The Donald Trump Score Card

Jim Jordan threatens Fani Willis with contempt.


Jordan threatens Fani Willis with contempt over subpoena on federal grants | The Hill

 

One of the few times Trump was questioned seriously was during an interview by Bret Baier on Fox. Every time Trump deflected a question or lied, Baier quickly called him out on it before being distracted. It was like a ping pong match going back and forth endlessly.

Trump has to be quickly preempted every time he starts another diversion and lie during an interview.

An example of Trump diversion approach. After Trump lost his appeal in the Carroll case, a journalist asked him if he planned to use campaign money to pay for the judgment against him after he lost. Trump dodged the question by saying he thought he didn't lose the case and didn't answer about using campaign money.


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The WSJ is known for being protective of Trump. It interviewed Trump when he was president at one of his resorts in a dining area with distracting clanking dinnerware. WSJ published a highly edited transcript to try to cover up the word salads by Trump and try to make him appear coherent. The full transcript was leaked later that showed his disorientation.

 

Trump keeps moving the goal posts. When the recounts didn't support his stolen election narrative, he said the ballots themselves were fraudulent, another claim he wasn't able to prove in court.

 

MI man admits entering Capitol with pieces of broken furniture.


Michigan man admits to entering Capitol, taking pieces of broken furniture in Jan. 6 riot

 

Florida couple implicated in Capitol riot.

Lapoint charged in connection to Capitol riot.


South Florida couple seen in photos, videos at Jan. 6 riot

 

Survey shows that the views about the violence of the riot at the Capitol have softened somewhat but the percentage who blame Trump for the riot has been consistent over time.

Article from October 2023.


Startling Poll Says More Americans Open to Political Violence

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“Did the House Select Committee change minds about who was responsible for Jan. 6, or simply remind people of what they felt at the outset? It’s not clear from our survey,” Raymond La Raja, professor of political science at UMass Amherst and co-director of the poll, says. “In more than a year and a half there’s been no change in the percentage of voters who hold Trump responsible for the insurrection – even with the exposure of his actions by Congress and the Department of Justice. When offered a range of choices, from the U.S. Capitol Police to White Nationalists, 44-45% of voters say Trump is to blame, and older people are somewhat more likely to blame Trump.”

 

A network of supporters helped Capitol riot fugitives avoid capture.


Prosecutors: A 'network' of supporters helped fugitives avoid capture after Capitol riot

 

Cannon denies one of Trump's two motions to dismiss documents case.


Judge denies one of two motions to dismiss Trump documents case hours after hearing

 

Judge denies one of two motions to dismiss Trump documents case hours after hearing

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"Blanche said that "under the Presidential Records Act, by President Trump not transferring the records to NARA, they are personal."

Judge Cannon responded, "Unreviewable personal designations would effectively gut the Presidential Records Act altogether."

Blanche argued that NARA "had no authority to question President Trump's determination that the records were personal," so the referral to the Justice Department is therefore invalid, a "sham referral."

"The documents charged in the indictment are not personal records, period," prosecutor David Harbach argued. He said that Trump took the documents knowingly and never designated them as personal. He dismissed Trump's claim that "because he took highly classified sensitive materials, they are necessarily personal, he was authorized to retain them and so the indictment should be dismissed." And he pointed out that Trump's team has not disputed the facts of the indictment."

 

Trump thinks this way about everything. No one has the authority to question him about anything.

 

The Presidential Records Act was enacted to protect government property from the president abusing it.

Trump's attorneys say that NARA doesn't have the authority to question Trump's authority.

Moreover, Trump's attorneys say that NARA turning the issue over to the DOJ is a sham, rendering any DOJ authority over him moot.

 

UMass Amherst Poll Finds Softening of Some Americans’ Views on the Events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 | UMass Amherst

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“Not only do Americans view Trump as responsible,” Nteta adds, “but a majority (53%) support the former president being charged with a crime for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.”

“This majority holds among almost all demographic groups, with the exceptions of those with less than a high school degree (45%) and whites (47%); and even among these two groups, the share that supports prosecution is larger than the share that does not,” says Jesse Rhodes, professor of political science at UMass Amherst and co-director of the poll. “Thus, while there is disagreement among Americans about whether Trump should be charged, it is not the case that Americans are equally divided on the issue. Rather, a majority of Americans supports prosecution; a vocal minority – roughly a third – opposes it; and a small fraction is unsure.”

 

At hearing, Cannon hints dimissal of Trump documents case is unlikely.


Trump Florida Judge Cannon denies Trump dismissal on 'unconstitutional vagueness'


Before attending the hearing, Trump was on Newmax proudly proclaiming his taking of government documents out of the White House to Mar-a-Lago and saying that he did nothing wrong..

 

Manhattan DA asks to delay start of Trump hush money trial.


Manhattan DA asks to delay start of Trump's hush money trial

 

QAnon Shaman says he was helping the police at the Capitol riot.


January 6 QAnon shaman says he was helping Capitol police and is a 'spiritual activist - not a political one' as he recalls 29-month prison stint in Tucker Carlson interview: 'I believed it was my shamanic duty to go there' | Daily Mail Online

 

QAnon Shaman says it was his shamanic duty to partake in the Jan. 6 riot.


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It can also be stated that everyone has a shamanic duty to obtain the correct facts and not be duped by Trump's lies and foolishly riot on his behalf.

 

An article about the Clinton socks case involving recordings of Clinton interviews that a court deemed to be Clinton's personal property from the start (not government property that Clinton made personal).

Trump has convoluted that case to try to claim that the Presidential Records Act gives him the right to make any government document his personal property by merely thinking about it or by the mere act of moving it out of the White House.


Clinton’s sock drawer case not equal to Trump documents case

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Baron said, "No prior case has held that a president has absolute discretion to designate official government records — classified or unclassified — as his own personal records."

Jackson’s ruling cited a prior appeals court opinion that said, "We did not hold (in a prior case) that the President could designate any material he wishes as presidential records, and thereby exercise virtually complete control over it notwithstanding the fact that the material does not meet the definition of ‘presidential records.’"

 

Trump waging psychological warfare using 'one of the main tactics of autocrats': pollster

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"She then made the point that, whether he knows it or not, Trump is employing tactics that have been used throughout history by leaders of authoritarian governments.

"One of the main tactics of autocrats and authoritarians is to exhaust people, right?" she said. "That's what they want you to be: They want you to be too exhausted to fight back. They want you to be too exhausted to parse through all the noise to figure out what's going on.""