The Donald Trump Score Card

With even Giuliani pretending to be Donald Duck's lawyer, he has a good chance of pleading ignorance.

 

They say Americans love a winner, and hate a loser. If you have a billion dollars and are a former president, you are a winner by definition, even if your legacy is to be drawn and quartered on public television. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, Americans are proof that you can't fix stupid, no matter how much money you have. They don't have to be smart, they're destroying the most powerful country in the world, and making a fortune in the process.

These days, we import geniuses, while banking is where the money is at.

 

Trump's rioters trying to destroy evidence.


Dozens of Capitol riot defendants accused of trying to delete photos, texts

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"Dozens of the more than 500 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have been accused in court documents of attempting to delete photos and other content from their phones and social media accounts to hide their participation in the mob attack.

According to an analysis from The Associated Press, at least 49 people charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia have been accused of attempting to erase online and mobile phone content from Jan. 6.

Investigators have been able to track down many of the pro-Trump rioters through photos and videos posted to social media as well as security footage and phone data placing individuals in and around the Capitol building at the time of the attack."

 

At the same time, Biden and DeSantis have temporarily put politics aside and are making solemn remarks about the apartment tower that will be intentionally demolished, even with potential survivors still inside, due to the risk of the very unstable remains of the building collapsing uncontrolled. An approaching hurricane is adding additional risk for a collapse due to high winds.

Trump's rally in Sarasota is about 185 miles away from the apartment.

 

Trump to Hold Rally in Florida, Across State From Building Disaster

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"The recent conversation between Mr. Lukis and Mr. Glassner was not the first time Mr. DeSantis’s staff had expressed reservations about the timing of Mr. Trump’s event. Before the condominium collapse, Mr. DeSantis’s office had suggested to the Trump team that the fall was better timing for a rally, given the perils of hurricane season in Florida, two people familiar with the conversation said.

Mr. Trump ignored the suggestion. Shut out of Facebook and Twitter, Mr. Trump has been eager for an outlet to have his voice heard and has been chomping at the bit to return to the rally stage, aides said.

Mr. DeSantis is seen as a top-tier Republican presidential candidate for 2024, and may end up in a political collision with the former president, who himself has hinted that he is considering a third try for the White House.

People close to Mr. Trump said he had become mildly suspicious of a supposed ally. He has grilled multiple advisers and friends, asking “what’s Ron doing,” after hearing rumors at Mar-a-Lago that Mr. DeSantis had been courting donors for a potential presidential run of his own. He has asked aides their opinion of a Western Conservative Summit presidential straw poll for 2024 Republican presidential candidates, an unscientific online poll that showed Mr. DeSantis beating Mr. Trump."

 

New video surfaces of Trump appointee at Capitol riot.


DOJ releases new video of Federico Klein in Capitol riot | wusa9.com

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"WASHINGTON — New video released by the Justice Department Thursday appears to show a federal appointee of former President Donald Trump attempting to steal a riot shield from an officer during the Capitol riot.

The video was one of two pieces of evidence against Federico Klein released this week as part of an ongoing effort by WUSA and other news outlets to push for more transparency from the ongoing January 6 investigations.

In one 3.5-minute clip, Capitol and D.C. police officers can be seen preparing a shield wall as they work to swap out reinforcements for exhausted officers holding the front of the line against a pro-Trump mob in the Capitol tunnels.

Toward the end of that clip, an unidentified woman can be seen screaming for help as she is crushed between the mob and the line of riot officers."

 

FBI launches flurry of arrests over attacks on journalists during Capitol riot
By Devlin Barrett
July 3, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. UTC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...f871d2-daa7-11eb-bb9e-70fda8c37057_story.html

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"Nearly six months after the U.S. Capitol riot, the Justice Department has begun arresting a new category of alleged criminals — those who attacked reporters or damaged their equipment as journalists documented the violence perpetrated by supporters of President Donald Trump.

