The Donald Trump Score Card

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Biden announces all-female senior press team

 

A fat pig playing golf with small hands In the middle of a worldwide pandemic


And if his former playing partners are to be believed, he’s probably cheating.

 

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The FBI, DOJ, judges, governors, secretaries of state, big tech, postal delivery workers, and the media are supposedly all against Trump and even involved in the election fraud that he alleges.

Some of the people Trump is accusing of being unfair or corrupt are Republicans who were appointed, nominated, or endorsed by him (Wray, Krebs, Barr, Durham, Bibas, Kemp, Raffensperger).



Trump Now Baselessly Suggests FBI Rigged Election Against Him in First Post-Election Interview

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"While Powell was dropped from the Trump legal team for not providing any evidence to back up her claims and accusing Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp of accepting bribes from Dominion, Trump took aim at Kemp for certifying the results of the Georgia election for Biden.

“The governor’s done nothing. He’s done absolutely nothing. I’m ashamed that I endorsed him,” the president whined.

And when Trump wasn’t blaming other Republicans or his own intelligence community for not finding a way to subvert the will of the people and keep him in the White House, he was tossing bombs at the court system.

“From what everybody is saying—and I don’t even think we have to prove this—they say that I was doing so much better than they thought, that they panicked, and they started just doing ballot after ballot very quickly and just checking the Biden name on top,” he muttered."

 

I read these comments with interest (being a European) and Trump fans fascinate me. I can see you, VG, are a ardent DT fan and repeat a lot of Trumpisms and repeat his misinformation as if it's gospel. You are, of course, entitled to your opinions, that is democracy however, what goes through your mind when you go on about Democrat corruption, manipulation and 'fake news' when everyone surrounding Trump is either in jail, under investigation or pleading guilty to crimes (but being pardoned by the guy who is thinking of running away to another country when he leaves office). Media can't fake that.

He's gone into meltdown after losing the election and has created 2 dozen or more baseless lawsuit that have all been thrown out for having lack of evidence. Media can't fake that.

Also, since the election loss, thousands have been losing their lives and tens of thousands of new infections have emerged but Trump has gone AWOL and has been effectively become the invisible man only to reveal himself when pardoning a Turkey or cursing at a ball when he hits it into the lake on his round of golf. The media can't fake that.

Now he's ripping into FBI on groundless accusations and willing start wars with other countries out of pettiness. How can so called 'patriotic Americans' stand by and watch this happen let alone defend him by repeating his lies is beyond me.

 

Bartiromo who interviewed Trump on Fox agreed with everything he said.

Bartiromo:

“This is disgusting! And we cannot allow America’s election to be corrupted.”

 

Bartiromo morphed from a financial reporter to a right-wing, truther narrative, Trump supporter.



Maria Bartiromo’s Strange Trip From ‘Money Honey’ to One of Trump’s Top Boosters
BULLISH ON FOX
Once a titan of apolitical financial reporting, Bartiromo has made an unmistakeable pivot toward conspiratorial and occasionally alt-right-assisted Trump cheerleading.
Andrew Kirell, Senior Editor
Maxwell Tani, Media reporter
Updated Nov. 29, 2020 2:36PM ET / Published Jun. 01, 2018 4:40AM ET

Maria Bartiromo’s Strange Trip From ‘Money Honey’ to One of Trump’s Top Boosters

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"It’s perhaps final confirmation that Bartiromo, infamously dubbed the “Money Honey” for her fierce financial journalism at CNBC, has completed a metamorphosis into a leading booster of all things Trump.

To be sure, she has not reached the dizzying level of sycophancy seen in Fox colleagues Sean Hannity or Lou Dobbs—she still hustles to secure big-name guests and focuses a significant portion of her morning show on the markets.

However, her political transformation is so astonishing that ex-Fox News star S.E. Cupp remarked on Wednesday: “Who is writing the story of Bartiromo’s spectacular career turn? It. Is. Stunning."

 

The late Roger Ailes is said to have thought that Bartiromo was too liberal for Fox.



Maria Bartiromo’s Strange Trip From ‘Money Honey’ to One of Trump’s Top Boosters

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"But there is one eternal Fox News presence who would enjoy her unmistakable turn toward Trumpism. According to sources familiar with negotiations at the time, the late Fox News chief Roger Ailes—a longtime friend of Bartiromo’s from their days together at CNBC—was initially wary of bringing her over to Fox, believing she was too liberal and “too Wall Street” for some of the network’s more populist sensibilities.

If only he could see her now."

 

He's not even in office yet



Biden's doctor says he has hairline fractures in his foot after slipping while playing with his dog - CNNPolitics

 

Well this:

"when everyone surrounding Trump is either in jail, under investigation or pleading guilty to crimes"

Is a classic example of misinformation isn't it?

