The Donald Trump Score Card

Texas Sen. John Cornyn speaks out about opposing Jan. 6 commission

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"In a statement in mid-February, with the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot still fresh in the minds of millions of Americans and lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Texas Sen. John Cornyn called the attack “horrific and appalling.”

“Those who planned and participated in the violence that day should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” the Texas Republican wrote in a statement at the time. “I agree with Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi that a 9/11-type of investigation is called for to examine and address the confluence of causes for those shocking events and to help prevent them from ever happening again.”

Now Senate Republicans are poised to block a bill which would create the kind of bipartisan, independent commission that Cornyn called for in that statement — and the Texas Senator is one of them.

“Unfortunately, since the idea of a 9/11 type commission was originally floated, it became clear that Nancy Pelosi was going to try to politicize it and use it as a political weapon,” Cornyn told Spectrum News Thursday."

 

Another horse shit republican with zero scruples.

 

Cornyn has suddenly become concerned about transparency and nepotism related to appointments made by Biden after showing no concern about it during the Trump administration.

Cornyn has recently downplayed such issues with Trump as being minor compared to those of Biden.

 

Similar to Cornyn, Lindsey Graham had a double standard for Clinton and Trump.

Graham haplessly tried to justify Clinton's impeachment by calling it a high crime.


Impeachment trial: Nadler plays Clinton trial video of Lindsey Graham

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"To make his point, Nadler played a 1999 video of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who was a manager 20 years ago in the impeachment trial of former President Bill Clinton. The Constitution allows impeachment for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” a term that has been debated during the Trump investigation.

“What’s a high crime?” Graham asked in the well of the Senate in 1999. “How about an important person hurting somebody of low means? It’s not very scholarly, but I think it’s the truth. I think that’s what they meant by high crimes. Doesn’t even have to be a crime. It’s just when you start using your office and you’re acting in a way that hurts people, you’ve committed a high crime.”"

 

They spent more money investigating Bill's blowjob than they spent investigating their 9/11 bombing....

 

Trump incited an insurrection at the seat of the U.S. government, but Graham, originally Mr. "Count Me Out", later went quiet about Trump's riot and second impeachment.

 

They spent more time and money harassing Hillary about. . . . . . . Benghazi.

 

All you brothers and sisters that like my posts and the ones whose posts I like---unfortunately are "preaching to the choir", as the saying goes. My posts are mostly passionate rants against the right wing and the posts by some of you are straight from the news, which are valuable to have been put up. I'm not naming names here because I would more than likely forget or neglect to name someone for whom I respect and always "like "their posts. What I'm getting at is the fact that the gorilla, 6 and various other heavey righties are long gone , but they and folks like them are the ones that really need the enlightenment of some of these posts here. The most recent righties haven't stuck around for long---maybe that's good--I don't know. Anyway--you-all know to whom I'm referring--keep up the good work.

 

Joel, you are correct. We are preaching to the choir, but It helps to vent. I think you are correct about the right wingers who show up for a few minutes. Trudging across the tundra, and a couple of others that showed up around election time don’t have strong arguments to back up their claims, I.e. they can’t handle the truth.

 

Trump lawyer: Manhattan DA won't charge former president

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"Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has indicated he does not currently plan to charge the Trump Organization with crimes related to allegations of "hush money" payments and real estate value manipulations, according to a personal lawyer for Donald Trump.

Ronald Fischetti, a New York attorney who represents the former president, said on Monday that in a meeting last week, he asked Vance’s team for details on charges they were considering.

According to Fischetti, members of Vance’s team said they were considering bringing charges against the Trump Organization and its individual employees related to alleged failures to pay taxes on corporate benefits and perks. It has been widely reported that those perks included cars and apartments and appear to only involve a small number of executives."

 

‘Trump isn’t the dictator’: Wisconsin GOP inches away from Trump

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"In Wisconsin at least, Trump failed to set off the same intra-party chaos that has marked his efforts elsewhere. Worse for him, despite the former president’s harsh personal criticism, there were signs his comments were dismissed with a roll of the eyes.

“I just think it’s been going on for so long that people are kind of tired of it,” said Tony Kurtz, a GOP assemblyman from rural Juneau County, which went for Trump last year by nearly 30 percentage points.

For more than seven months since he lost the election, Trump has engaged in a crusade against Republicans who crossed him, an effort he invigorated with a rally in Ohio on Saturday, where he traveled to campaign against Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, who voted to impeach him earlier this year. In most cases, the Republican base has responded zealously. But here, at a convention center attached to a water park, the lack of interest from the rank-and-file suggested some of the first, tentative signs of weariness of Trump’s smash-mouth political act."

 

Trump's election rants have been going on for eight months.

The shelf life has limits, even for Trump.

