The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump spends nearly 5,000 pages asking appeals court for stay in civil fraud case

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"Mr. Trump, who obtained that bond from the insurance giant Chubb, pledged an investment account at Charles Schwab as collateral, records show. He most likely pledged more than $100 million in cash and stocks and bonds that he could sell in a hurry — investments that are now no longer available for him to use in the civil fraud case.

A nearly $500 million bond, Mr. Trump’s lawyers wrote on Monday, “is unprecedented for a private company.”

Yet Mr. Trump’s legal team “devoted a substantial amount of time, money, and effort” to finding one, according to a court filing by Alan Garten, the top lawyer at Mr. Trump’s family business."

 

Trump spends nearly 5,000 pages asking appeals court for stay in civil fraud case

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"Using four separate brokers, the lawyers approached more than two dozen companies that provide appellate bonds, including Chubb and Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run for decades by Warren E. Buffett, Mr. Garten said. He added that most of the companies were either unable or unwilling to handle a bond of this size, and that none were willing to accept property as collateral.

Their best bet appeared to be Chubb, but within the past week, Chubb notified Mr. Trump’s lawyers that it, too, could not accept property as collateral.

“This presents a major obstacle,” Mr. Garten wrote."

 

The U.S. has come a long way since Nixon.

Nixon would have been very pleased.

 

Melania is still absent from Trump's campaign appearances.

Her mother died in early January 2024, so saying that she is busy taking care of her mother is longer an excuse.

 

Cohen says Trump accepting foreign money for bond is no joke.


Michael Cohen says possibility of Trump receiving foreign money to pay bills is ‘no joke’ | Fox 59

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“First and foremost, if it’s coming from a company like Chubb or Federated [Insurance], yes we know that company, it’s an American company and so on. But what if hypothetically, the money is coming from Saudi Arabia, from Qatar?

“What if by chance, it’s coming through a backdoor channel of Russia? That now leaves a potential presidential candidate … basically owing a foreign entity. All at the expense of America’s security? This is no joke,” he continued.

 

The GOP would likely ignore it and still be falsely accusing Biden of receiving money from China through his son in 2018 when he wasn't even president or VP.

During the failed GOP investigation of Biden, Congress documented that Trump while president received about $8 million from foreign entities, mostly from China.

 

Judge in Trump classified documents case proposes 'insane' jury instructions, experts say

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"Vance said both proposals from Cannon "virtually direct the jury to find Trump not guilty."

“It turns out it’s two pages of crazy stemming from the Judge’s apparent inability to tell Trump no when it comes to his argument that he turned the nation’s secrets into his personal records by designating them as such under the Presidential Records Act,” Vance said."

 

Trump-endorsed Moreno wins GOP primary for U.S. Senate seat in Ohio.


https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/1239554686/trump-bernie-moreno-wins-ohio-gop-primary

 

Aileen Cannon's "insane" Donald Trump filing trashed by legal experts

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"The second scenario is related to the main argument Trump has put forward in his defense—that he did not break the law by keeping classified materials recovered from his Mar-a-Lago resort in August 2022, as the PRA allows him to designate sensitive materials as his own personal property.

Bradley P. Moss, a lawyer who specializes in national security, described the second scenario as "legally insane."

"If that were the case, then just grant Trump's motion to dismiss on PRA grounds so DOJ [can] bring it to the 11th circuit for a quick reversal," Moss wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

George Conway, a lawyer and frequent critic of Trump, wrote: "In the decades that I have been a lawyer, this is the most bizarre order I've ever seen issued by a federal judge."

 

Aileen Cannon's "insane" Donald Trump filing trashed by legal experts

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"In a series of posts, Norm Eisen, who served as a special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the former president's first impeachment, said: "Cannon seems inclined to push the case to trial but is basically asking if she can stack the deck so Trump wins.

"It's clumsy & amateurish—seems to know she's wobbly & she's asking the parties for help with threshold things that are normally figured out by the judge.""

