The Donald Trump Score Card

Barr is recommending cuts of federal funding to cities he deems to be anarchist.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/21/nyc-branded-an-anarchist-jurisdiction-targeted-for-defunding-doj/

 

My Friend: is it not true that Cubans will vote Republican regardless of this nomination?

 

Barr is more of a threat to this democracy than trump is. trump is too stupid to know what he's doing.

 

Opinion polls show only 35% of the public approve of Trump's response to the coronavirus.

Trump gives himself an A+.

Donald Trump gives himself an 'A+' for his handling of the coronavirus. Uh, what? - CNNPolitics

 

Trump's remarks at his rallies show his desperation of trying not to lose more white vote.


‘It’s a big, big swing’: Trump loses ground with white voters

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"The erosion of Trump’s white support — and its significance to the November outcome — was never more obvious than in Trump’s messaging in recent days. Last week, he called for the creation of a commission to promote “patriotic education” while dismissing “critical race theory” and the 1619 project of The New York Times Magazine. At a rally in Mosinee, Wis., he lit into Kamala Harris — the first major party woman of color vice presidential nominee — lamenting the possibility of her becoming president “through the back door.”

On Friday, he released a TV ad in Minnesota and Michigan lashing into Biden for supporting increased refugee admissions, including from “the most unstable, vulnerable, dangerous parts of the world.” Then, before an overwhelmingly white crowd in Bemidji, Minn., Trump mocked Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) — the first Somali-American in Congress and a former refugee — and said Biden would “turn Minnesota into a refugee camp.”

He praised Minnesotans for their “good genes.”"

 

Trump used this same scare tactic in 2016. He mentioned refugees from Somalia who were in MN during a campaign stop in MN in 2016.

He lost MN in 2016.

 

Trump insulted Somali Americans in 2019 during a rally in MN.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/11/trump-somali-refugees-minneapolis-rally/

 

So I've heard that the conservative argument as to why a Supreme Court justice should be appointed before the election is because that if the 2020 election is like the 2000 election, and has to be decided by the SCOTUS, a four to four tie resolves nothing.

 

Trump to announce replacement for Ginsburg before she is buried.

Trump to make court pick by Saturday, before Ginsburg burial

 

Trump raised the flag at the White House on the Monday after McCain's death when it should have stayed lowered for another week until he was interred.

Trump wonders why he has lost so much support from members of the military during his term. Polls show the lack of support translates into lack of votes for him.

 

The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
No matter what happens now, the virus will continue to circulate around the world.
Sarah Zhang
August 4, 2020

The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away

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"With a virus, there is a general trade-off between how contagious it is and how deadly it is. SARS and SARS-CoV-2 are illustrative points of comparison: The earlier virus killed a much higher proportion of patients, but it also did not spread as easily. And what a virus ultimately wants to do is keep spreading, which is much easier to do from a live, walking host than a dead one. “In the grand scheme of things, you know, a dead host doesn't help the virus,” says Vineet Menachery, a coronavirus researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch. The other four coronaviruses may also be less deadly because we have all encountered them as children, and even if our immunity does not prevent us from getting them again, it may still prevent severe disease. All of this, along with immunity from vaccines, means that COVID-19 is likely to become far less disruptive down the line.

Influenza might be another useful point of comparison. The “flu” is not one virus but actually several different strains that circulate seasonally. After pandemics like 2009’s H1N1 flu, also known as swine flu, the pandemic strain does not simply disappear. Instead, it turns into a seasonal flu strain that circulates all year but peaks during the winter. A descendent of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic strain is still the seasonal flu today. The seasonal peaks never quite reach pandemic heights because of building immunity in the population. Eventually, a new strain, against which people have no immunity, comes along and sparks a new pandemic, and then it becomes the new dominant seasonal strain.

In this way, the long-term outlook for COVID-19 might offer some hope for a return to normal. “I think this virus is with us to the future,” Ruth Karron, a vaccine researcher at Johns Hopkins, told me. “But so is influenza with us, and for the most part, flu doesn't shut down our societies. We manage it.”"

 

To Conservatives, Barrett Has ‘Perfect Combination’ of Attributes for Supreme Court
Judge Amy Coney Barrett is regarded as the leading contender to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Adam Liptak
Published Sept. 20, 2020
Updated Sept. 21, 2020, 7:00 p.m. ET

To Conservatives, Barrett Has ‘Perfect Combination’ of Attributes for Supreme Court

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"“Amy Coney Barrett meets Donald Trump’s two main litmus tests: She has made clear she would invalidate the A.C.A. and take health care away from millions of people and undermine a woman’s reproductive freedom,” said Nan Aron, the president of Alliance for Justice, a liberal group.

But some White House officials worry that Judge Barrett’s positions might galvanize not just Democrats but also suburban women and independent voters who would favor a more mainstream pick, and her nomination is hardly certain. Mr. Trump and his advisers may have to weigh how much support they would gain from those voters if he selected another nominee versus the risk of alienating parts of their base if they shy away from Judge Barrett’s abortion record.

