The Donald Trump Score Card

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...ic-health-emergency-calls-for-special-session

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"LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The governor of Arkansas announced Thursday that he’s reinstating a statewide public health emergency due to an increase in COVID-19 cases, but it won’t include a mask mandate or restrictions on businesses.

At a press conference, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said the emergency declaration will extend for 60 days.

“The reason for it is we are in a public health emergency. Anytime you’re having staffing shortages in hospitals, whenever today we have, I believe it is four COVID patients that are waiting in ambulances to be able to find a hospital to go to, that constitutes an emergency and a public health crisis,” said Hutchinson.

The governor listed two reasons for the emergency declaration, one of which is so the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management can seek necessary staffing assistance in health care programs across the state through an interstate compact."

 

I was thinking the same thing why would he leave the gun on his father's bed and not on his own?

 

The governor of Arkansas and other states known to have a large contingent of anti-vaxxers might want to consider distributing free disguises so that anti-vaxxers can be vacccinated without their peers knowing about it.

 

House approves $1.9 billion for Capitol security improvements.


House approves $1.9 billion in emergency spending to bolster Capitol security

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"The House on Thursday narrowly approved legislation providing $1.9 billion to bolster security at the U.S. Capitol in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection. The bill passed largely along party lines, with all Republicans present and three Democrats voting against it.

The legislation incorporates recommendations from an outside panel to strengthen security around the Capitol complex, such as providing funding for fencing and making improvements to secure windows and doors. It would also essentially create a new standing force of the D.C. National Guard to quickly respond to any threats to the Capitol, after it took hours for the National Guard to be deployed on January 6. National Guard troops have been stationed around the Capitol since January.

It would also rename a Capitol Police wellness program for U.S. Capitol Police Officer Howard Liebengood, who died by suicide after the attack, and make changes to improve trauma support."

 

Trump missed the boat on this one.

He could have alleged that his endorsed candidate, Wright, lost because the special election in Texas was rigged.



Donald Trump's hilarious attempt to suggest he actually won in a special election loss - CNNPolitics

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"In an interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan on Wednesday, Trump said that he had been persuaded to endorse Wright by David McIntosh, a former member of Congress from Indiana and the current president of the Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative outside organization.

“This is the only race we’ve … this is not a loss, again, I don’t want to claim it is a loss, this was a win,” said Trump. “The big thing is, we had two very good people running that were both Republicans. That was the win.”"

 

Trump almost admitted he lost, but he caught himself just in time and contended it wasn't a loss.

 

Every Republican House member voted against it, the ones who have traditionally claimed to be so supportive of defense and the police.

Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham of Fox, supposedly supportive of the police, went on the air and made demented remarks mocking police officer Fanone who was injured badly and close to being killed by Trump's rioters.

 

Trump's people are frustrated about funds being spent on protecting the Capitol from Trump's people.

 

Republican primary in Ohio next week.

Trump has endorsed only Carey, chair of the Ohio Coal Association.


Trump's GOP clout on the line next week in Ohio primary showdown

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"Carey, a longtime energy lobbyist and the chair of the Ohio Coal Association, is one of 11 Republican candidates running in next Tuesday’s GOP primary in a district that includes parts of southern Columbus and its suburbs, as well small cities, towns, and rural areas in parts of central and southern Ohio.

And Carey is the only candidate backed by Trump in the race for a seat left vacant after longtime Republican Rep. Steve Stivers stepped down to become president and CEO of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce."

 

Trump takes two punches from GOP

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"Trump’s grip over House Republicans remains solid, those close to the former president say. House GOP members regularly travel to meet Trump at his properties in Florida and New Jersey, and the caucus has largely purged itself of Trump critics.

But the same cannot be said about the Senate, where Republicans appear more willing to move on from the former president.

A Wednesday vote by the Senate to advance a sweeping infrastructure package only served to deepen questions about Trump’s influence. The former president had lobbied against the deal for weeks, issuing half-a-dozen statements urging Republicans to abandon negotiations with Democrats.

It wasn’t just Trump’s Republican detractors that broke with him on the infrastructure deal. Among the 17 Republicans who voted to take up debate on the proposal were some of his most ardent allies, including Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.). Several GOP incumbents facing reelection next year also voted to advance the proposal."

 

Trump doesn't realize that the fate of GOP members who are up for reelection in 2022 hinges in part on progress they can make now on pressing issues such as infrastructure that Trump failed to complete during his administration, even when the GOP controlled both houses in Congress for two years.

Behaving as obstructionists to satisfy Trump's spite for politicians who are making progress could cost them the 2022 election.

Trump incurring more losses in candidates he endorsed for 2021 elections, such as Wright in TX, will further erode his remaining clout. Some of the candidates Trump has endorsed have little appropriate political experience for the job and are running against seasoned candidates. Trump prefers them to try to bolster his ego that is affected by his favorite hot-button, culture-war topics, such as alleged election fraud and face coverings.

Why should GOP candidates running in 2022 wait and place their hopes on Trump being elected president in 2024 (and for the GOP retaking the House and/or Senate) who will supposedly make progress on infrastructure later when Trump and a GOP-controlled Congress couldn't complete such tasks during his term. They also made no significant progress on education, healthcare, immigration, and curbing the national debt.

 

When the Democrats regained control of the House in the 2018 election, Trump made a remark that he thought he could make more progress with Democrats in the House on issues such as infrastructure compared with Republicans. That didn't happen due to Trump's stubbornness and inconsistency during his dealing-making attempts with Congress.

Now when Democrats are making progress with Republicans in Congress on infrastructure with Trump out of the way, he is upset about that also.

Trump has a way of throwing a wrench in the gearbox when progress is being made without him. Even when he is directly involved and could accrue credit, he has a way shooting himself in the foot.

He simply doesn't know how to work in political and social realms that aren't simple winner-loser, zero-sum games like his Manhattan real estate.

 

Sure enough Trumpo threw a tantrum.
Trump blows fuse over GOP moving forward on infrastructure deal | TheHill

 

These people aren’t too bright.

he really is that stupid.

 

After making remarks about working with Democrats after the 2018 election when they had regained control of the House, Trump scrapped infrastructure efforts in 2019 because he was upset that House committees were investigating him.

Article from May 2019.


How ‘Infrastructure Week’ Became a Long-Running Joke
By Katie Rogers
May 22, 2019

How ‘Infrastructure Week’ Became a Long-Running Joke (Published 2019)

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"Roughly two years after the White House first came up with the idea of discussing, for all of seven days, the pursuit of a bipartisan agreement to rebuild the nation’s roads, bridges and broadband networks, President Trump more or less torpedoed those plans on Wednesday in a Rose Garden speech. In the process, he gave Democrats a helpful sound bite when he said he would not pursue a legislative agenda while under investigation by House committees.

He also gave them another opportunity to charge that Mr. Trump, who has promised to deliver on an infrastructure plan since his first days in office, doesn’t really care about working together on one at all.

“I knew he was looking for a way out,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her fellow Democrats who had gathered in the Cabinet Room for the meeting with the president, according to two people familiar with the scene. “We were expecting this.”"

 

Trump urged DOJ to declare election results ‘corrupt,’ notes from December call show | KTLA

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"“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen,” Trump said at one point to then-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, according to notes taken by Richard Donoghue, a senior Justice Department official who was on the call.

The pressure is all the more notable because just weeks earlier, Trump’s own Attorney General William Barr, had declared that the department had found no evidence of widespread fraud that could have overturned the results."