The Donald Trump Score Card

America shuts down again -- choosing reality over Trump's false claims
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 12:39 AM ET, Tue July 14, 2020

America shuts down again -- choosing reality over Trump's false claims - CNNPolitics

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"The lesson for the states now in the center of the storm -- that jumped ahead of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on safe reopening -- are sobering. New York and Massachusetts bought what may still be only a temporary truce with the coronavirus by weeks of lockdowns and a strict reopening process that waited for the curve of infections to be properly suppressed before restrictions were lifted. Even now, there's no guarantee the virus won't return at dangerous levels when normal life picks up.

None of this seems to have filtered through to Trump. As always, the President was fixated on what latest developments meant for him -- especially as he rammed home his demand for all children to get back to school despite having no plan for how to make their return safe.

In a fresh sign of self-absorption on Monday, he turned perhaps the most acute current social complication of the pandemic into a charge that his political enemies wanted to keep kids stuck at home to hurt him."

 

Trump barefy won Michigan in 2016 by appealing to those in cities like Battlecreek who felt left behind by the Great Recession.

Battlecreek has become an example of a city left behind by the coronavirus pandemic. It places Trump in the position of trying to blame his poor response to the virus on Obama, such as an unproven, alleged regulation of the Obama administration related to testing that supposedly badly crippled the ability of Trump to respond to the virus.

In addition to auto workers (whose plants in MI were shut down by the virus), Trump also has to deal with the coal miners and steel workers who seem to have been left behind by his plethora of self-centered coronavirus rants.



Trump failed to revive America's 'cereal town' – will it vote for him come November?
Battle Creek, the once-thriving home of Kellogg’s, went to Trump after voting twice for Obama. But enthusiasm for the president seems to be waning
Kalena Thomhave in Battle Creek, Michigan
Published on Tue 14 Jul 2020 04.00 EDT

Trump failed to revive America's 'cereal town' – will it vote for him come November?

 

Hey Stormountainman - I agree with your assessment above.
It's this TROLL'S typical "shotgun blast" of random assertions & claims just to stir people up. It's grasping at any straw to keep the crap flowing. Let me give you my own such example ..............................

"What about conservative Aussie TROLLS? Many people have said that all conservative Aussie trolls are child molesters."

See ................ it's easy. Throw out some crap and see if it sticks. See how many people's buttons got pushed.

The whole world can see what a disaster Rump has been in total - but especially with his "handling" of the Covid-19 pandemic. Rump doesn't care about the safety of the kids, the teachers, the school staffs, the parents & grandparents the kids go home to ..................... only his poll numbers and popularity. So he threatens to withhold funding to any school districts that don't open schools like normal times. What a "he-man."

The TROLLS' opinions don't matter ........................ but our votes do in November.

 

See post 25435. Another wild, senseless assertion. If nothing else, the TROLL shows us that the mind has no bounds when it comes to wild, inventive, false claims.

 

This is assuming the troll has a mind...

 

Here in the United States of America, 87% of parents have said they do not want to send their children to school as Trump has demanded. The poll was reported on CNN. Again, we are talking about America ... not some backwater Australian desert camp.

 

I was wondering about their admiration for each other?

 

Here on Craigslist they are giving away pictures and coins with Trump's likeness because no one wants them.

 

After a spat with the governor of North Carolina, Trump capriciously moved the RNC convention to Jacksonville which turned out to be one of the worst places in terms of the coronavirus.



Trump’s Convention? ‘Everybody Just Assumes No One Is Going’
By Giovanni Russonello
July 14, 2020, 7:02 a.m. ET

Trump’s Convention? ‘Everybody Just Assumes No One Is Going’

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"Darin LaHood, a congressman from Illinois, put it bluntly: “Everybody just assumes no one is going,” he said. He is one of eight members of the House who told The Times that they would skip the convention — along with party heavyweights like Senators Charles Grassley, Lamar Alexander and Susan Collins, who have already indicated they won’t attend.

The convention was initially planned for Charlotte, N.C., but Trump decided to move it after North Carolina’s governor, a Democrat, refused to guarantee that he would not enforce mask-wearing and social-distancing requirements at the event.

The point is all but moot now: Jacksonville officials announced late last month that they would require all convention attendees to wear masks. They haven’t yet said whether they will restrict the number of people allowed in the arena.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, refused to commit to a plan for the convention. “We will have to wait and see how things look in late August to determine whether we can safely convene that many people,” he said.

In Texas, the State Supreme Court ruled against the Republican Party’s appeals to hold an in-person state party convention. The event was set to begin later this week at a convention center in Houston — one of Texas’s virus hot spots. But after the court handed down its ruling yesterday, the state Republican Party’s executive committee voted to move the convention online.

