The Donald Trump Score Card

"I know the internet better than anyone..." Donald J. Trump

 

well, that might be true in relation to his followers.

 

FBI still after 'worst of the worst' in Capitol riot as new arrests come at steady pace

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"Four months after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, FBI agents maintain a steady pace of arresting people accused of taking part, as one of the largest criminal investigations in American history keeps growing.

"We're not done rounding up the worst of the worst," said one law enforcement official. "We're not slowing down."

More than 440 people have been charged with taking part in the Capitol siege, coming from all but six states — Mississippi, North and South Dakota, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wyoming. The largest number come from Texas, Pennsylvania, and Florida, in that order.

Men outnumber women among those arrested by 7 to 1, with an average age of 39, according to figures compiled by the Program on Extremism at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. A total of 44 are military veterans.

More than 60 of those arrested so far face some of the most serious charges, of assaulting officers with the U.S. Capitol Police and Washington's Metropolitan Police departments. Officials said 140 officers were injured during the riot.

The pace of arrests has remain steady, as the FBI sorts through hundreds of thousands of public tips. In nearly 90 percent of the cases, charges have been based at least in part on a person's own social media accounts.

 

Similar to Trump, his followers can't keep their mouths closed.

 

F.E.C. Drops Case Reviewing Trump Hush-Money Payments to Women

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"The Federal Election Commission said on Thursday that it had formally dropped a case looking into whether former President Donald J. Trump violated election law with a payment of $130,000 shortly before the 2016 election to a pornographic-film actress by his personal lawyer at the time, Michael D. Cohen.

The payment was never reported on Mr. Trump’s campaign filings. Mr. Cohen would go on to say that Mr. Trump had directed him to arrange payments to two women during the 2016 race, and would apologize for his involvement in a hush-money scandal. Mr. Cohen was sentenced to prison for breaking campaign finance laws, tax evasion and lying to Congress.

“It was my own weakness and a blind loyalty to this man that led me to choose a path of darkness over light,” Mr. Cohen said of Mr. Trump in court in 2018.

While Mr. Cohen has served time in prison, Mr. Trump has not faced legal consequences for the payment.

“The hush money payment was done at the direction of and for the benefit of Donald J. Trump,” Mr. Cohen said in a statement to The New York Times. “Like me, Trump should have been found guilty. How the F.E.C. committee could rule any other way is confounding.”"

 

Repairing the damage Trump inflicted on migrant children.


Biden administration begins 'long haul' of reuniting migrant families separated under Trump
Caitlin Dickson.·Reporter
Wed, May 5, 2021, 6:36 PM

Biden administration begins 'long haul' of reuniting migrant families separated under Trump

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"This week, the Biden administration announced that the parents from four different families who were deported to Central America and Mexico without their children under former President Donald Trump will be allowed to cross the border and rejoin their children in the United States.

The families are the first to be reunited in the U.S. since President Biden issued an executive order in February to create a task force dedicated to repairing families torn apart as a result of his predecessor’s controversial family separation policy. The task force, which is led by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, estimates that the number of families who remain separated is over 1,000."

 

US Justice Department worried about Arizona Senate recount
BOB CHRISTIE
Wed, May 5, 2021, 6:59 PM

US Justice Department worried about Arizona Senate recount

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"In a letter to GOP Senate President Karen Fann, the head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said the Senate's farming out of 2.1 million ballots from the state's most populous county to a contractor may run afoul of federal law requiring ballots to remain in the control of elections officials for 22 months.

And Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Pamela S. Karlan said that the Senate contractor's plans to directly contact voters could amount to illegal voter intimidation.

“Past experience with similar investigative efforts around the country has raised concerns that they can be directed at minority voters, which potentially can implicate the anti-intimidation prohibitions of the Voting Rights Act,” Karlan wrote. “Such investigative efforts can have a significant intimidating effect on qualified voters that can deter them from seeking to vote in the future.”"

 

Trump might have pardoned Giuliani had the FBI raid on his apartment occurred while he was still president.


