The Donald Trump Score Card

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/webster-police-assault-capitol-hill-riot-1.6434700

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"Thomas Webster, who took the witness stand on the third day of his federal trial, said it felt like he was hit with a hammer or a freight train when Metropolitan Police Department officer Noah Rathbun reached out with an open left hand and struck the right side of Webster's face.

"It was painful, and I was seeing stars," Webster said. "It was a hard hit, and all I wanted to do was defend myself."

Rathbun, one of dozens of officers injured at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, testified Wednesday that he didn't punch or pick a fight with Webster."

 

Governor thought Trump was having a nervous breakdown during George Floyd protests

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"The book claims Mr Trump’s ranting during a conference call with the nation’s governors so troubled Ms Mills that she summoned a member of her security team to join her in listening to the then-president.

Ms Mills, a Democrat, recalled what she said to the guard in an interview with the authors.

“You gotta sit here and listen to this because I think the president of the United States is having a nervous breakdown or something, and it’s scary,” she said.

On the other side of the country, Oregon Governor Kate Brown became so alarmed as Mr Trump demanded governors restore order that she called her husband in to listen along.

“You can’t make this s*** up,” she reportedly said."

 

Arizona Senate president now wants to 'uncertify' the election

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"Senate President Karen Fann continues the exercise in embarrassment that has become her legacy.

The Prescott Republican recently told a reporter for The Undercurrent, a progressive political website, that Attorney General Mark Brnovich will have to go to court to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election if he concludes the audit was correct.

Say what?

This is, no doubt, news to her ninja auditors, who despite months of looking found no evidence of fraud in the election.

It’s likely news to Brnovich who recently issued an interim report that that found “serious vulnerabilities” in Arizona’s election system but no actual fraud.

Beyond the nine cases – out of 3.4 million votes – that he already was prosecuting, that is."

 

Finally, Arizona's election fraud has been found!
Opinion: The Arizona Republican Party is giddy with excitement over all that election fraud uncovered in Arizona. All nine cases. Can a fundraising grift be far behind?
Laurie Roberts | Arizona Republic

Arizona election fraud has finally been uncovered

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"At long last, that hallowed day has arrived. This historic moment when Arizona’s conspiracy crowd can rise, with one voice, and proclaim, “aHA!”

Yes, it seems that Arizona’s elusive election fraud has finally been uncovered.

The Arizona Republican Party was jubilant at the news, delivered in Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s interim report on the findings of the Maricopa County election audit.

“BREAKING NEWS: Arizona Audit w/ @KelliWardAZ. AG @GeneralBrnovich has determined widespread FRAUD in the Maricopa County 2020 election,” the Arizona Republican Party breathlessly reported."

 

So now it is supposedly unclear who really won the AZ 2020 election and Biden's win needs to be decertified.

 

Republican woman illegally voted twice in AZ 2020 election in Maricopa County, the county that has been the focal point of wild claims by the GOP of having rampant fraud.


Arizona woman avoids jail time for voting with dead mother’s ballot in 2020 election

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"An Arizona woman who voted on behalf of her dead mother in the 2020 general election has dodged jail time.

Tracey Kay McKee was sentenced on Friday to two years’ felony probation, fines and community service, after Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Margaret LaBianca rejected a prosecutor’s request that she serve at least 30 days in jail for lying to investigators.

The 64-year-old, who now lives in California, sobbed while she waited for the judge to deliver her punishment, claiming she was only grieving the loss of her mother, Mary Arendt, at the time. A registered Republican, Arendt died a month before the November vote and just two days before early ballots were mailed out.

“Your honor, I would like to apologize,” McKee said through. “I don’t want to make the excuse for my behavior. What I did was wrong and I’m prepared to accept the consequences handed down by the court.”"

 

Team her up with Republican Donald 'Kirk' Hartle of NV who also used his deceased mother to vote twice in the 2020 election and later falsely claimed someone stole his ballot, just like the narrative Trump was promoting.

 

Both Republicans, Tracey Kay McKee and Donald Hartle, dodged jail time for voter fraud convictions.

Hartle's crime was really slimy, considering he used his dead mother to promote Trump's baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud.

 

After being charged, Hartle said he couldn't wait to tell his side of the story at his trial, which never happened because he pleaded guilty before the trial.

 

Trump endorses Pence's brother.

Trump would throw Pence's brother under the bus also if he wasn't completely loyal to him.


Trump endorses Pence’s brother after sparring with ex-vice-president

 

Trump needed a Pence... He had all those "Trump / Pence" posters and flags, that were made in China, left over. Marketing...

 

Lindsey Graham complained to a Capitol Police officer that they 'let people breach the Capitol' while they tried to outline an evacuation plan on January 6, book says

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""Right now, the Capitol is breached," the captain said. "We need you to be patient and then we'll move you in orderly fashion."

