The Donald Trump Score Card

The face of Vance should be on the side of a milk carton along with Melania.

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Freeman and Moss petition judge to hold Giuliani in contempt for continuing to spread lies about them.


Former Georgia election workers ask judge to hold Rudy Giuliani in contempt for repeating false claims

 

Would Trump's birthright citizenship order affect his son?

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"Wrote Corey Brettschneider, a professor of political science at Brown University, in a Nov. 3 piece for The Guardian, "An executive order cannot reverse the guarantee of citizenship to anyone born in the United States that is enshrined in the constitution…Contrary to Trump’s assertion, the constitution’s text and values and Supreme Court decisions show he cannot unilaterally revoke birthright citizenship. Nor can Congress pass a law to do so. The idea is enshrined in the constitution and can only be changed with a formal amendment.""

 

How Trump and Speaker Johnson could force the Senate to adjourn, allow recess appointments

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"The whole idea that a president could conspire with the House to eviscerate the Senate’s advice and consent for a nomination is outrageous," Edward Whelan, a distinguished senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, told Fox News Digital.

"The mechanism that they have in mind to do that would not work… the House of Representatives has no authority to try to prevent that same thing in session. And its objection to the Senate doing so cannot plausibly create the sort of disagreement that would trigger a presidential authority to adjourn both houses."

 

Trump wants to try to manufacture a fake disagreement in Congress over whether or not to adjourn so that he can use it as an excuse to use executive power to force Congress to adjourn so that he can have his nominations effectively confirmed without Senate confirmation.

 

Dr. Oz will be in charge of $1.6 trillion, about 25% of the entire U.S. federal annual budget.


Trump picks Dr. Oz to lead massive Medicare and Medicaid agency CMS

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"CMS operates or oversees health-care programs that provide coverage to about 1 out of every 2 Americans, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Obamacare marketplace exchange Healthcare.gov.

Those four programs account for $1.6 trillion in spending, or nearly 25% of the entire federal budget, a fact that Trump highlighted in announcing Oz as his pick to lead CMS, a division of the Health and Human Services Department."

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/19/trump-nominees-might-get-confirmed-00190207

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"GOP senators like John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona, Rob Portman of Ohio, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and others would have pushed back hard against the idea of an Attorney General Matt Gaetz, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Those Republicans also help explain why Trump’s first term nominees were “normal” picks, like Jim Mattis or Rex Tillerson.

Most of those senators are gone, unable or unwilling to resist the force of MAGA Republicans. Trump’s power is such that a defense hawk and McCain ally like Lindsey Graham is likely to support the nomination of Gabbard, who has embraced many of Vladimir Putin’s talking points and seems at times almost enamored of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Some of the incoming GOP senators — Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania, Bernie Moreno of Ohio — owe their victories to Trump.

In other words, the landscape of the Senate, which Trump helped to shape, suggests that the astonishing, almost contemptuous challenge Trump has made — confirm my picks or I will recess appoint them without your votes — is likely to succeed."

 

Trump claims he has an ‘unprecedented’ mandate. Experts say it’s actually very small

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Updegrove told The Independent that Trump’s own perception of a sweeping mandate, fiction though it is, could have big implications for the future of the country.

“He is poised to be the most powerful president perhaps in the history of the United States, because he has what he considers to be a mandate,” he said. “He has the majority in the House and Senate. There are no dissenters in his party as there was in the previous administration. You have a Supreme Court that has not only granted him immunity, but that has shown itself to be a partisan court.

“Add to that his rampant and extreme ambitions, and you have somebody who could have a profound effect on not only the future of this country, but — because of its importance in the international community — the world.”

 

Possible changes to Medicare and Medicaid with Dr. Oz in charge of them.


Could changes be coming to Medicare, Medicaid with Dr. Oz leading CMS?

 

Bannon's border wall trial in NY has been delayed until February.


Steve Bannon's trial in a border wall charity scheme case delayed until February

 

How much is the establishment machine paying you to flood message boards with propaganda rhetoric?

 

Probably not as much as you'll be getting after January 20th from the right wing machine.

 

Matt Gaetz withdraws from attorney general consideration.


https://www.npr.org/2024/11/21/g-s1-35211/gaetz-out-attorney-general-trump

 

Giuliani ordered into court for repeatedly saying same lies about Freeman and Moss.

The court date is in December.

 

Giuliani should be ordered into a psychiatric facility for evaluation.

 

Matt Gaetz had already resigned from the House.


Can Matt Gaetz return to Congress after withdrawing as AG nominee?

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"If he comes back the House, that sucker is coming out," he said, adding that the chances of Gaetz being able to return to the House are slim.

"Once he resigns his seat in Congress in the House of Representatives, he remains out of that office, he remains unemployed unless he can find another gig," he said.

But there could be an alternative path back to Congress for Gaetz, according to Bharara, who suggested that he could return as a senator if Marco Rubio is confirmed as secretary of state.

It is within the power of governors in 45 states, including Florida, to appoint someone to a vacant Senate seat as a temporary replacement, sothe Sunshine State's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who endorsed Trump after dropping out of the presidential primaries, could appoint Gaetz.

"It would be a highly controversial and very unlikely," Parker said. "DeSantis will choose a close ally or could even resign to allow the lieutenant governor to take his position and potentially appoint him to the seat."

 

Trump still hasn't signed the ethics agreements.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/19/trump-transition-fbi-state-gsa/

 

Trump could try to play musical chairs.

He nominated his criminal defense attorney, Blanche, to be deputy attorney general.

Now that Gaetz is gone, he could try to rescind that nomination and nominate his criminal defense attorney to be AG.

 

Maybe in two weeks.

 

If he does sign, he may burst into flames!! ( one can only hope.)