Opinion | What Trump has to fear from Rudy Giuliani
Opinion by George T. Conway III, Contributing columnist
May 6, 2021 at 3:33 p.m. UTC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/06/george-conway-giuliani-raid-trump-fear/

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"All this boggles the mind of anyone who has followed Giuliani’s lengthy career. It’s as though someone dropped him on his head. Still, as a former associate attorney general and former U.S. attorney, he surely understands that federal search warrants against lawyers don’t just fall off trees. The Justice Department doesn’t like them, out of respect for the attorney-client privilege. Prosecutors will use them if they have really strong evidence a lawyer is up to no good, and if very senior personnel in Washington agree. And, of course, only with the blessing
of a federal court.

That’s terrible news for Giuliani — just ask Michael Cohen, the last presidential lawyer raided by the FBI. It’s not good for the former guy, either. Giuliani’s travails have left him facing potentially staggering legal bills, which in apparent desperation he’s beseeching Trump to pay. And most important, Giuliani faces the prospect of jail.

If Giuliani has anything to offer prosecutors to save himself, it would have to be Trump, the only bigger fish left. And it was arguably criminal for the then-president to have used his official powers to try to coerce foreign officials into aiding his reelection campaign. In fact, Giuliani’s admission that he wasn’t conducting foreign policy, but merely helping Trump personally, is exactly what would make the scheme prosecutable. The former guy just might want to rethink stiffing Giuliani on those bills.

That’s not the ultimate irony of Giuliani’s predicament. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan tried to get permission last fall for a Giuliani raid but were rebuffed by senior officials serving under Trump. And last June, for reasons still opaque, then-Attorney General William P. Barr ousted the U.S. attorney there and tried to handpick a successor.

If any of that was intended to protect Giuliani — or Trump himself — it might end up backfiring spectacularly. If a warrant had been executed before Jan. 20, it’s hard to imagine that Trump wouldn’t have pardoned Giuliani, out of spite, self-interest or both.

Now it’s too late. As Giuliani cautioned on the newly disclosed transcript, “be careful of the people around you, because they can very easily, they can very easily get you into trouble.” That might be the only advice he gave that turned out to be right."

 

Florida condo stripped of the Trump name.


Florida condo complex strips ‘Trump’ from its name as the ex-president’s brand falters

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"A West Palm Beach condo formerly called Trump Plaza has been renamed as simply, "The Plaza," The Palm Beach Post reports. The name change came after residents voted to ditch the Trump name after the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

"The residents preferred a name for the condo that was generic, low-key and didn't attract attention of any kind," condo association president Jeff Barr said. "Our original name of 'The Plaza' filled that need."

The Trump brand was once thought to have brought an air of class to the complex, but after his surge to the presidency and all the negative coverage that came with it, the Trump brand began to sour with some residents."

 

Lock him up... lose the key.

 

Amazing how that works. Trump directed these transactions, and Cohen served time for it. If this was anyone else that was in Trump’s position, they would be behind bars.

 

You didn't know? The workaholic Japanese and white US and EU populations have been imploding since the introduction of modern birth control. Methinks familiarity doth breed self-contempt, while family values are going down the toilet altogether. White Americans, that is, the republican party, have the highest rates of suicide, abortion, rape, child abuse, and divorce. Fifty years of studies have concluded their children's values and mental health are now in the toilet, and their population only looks ready to implode altogether. They are working themselves to death in the name of low taxes, and the introduction of the Tea Party and Donald Duck have only accelerated their demise.

 

Two Republican commissioners on the FEC appear to be arguing that it wouldn't be prudent to use FEC money to investigate Trump because Cohen is already being punished for it.


F.E.C. Drops Case Reviewing Trump Hush-Money Payments to Women

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"Two of the Democratic commissioners on the F.E.C., Shana Broussard, the current chairwoman, and Ellen Weintraub, objected to not pursuing the case after the agency’s staff had recommended further investigation.

“To conclude that a payment, made 13 days before Election Day to hush up a suddenly newsworthy 10-year-old story, was not campaign-related, without so much as conducting an investigation, defies reality,” they wrote in a letter.

