The Donald Trump Score Card

When a Trump-endorsed candidate wins, Trump talks about the candidate as if he himself was the candidate who beat the opponent, like he did about the Kemp-Abrams race.

When the Trump-endorsed candidate loses, Trump doesn't see himself as a loser. He declares voter fraud.


Full transcript: Trump's audio call with Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger - CNNPolitics

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"And Stacey Abrams is laughing about you know she’s going around saying these guys are dumber than a rock. What she’s done to this party is unbelievable, I tell ya. And I only ran against her once. And that was with a guy named Brian Kemp and I beat her. And if I didn’t run, Brian wouldn’t have had even a shot, either in the general or in the primary. He was dead, dead as a doornail."

 

Trump allies explored sending armed private contractors to seize voting machines in 2020 election

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"Supporters on the fringes of former President Trump’s circle explored seeking sweeping authority after the 2020 election to enlist armed private contractors to seize and inspect voting machines and election data with the assistance of U.S. Marshals, according to a draft letter asking the president to grant them permission.

The previously undisclosed “authorizing letter” and accompanying emails were sent on Nov. 21, 2020, from a person involved in efforts to find evidence of fraud in the election that year. The documents, which were reviewed by The Times, are believed to be among those in the possession of the House Select Jan. 6 committee, which is scheduled to begin public hearings Thursday.

The letter appears to be one of the earliest iterations of a draft executive order presented to the then-president in the Oval Office on Dec. 18, 2020, by former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, former national security advisor Michael Flynn and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne in an effort to take control of voting machines.

The email and attached draft letter were sent to Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan and cybersecurity expert Jim Penrose by Andrew Whitney, a British technology entrepreneur who made his way inside Trump’s circle in 2020 after he sought the president’s support for Oleandrin, a toxic botanical extract Whitney claimed was a miracle cure for COVID-19. Logan, who went on to conduct an audit of election results in Maricopa County, Ariz., and Penrose worked for weeks after the 2020 election with a group including Powell, Flynn and Byrne that sought access to voting machines in an attempt to find proof of election fraud.

Whitney and Penrose did not respond to requests from The Times seeking comment, and Logan declined an interview request.

The Nov. 21, 2020, letter includes placeholder text at the top for an introduction conveying the document came from the president. The letter would have granted authority to three third-party companies to seize all election machines and election data at will, and given the companies and their subcontractors the authority to research, obtain and store offsite “all data and/or code regarding US election fraud, election manipulation, voter fraud, election interference, voter eligibility, and election systems wherever it resides.”

The directive also would have allowed the companies to inspect and analyze any records or equipment related to the election, as well as details about who had contact with them and when. In addition, the letter specified that the U.S. Marshals would assist the effort and the employees of private companies authorized to perform the work would be “granted the authority to be armed when conducting these investigations since most of the operations would be conducted under hostile conditions.”"

 

Trump allies explored sending armed private contractors to seize voting machines in 2020 election

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"The idea to obtain access to election machine data to look for fraud — through an executive order or other means — was floated several times after the election, several people involved in the effort told The Times. In an interview with The Times, Byrne said that Waldron repeatedly pushed to take the idea to the president after Waldron and Powell discussed it with Giuliani.

“They came back and said Rudy shot them down immediately,” Byrne said.

But the idea didn’t go away. It is unclear who wrote the final version of the proposed executive order. But in February, Politico published emails dated Dec. 16, 2020, and Dec. 17, 2020, that indicated Flynn and Waldron were workshopping a draft of an executive order to seize voting machines and electronic voting data.

The Dec. 16 version of the order would have tasked the Pentagon with seizing voting machines, rather than private companies. The draft dated the following day gave the U.S. Department of Homeland Security responsibility for taking possession of the machines and data.

Neither of those versions of the draft order would have given private companies the authority to seize or examine the machines, or allowed their workers to be armed during the process, though the drafts did call for the assistance of the National Guard. Both drafts sought to greenlight “the appointment of a Special Counsel to oversee this operation and institute all criminal and civil proceedings as appropriate based on the evidence collected and provided all resources necessary to carry out her duties consistent with federal laws and the Constitution.”"

 

Trump endorses Michels for governor of WI.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...a9f6d6-e339-11ec-ae64-6b23e5155b62_story.html

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"It came two weeks after Michels said he supported doing away with Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission, a change from his earlier position calling for reforms. The commission’s actions during the 2020 election that President Joe Biden won by nearly 21,000 votes in Wisconsin has come under intense criticism from Republicans, especially those who believe Trump’s lie that he won the state.

Biden’s victory has been upheld through numerous court rulings, recounts, a nonpartisan audit and a review by a conservative law firm. There is no evidence of widespread fraud.

Trump, in his endorsement, said Wisconsin needs a governor who will stop inflation, strengthen the border and end election fraud. He said Michels is an “America First Conservative” who will support Second Amendment gun rights, honor law enforcement and stand against the “Woke Mob trying to destroy our Country.”"

