The Donald Trump Score Card

Elon Musk’s Genius Lawyer Admits His $1 Million Lottery Is Total Scam | The New Republic

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Musk’s lawyers said that they plan to stop the giveaway after the election Tuesday, and the PAC has pledged to give the recipients their money by November 30, according to evidence they presented in court. More than one million people have registered for the chance to win the cash prize, and Krasner in court questioned what Musk and the PAC will do with their personal data.

“They were scammed for their information,” Krasner said. “It has almost unlimited use.”

 

California continues with its efforts to autocrat-proof itself against Trump.


How California has been ‘Trump-proofing’ itself against federal reprisal

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/07/trump-legal-failures-blame-column-00187945

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"We have just witnessed the greatest failure of federal law enforcement in American history.

The reasons for Donald Trump’s reelection are numerous and will be hotly debated in the weeks ahead. But the story of his comeback cannot be told without seriously grappling with how he managed to outrun four criminal cases, including — most notably — the Justice Department’s prosecution over Trump’s alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election.

At the root of it all are the considerable and truly historic legal missteps by the Biden administration and Attorney General Merrick Garland, as well as a series of decisions by Republicans throughout the political and legal systems in recent years that effectively bailed Trump out when the risks for him were greatest."

 

Trump was bailed out politically by his opponents who were in the 2024 GOP primary and figureheads like McCarthy and Graham (who were on the receiving end of Trump's riot).

Trump was bailed out financially by the major shareholder of Axos Bank.

The six conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court (three of whom Trump appointed) bailed out Trump with their broad-sweeping presidential immunity ruling that will continue to bail out him for another four-year term.

Judge Cannon in FL bailed out Trump by first foot-dragging for almost two years and then completely dismissing his federal documents case based on a remark Clarence Thomas made as part of his opinion on the presidential immunity ruling (another bailout) that claimed Jack Smith didn't have the authority to prosecute Trump.

In a way, the DOJ bailed out Trump by letting him off the hook until November 2022 when he announced that he was running for president again. Shortly after that, Jack Smith was assigned to investigate Trump which could have happened just after Trump's riot at the Capitol or even earlier.

 

The snake poem that Trump keeps reading at his gatherings about the snake biting its owner who took him in describes him well.

Like in the snake poem, people knew what Trump was but kept taking him back in anyway and were bitten by him.

 

A video on YouTube shows a wasp attacking a tarantula that one would think, being so much larger, would be able to defend itself against the wasp. The tarantula temporarily disabled the wasp but chose to not continue the fight and kill it. The wasp revived itself and ended up killing the tarantula.

 

Looks like the ending of the Planet Of The Apes movie.

Many in the U.S. are happy about it instead of being upset.


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It would have been good if the conservatives on the Supreme Court would have read all of George Washington's statement. They probably did but chose to take a small portion of it to misleadingly make it seem that Washington wanted presidential immunity.

 

Exactly what I first thought and what the artist was after as well I’m guessing.

 

People thought that Hitler had learned his lesson, was tamed by his prison sentence, and would retire to private life.


Did The New York Times Report in 1924 That Hitler Was 'Tamed by Prison'?

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Trump has named Susie Wiles to be his White House chief of staff.

Trump had four chiefs of staff during his first term: Reince Priebus, Gen. John Kelly, Mick Mulvaney and Mark Meadows.

Trump's previous chief of staff was Mark Meadows who has been indicted in two states (GA and AZ) for his role in Trump's quest to overturn the 2020 election.

Meadows has lost various attempts to move his state cases to federal court.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/16/politics/mark-meadows-arizona-loss/index.html

 

Another setback for Democrats.

AP calls former hedge fund CEO McCormick winner of U.S. Senate seat in PA.

Polls showed McCormick trailing Casey most of the campaign.

In 2022 Trump endorsed Mehmet Oz for a U.S. Senate seat in PA instead of McCormick. Oz lost the race to Fetterman.

Trump endorsed McCormick in 2024.


Republican Dave McCormick wins Pennsylvania Senate seat in key race

 

Far-right authoritarians around the world praise Trump's election win.


‘Time for patriots’: global far-right figures celebrate Trump’s win

 

Surprise, surprise…the people that Trump modeled himself after are happy for him.

 

Trump said he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and also said he would do it while he was president-elect.

 

Jack Smith has requested a pause in all deadlines in the federal election subversion case against Trump. Judge Chutkan has granted the request.

 

Various critical legal arguments and what would have been upcoming court decisions about Trump's federal criminal cases will probably not be made and will go unresolved.

The appeal Jack Smith made to try to overturn Judge Cannon's dismissal of the federal documents case against Trump probably won't be completed.

The issue of whether Trump had immunity for the acts he committed that led to his insurrection probably won't be resolved.

If legal action somehow proceeds, it would be more of an academic exercise than a criminal prosecution of Trump who is now shielded because he was reelected.

Jack Smith has already put a hold on all the court deadlines in Trump's federal election subversion case.

 

It's an unusual situation that Trump's behavior elicited the criminal charges against him, that the Supreme Court granted him potential immunity for those crimes (to be determined later in federal court), and yet what would have been upcoming legal rulings surrounding his cases will probably go unresolved because he was reelected which further immunized him for the next four years from prosecution by the DOJ.

It's difficult to imagine another type of situation that would have so snookered a justice system that tries to hold people accountable.

 

Trump now has an enhanced third layer of immunity in that a now even more Republican Senate would be even less likely to convict him on impeachment charges compared to the two impeachments and Senate acquittals he had during his first term.