The Donald Trump Score Card

Who are the 17 witnesses in the Trump impeachment inquiry and what have they said?
Christal Hayes and Nicholas Wu
USA TODAY
Published 3:27 p.m. ET Nov. 6, 2019
Updated 8:51 a.m. ET Nov. 22, 2019

Trump impeachment inquiry: The officials who testified before Congress

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Oct. 3: Former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker

Oct. 11: Former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch

Oct. 14: Trump's former Russia expert Fiona Hill

Oct. 15: State Department Ukraine-Russia expert George Kent

Oct. 16: Michael McKinley, ex-adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Oct. 17: U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland

Oct. 22: Bill Taylor, top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine

Oct. 23: Defense official Laura Cooper

Oct. 26: State Department official Philip Reeker

Oct. 29: Ukraine expert Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman

Oct. 30: State Department official Catherine Croft

Oct. 30: State Department official Christopher Anderson

Oct. 31: NSC official Timothy Morrison

Nov. 6: State Department's David Hale

Nov. 7: Pence aide Jennifer Williams

Nov. 15: State Department official David Holmes

Nov. 16: White House official Mark Sandy

 

Wouldn't really expect him to keep him on. Time for a fresh change regardless

Especially, if a little tariff war with the EU is coming as Trump has indicated. You'd need a guy in that position with a different skill set

 

Trump's diaper?

 

Trump.

Forget about someone who keeps changing his staff like musical chairs to circumvent the law.

Elect someone who faithfully executes the Constitution.

 

So, this thread should make it to 1200 pages by November.

And another 1200 pages in the 4 years after he gets re-elected

Let's aim for 2500 pages, HFs longest thread ever!

Who's with me?

 

U.S. Secretary of Defense, Esper, said that he will protect all service members from retaliation.

This is remarkable. The Secretary of Defense defending service members from their commander-in-chief, Trump.



Trump fires two impeachment witnesses
BBC
February 7, 2020

Trump fires two impeachment witnesses

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"Earlier on Friday, US Defence Secretary Mark Esper told reporters his department welcomes back all of its personnel from assignment.

"And as I said we protect all of our service members from retribution or anything like that," Mr Esper added."

 

Esper better be careful with his remarks. He could end up on Trump's chopping block for trying to usurp Trump's perceived infinite authority to retaliate.

 

In October 2019, Trump referred to Esper as Esperanto in a disjointed tweet about Syria.

 

So what did they all have to say about what they didn't directly hear?

 

Volker and Williams preemptively split the scene in September and January, respectively.

 

Trump looked stressed more than usual during his speech about Iran. His eyes at times looked highly stressed compared to before the election and early in his term.

His handwriting has lost what little curves it had. It has simplified to a barbed wire appearance with the first and last letters of his first and last name becoming increasingly oversized.

 

trump, or one of his lackies wanted Pelosi jailed for tearing up hi SOTU speech. hahahahaha.

 

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While he's complaining about Pelosi, Trump tears up documents without copies when they should have been stored in compliance with the Presidential Records Act.

Trump fires those who try to comply with the law and uses the excuse that they work at the pleasure of the President who Trump say can do anything he wants.



Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back together
The president's unofficial 'filing system' involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they're supposed to be preserved.
By ANNIE KARNI
06/10/2018 04:12 PM EDT

Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back together

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"Despite the president’s apparent disregard of the Presidential Records Act, sources said, aides around him have tried to take an overly inclusive approach to what would be considered a presidential record.

Anything that’s not purely personal — even just a note handed to an aide at a rally that was passed on to Trump — has been considered a record deemed worthy of being sent to records, where staffers could make sure the White House was being compliant with the law.

That team is now smaller, after many of the career officials were cleared out earlier this year."

 

Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back together

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"In the course of explaining what their work at the White House entailed, however, both described in detail the process of taping back together scraps of paper that the president had ripped up and thrown out. Both said they were happy to discuss the oddity of a job they began to view as a sort of punishment.

They did not, however, approach a reporter with the intent to leak embarrassing information about the president.

Lartey said he was fired at the end of the work day on March 23, with no warning. His top-secret security clearance was revoked, he said. Later, five boxes of his personal belongings were mailed to his home.

“I was stunned,” he said. “I asked them, ‘Why can’t you all tell me something?’ I had gotten comfortable. I was going to retire. I would never have thought I would have gotten fired.” He signed a pre-written resignation letter that stated he was leaving to pursue other opportunities. But he is still unemployed.

Young, who was terminated April 19, said he fought back and had his official status changed from “resigned” to “terminated.”

“I was coerced to sign a resignation letter at that time,” he said. “Then they escorted me to the garage and took my parking placard.”"

 

Lolz, third time lucky eh

 

Trump burns his bridges and poisons his wells. .

The clearing out of competent, law-abiding officials who he deems not loyal to him is a staple of Trump's approach. It's deep-rooted in his Manhattan private real estate activities where he could dictate anything he wanted onto his subordinates, even at the cost of causing his businesses to go bankrupt.

When he disposes of another competent person, Trump's supporters respond by saying it isn't a problem because they can find another job and they were working at the pleasure of the President, who Trump and his supporters think can do anything he wants regardless of law and proper procedures.

Some of Trump's enthusiasts assume there will be many more competent people willing to replace the fired who won't be intimidated by him and who will somehow comply with the law. Trump will likely fire them too. Other Trump supporters don't care about issues of law and ethics at all, as long as their 401(k) is doing reasonable well.

 

I was rolling a non-filter cigarette with the other hand.

 

The National Prayer Breakfast is an event where Trump would have been expected to exhibit what little scrap of repentance he might have. Instead, he used it to launch a revenge campaign.

Senators Collins and Ernst who said that impeachment caused Trump to learn his lesson should now be confident.