 

Since when was Trump ever concerned about federal law, or the Constitution

 

So Wisconsin is having trouble with it's borders? Too many people leaving for Canada?

 

Trump boasted about Foxconn on numerous occasions.


'They demolished my house for this?' Residents outraged by the Foxconn factory that fizzled

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"When Sean McFarlane recently returned to the site where his lifelong home was demolished, he found in its place a retention pond and hundreds of geese perched on a hill.

The quiet scene came as a shock. The Wisconsin village of Mount Pleasant had effectively forced him, his girlfriend and four children from their home in 2017 to make way for a proposed 20m sq ft hi-tech plant owned by the Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn, a plant Donald Trump had said would soon be the “eighth wonder of the world”.

To make way for this “wonder”, village officials temporarily placed the McFarlanes in a dilapidated vacant house with no working toilets or heat, then allegedly failed to meet the promised relocation payment of $22,000.

Three years later, the factory for which the family went through hell hasn’t been built. Sitting in his wheelchair on an empty sidewalk in November, McFarlane sighed in disbelief as he scanned the vast patchwork of mud, open fields, ponds and a few underutilized buildings comprising the 3,000-acre Foxconn site.

“They demolished my house for this? A bunch of geese that sit on a hill?” McFarlane, 37, asked. “It’s upsetting. That’s where my old house was, and now it’s just nothing. You know? Nothing.”

In 2017, Mount Pleasant officials had used the promise of 13,000 jobs and $10bn in private investment by 2023 as justification for forcing hundreds of residents from their homes and turning the property over to Foxconn. Officials vowed to transform the sleepy rural village into a bustling, hi-tech hub for manufacturing known as “Wisconn Valley” – a promise that appealed to many in the state who have suffered as traditional manufacturing jobs have disappeared.

Instead, the project imploded in slow motion. Few jobs have materialized and Foxconn has not submitted new construction plans in over a year. The LCD screens that were supposed to be made there aren’t being built in its “factory”, which is 20 times smaller than proposed and now zoned as “storage”. After Foxconn failed to meet its job creation targets, Wisconsin’s governor, Tony Evers, last month pulled a deal that would have handed the company nearly $4.5bn in incentives for completing its plans."

 

'They demolished my house for this?' Residents outraged by the Foxconn factory that fizzled

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"Though Trump and the former Republican Wisconsin governor Scott Walker declared with the 2017 Foxconn announcement that they had revived a critical upper midwest swing state’s manufacturing sector, the project is now viewed as a loss for Republicans. Meanwhile, there’s a growing sense that Mount Pleasant residents’ lives were upended for what was little more than elaborate political theater designed to score a phony public relations win for Trump and Walker.

But while the “political stunt” is galling, it’s the battle with local officials that’s most demoralizing to Mahoney.

“It’s disgusting that the people who are supposed to represent you are the ones who stomp on you,” she said."

 

Building where Trump said Foxconn would be '8th wonder of the world' to be leased by food coloring company
ADAM ROGAN
February 4, 2022

Building where Trump said Foxconn would be '8th wonder of the world' to be leased by food coloring company

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"While the arrival of jobs and revenue from Oterra would generally be considered good news for the village, it's also a sign of how underwhelming Foxconn has been compared to the initial promises made by local, state and national elected officials.

During that June 2018 speech, Trump said: "Eighteen months ago, this was a field. And now it's one of the most advanced places of any kind you'll see anywhere in the world. It's incredible."

Village residents may end up covering a significant portion of Oterra's local taxes because of the tax increment district the Opus building is in. The building is in TID No. 4, which was created in 2015, prior to Foxconn's arrival in Mount Pleasant.

The building is currently valued at $12.925 million with planned improvements bringing its value to $22.8 million."

 

Trump's favorite, Walker, lost his reelection bid for governor in 2018 to Evers.

Trump is now trying to oust Evers.

 

Trump probably thinks Wisconsin borders Mexico.

He talked like Colorado borders Mexico during a speech.


Trump says US is building a wall in Colorado -- a state that doesn't border Mexico | CNN Politics

 

Republican Sen. Ben Sasse says the GOP 'wants a strongman daddy figure' and 'exists increasingly as a vehicle for the grievances of the angriest, oldest folks'
Bryan Metzger
Fri, June 3, 2022, 12:54 PM·

Republican Sen. Ben Sasse says the GOP 'wants a strongman daddy figure' and 'exists increasingly as a vehicle for the grievances of the angriest, oldest folks'

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"Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska gave a speech on Thursday evening that included heavy criticism of his own party, urging fellow Republicans to re-orient themselves away from the politics of grievance and towards a forward-thinking party in order to tackle global threats.

"The left wants a powerful, nameless but supposedly benevolent bureaucracy, the right wants a strongman daddy figure," said Sasse in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. "But the loudest of them all agree on one thing: America — the one the founders gave us, the one kept for us by our parents and grandparents — it doesn't work anymore."