In California, where the rate of daily confirmed coronavirus cases has doubled in the past month, Gov. Gavin Newsom yesterday announced a sweeping rollback of the state’s reopening plans."

 

You're just afraid China will bomb the shit out of Australia, mate. As if trump cares about australia. the dumb fucker doesn't even know where it is.

 

Trump's gut feeling does it again.

"In Gut We Trust"

 

[Coronavirus roundup: White House urges jobless to 'find something new'; Cuomo facing criticism in NY
An Australian state is toughening its punishments for anyone caught violating coronavirus quarantines, including jailing rule breakers for up to six months — a warning that follows rising virus cases worldwide and violations of restrictions that are now being further tightened. buh bye, vg.

 

The prospect of Trump having to find something new is currently increasing as voters are looking to find something new in November.

 

Sputter, sputter, barf, gurgle, gurgle, drool, sputter, gurgle, barf, barf, sputter-sputter, wheeze, dribble .................................

Muck-mouth, Moscow Mitch. I'll bet his favorite song is Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" !!!!!!!!! Maybe he sings it to Rump.

 

An article about the prospect of Trump pardoning himself of any current charges against him and potential charges in the future that could lead to convictions.

Trump could apply the same type of prospective pardon to anyone, like the prospective pardon Ford gave to Nixon.



Press: Trump's final presidential pardon: himself
By Bill Press, Opinion Contributor
07/14/20 07:15 AM EDT

Press: Trump's final presidential pardon: himself

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"But wait, White House officials could even be pardoned for crimes they haven’t even been charged with yet? Again, don’t laugh. It’s already happened. One month after he resigned, Gerald Ford gave Nixon a “full, free and absolute pardon” for all federal crimes he “committed or may have committed” during his presidency — thereby making it impossible to charge him with anything. And, in 1992, shortly before leaving office, President George H.W. Bush pulled the rug out from under special counsel Lawrence E. Walsh by granting a full pardon to six Reagan officials, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, under investigation in the Iran-Contra affair. Walsh had no choice but to drop his case.

Most Americans don’t understand that, for Donald Trump, the stakes here could not be higher. For him, what’s at stake is much greater than simply losing the White House. What’s at stake is losing his freedom. Trump knows that, with Joe Biden in the White House and his ability to hide under the cloak of presidential immunity no longer possible, he could well be indicted for crimes identified in the Mueller report and the House impeachment. His post-presidential days could be spent in prison, not on the golf course. So he’s adopted a three-part strategy to deny that possibility."

 

Press: Trump's final presidential pardon: himself

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"First step: Deny the legitimacy of the Trump-Russia investigation by branding it a Democratically inspired “witch hunt.” Blame it on Ukraine, instead. Get Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to hold Senate hearings. Tell Bill Barr to conduct his own Justice Department investigation. All underway.

Second step: Do whatever’s necessary to secure the loyalty of anybody on the inside who could tell the truth. Buy Roger Stone’s silence with a commutation. Promise a pardon to Michael Flynn, if he needs it. Fire the U.S. attorney for New York to keep Rudy Giuliani from having to testify under oath. Again, all underway.

Trump’s third and absolutely certain final step: Get ready to pardon himself. He knows he has to do it. He will do it. It’s not a question of if, but of when."

 

If Trump loses in 2020, he would still be eligible to run in 2024 or later (assuming he's not in prison).

Grover Cleveland was the only U.S. president to serve two non-consecutive terms in office.


Grover Cleveland
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Grover Cleveland - Wikipedia

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"Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (1885–1889 and 1893–1897)."

 

Defiant people in the likeness of Trump have embarked on bodacious ventures.

James Traficant said he would run for reelection for his U.S. Congress House seat from his cell.



Traficant Begins 8-Year Jail Term
July 31, 2002 at 8:25 PM EDT
Updated July 27 at 12:45 AM

Traficant Begins 8-Year Jail Term

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"Neither prison nor last week's expulsion from the House of Representatives deterred the Youngstown Democrat from promising to run for Congress from his cell.

"He's prepared to serve his time and he's going to fight on," said Mark Colucci, appointed by Traficant to represent him during his appeal. "And he's going to be on the ballot, and to him, quite frankly it's kind of just another day and he's moving down the road."

Traficant, 61, was led away in handcuffs after Wells refused to let him remain free on bond while he appeals his conviction on 10 counts of bribery, racketeering and tax evasion."

 

"an island surrounded by … big water" ~ Donald J. Trump