The Donald Trump Score Card

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Pence says he won't claim executive privilege.

Pence has invoked the Speech And Debate clause because he was performing duties in the Senate on Jan. 6.

Graham invoked the Speech And Debate clause and lost all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. He had to testify about his conversations with Trump about overturning the 2020 election.

Giuliani claimed attorney-client privilege. Like Graham, he lost and had to testify about Trump.

Corcoran invoked attorney-client privilege and lost. A federal judge says he has to testify.


Pence indicates he won't challenge all aspects of special counsel's subpoena, as more details emerge

 

If he's arrested, Trump can't expect protest tactical help from Stop The Steal organizer Ali Alexander who says he is now retired.

 

Kevin McCarthy and MAGA Republicans rally around Trump ahead of possible indictment

 

Trump deregulated railways and banks. He blames Biden for the fallout

 

Trump Claims His Arrest Is Imminent and Calls for Protests, Echoing Jan. 6

 

I remember back then, visiting Zuccoti Park for Occupy Wall Street. Spoke w two NYC schoolteachers who protested there; they were protesting big bank bailouts. They seemed sincere. Where is the protest for todays bailout of SBV.


It is the rapid rise of interest rates that did in Silicon Valley Bank. inflation devalued the loan portfolio of Silicon Valley Bank, thus its Liquidity. Not any rollback of regulations.

Has all of the woke posturing of the Actors like Sam Bankman Fried and Sillicon Valley insulated it from similar protest by Occupy style groups? and investigation by media and government?
Please Reply.

 

Chris Christie: ‘The circus continues’ on Trump calling for protests over potential arrest

 

Christie was a U.S. Attorney for the District of NJ. He's familiar with prosecuting corruption of the type for which Trump might be indicted.

Christie negotiated a plea deal with Charles Kushner.

In December 2020, Trump pardoned Charles Kushner.along with Stone and Manafort.

Charles Kushner is the father of Jared Kushner who served as a senior advisor for Trump throughout his term and who is married to Ivanka Trump.


Chris Christie - Wikipedia

 

The GOP which is now accusing others of politicization of justice against Trump should have complained about AG Barr essentially dropping the case against Flynn in May 2020 after all the work that was done by the DOJ to prosecute him.

Flynn reaped benefits twice. First by Barr and later by Trump pardoning him in December 2020.

Flynn went on to assist Trump near the end of his term in trying to overthrow the 2020 election.

Flynn had some of the most radical ideas, such as using the U.S. military to seize voting machines and redo the election. Those are tactics used in third world countries that Flynn wanted to use on a legitimate 2020 U.S. election that Trump claimed to be a third-world-style election.

 

Similar to his baseless claims about ballot boxes supposedly being stuffed against him, Trump is now saying that Biden stuffed the DA office with people against him.


https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...tan-das-office-to-pursue-stormy-daniels-case/

 

Fox News owes its viewers an apology

 

The court proceedings related to the Dominion suit against Fox have shown that Fox continued to support Trump's false claims about a stolen election even when it knew the election wasn't stolen.

Fox said it would have a response in late February to the information that went public.

Fox still hasn't given an adequate explanation. It has made sketchy statements that the information was taken out of context and that Dominion would do anything to win the suit.

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How fitting……

 

They (Fox) has got nothin’……

 

Trump's scheduled rally on March 25, 2023 appears to be the first time he will hold one in Waco, TX.


List of rallies for the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign - Wikipedia

List of post–2016 election Donald Trump rallies - Wikipedia

 

House GOP retreat turns into what to do about Trump and his possible indictment.


Trump shadow looms large over House GOP policy retreat | CNN Politics

 

I dunno. Are those school teachers still around? Do they know anything about banking or economics? The decision by the Biden Administration to make the investors whole was based on a judgment that it would be riskier not to and precipitate a possible chain reaction of bank failures

The immediate cause of the failure was the reckless decision of the SVB to plough billions of dollars into U.S. government bonds when interest rates were low, and its subsequent inability to adjust to the subsequent steady, dramatic rise in rates owing to changing Federal Reserve policy to combat post-Covid inflation. Anybody who purports to be a bank executive should know that the Fed can and will raise interest rates to combat runaway inflation. The higher interest ended the market for initial public offerings for startups and increased the cost of private fund raising, leading to withdrawals by some clients and the Bank's decision to sell a $21billion bond portfolio at a loss to fund the redemptions, and to sell $2.25 billion in its stock . And this precipitated the loss of investor confidence and the run on the bank. Contrary to what you say, this was probably a result of an easing of federal regulations of the smaller and medium banks by Retrumplicans in 2018 during the Trump Administration.
Trump deregulated railways and banks. He blames Biden for the fallout
Was Trump's banking deregulation a factor in SVB collapse?. See Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act of 2018. Professor Ohlrogge of NYU Law scool thinks “ the 2018 deregulation contributed to the problem...Basically, the deregulation made it more likely that we would have a crisis such as this, and more likely that it would be worse in the event that it did happen. One of the key reasons for this is that the 2018 deregulation reduced the amount of shareholder money that banks need to use to finance their asset acquisitions. Banks are required to have minimum amounts of shareholder money funding their assets so that if those assets drop in value, there is enough of a ‘cushion’ of shareholder value to take losses, before those losses take a hit out of depositor recoveries. So, without the 2018 deregulation, it is likely that SVB would have had a larger buffer of shareholder money to absorb losses, making it less likely that there would have been a panic in the first place, and given that there was a panic, the losses to depositors likely would have been less." Aaron Klein, senior economic fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, thinks the Fed may have been more to blame for failing to exercise regulatory discretion it had under the act.
What to Know About Trump-Era Bank Deregulation and Bank Failures - FactCheck.org . Why did Silicon Valley Bank fail?

No. All the posturing is anti-woke, by Retrumplicans who don't know the meaning of woke.
Amses: The “woke” joke
Be serious, conservatives. ‘Wokeness’ didn’t cause Silicon Valley Bank’s demise | Tayo Bero
Why did Silicon Valley Bank fail?
Is ‘Anti-Wokeness’ the New Ideology of the Republican Party?
As for the Occupy movement, I can't remember hearing anything from them since 2013? Are they still a thing? How would they solve the banking crisis? My only contact with them was over 10 years ago, when they came to town and camped on the court house lawn. The sheriff served them breakfast. Ah, the good ol' days! Life was so much simpler then!

As for Sam Bankman Fried, Iooks like history caught up with him and the fools who bought into his cryptocurrency scheme. He went bankrupt and has been arrested. BTW, what, if any, was his connection to the SVB?

 

Trump’s call for protests gets muted reaction by supporters