The Donald Trump Score Card

JD Vance says a camera just happened to be at Trump's Arlington PR stunt and that Trump was simply trying to show compassion to the families.

 

Legal experts say Cannon should be removed from documents case.


https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/nx-s1-5100673/judge-cannon-removal-trump-mar-a-lago-documents-case

 

Cannon knows that her decision to dismiss Trump documents case by claiming Jack Smith doesn't have the authority to be a special counsel will be appealed to the 11th Circuit which is likely to overturn her decision. Trump would appeal such a decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Cannon's reputation hinges on whether the Supreme Court would agree with her dismissal. She has already received a smoke signal from Clarence Thomas that he agrees with her stance that Jack Smith never had the authority to be a special counsel. It's not known how the other conservative justices would rule on the issue. Cannon might have some inside information or just a personal assessment that they are going to agree with her.

The conservatives on the Supreme Court have shown lately that they have a liberal interpretation of the concept of the separation of powers (or at least their version of it). Their presidential immunity ruling is an example where they took the stance that implies that the DOJ can't be used to file criminal charges against a president for official duties. Thomas has gone beyond that and has indicated that a U.S. AG (who has already been confirmed by the U.S. Senate) doesn't even have the authority in the first place to assign a special counsel and that Congressional approval is needed for that also, even though various court cases over the past couple decades involving the legitimacy of a special counsel don't agree with his stance.

A Supreme Court ruling that agrees with Cannon on the special counsel issue wouldn't be surprising.

 

Cannon has shown before that she doesn't seem to be concerned about being overturned by the 11th Circuit (or that perhaps she just doesn't realize that her rulings are far outside the scope of accepted legal doctrine). Her assignment of a special master during the investigation phase of Trump's documents case is an example. She was overruled harshly by the 11th Circuit for giving Trump an unjustified special status just because he is a formal president and therefore should be blessed with special treatment.

 

That decision was unusual for Cannon whose past work has shown that she has been strict with defendants and has generally sided with prosecutors. Trump seems like a different type of person to her

 

A portion of Trump's 2024 Labor Day message.


Trump Attacks Harris in Labor Day Message: ‘All Americans Are Suffering During This Holiday Weekend’

excerpt:

"Happy Labor Day to all of our American Workers who represent the Shining Example of Hard Work and Ingenuity. Under Comrade Kamala Harris, all Americans are suffering during this Holiday weekend – High Gas Prices, Transportation Costs are up, and Grocery Prices are through the roof. We can’t keep living under this weak and failed “Leadership."

 

Trump still thinks gasoline prices are high.

He likes to try to wreck Americans with his Debbie Downer remarks when they're trying to enjoy their holiday.

 

The current U.S. national average gasoline price is $3.33 per gallon.

 

Trump supporters can vote for him again to make prices higher and to cause job loss by the disruption caused by trade wars.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/donald-trump-tariffs-trade-war/index.html

excerpt:

"Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of imposing a 10% tariff on every good coming into the US, as well as a tariff upward of 60% on all Chinese imports if he regains the presidency. On Saturday, during a campaign rally, he promised a “100% tariff” on cars made outside the US and warned of a “bloodbath” for the American auto industry if he doesn’t get reelected."

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/donald-trump-tariffs-trade-war/index.html

excerpt:

"Trump’s tariffs helped create some jobs, but even more were lost in the wake of his trade wars.

Overall, the US economy lost jobs due to the tit-for-tat tariffs that took effect during the Trump administration, according to several studies, like one from the Tax Foundation and another from the US-China Business Council, a nonprofit whose goal is trade promotion."

 

Gasoline price in 1980 was $1.19. That's over $4 per gallon in today's dollars.

COVID caused gas prices to drop to about $2.45. Today's price is about $3.33.


Average Gas Prices in the U.S. Through History [Updated]

 

No filter, no bottom line, no consideration, no fucks given about anything but himself.

 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/53fm9DCLPzg

 

The global price of oil is controlled by OPEC and private industries such as Exxon and such. There are no government controls and the gasoline price also has a lot to do with refinery capacity, transport, season, demand, capacity, supply. US is the largest crude producer, unfortunately, much of it goes overseas where they get a better buck for it. When the price of Diesel was at $7 it had only to do with they have the fuel, we needed it, they had the opportunity to gouge for it while demand was surging after the pandemic. Yes, gas was cheap during the pandemic since there was little demand for it. It's not that Washington has a dial where they control prices of things - that would be the big conservative no-no....socialism...

 

The following is why trump actually still has a chance to get elected. It's hard for me to believe that people like this exist.
I turned the commercials off after 4 seconds. Behold and marvel!!

 

Oh, I'm sure there are a zillion of other brain twisted guys like these out there....mass hysteria fueled by being in the sub 100 IQ club....

 

There were at least 74 million last election!

 

Trump's federal election subversion case held its first hearing since the Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling.

Chutkan isn't buying the ruling by Cannon to dismiss the documents case and the comment by Thomas that he thinks Jack Smith doesn't have the authority to be a special counsel.


https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hearing-jan-6-election-09-05-24/index.html

excerpt:

"Judge Tanya Chutkan hinted that she was dubious of Donald Trump’s coming attempt to get the Washington, DC, case dismissed on the grounds that special counsel Jack Smith was supposedly illegally appointed.

She took a swipe at the ruling that Judge Aileen Cannon handed down dismissing the classified documents case on that basis, calling that ruling not particularly “persuasive.”

Chutkan also emphasized that a concurrence by Justice Clarence Thomas — which Cannon’s ruling cited — that laid out those constitutional concerns was “dicta,” meaning non-binding language. And she brought up that there is already DC Circuit precedent in the books upholding the constitutionality of special counsels, which would be binding on her as a trial judge in Washington, DC."

 

Trump has pleaded not guilty to the superseding indictment in the federal election subversion case. Jack Smith had to revise the evidence and present it again to a different grand jury in the wake of the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling.


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