The first such charge came last week, when 43-year-old Shane Jason Woods of Illinois was charged with engaging in violence on the Capitol grounds Jan. 6, as well as assaulting a law enforcement officer. Authorities say Woods was caught on video knocking down a cameraman.

The arrests come at a contentious moment for the Justice Department and First Amendment advocates, who have sharply criticized federal law enforcement for secretly issuing subpoenas of reporters’ phone records during the Trump administration.

The new attorney general, Merrick Garland, has ordered the drafting of new rules for prosecutors when trying to identify who may have leaked classified information, but critics of the long-standing Justice Department policy say it should not have taken another set of controversial subpoenas for law enforcement officials to stop using such secretive measures to hunt for reporters’ sources.

Amid that ongoing tension, the Justice Department has begun arresting some of those who allegedly surrounded a group of reporters outside the Capitol, ran them off and then set out to destroy tens of thousands of dollars worth of their gear."

 

The first points are already underway. Political repression, complete lack of democracy, widespread personality cultism ( Note the REPUBLICAN PARTY'S rapid restriction of voting access, rights, ballot-counting restrictions - including TIME allowed to count ballots, fewer polling places, limiting hours to vote, restricting absentee ballots and vote-by-mail mail-in ballots, making it a crime to even give water to voters standing in line in the heat, elimination of Sunday voting in some states.

Gerrymandering / re-drawing voting districts so it's almost impossible for anyone other than a REPUBLICAN to win an election (based on voter registrations and voting records). This is the politicians selecting their voters ...... instead of the voters selecting their elected representatives. This IS NOT DEMOCRACY !!!!!!!!!!! This is NOT FREE & FAIR ELECTIONS !!!!!!!!!! This is RIGGING THE SYSTEM so a predetermined outcome is all but assured.

Personality cultism. The cult of T****. His followers would eat his bowel movements if he told them to. They've sucked down ALL T****'s Kool-ade, believed EVERY LIE - even over recorded video and audio tape of the man(???) and the lies he spewed. Multi-sourced proof of his lies doesn't deter any of his LEMMINGS from worshipping the fraud as a "god" figure. The self-centered maggot even is on video / audio tape looking to the sky - arms outstretched - saying "I'm the anointed one. I'm the chosen one." If there's ever been a false-prophet / anti-Christ ............ he's it.

Then consider the newer media outlets that sprung up like weeds out of the blue to sell the T**** propaganda & lies - including the "BIG LIE" that he won the election by a "landslide." Some REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS - the majority in fact - S-T-I-L-L continue to spew the T****LIES .

Consider the fact that T**** has taken political revenge on ANYONE who dared to oppose him or what he said. If he gets in again ............... (Please GOD - NO!!!!!!) ................ does anyone think he wouldn't try to imprison (or worse) anyone who has "crossed him" ?????? Remember ............ he convinced many in this country that a number of Democratic governors in various states should be bodily taken from state capitols and thrown in prison.

Totalitarianism. Autocracy. Dictatorship.

Read your Bibles where Jesus warns people about false prophets and ones claiming to have "come in his name" - claiming to be "the chosen one." Scary stuff ............. and it's already happening.

 

States with REPUBLICAN - CONTROLLED legislatures are already re-writing laws to restrict what can be taught in their schools. TRUTH won't be included. OBJECTIVITY won't be included. Only the REPUBLICAN PARTY line will be taught, so the kids are "indoctrinated properly."

 

Bodycam video released of Trump's rioters at the tunnel of the Capitol.

The tunnel battle raged for a couple hours.


GRAPHIC: DOJ releases bodycamera footage of the Capitol riot "tunnel scene"
Published: Jul. 1, 2021 at 11:39 PM UTC

GRAPHIC: DOJ releases bodycamera footage of the Capitol riot "tunnel scene"

 

Tourists hugging and kissing the cops...

 

Trump rails against ‘prosecutorial misconduct’ during Florida rally (politico.com)

"Trump tore into the indictments in front of thousands of cheering fans at a fairgrounds in Sarasota, casting the allegations as a politically-motivated prosecution against him, his family and business."

