminstration would look like during a second term.

 

ok, if joe biden wasn't running for president, would it have made a difference?. then he would be just another crooked dem, or would he still be untouchable ?

 

I have no idea what you are trying to say....

 

either does he.

 

Rudy W. Giuliani
@RudyGiuliani

Acquitted for life!

 

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

 

he may not want to get in a car with Clemenza.

 

Trump and OJ both are acquitted by a biased jury.

 

The White House May Be on a Path to Mandate Classical Federal Architecture

Controlling the arts is a mark of authoritarianism

I have more to say on this topic but I'm not in the mood to be gaslit by VG so I wont

 

Trump just gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Like a great Christian he attacked his political enemies and was proud of placing refugee babies in cages. Nothing says Christian like placing babies in cages … huh?

 

It also says Trump and Pence want to find a way to glorify the Confederacy.

 

With Dershowitz as their lawyer!

 

so much for those republicans who said they hoped trump learned something from his impeachment trial.
the dude is senile, and doesn't know what the word humble is.

 

That's right, Okie. They got the same Dershowitz!

 

'A pretence of justice': the global press on Trump's acquittal
Newspapers say the Senate impeachment trial has seriously damaged democracy
Jon Henley
Thu 6 Feb 2020 06.29 EST
Last modified on Thu 6 Feb 2020 07.26 EST

'A pretence of justice': the global press on Trump's acquittal

excerpt:

"In Australia, the Age warned of the wider consequences of the acquittal. “Even taking into account Trump’s positives, his negatives – corruption, his reliance on lying, the numerous sexual assault allegations, his disregard for the spirit and letter of the law – are destructive for constitutional democracy,” it said.

“With Republicans unwilling to check his power, Trump functions more like a ruler, a mob boss, or a kingpin than an elected official. Disregard for the law should be of deep concern to citizens of democracies everywhere. It creates a world where status matters more than the law. The impeachment trial of Donald Trump marks a shift. It marks a dangerous turn for the fate of democracy across the globe.”

In the Netherlands, De Volkskrant’s Washington correspondent agreed, saying the outcome of the impeachment process was never in doubt: “If it has made one thing very clear, it’s that he has the undivided support of his party – and that if he wins in November, he will be accountable only to himself.”

Trump was going from strength to strength, the paper said: “He exhibits behaviour that has never been seen before in US presidents: the lies, the lack of decorum, the way he puts people under pressure, the demonstrable corruption. But no one is put off. The traditional values of honour and respect, an inherent part of the Republican party for so long, have been abandoned in a staggeringly short space of time.”"

 

I still want to know more about what happened to Jeffery Epstein. I think Barr and Giuliani had him killed to protect Trump. There must have been some Video tapes and CDs of Trump at Epstein parties. Every one knows Epstein most likely used such compromising videos to get money from them rich folks.

 

No, t'wasn't Barr & Guiliani, but Mrs Windsor to protect her son randy andy !!!

 

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear
One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”
By Sherrod Brown
Mr. Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio.
Feb. 5, 2020

Opinion | In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

excerpt:

"Playing on that fear, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, sought a quick impeachment trial for President Trump with as little attention to it as possible. Reporters, who usually roam the Capitol freely, have been cordoned off like cattle in select areas. Mr. McConnell ordered limited camera views in the Senate chamber so only presenters — not absent senators — could be spotted.

And barely a peep from Republican lawmakers.

One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”

Fear has a way of bending us.

Late in the evening on day four of the trial I saw it, just 10 feet across the aisle from my seat at Desk 88, when Mr. Schiff told the Senate: “CBS News reported last night that a Trump confidant said that Republican senators were warned, ‘Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike.’” The response from Republicans was immediate and furious. Several groaned and protested and muttered, “Not true.” But pike or no pike, Mr. Schiff had clearly struck a nerve. (In the words of Lizzo: truth hurts.)

Of course, the Republican senators who have covered for Mr. Trump love what he delivers for them. But Vice President Mike Pence would give them the same judges, the same tax cuts, the same attacks on workers’ rights and the environment. So that’s not really the reason for their united chorus of “not guilty.”

For the stay-in-office-at-all-cost representatives and senators, fear is the motivator. They are afraid that Mr. Trump might give them a nickname like “Low Energy Jeb” and “Lyin’ Ted,” or that he might tweet about their disloyalty. Or — worst of all — that he might come to their state to campaign against them in the Republican primary. They worry:"