The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump made a flurry of pardons during his final hours in office.


Trump Pardons Lil Wayne, Kodak Black in Last-Minute Spree

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"Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, pleaded guilty on a federal weapons charge last year and received a full pardon. Kodak Black, whose real name is Bill Kapri, received a commutation after being charged in 2019 with falsifying information on federal forms to buy firearms.

Bradford Cohen, the attorney for both rappers, confirmed to Rolling Stone that both were granted clemency. “President Trump and his administration have been tireless advocates on behalf of the African-American community,” Cohen tells Rolling Stone. “These pardons are a perfect example of this administration following up on its reforms and commitments.”"

 

He pardoned all his criminal buddies...

 

Fake news. Trump doesn’t know what metaphorically means.

 

Cohen testifies for four hours about Trump.


‘The truth does not benefit Donald’: Michael Cohen testifies in lawsuit against Trump

 

Arizona high court tosses push to disqualify GOP lawmakers

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"The Arizona Supreme Court rejected Monday an effort to disqualify three Republican lawmakers from this year's ballot because of their alleged roles in planning or attending the rally that led to the unprecedented attack on Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.

The ruling means U.S. Reps. Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs and state Rep. Mark Finchem remain on the primary ballot. Gosar and Biggs are seeking reelection and Finchem is running to try to become Secretary of State, Arizona’s chief election officer.

The lawsuits filed on behalf of a handful of Arizona voters alleged that Gosar, Biggs and Finchem cannot hold office because they participated in an insurrection. The lawsuits cited a section of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution enacted after the Civil War known as the “disqualification clause.”

The justices ruled that alleged violations of the disqualification clause are not grounds for challenging candidates' eligibility for office under Arizona law. The decision upholds a ruling by the Maricopa County Superior Court."

 

Article from February 2022.


‘This should terrify the nation’: the Trump ally seeking to run Arizona’s elections

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"About three weeks after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election – and on the same day that Joe Biden’s 10,457-vote victory in Arizona was certified – Finchem hosted Rudy Giuliani at a downtown Phoenix hotel. Giuliani, then Trump’s personal lawyer, announced a new theory for why the result should be overturned: that Biden had relied on fraudulent votes from among the 5 million undocumented immigrants living in the state – a striking number given that Arizona only has a total of 7 million residents.

Two weeks after that, Finchem was among 30 Republican lawmakers in Arizona who signed a joint resolution. It called on Congress to block the state’s 11 electoral college votes for Biden and instead accept “the alternate 11 electoral votes for Donald J Trump”.

Finchem was present in Washington on 6 January 2021, the day that hundreds of angry Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, resulting in the deaths of five people with 140 police officers injured. He had come to speak at a planned “Stop the Steal” rally, later cancelled, to spread the “big lie” that the election had been rigged."

 

‘This should terrify the nation’: the Trump ally seeking to run Arizona’s elections

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"Trump has so far endorsed three secretary of state candidates in this year’s election cycle, and Finchem is arguably the most controversial of the bunch. (The other two are Jody Hice in Georgia and Kristina Karamo in Michigan.)

Originally from Kalamazoo in Michigan, he spent 21 years as a public safety officer before retiring to Tucson and setting up his own small business. In 2014 he was elected to the Arizona legislature, representing Oro Valley.

Even before Finchem was inaugurated as a lawmaker, he was stirring up controversy. On the campaign trail in 2014, he announced that he was “an Oath Keeper committed to the exercise of limited, constitutional governance”.

The Oath Keepers are a militia group with a list of 25,000 current or past members, many from military or law enforcement backgrounds. They have been heavily implicated in the January 6 insurrection."

 

‘This should terrify the nation’: the Trump ally seeking to run Arizona’s elections

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"He has repeatedly insisted that he never came within 500 yards of the Capitol building. But photos and video footage captured by Getty Images and examined by the Arizona Mirror show him walking through the crowd of Trump supporters in front of the east steps of the Capitol after the insurrection was already under way.

At 3.14pm on January 6, more than two hours after the outer police barrier protecting the Capitol was overcome by insurrectionists, Finchem posted a photograph on Twitter that he has since taken down. It is not known who took the photo, but it shows rioters close to the east steps of the building above the words: “What happens when the People feel they have been ignored, and Congress refuses to acknowledge rampant fraud. #stopthesteal.”"

 

‘This should terrify the nation’: the Trump ally seeking to run Arizona’s elections

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"Finchem’s campaign to become the next secretary of state of Arizona is going well. Last year his campaign raised $660,000, Politico reported – more than three times Bolding’s haul.

Bolding sees that as indicative of a fundamental problem. On the right, individuals and groups have spotted an opportunity in the secretary of state positions and are avidly targeting them; on the left there is little sign of equivalent energy or awareness.

“The public in general may not understand what’s at stake here. All Democrats, all Americans, should be concerned about this and what it could do to the 2024 presidential election,” he said.

Dean agrees that there is a perilous void in public knowledge. “What’s so insidious about the Trump plan is that it is focusing on state-level races where voters know very little about what the secretary of state does. That’s a danger, as it gives Finchem a realistic path in which he could win – and Finchem will do what Trump wants.”"