 

When your country is in crisis a guy playing golf is exactly what a mental breakdown looks like?

What does it look like when your country isn't in crisis? A guy doing the Macarena?

 

Misinformation? Have you conveniently forgotten about Michael Cohen, Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Michael Glyn, Roger Stone and Brad Parscale among others who are still being investigated (Not even counting the Trump family who are all under some sort of investigation and in all sorts of trouble). How is that misinformation? That is fact.

 

You think that's everyone that has surrounded the President in the last four years. Executive Office of the President alone has close to 2000 employees

 

Sure he has but these people are colleagues that have worked directly under him and did his bidding. These aren't strangers who work in his organisation that he has never met (unlike the Trump university experts that he is being sued for). So spin all you want but facts are facts.

 

And what facts are those? What does Manafort getting charged with tax fraud got to do with Trump? By including his name you are saying Trump's bidding was for Manafort to cheat on his own taxes...huh?

You are just a sheep that sits around waiting to be told what to think by CNN

 

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What does Manafort have to do with Trump?


He only chaired the Trump Presidential campaign team during the summer of 2016. ...lol...

VG being VG again.

 

Five factors that helped US democracy resist Trump's election onslaught
Trump’s trashing of norms has been harmful but decentralization, turnout, transparency, the courts and the media played a key role
Tom McCarthy
Mon 30 Nov 2020 05.00 EST
Last modified on Mon 30 Nov 2020 05.03 EST

Five factors that helped US democracy resist Trump's election onslaught

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"1 Decentralization

No central authority oversees US elections. National elections are broken down by 50 states and the District of Columbia. Elections within each state are run in turn by counties and by precincts within counties. People vote locally, in thousands of jurisdictions; ballots are tallied locally; and the results are reported locally, and then added up in the public eye. The sheer number of people involved defies both coordination and conspiracy.

2 Turnout

A persistent symptom of weakness in US democracy has been low voter turnout. Less voter participation means less representative government. But turnout was a bright spot in 2020. Before this November’s election, no presidential ticket had ever notched 70m votes – Barack Obama got 69.5m in 2008. In 2020, Trump’s tally was building toward 74m – while Biden had surpassed the incredible total of 80m, with many ballots from the majority-Democrat New York state yet to be reported.

3 Integrity and transparency

No significant instances of fraud emerged from the 2020 election, conducted over more than a month with an unprecedented number of mail-in ballots cast amid a pandemic. No Trump lawyer dared impute election fraud in court, despite the lies filling Trump’s Twitter feed."

 

Five factors that helped US democracy resist Trump's election onslaught

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"4 The courts

From melting hair dye to Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Trump’s legal team has been much-derided. But in key states, the campaign also hired top-flight lawyers from firms such as Jones Day and Porter Wright Morris & Arthur. On the whole these lawyers have fared miserably, winning only one minor case out of 43 in six states, while losing 35 cases so far, according to a running tally maintained by the Democratic lawyer Marc Elias.

5 The media

Apart from Congress, the media is one of the least-loved institutions in the United States, abused with glee from the White House on down. And the American media has been terribly crippled by the loss over the last decade of countless local outlets that offered irreplaceable, knowledgable coverage of local events. Pseudo-media propaganda services such as Breitbart, One America News, Newsmax and Parler, financed by conservative billionaires, represent ominous new entries on the media landscape given invaluable support by Trump.

But strong and independent media, afforded powerful protections by the first amendment, remain a vital feature of US democracy. With no central authority over US elections, it falls to the media to project a winner. Where the intimidation of voters or poll workers is reported, it falls to the media to shine a light. Where false accusations about election fraud are spread by the president, it falls to the media to investigate and explain what is true and what is false."

 

U.S. Supreme Court to hear census case.


Can Trump Change A Key Census Count? Supreme Court Hears His Claim

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"Even as the Trump administration is heading out the door, President Trump is trying to exclude undocumented immigrants from the decennial census. If he succeeds, it will be the first time unauthorized immigrants will not be counted for purposes of drawing new congressional districts.

Three lower courts have ruled unanimously that the president's action violates either the Constitution, the federal census statute, or both. On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in one of those cases — from New York."

 

That was one of the more desperate, pathetic pleas of Trump during the campaign. He tried to appeal to women by saying that he would put their husbands back to work, that he saved their white neighborhoods from undesirables moving in, and that he made their dishwashers work better.

Trump also demanded that Puerto Rico vote for him. Puerto Rico is not permitted to vote in U.S. presidential elections.

Trump demands Puerto Ricans ‘vote for me' despite island not getting vote