The Donald Trump Score Card

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/01/15/klete-keller-capitol-olympic-swimming/

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"If his 6-foot-6 frame and familiar face, covered by a beard but not a mask, didn’t give away Keller’s identity to those who knew him, one chilling, telltale detail certainly did: the Team USA jacket he was wearing, with the U.S. Olympic team patch on the front left shoulder.

How did Keller become so radicalized as to join thousands — including, according to media reports, members of white nationalist and extremist groups — in what some have characterized as an attempted overthrow of the U.S. government? Rioters smashed windows and doors, ransacked congressional offices and violently attacked U.S. Capitol Police officers, killing one of them.

And why, after working to turn his life around in recent years following a bottoming-out in 2014, would Keller risk it all in such a reckless way?

“That’s what’s so confounding. I just can’t answer those,” said Gary Hall Jr., a 10-time Olympic medalist who has known Keller since childhood and was his Olympic teammate in Sydney in 2000 and in Athens in 2004. “For him to throw everything away, I don’t understand it. It’s very, very troubling.”"

 

Trump is an ideal subject for case studies on how a person can radicalize thousands of domestic citizens into committing violent acts in his name.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/01/15/klete-keller-capitol-olympic-swimming/

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"Not shocking because his friends knew him to be a staunch conservative and gun aficionado — one described him as “infatuated” with guns — whose posts on social media in recent years had shown him to be an increasingly fervent Trump supporter. (Keller’s social media accounts have since been deleted, and messages to him have gone unreturned. There have been no indications Keller was armed Jan. 6.)

Most of those friends and ex-teammates were also familiar with the difficult trajectory of Keller’s post-competition life, which included a divorce and child-custody fight and a brief period of homelessness, during which Keller was living out of his car and sleeping in a Walmart parking lot.

“Klete and I no longer have a personal relationship, [because] during and since his swimming career he’s had many personal issues [that] he’s chosen not to address,” Cari Sherrill, Keller’s ex-wife and the mother of his three children, said in a text message. “That in itself has always been concerning and continues to be.”"

 

At the rate they're going, Biden may have to pardon all the nonviolent pot offenders in federal prisons, just to make room.

 

I hope these are actors, please.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/01/15/klete-keller-capitol-olympic-swimming/

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“He was a lost soul, long before the Trump thing,” said Rowdy Gaines, a three-time gold medalist at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics who, as NBC’s lead commentator since 1996, serves as the unofficial voice and face of the sport to its many fans. “He hit some hard times where he went through some things in life that probably wouldn’t be real good for anyone. Sometimes when you get lost, you become a follower instead of a leader.”

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/01/15/klete-keller-capitol-olympic-swimming/

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“The reactions I was getting were: ‘Oh, my God. I can’t believe he’s wearing the Olympic garb,’ ” said Stewart. “There was some anger.”

“It’s a terrible reflection on the sport and the Olympic team,” Hall said. “Great care is taken to remove any political agenda from Team USA. For him to drag that in by wearing the sacred colors was especially painful.”

“It embarrasses the movement when you do that,” Gaines said. “It’s embarrassing to the sport, and it’s embarrassing to my other brothers and sisters.”

 

Unfortunately, they aren't.

But their ability to make remarks about things that aren't true as if they are really true gives them an ability to be actors in Hollywood or politicians. Their role model, Trump, has been both.

 

Tonight Show sketch with Johnny Carson impersonating former actor and president Reagan.


Inquirer: "Mr. President, what's the difference between an actor and a president?"

Reagan: "Well, one stands in front of a camera and reads lines from a script that aren't true. The other plays in movies."

 

NEW EVIDENCE: Trump extremists brought numerous guns to the Capitol on January 6

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"This attempted political cover-up has hinged on another specific claim: that no one who stormed the Capitol brought guns.

“This didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me,” Johnson said five weeks after the attack, adding, “When you think of armed, don’t you think of firearms?” During the May hearings, Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona claimed “zero firearms” were found among suspects charged with breaching the Capitol. “There were no guns whatsoever,” former President Trump declared repeatedly during a Fox News interview in July.

Evidence of numerous firearms among January 6 perpetrators shows those claims to be false. A Mother Jones investigation drawing on public video footage, congressional testimony, and documents from more than a dozen federal criminal cases reveals that various Trump supporters descended on DC that day armed for battle with guns and other potentially lethal weapons. At least three people arrested in connection with the insurrection are facing charges for carrying firearms on Capitol grounds. At least eight others carried knives or tasers at the Capitol, including two defendants who allegedly committed assaults with tasers, according to FBI and court documents. Multiple others arrested downtown and in the vicinity of the Capitol had rifles, pistols, explosive materials, and large supplies of ammunition. And communications among numerous January 6 suspects detailed in court documents indicate that many of their fellow insurrectionists were armed with guns."

 

Ohio friends sentenced to 45 days for U.S. Capitol riot Jan. 6

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"COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Federal prosecutors assert that everybody who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 should be evaluated individually when deciding whether a prison sentence is warranted. On Wednesday, a judge accepted the Justice Department’s assessment that two friends from Ohio fall into a category of rioters who deserve to be incarcerated.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg sentenced Derek Jancart and Erik Rau to 45 days in jail. Prosecutors had recommended four months of imprisonment for both men. They must report to jail by Nov. 29.