In the world of conservative judges, she has particularly strong credentials. Judge Barrett began clerking for Justice Antonin Scalia 22 years ago, and her fellow clerks are quick to say she was his favorite. She graduated summa cum laude from Notre Dame Law School and joined the faculty in 2002, earning praise from colleagues as an astute scholar and jurist even if they did not always agree on her jurisprudential premises."

 

Woke up thinking of the parties trump was a member of: Dem, Independent, Repub and the author of this link gives some interesting insights....was he "born again"...

When Trump Was A Democrat

 

Trump Could Be Investigated for Tax Fraud, D.A. Says for First Time
A new court filing from the Manhattan district attorney offered rare insight into the office’s investigation of the president and his businesses.
By Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum
Sept. 21, 2020 Updated 9:22 p.m. ET

Trump Could Be Investigated for Tax Fraud, D.A. Says for First Time

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"The dispute ultimately reached the Supreme Court, which in July handed down a landmark decision ruling against Mr. Trump.

“No citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority.

But the justices said that Mr. Trump could return to the lower court and raise other objections to the subpoena’s scope and relevance. Mr. Trump’s lawyers went back to Judge Marrero, arguing that the document request was political and “so sweeping that it amounts to an unguided and unlawful fishing expedition.”

In August, Judge Marrero dismissed the president’s new arguments. The judge noted that Mr. Trump’s lengthy legal battle could end up allowing the statute of limitations to expire on any possible crimes, and effectively grant him the immunity to which the Supreme Court ruled he was not entitled.

“At its core, it amounts to absolute immunity through a back door,” Judge Marrero wrote. He added, “Justice requires an end to this controversy.”

Mr. Trump is now appealing that decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In recent court filings, his lawyers described Judge Marrero’s opinion as “flawed from start to finish,” and they accused him of “stacking the deck” against the president.

“The president is not trying to resurrect a categorical-immunity claim,” the lawyers wrote. “He is challenging this specific subpoena on distinct grounds.”"

 

Shortly after he won the 2016 election, Trump said that he was going to unite the country.



Donald Trump has a grievance against New York – and it tells you a lot about his presidency
Arwa Mahdawi
Tue 22 Sep 2020 08.40 EDT
Last modified on Tue 22 Sep 2020 09.03 EDT

Donald Trump has a grievance against New York – and it tells you a lot about his presidency

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"The idea that New York is a hotbed of oatmilk-latte-fuelled anarchy would be hilarious if the motivation behind Trump’s stunt weren’t so sinister. Far from being a law-and-order president, Trump is the grievance president: his job isn’t to come up with policies but to dole out punishments. Last year, the New York Times interviewed Trump supporters about how the government shutdown was hurting a Florida town. “I thought he was going to do good things,” one woman complained. “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.” That quote is perhaps the best description you can get of Trump’s electoral mandate: he needs to hurt the right people. Or, perhaps more accurately, he needs to hurt left-leaning people and minorities. He needs to stick it to places like New York.

We often use the phrase “culture wars” to describe the deep divisions in America but I think what’s unfolding might more accurately be described as a cold civil war."

 

Trump's intention to cut federal funds to NY would damage the national economy and de-fund the police.



Trump threatens to yank $7B from “anarchist” NYC
President portrays NYC as lawless; real estate industry is not amused
TRD New York
September 21, 2020 06:26 PM

Trump Deems NYC Anarchist, Vows to Pull $7B in Federal Funding

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"The news from Washington was not welcomed by James Whelan, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, who pointed out that the New York metropolitan area accounts for nearly 10 percent of GDP.

“New York’s economic recovery will speed our nation’s economic recovery,” he said in a statement. “What is needed is not political gamesmanship and labels but a full-throttled federal aid package that will retain and create jobs, pay rent and put in place a path for New York and the nation to fully recover economically.”

Beating up on New York City has long been a favorite ploy of politicians seeking votes from Americans inclined to resent the city and other alleged bastions of liberalism. (Seattle and Portland, Oregon, were also deemed anarchist Monday by the Department of Justice.)

Dumping on New York paused after 9/11, but that was 19 years ago. And now, there’s an election to win. At least, that’s how Mayor Bill de Blasio, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan view the Trump administration’s action.

“This is thoroughly political and unconstitutional,” they said in a joint statement. “The president is playing cheap political games with congressionally directed funds.”

It’s not the first time Trump has threatened to yank funding from big cities. In 2017, he declared that so-called sanctuary cities — localities that withhold some information about undocumented immigrants from federal immigration authorities — would lose federal police funding, about $200 million in New York City’s case."

 

Gee... Guess that was another lie. Who would'a thunk it?

 

Let's see how he votes on the nominee. Even republicans should never trust another republican.
Romney supports vote on Trump's court nominee, all but assures approval

 

And he sends in five hundred lawyers to resist the release of the documentation concerning his cover-ups. What is Trump covering up?