Consider Trump doing rallies like the recent one in Ohio all the way until November 2024 peppered with revenge against the GOP and with no new platform for 2024. That approach was already stale enough in 2020 for him to lose the election.

New candidates are always appearing on the scene in races for U.S. House and Senate seats and in state elections such as governorships. The political world has a way of passing by someone like Trump who is stuck in the past, like he has been about fighting an editor from Vanity Fair as far back as the 1980's who said he has small hands.

 

The new republican agenda, get thrown out of baseball parks.

 

‘Utterly Deranged’ Trump Has Full Meltdown Over William Barr, Mitch McConnell
The ex-president attacked his former attorney general and the Senate GOP leader, two key figures who enabled his agenda, calling them “spineless RINOs.”
By Ed Mazza
June 28, 2021

‘Utterly Deranged’ Trump Has Full Meltdown Over William Barr, Mitch McConnell | HuffPost

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"Donald Trump issued a lengthy and rambling statement late Sunday attacking two of his staunchest allies during his one term as president.

Trump called former Attorney General William Barr and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell “spineless RINOs” (Republicans in name only) after Barr told The Atlantic that Trump’s constant claims of election fraud were “bullshit.” Barr also told the magazine that McConnell urged him to “inject some reality” into Trump as he repeated debunked claims of election fraud and baseless conspiracy theories last winter.

McConnell confirmed that account, the magazine reported. That was enough to trigger the former president.

Trump, who once claimed he would hire only “the best and most serious people,” called Barr a “disappointment in every sense of the word,” much as he has attacked many of the other “best people” he hired, including Jeff Sessions (attorney general), Rex Tillerson (secretary of state), James Mattis (defense secretary) John Bolton (national security adviser), H.R. McMaster (national security adviser) John Kelly (homeland security secretary and White House chief of staff) and Mike Pence (vice president)."

 

After disposing of Sessions and Rosenstein, Trump said that he finally got the attorney general that he wanted (Barr).

Few remain who are still in good grace with Trump. Perhaps Miller. He left his position with Trump at Mar-a-Lago recently, apparently to help a company build a social media platform for Trump.

Trump's daughter and son-in-law have remained low-key since he left office.

The crusty bottom of the barrel are still around, such as Lindell and Giuliani (who had his law license suspended).

Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Jim Jordan, and Max Miller attended Trump's rally in Ohio.

It's dwindled to the fringe of the fringe.

 

When an attorney like Fischetti starts talking like this he knows his client is in desperate straights.

“They just said, ‘When this indictment comes down, he won’t be charged. Our investigation is ongoing,’” he said.

“It’s like the Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing,” Fischetti added. “This is so small that I can’t believe I’m going to have to try a case like this.”

Of course Trump won't be charged when the first indictments come down, the Special Grand Jury will be seated for another 5 months and Trump likely won't be indicted until this fall.

 

They'll throw the entire republican party in jail before they touch him. A billion dollars buys a lot of respect in the Mafia.

 

Trump contempt for White House Covid taskforce revealed in new book

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"Amid chaos at the White House as the coronavirus pandemic worsened, Donald Trump took to referring derisively to the Covid taskforce chaired by his vice-president as “that fucking council that Mike has”.

The revelation about the president’s contempt for his key advisory body is one among many in a new book, Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History, which is published in the US on Tuesday. The Guardian obtained a copy.

Previous revelations from the book have included that Trump wanted to send infected Americans to Guantánamo Bay and that he mused about John Bolton, his national security adviser, being “taken out” by Covid.

Authors Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta, both Washington Post reporters, also report in depth on how the extraordinary influence of “outside consultants” to Trump, including the controversial Stephen Moore, relentlessly undermined the work of the president’s scientific advisers."

 

Article from January 7, 2021

Stephen Moore who has been a longtime Trump ally said that he should have conceded the election long ago.

Six months after the statement by Moore and eight months after the election, Trump still hasn't conceded and thinks that Biden is the one who should concede.



Trump ally Stephen Moore says he 'should have conceded long ago'

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"Economist Stephen Moore, a longtime ally of Donald Trump who advised his 2016 presidential campaign, said on Thursday that the siege of the Capitol by Trump supporters less than 24 hours prior marked a "terrible day for America," acknowledging that Trump "should have conceded long ago.”

When asked if Trump bears responsibility for the attack, Moore said, “I do not know.” But he criticized Trump’s conduct in the months since his election defeat last November. “He should’ve said ‘I’m not going to contest this,’” Moore says.

The critical remarks from a top ally of Trump came amid a slew of resignations from his administration and calls for his removal through the invocation of the 25th Amendment, as the U.S. reckons with an attack on the Capitol that led to the evacuation of elected officials from both chambers and four deaths."

 

"a long time ally of Donald trump"---------that that can be said by/about anyone shows what comes next should be completely ignored. Ok---maybe a little credence to this one.