The Donald Trump Score Card

Article from January 2022.


We Reviewed All 733 Arrests From the Insurrection. Here Is What We Found.

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"How Many of the Defendants Remain in Jail?

Very few. Roughly 85 percent of the defendants who were charged in district court have won some kind of pretrial release, and only 15 percent have had to await trial in jail. Contrast this number with the ordinary pretrial release rate and it seems clear that Jan. 6 defendants are receiving special treatment. In 2019, only 42 percent of federal defendants were released from jail while waiting for their court date or for their case to resolve. In that same year, 58 percent of federal defendants were made to await trial in jail.

The Jan. 6 defendants are twice as likely to be released from jail pre-detention as ordinary defendants and more than four times less likely to be held on charges."

 

We Reviewed All 733 Arrests From the Insurrection. Here Is What We Found.

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"How Can This Be?

There are a number of plausible explanations for this phenomenon. Only 30 percent of those arrested on Jan. 6 had a previous criminal history, according to a comprehensive analysis by Robert Pape. Judges take past history into consideration at a number of points in the criminal process, including when deciding who gets to go home and who does not. A recent study by the U.S. Sentencing Commission found that nearly 73 percent of people convicted of federal crimes had at least one prior conviction.

Notably, only about half of the Jan. 6 defendants have been charged with felonies—which, compared with misdemeanor cases, generally are less likely to lead to pretrial release—as opposed to 94 percent of defendants in federal criminal cases in 2019. Finally, and perhaps most critically, Jan. 6 defendants appear to have more resources than the average criminal defendant, reportedly hiring private attorneys at four times the rate of a typical defendant. “There are a few factors related to particularities of these cases that could potentially explain why the Jan. 6 defendants were released pending trial at higher rates than average,” said assistant professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School Stephanie Didwania. “But I doubt these factors alone can explain why so many of the Jan. 6 defendants were released.”"

 

We Reviewed All 733 Arrests From the Insurrection. Here Is What We Found.

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"It’s hard not to look at the numbers and see another trend: Defendants in Jan. 6 cases are much more likely to be white than those in a typical federal criminal case. In 2018, only 52 percent of the people arrested in the U.S. were white, according to a 2018 study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Black people made up 19 percent of those arrested, and Hispanic people accounted for 17 percent. According to an early estimate by Pape, 95 percent of the Jan. 6 defendants were white.

Studies have shown that the criminal justice system is rife with implicit and explicit bias that leads to staggering racial disparities. The treatment of the Jan 6. rioters throws those biases into stark relief: When it comes to pretrial release, they are getting sent home at a much higher rate than their Black and Hispanic peers. “As someone who thinks our criminal legal systems massively overdetain people pending trial, I would hope that, to the extent the Jan. 6 defendants were treated more compassionately than average, that the same would be extended to all people affected by the criminal legal system,” Didwania said."

 

We Reviewed All 733 Arrests From the Insurrection. Here Is What We Found.

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"Gregory Nix, allegedly attacked one officer with a flagpole seven times. Paul Rae, a Proud Boy charged with assaulting a police officer, was warned at one point by the judge that he had violated the conditions of his pretrial release, only to be given yet another chance. He then allegedly crashed his speedboat into an island while drunk. Bryan Betancur is an avowed white supremacist who declared he wanted to be a “lone wolf killer” and was already on a GPS ankle monitor when he was arrested on Jan. 6. Luke Coffee, the Friday Night Lights actor, is accused of attacking a police officer with a crutch. Robert Sanford is a retired firefighter alleged to have thrown a fire extinguisher at police during the mob assault. Michael Joseph Foy allegedly attacked police with a hockey stick wrapped in a Trump 2020 flag and then complained that his jail conditions presented a “grave human rights abuse” because there was “no time in front of the television.” All of these men were eventually granted some form of pretrial release."

 

We Reviewed All 733 Arrests From the Insurrection. Here Is What We Found.

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"Have Any Defendants Gotten Into Trouble While Out on Bond?

Yes. Several defendants violated conditions of their release but were allowed to stay out of jail, while others have landed themselves in jail on other charges. Grassroots conservative activist Mark Sahady attended and spoke at an anti-mask protest after his release. Elias Costianes was subsequently charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs. Patrick Montgomery, a Colorado man who was previously banned from owning firearms due to an earlier robbery conviction, shot and killed a 170-pound mountain lion and then posed for photos. Jeremy Vorous refused to let a probation officer inside his home, was repeatedly uncooperative with probation officials, had an illicit machete in his home, and was still allowed to retain his pretrial release. Matthew Eugene Loganbill, the gun store owner banned from using guns as part of his release, was also allowed to remain free after taking part in a shooting contest. Patrick Stedman, the self-described “relationship strategist,” had the conditions of his release tightened only after he harassed on Twitter the man who originally turned him in. (In his day job, Stedman advises men to “think of a girl’s persona in adversarial terms, as it is fundamentally manipulative.”) Most horrifically, one defendant, Kene Brian Lazo, was accused of sexually assaulting a child after his release from jail."