 

Cannon seems to be underhandedly siding with Trump and using an approach so murky that it makes it difficult for Jack Smith to counter her in an appeals court, other than outright calling for her to be dismissed from the case which would further delay the trial that Cannon has already delayed by many months.

 

Similar to a forum troll who trolls enough to agitate members but not quite enough to be banned.

 

In the 1980's Trump took out full page ads saying Japan and Saudi Arabia were cheating the U.S.

Today he is blaming China and Europe.

Trump has praised Saudi Arabia since he became president.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/16/trumps-curious-evolution-saudi-arabia/

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“I love the Saudis. Many are in this building,” Trump said after descending the golden elevator in Trump Tower. “They make a billion dollars a day. Whenever they have problems, we send over the ships. We say ‘we’re gonna protect.’ What are we doing? They’ve got nothing but money.”

 

Republican billionaires who were on the sidelines are now rallying around Trump


Republican billionaires rally around Trump for April fundraiser as election – and scramble for cash – heats up | CNN Politics

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"Hedge fund founder John Paulson is hosting a high-dollar fundraiser next month to benefit Donald Trump’s presidential campaign that is drawing some of the Republican Party’s wealthiest donors, according to an invitation obtained by CNN.

The April 6 event, slated to be held in Palm Beach, Florida, is a sign that some ultra-rich GOP figures who remained on the sidelines during the primary season – or backed other candidates – are coalescing behind the former president, now that he is the party’s presumptive nominee and scrambles to catch up with President Joe Biden and Democrats in the funding race."

 

Newly obtained video shows movement of group suspected of constructing Jan. 6 gallows hours before Capitol siege

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"The people who erected the infamous gallows and noose on the west front of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, began their work in the predawn hours that day, according to newly released videos obtained by CBS News. A report by a GOP-led U.S. House subcommittee said the perpetrators remain unaccounted for by prosecutors."

 

Article from September 2019.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/16/trumps-curious-evolution-saudi-arabia/

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"Trump is clearly at risk of looking like the beholden and manipulated American leader he once decried, and he doesn’t really seem to be trying hard to fight that perception. The question is why? Why has Trump pulled such an about-face on the Saudis? Is it because he recognizes the importance of the alliance in a way he didn’t before he was president? That’s certainly not the explanation he gave Monday. In fact, he suggested quite the opposite — that the United States has no real interest in a conflict there. Nor does it seem that the Saudis have suddenly started paying up, judging by Trump’s comments to the Journal less than a year ago."

 

Trump tells Supreme Court that even if it doesn't grant him total absolute immunity, it should be willing to grant partial immunity and send the issue to the lower courts where it can be debated for months.


Trump floats method for the Supreme Court to further delay his trial without giving him full immunity | CNN Politics

 

Trump favorites Moreno and Merrin win GOP primary.

Sherrod Brown is defending his U.S. Senate seat in Ohio. The 2024 election result could tip control of the U.S. Senate back to Republicans.


Trump favorites Moreno, Merrin win GOP primaries to face two vulnerable Ohio Democrats this fall

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"Moreno used his acceptance speech in Cleveland to shower praise on Trump, as well as to commend Dolan and LaRose on campaigns well run. He called on the party to unify to defeat Brown.

“We have an opportunity now to retire the old commie, and send him to a retirement home and save this country, because that’s what we’re going to do,” Moreno told a cheering crowd.

He called Brown President Joe Biden’s “absolute enabler” in the Senate and liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s “lapdog.”

Brown responded to the news on X: “The choice ahead of Ohio is clear: Bernie Moreno has spent his career and campaign putting himself first, and would do the same if elected. I’ll always work for Ohio.”

The general election fight is expected to be fierce in a state that has trended Republican in recent years. With Democrats holding a tenuous 51-49 voting majority in the Senate but defending more seats than Republicans, Brown’s seat is a top GOP target. He is the lone Democrat holding a non-judicial statewide office in Ohio, a state that has moved steadily to the right during the Trump era."