Another officer then began to speak, telling the senators that the plan "is to come here in SH-216, hold until we determine what the next step is going to be—"

But then, Graham interrupted the officers.

"The next step is to get 'em out!" said Graham. "Whatever force you need to do. You're here to protect us. This is the center of democracy. You let people breach the Capitol."

The outburst reportedly drew the ire of fellow senators.

"Shut up, Lindsey!" Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio reportedly yelled, as another person yelled to Graham that "there are no cameras — come on!"

Graham's office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. It has previously been reported that the South Carolina Republican wanted officers to use guns on the rioters."

 

McCarthy embodies House GOP's post-Trump dilemma and post-Gingrich history

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"Today, McCarthy dismisses all that he said at that time as hypothetical strategizing. He tells his troops in the House Republican Conference that he never called on Trump to resign. And so far, Trump himself has accepted this story from McCarthy as an apology and "a compliment to me, frankly."

The GOP leader's Hill colleagues also seem OK with it — at least, most of them do, at least for now. The House GOP held a confab in the Capitol this week where they seemed in a mood to buy McCarthy's characterization of his 180-degree course correction.

McCarthy embodies the dilemma that confronts Hill Republicans in the shadow of Trump. His struggle to resolve it reflects a common experience of dealing with contradiction. "Every member had a similar process," one Republican member from Texas told The Washington Post.

This "process" may be called a pivot or a pirouette, proof of resilience or hypocrisy. But for the moment it enables members who fled for their safety on January 6 to act as though it never happened. And most of them seem to agree they need to do just that."

 

McCarthy embodies House GOP's post-Trump dilemma and post-Gingrich history

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"There have been some party members who did not support or vote for Pelosi over the years. But their numbers have been somewhere between single digits and de minimis. Pelosi has been the boss through a dozen years in the minority and seven in the majority.

Over that same stretch of time, House Republicans have had four leaders. And if experience is any guide, they may well have a fifth before this year is out. McCarthy may well be the most popular Republican in the House, but unless that popularity moves the needle to 218, he will fall short again. And the scramble will continue."

 

More people should say this...

 

One by one, Republican midterm candidates are falling into line with Trump | Robert Reich

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"It’s the same story with JD Vance, Republican candidate for the Senate from Ohio, who initially told the truth about the 2020 election but then pushed Trump’s lie to curry favor with Trump – and was rewarded last week with Trump’s endorsement and $10m in campaign funds from rightwing billionaire Peter Thiel."

 

One by one, Republican midterm candidates are falling into line with Trump | Robert Reich

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"It’s the same with the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, who held on to his scruples for a few minutes after the January 6 insurrection – when he publicly criticized Trump and told House colleagues he’d urge Trump to resign – but then promptly did a 180 and traveled to Mar-a-Lago to display his total loyalty to Trump, even bestowing on his madness a jar of his favorite pink- and red-flavored Starbursts. (McCarthy has denied ever telling his colleagues he’d urge Trump to resign but was caught on tape doing just that.)"

 

The reason Trump has forgiven McCarthy over that remark is because he hates McConnell more than McCarthy and wants McCarthy as Speaker of the House.

 

Jim Jordan has given the impression that he wasn't involved in Trump's schemes to overthrow the 2020 election. At first, he said he couldn't remember if he even called Trump on Jan. 6.


Evidence mounts of GOP involvement in Trump election schemes

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"Texting with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, a close ally and friend, at nearly midnight on Jan. 5, Jordan offered a legal rationale for what President Donald Trump was publicly demanding — that Vice President Mike Pence, in his ceremonial role presiding over the electoral count, somehow assert the authority to reject electors from Biden-won states.

Pence “should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all,” Jordan wrote.

“I have pushed for this,” Meadows replied. “Not sure it is going to happen.”

The text exchange, in an April 22 court filing from the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot, is in a batch of startling evidence that shows the deep involvement of some House Republicans in Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power. A review of the evidence finds new details about how, long before the attack on the Capitol unfolded, several GOP lawmakers were participating directly in Trump’s campaign to reverse the results of a free and fair election."

 

Evidence mounts of GOP involvement in Trump election schemes

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"It’s a connection that members of the House Jan. 6 committee are making explicit as they prepare to launch public hearings in June. The Republicans plotting with Trump and the rioters who attacked the Capitol were aligned in their goals, if not the mob’s violent tactics, creating a convergence that nearly upended the nation’s peaceful transfer of power.

“It appears that a significant number of House members and a few senators had more than just a passing role in what went on,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, told The Associated Press last week.

Since launching its investigation last summer, the Jan. 6 panel has been slowly gaining new details about what lawmakers said and did in the weeks before the insurrection. Members have asked three GOP lawmakers — Jordan of Ohio, Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California — to testify voluntarily. All have refused. Other lawmakers could be called in the coming days."