The Republican commissioners who voted not to proceed with an investigation, Trey Trainor and Sean Cooksey, said that pursuing the case was “not the best use of agency resources,” that “the public record is complete” already and that Mr. Cohen had already been punished.

“We voted to dismiss these matters as an exercise of our prosecutorial discretion,” Mr. Cooksey and Mr. Trainor wrote."

 

Graham will forgo the principles of democracy Liz Cheney is defending in order to stay on Trump's bandwagon.


Opinion | Lindsey Graham’s shocking admission about Trump blows up a big GOP argument
Opinion by Greg Sargent, Columnist
May 7, 2021 at 2:02 p.m. UTC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/07/lindsey-graham-fox-news-2022-midterms/

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"“I would just say to my Republican colleagues, can we move forward without President Trump?” the South Carolina Republican told Sean Hannity on Thursday night. “The answer is no.”

Graham then referenced the battle among Republicans over whether to remove Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming from the House GOP leadership for demanding that Republicans fully renounce Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.

“She’s made a determination that the Republican Party can’t grow with President Trump,” Graham said. “I’ve determined we can’t grow without him.”

Noting that Trump had broadened the GOP’s appeal to “working men and women” with his “economic populism” and “America First” agenda, Graham said: “If you don’t get that as a Republican, you’re making the biggest mistake in the history of the Republican Party.”"

 

McCarthy has changed direction along with the winds in his conference. After Trump's riot, he had called for a censure of Trump for waiting hours to try to stop the riot. Now he's for disposing of Liz Cheney and jumping on Trump's wagon of demented economic populism.

Even when Trump did finally release a statement about the riot hours after he helped start it, he praised his rioters, saying he loved them and they were special people.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...thys-bizarre-attempt-rewrite-narrative-jan-6/

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"Contrary to the claims of some critics of McCarthy’s impeachment stance, he didn’t blame Trump for inciting the riot. Trump’s sin, in his estimation, was in not doing more to quell the riot after it began unfolding.

“He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding,” McCarthy continued. “These facts require immediate action by President Trump to accept his share of responsibility, quell the brewing unrest and ensure President-elect Biden is able to successfully begin his term.”

On Sunday, though, McCarthy pulled something close to a 180 on this, at least in his emphasis. “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace asked McCarthy about Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler’s (R-Wash.) claim that Trump had told McCarthy during the riot, “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.” McCarthy declined to confirm or deny it. What he did do, though, was suggest Trump had in fact responded sufficiently to his pleas for action.

“I was the first person to contact him when the riots” were going on, McCarthy said. “He didn’t see it. [How] he ended the call was saying — telling me, he’ll put something out to make sure to stop this. And that’s what he did, he put a video out later.”

It also came hours after the phone call, according to McCarthy’s own claims. We know that Trump spoke to Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) at 2:26 p.m. that day, so for McCarthy to have been the first person Trump spoke with, their conversation would have taken place before then. Trump’s video was released at 4:17 p.m.

More than anything, though, it’s almost impossible to square this account with McCarthy’s comments from January. And to be clear, these weren’t heat-of-the-moment remarks. McCarthy said Trump bore responsibility during a speech on the House floor on Jan. 13 — a full week after the riot. He pointed specifically to Trump not doing enough to quell the unrest. Now he credits Trump for a widely panned video that came only after the worst of the unrest had subsided."

 

McCarthy is now trying anything to defend Trump.

McCarthy says 'later' which was hours after the riot started. In the statement by Trump that was hours later, Trump said he loved his rioters and that they were special people.

 

Like McCarthy in his hapless attempt to defend Trump's riot, Trump also used the same vague reference to 'later' when he said to journalists that he found out about the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels 'later'.

 

RATHER THAN POST EVERY CARTOON I'LL JUST GIVE YOU THE WEBPAGE TO CHECK OUT.
Cartoons (theweek.com)

 

When you can afford the best justice that money can buy, elections are merely a way to keep in touch with your customers.

 

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