 

Trump supporter pleads guilty to felony for role in US Capitol riot

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"A Trump supporter from Fort Gibson has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of civil disorder for going inside the U.S. Capitol three times during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

Jerry Edward Ryals, 27, acknowledged Friday his actions "impeded and interfered" with police efforts to protect the Capitol.

“They are tear gassing, throwing flash bangs, pepper spray, but we will not concede,” he said in a video from the bottom of the Capitol steps before going inside.

In another video, he said, “We definitely have enough people to overthrow this b----. They don’t stand a f------ chance. ... We’re working our way in slowly but surely."”

 

Trump's Mother's Day message.


Trump released an insult-laden message wishing everyone a Happy Mother's Day, including 'Very Unfair Radical Left Democrat Judges'

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"Former President Trump issued an insult-laden message on Mother's Day this year, continuing his trend of releasing scathing statements on holidays.

Trump published a post on Truth Social on Sunday, which Insider independently verified, bidding a "Happy Mother's Day to all, including Racist, Vicious, Highly Partisan, Politically Motivated, and Very Unfair Radical Left Democrat Judges."

It wasn't just the judges Trump called out — he also highlighted the "prosecutors, district attorneys, and attorney general" who he said "campaign unrelentingly" against him "without knowing a thing" and who "endlessly promise" to take him down.

"After years of persecution," the message continues, "even the Fake News says there's no case or, at best, it would be very hard to bring. Someday soon they will start fighting RECORD SETTING violent crime.""

 

Trump wonders why he lost the vote of suburban women.

 

Trump looms over vicious House race in West Virginia | CNN Politics

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"If Rep. Alex Mooney wants voters in West Virginia to know one thing about his campaign, it’s that he – not his Republican primary opponent, Rep. David McKinley – is the candidate backed by former President Donald Trump.

And Tuesday’s incumbent-on-incumbent primary in a deep red state that overwhelmingly voted for Trump in 2020 is set to be a test of whether that is all that matters in today’s Republican Party.

The latest round of redistricting and West Virginia’s shrinking population left the state with one fewer congressional district, forcing years-long colleagues McKinley and Mooney to run against each other. The primary has turned into a clash of styles, with McKinley running more on what he has accomplished in Congress and attacking Mooney for moving to West Virginia from Maryland in the last decade, while Mooney runs as the archconservative in the race, hammering his opponent for working with Democrats and voting for the infrastructure bill backed by President Joe Biden.

The primary, which has played out mostly on television and radio ads, has also set up a contest between national- and state-based power. While Trump, the powerful group Club for Growth and other top conservatives have backed Mooney, McKinley has the support of two key West Virginia political influencers: Gov. Jim Justice, the popular state leader who switched parties from Democratic to Republican in 2017, and Sen. Joe Manchin, the Democrat who has been a staple in West Virginia politics for decades."

 

The 9 most outlandish lines from Donald Trump's response to Mark Esper's book - CNNPolitics

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"8. “I fired Yesper because he was a RINO incapable of leading, and I had to run the military myself.”

Yes, you’ve said that already.

9. “No comment.”

This was Trump’s response to whether he asked Esper if they could attack the Mexican drug cartels with missiles. So, yes then?"

 

Trump nominated Esper in June of 2019 and fired him in November 2020 just after the election.

Either it took a year and five months for him to figure out he made a mistake in hiring him or he didn't want to fire him during the 2020 election year to avoid looking bad.

Trump blamed Republicans for recommending Esper to him.

Esper was confirmed by an overwhelming vote of 90-8.

 

Trump is known to fumble names.

Trump referred to Esper as Esperanto.

At a rally, Trump said he endorsed J.P. Mandel for the 2022 election when in fact he endorsed J.P Vance.

Trump hasn't been able to remember the name of the leader of the Taliban he supposedly threatened on the phone.


'Esperanto' trends as Trump misspells name of his own defense secretary Mark Esper

‘Let’s call him Mohammed’: Trump fails to remember name of Taliban leader

 

trump actually thinks that Esperanto is a kind of covfefe.

 

Wait - I don't think you can put Trumph and Think in the same sentence.

 

Trump wanted to court-martial the retired Navy SEAL who led the bin Laden raid for criticizing him, former defense chief says

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"Former President Donald Trump wanted to take the extraordinary step of reactivating retired US Navy Adm. William McRaven so that he could court-martial the former Navy SEAL commander for criticizing him, Trump's former Pentagon chief claims in his new book.

Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper writes that he and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, had to talk then-President Trump out of a plan to recall both retired US Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal and McRaven to active duty as a way to open the two former senior military officers up to court-martial proceedings.

"Doing this 'will backfire on you, Mr. President,' we said," Esper wrote of a May 2020 meeting in his book, "A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times," which is out today.

Trump told Esper and Milley that McRaven and McChrystal were "so disloyal" because of what he thought they were doing and had said about him. Esper writes that Trump "was spun up" by media stories in Breitbart claiming that McChrystal was advising Democrats on how to use artificial intelligence to "track down and counter Trump supporters.""