 

A study published in summer 2020 showed that most of the major Western democracies had higher confidence in Putin and Xi to do the right thing regarding world affairs than they did in Trump.

It looks even worse for Trump now that Putin has invaded Ukraine.


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Trump Allies Continue Legal Drive to Erase His Loss, Stoking Election Doubts

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"Last fall, 186 state legislators from 39 states joined a letter written by Wendy Rogers, a Republican state senator from Arizona who has appeared at events hosted by Mr. Lindell, calling on “each state to decertify its electors where it has been shown the elections were certified prematurely and inaccurately.”

All the efforts have either failed to progress or been rejected for lack of legal grounds in the absence of any evidence of widespread voter fraud that could have affected the 2020 election. And even as elected Republicans have almost uniformly embraced Mr. Trump’s claims that the vote was stolen, many have rejected the idea that states should decertify their results or argued that the effort was merely symbolic, noting that he could never be reinstated."

 

Yep, another of those 'let's sneak one of our judges in' back door deals by Donnie.....yep, no official experience other than clerking for CLARENCE THOMAS.......appointed for life.

 

Ignorance will be the death of us…..

 

Treachery and treason will be the death of us.....

 

Agreed- that too

 

Ohio has early in person voting for about a month before the actual primary day. (This is the same for the actual elections in November.) For the last several years I have voted early in person. Today I voted and went through the normal procedures of showing ID and signing my name etc. I asked for a Democrat ballot. Then went to the same computer screens I have used before and made my choices. After you are done voting you press "print" and it spits out a ballot. Then you go to another machine and feed your ballot into that machine which took the ballot and then showed that it had jammed. I stood there with the guy assisting me and after a few seconds I said jokingly, "Did that happen because I am a Democrat?". He laughed and said, "Oh no, of course not." Then his supervisor came over and punched in a few numbers on the machine and said, "There it took." while pointing at some small thing on the bottom of the screen.

I am still wondering if my vote counted. Just saying...Ohio does not like Democrats.

 

Let's see, it was in one tiny back corner office with Gert and Fran volunteering since Nixon, either in the middle of nowhere, unmarked and not on your gps, or smack in the middle of downtown - both with no parking and only open when normal people have to work.

 

Many of Trump's cohorts proffering truth narratives are in their late years. Eastman, Stone, Flynn, Finchem, Gableman, Giuliani, and Trump himself.

Before they go out of the world, they think they are engaging in a last valiant effort to make the world great again by trying to overturn fair elections and disenfranchise voters by passing draconian voting laws.

Putin is another one of the same type of thinking. He turns 70 in 2022 and thinks he is making Ukraine great again by what he refers to as liberating it from Nazis.

 

Trump recently endorsed Vance for U.S. Senate in Ohio.

An old text of Vance surfaced where he said Trump could be the next Hitler.


https://theweek.com/2022-election/1...might-be-americas-hitler-in-2016-text-message

 

Well, he was right about that. I guess 50% of our voting population missed 1939 week in history class.

 

She still had to be approved by the then Republican controlled Senate who knew she wasn't qualified to become a bailiff let alone a Judge

 

I am fortunate to live in the town of our county that has the Board of Elections where they do the early in person voting.. The building that houses the Motor Vehicles and Board of Elections is about 4 miles from the center of the city. It used to be a strip mall and when the Big Lots left they expanded to the entire space. It is a large room with many voting machines. There is a lot of parking. There were at least eight workers taking the initial information and another eight or more helping with the other machines and directing traffic (so to speak). I was the only voter there.

I am an older person and retired. I went at 9 am. It is convenient and I appreciate being able to choose a day and time along with avoiding crowds.

I am very aware of the treatment that others fight just trying to vote. It is common for poll workers to be elderly because they have time to work a very long day on election day. I took a day off work to work the polls in 2000 when George W. Bush won. We were still voting with hanging chads at that time. I was asked to work because they did not have enough Democrats to work the polls. It was the first and last time I worked the polls. It was one of the longest days of my life.

It is frustrating living in Ohio and voting for people who mostly don't win. We do have Sherrod Brown and I think we went for Obama both times.

 

Keep up the fight, Spectacles. I was just bitching about out polling place. About four parking spots, across a divided highway, inside an active fire and ambulance bay. Any time a working slob can get in there, it's lines around the corner.

I firmly believe that if you make it easier to do the right thing, people usually do. That's why dropping a ballot off in a collection box or in the mail was so perfect and brought the huge turnout.

 

The race for the U.S. Senate Portman's seat when he announced he wasn't running again has turned into a GOP circus.

The antics such as what looked like a near-brawl between Mandel and Gibbons make Portman look distinguished. Trump reportedly didn't like Mandel's appearance and behavior and endorsed Vance.

Gone is the era when Democrats like Metzenbaum and astronaut Glenn consistently held the U.S. Senate seats in Ohio and when the campaigns and legislative atmosphere had at least some decorum.