The Donald Trump Score Card

horseshit

 

pot calling the kettle black?

 

This is actually supported by what Michael Cohen said on the Rachel Maddow show. That is Putin is in total control of Russia and runs Russia as if it is his private company. Trump wants to be just like Putin and it follows that he wants Barr & The DOJ to be his private defense attorneys. In this scenario, if Trump loses the case to Carrol, the taxpayers would have to foot the bill. If he wins, we are stuck again.

 

Photo showing injury to the arm of Gaige Grosskreutz after being struck by a bullet from an AR-15 fired by Rittenhouse.

 

The AR-15 can do massive damage.

 

Perhaps the Nobel Committee recognized the two forgeries by noting the signatures 'David Dennison' and 'John Barron'.

 

That would be awesome! I bet old David Pecker wants to write an article about how great Trump is and so deserving of the big prize.

 

Damn, you're as dumb as trump.
btw, I think you were on the dean's list for failing common sense 101.

 

In 1968, Johnson decided that Vietnam was not a military action, it should be a police enforcement of the Containment Policy. So, he ran all the National Guard infantry units through Airborne school at Fort Benning, then out them on 24 he call up. But, then they started the de-Americanization process, to let the South Vietnamese handle it. That did t work, so he started bombing in the North. Regardless of all that, the NG is a militarized police force.

 

You fellas don't know squat. I bet you are a bunch of young Democrats.

 

Trump's activation and directing of the Washington, DC National Guard for operations within DC in June was legal. What was unusual is that he also acquired National Guard from various states for duty in DC and without invoking the Insurrection Act.

The number of National Guard in DC is about 2600. Trump wanted more than this and acquired them from other states with the consent of governors, almost all Republican (10 of 11 states), for duty in DC. Whether this is legal has been called into question.

It sets up possible scenarios where the President could activate National Guard from various states via consent of governors who are politically friendly with the President and send them to another state, even if the other state doesn't want those National Guard in its state and has declined the request by the President to activate its National Guard within its own state.

Trump has used the approach for DC but hasn't yet for other states where he has instead relied on requesting the governors of other states to activate their own national guard to handle the civil unrest.

Trump has made statements that give the impression that he activated the National Guard in various states when in fact it was a request he made to which officials in some states consented. It was actually the officials of the states that made the decision.



Why Were Out-of-State National Guard Units in Washington, D.C.? The Justice Department’s Troubling Explanation
By Steve Vladeck
Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 10:47 PM

Why Were Out-of-State National Guard Units in Washington, D.C.? The Justice Department’s Troubling Explanation

 

Why Were Out-of-State National Guard Units in Washington, D.C.? The Justice Department’s Troubling Explanation

excerpt:

"Now, in a letter to Mayor Bowser, Attorney General William Barr has cleared up that mystery, explaining that the out-of-state National Guard troops were there under the authority of 32 U.S.C. § 502(f).

In solving one mystery, however, Barr unearthed several more. One of two things is true: Either § 502(f) does not authorize the use of out-of-state National Guard troops in the manner in which they were deployed in Washington last week, or it does—and is therefore a stunningly broad authorization for the president to use the military at any time and for any reason, including as a backdoor around the Posse Comitatus Act. Simply put, either Barr is wrong, or he’s right—in which case Congress should immediately close the loophole he’s identified (and, apparently, seized upon)."

 

Was it forged with a sharpie?

 

Why Were Out-of-State National Guard Units in Washington, D.C.? The Justice Department’s Troubling Explanation

excerpt:

"Moreover, whereas the president has special authority over the D.C. National Guard and, according to the Office of Legal Counsel (in an opinion by then-Assistant Attorney General William H. Rehnquist), special power to use federal troops to protect against the impairment of federal government functions, the authority Barr identified is not remotely pegged to D.C.’s unique territorial status. Put another way, the authority the government is claiming here could’ve been exercised anywhere—including to send one state’s unfederalized National Guard into another state without that state’s permission.

Beyond those legal questions, there’s something perhaps even more troubling in relying on this kind of ersatz Title 10 status. When the president federalizes National Guard troops, he can choose whichever units he needs for the mission. Under § 502(f), however, the president does not have this luxury. Instead, he’s left to the voluntary support of those states that choose to help him. And with regard to the use of out-of-state National Guard units in Washington, perhaps it’s no surprise that, of the 11 states that, per public reports, appear to have sent troops to Washington, 10 have Republican governors. Meanwhile, Democratic governors in at least five states were asked to send troops and refused. In other words, it’s not just that this use of § 502(f) somehow allowed the federal government to exercise command and control over state National Guard troops in Title 32 status; it’s that it was overwhelmingly troops from red states—those who wanted to support the president’s politically controversial mission—not blue states. It shouldn’t take much to see why that’s an ominous precedent to set."

 

That would have been another clue, along with the barb wire handwriting.

 

I saw video footage of that from a different angle... Most of the muscle of the upper arm just above the elbow is just gone. There's no reconstructing that damage.

 

Check egger's post. The military cannot be used in civil unrest, such as riot control, but the National Guard can. I know exactly what the NG is, and what they do. My brother was an E6 in the NG, Airborne Engineer, attached to the 82nd.

 

No, you don't know squat, and you darn sure do not understand what the National Guard is. That is for sure and for certain.

 

He should not have been chasing him, with those other anarchists.

 

'Play it down': Trump admits to concealing the true threat of coronavirus in new Woodward book
By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN
Updated 1:30 PM ET, Wed September 9, 2020

Bob Woodward book 'Rage:' Trump admits to concealing true threat of coronavirus - CNNPolitics

excerpt:

"President Donald Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed US coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and "more deadly than even your strenuous flus," and that he repeatedly played it down publicly, according to legendary journalist Bob Woodward in his new book "Rage."

"This is deadly stuff," Trump told Woodward on February 7.

In a series of interviews with Woodward, Trump revealed that he had a surprising level of detail about the threat of the virus earlier than previously known. "Pretty amazing," Trump told Woodward, adding that the coronavirus was maybe five times "more deadly" than the flu.

Trump's admissions are in stark contrast to his frequent public comments at the time insisting that the virus was "going to disappear" and "all work out fine.""