Sasse spoke at the library as part of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute's "A Time for Choosing" speaker series, which has also hosted Sens. Tim Scott of South Carolina, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, and other major GOP figures in recent months."

 

'Perceived strongman' would be a more accurate term.

Trump isn't even a strongman.

 

Proud Boys member who nearly came face-to-face with Schumer on January 6 pleads guilty - CNNPolitics

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"According to his plea agreement, Pruitt and another rioter entered the Capitol Visitor’s Center after breaching the building. At that time, Schumer and his security detail, fleeing the Senate chamber, waited at nearby elevators in an attempt to reach a secure location.

“As they waited, a member of Senator Schumer’s security detail saw Pruitt and one other man approaching,” the plea agreement says. The New York Democrat “ran away,” evading the two men. Pruitt eventually left the Capitol Visitor’s Center after learning that someone had been shot in the building.

Security footage from that day shows Schumer and his detail approaching the elevators and then quickly fleeing the area.

Pruitt also confronted police officers at the Capitol and threw a sign inside the building during the riot. Before his plea agreement, Pruitt had faced eight counts, including physical acts of violence and obstructing law enforcement. He could spend an estimated 51 to 63 months behind bars."

 

You might think that fair-minded people would possess the ability to see through nonsense like that.....and when it comes to most political issues, they do. But when it comes to Donald Trump, tens of millions of voters actually believe in his 'no lose' philosophy. You can't reach them. They won't hear you.

Incredible; it really is.

 

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Perspective | Woodward and Bernstein thought Nixon defined corruption. Then came Trump.
Perspective by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
June 5, 2022 at 12:00 a.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/05/woodward-bernstein-nixon-trump/

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"President George Washington, in his celebrated 1796 Farewell Address, cautioned that American democracy was fragile. “Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government,” he warned.

Two of his successors — Richard Nixon and Donald Trump — demonstrate the shocking genius of our first president’s foresight.

As reporters, we had studied Nixon and written about him for nearly half a century, during which we believed with great conviction that never again would America have a president who would trample the national interest and undermine democracy through the audacious pursuit of personal and political self-interest.

And then along came Trump.

The heart of Nixon’s criminality was his successful subversion of the electoral process — the most fundamental element of American democracy. He accomplished it through a massive campaign of political espionage, sabotage and disinformation that enabled him to literally determine who his opponent would be in the presidential election of 1972.

With a covert budget of just $250,000, a team of undercover Nixon operatives derailed the presidential campaign of Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine, the Democrats’ most electable candidate.

Nixon then ran against Sen. George McGovern, a South Dakota Democrat widely viewed as the much weaker candidate, and won in a historic landslide with 61 percent of the vote and carrying 49 states.

Over the next two years, Nixon’s illegal conduct was gradually exposed by the news media, the Senate Watergate Committee, special prosecutors, a House impeachment investigation and finally by the Supreme Court. In a unanimous decision, the court ordered Nixon to turn over his secret tape recordings, which doomed his presidency.

These instruments of American democracy finally stopped Nixon dead in his tracks, forcing the only resignation of a president in American history."

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/05/woodward-bernstein-nixon-trump/

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"Donald Trump not only sought to destroy the electoral system through false claims of voter fraud and unprecedented public intimidation of state election officials, but he also then attempted to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to his duly elected successor, for the first time in American history.

Trump’s diabolical instincts exploited a weakness in the law. In a highly unusual and specific manner, the Electoral Count Act of 1887 says that at 1 p.m. on Jan. 6 following a presidential election, the House and Senate will meet in a joint session. The president of the Senate, in this case Vice President Mike Pence, will preside. The electoral votes from the 50 states and the District of Columbia will then be opened and counted.

This singular moment in American democracy is the only official declaration and certification of who won the presidential election.

In a deception that exceeded even Nixon’s imagination, Trump and a group of lawyers, loyalists and White House aides devised a strategy to bombard the country with false assertions that the 2020 election was rigged and that Trump had really won. They zeroed in on the Jan. 6 session as the opportunity to overturn the election’s result. Leading up to that crucial date, Trump’s lawyers circulated memos with manufactured claims of voter fraud that had counted the dead, underage citizens, prisoners and out-of-state residents.

We watched in utter dismay as Trump persistently claimed that he was really the winner. “We won,” he said in a speech on Jan. 6 at the Ellipse. “We won in a landslide. This was a landslide.” He publicly and relentlessly pressured Pence to make him the victor on Jan. 6.

On that day, driven by Trump’s rhetoric and his obvious approval, a mob descended on the Capitol and, in a stunning act of collective violence, broke through doors and windows and ransacked the House chamber, where the electoral votes were to be counted. The mob then went in search of Pence — all to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. Trump did nothing to restrain them.

By legal definition this is clearly sedition — conduct, speech or organizing that incites people to rebel against the governing authority of the state. Thus, Trump became the first seditious president in our history."