The jail sentences for Jancart and Rau could become benchmarks for how the courts resolve many other Capitol insurrection prosecutions, a caseload that tops 600 defendants and grows by the week."

 

Durham's investigation has been going longer than Mueller's.

Bill Barr gave Durham a wide latitude of subject matter for investigation.


Durham Issues New Subpoenas in Probe of FBI Russia Investigation, Targets Clinton Campaign Law Firm

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"Special Counsel John Durham, the attorney tapped by the Trump administration to audit the Russia investigation, has reportedly handed down a new set of subpoenas, including to a law firm with ties to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

The grand jury subpoenas for documents were issued earlier this month, according to CNN, after Durham charged Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann for allegedly knowingly making a false statement to the FBI.

Investigators from the special counsel’s office are seeking additional documents from Sussmann’s former law firm, Perkins Coie, an indication that Durham may be looking to add to Sussmann’s charges or to bring cases against other defendants."

 

45 days, big whoop. Oh and more or less, report to prison, uh, when you get around to it, ok? Is there anything special you'd like on the prison menu so we can accommodate your palate?

 

For over a decade, the NSA has been brazenly plugging their machines directly into servers everywhere, and spying on roughly a third of the country. In other words, they don't even require an excuse to spy on anyone, despite their fucking mandate claiming that's the CIA's job. How much would you like to bet they've been collecting every bit of data they could from such idiots all along, and chose the appropriate moment to accidently "spill the beans".

The NSA love Putin and Donald Duck.

 

Governor Abbott and the Texas Secretary of State haven't informed the counties what they want, other than saying Trump wants an audit.


‘He caved in minutes’: Texas judge slams Abbott for giving Trump election audit

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"Hours later, Texas’ Secretary of State’s Office announced that there would be an audit of the election. But according to Judge Jenkins, no one at that office seemed to have a plan for how the audit would work.

“They weren’t able to tell us anything as far as what they wanted,” the judge said."


"Another judge, Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley, confirmed that election officials seemed to be scrambling.

“The Secretary of State’s office just said, we’ll get back to you,” Judge Whitley told CBS DFW. “We’re in the middle of the plan. And when we have more details, we’ll get back with you. At the same time, we welcome the opportunity to assist and do whatever we can we feel comfortable with the election.”"

 

Someday, Putin will get pissed off and release the Donnie Pee-Pee video....

 

Trump turns up the heat on Abbott with a another statement about audits.


Donald Trump adds fresh pressure to Gov. Greg Abbott over demand for a forensic election audit

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"In a new statement to The Texas Tribune on Wednesday, Trump said it is "a big mistake for Texas" not to pass the audit legislation, House Bill 16 by Rep. Steve Toth, R-The Woodlands.

“By allowing the Democrats to do what they do, it will make it much harder for the Governor and other Republicans to win election in 2022 and into the future,” Trump said. “Texas is a much redder state than anyone knows, but this is the way to make sure it turns blue.”

There has been no evidence of widespread election fraud in Texas, where Trump defeated President Joe Biden by 6 percentage points. After the November election, a secretary of state official said Texas’ election was “smooth and secure,” and nationwide, Trump’s own Attorney General Bill Barr said there was no fraud detected that could have changed the outcome of the election."

 

Abbott is trying to appease Trump with a review of the 2020 election in four counties in place of HB 16 being passed and signed by Abbott.


Trump keeps up pressure for wider Texas election audit

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"Even then, the review announced by the secretary of state’s office is not the same as what Trump demanded from Abbott — the addition of HB 16 to the special session call. That bill would allow state or county party chairs to request audits of the 2020 election that could result in the forming of election review advisory committees that would review ballots from randomly selected precincts. It would also outline a process for candidates and party chairs to ask for reviews in future elections.

“Texas needs you to act now,” Trump told Abbott. “Your Third Special Session is the perfect, and maybe last, opportunity to pass this audit bill. Time is running out.”

"The pressure from Trump, who is still a dominant GOP leader, puts Abbott in an awkward position as he continues to battle attacks from his primary opponents that he is not conservative enough, while touting Trump’s endorsement in the race. Trump has endorsed Abbott for reelection next year, but his push for HB 16 mirrors that of the challengers.

Abbott’s opponents say the announcement by the secretary of state’s office is no alternative to HB 16.

“It’s not sufficient,” Allen West, the former Texas GOP chair, said in a statement. “I support the election audit legislation proposed by Rep. Steve Toth.”

Another Abbott primary challenger, former state Sen. Don Huffines of Dallas, said Trump “was very clear in what he asked Greg Abbott to do: pass House Bill 16.”

“Greg Abbott is refusing that request and obfuscating the issue by pretending to audit four counties,” Huffines said in a statement. “It’s just the latest example of his failed leadership.”"

 

Spike (Trump) and Chester (Lindsey Graham, Greg Abbott, the current GOP in general)


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Putin's always pissed off, or nobody in Russia would respect him, and knows damned well the NSA has been finding ways around his security for decades, and would love nothing more than a pissing contest between him and Donald Duck. It would give them an excuse to join the fun and, oooops, I pushed the wrong button, and just posted Putin's sex tapes online...