Hey asshole, the prosecution is motivated by a number of things other than you running a corrupt business and not paying your taxes like the rest of us. I'm pretty sure the fact that you incited a riot at the Capitol is a motivator. If that's what you call politically-motivated that's fine with me.

 

Trump appears to acknowledge tax schemes while questioning whether alleged violations are crimes
By Tyler Pager
July 4, 2021 at 3:17 a.m. UTC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...65b6b2-dc71-11eb-ae62-2d07d7df83bd_story.html

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"As Trump criticized the investigation, he appeared to acknowledge the tax schemes while questioning whether the alleged violations were in fact crimes.

“They go after good, hard-working people for not paying taxes on a company car,” he said at a rally in Sarasota, Fla. “You didn't pay tax on the car or a company apartment. You used an apartment because you need an apartment because you have to travel too far where your house is. You didn't pay tax. Or education for your grandchildren. I don't even know. Do you have to? Does anybody know the answer to that stuff?”

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office charged the Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg with orchestrating a 15-year scheme to avoid taxes by providing benefits hidden from the federal government. Weisselberg, they said, evaded taxes on $1.7 million in fringe benefits, which included the Trump Organization paying his rent, leasing him cars and other gifts. The Trump Organization and Weisselberg both pleaded not guilty this week, and Trump was not charged in the case.

Prosecutors allege a 15-year tax fraud scheme as the Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg are arraigned on multiple criminal charges

But Trump excoriated the prosecutors for what he argued was a politically motivated investigation and one that came at the expense of focusing on violent crimes.

“For murder and for selling massive amounts of the worst drugs in the world that kill people left and right, that's okay,” he said. “Think of it, think of how unfair it is. Never before has New York City and their prosecutors or perhaps any prosecutors criminally charged a company or a person for fringe benefits. Fringe benefits. Murders, okay. Human trafficking, no problem — but fringe benefits, you can’t do that.”"

 

‘Enough of this crap’: Former GOP lawmaker sounds off about opposition to Jan. 6 commission

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"A former Republican lawmaker is nearly few up with his political party's opposition to a January 6 commission. Speaking to CNN on Friday evening, former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) shared his reaction to a recent report about an individual who participated in the U.S. Capitol insurrection.

Despite violating multiple laws and breaching a federal building, that individual was allowed to travel with several Republican lawmakers for a border trip this week, reports Mediaite. Riggleman admitted that he has no idea why any individual holding public office would be "swapping air molecules" with someone who breached the Capitol.

According to Riggleman, it really shows how "we need to find out how this disinformation spreads, we need a committee or a commission."

Although the Jan. 6 select committee is moving forward, it's not a result of Republicans showing support for it. At one point during the discussion, CNN host John Berman asked Riggleman if he believes House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) may try to "muck up" the committee.

Riggleman believes McCarthy is probably "going to have to make fun of it" while making attempts to deem the committee as a partisan effort to undermine its legitimacy."

 

Brookings report: Donald Trump at "serious" risk of indictment

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"A blockbuster report from the Brookings Institute this week concluded that former President Donald Trump is at "serious" risk of indictment for a number of alleged crimes, including tax dodging, falsifying records and a variety of business-related fraud.

The 60-page report, released Monday, came just days before criminal indictments against Trump Organization and its longtime finance chief were unsealed Thursday. Both the company and CFO Allen Weisselberg were accused of staging a 15-year-long scheme to avoid payroll taxes for top executives through the use of off-the-books corporate benefits.

Brookings describes the report's four authors as "experts with a broad array of backgrounds as scholars, practitioners, former prosecutors, and defense lawyers, who have served under state or federal administrations headed by leaders of both political parties, and who have substantial relevant experience with the particular investigating offices here." They include Georgetown Law School professor and Deputy Attorney General under George H.W. Bush, Donald Ayer; former federal prosecutor Danya Perry; experienced criminal litigator John Cuti and senior Brookings fellow Norman Eisen, who served as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee during the process of President Trump's first impeachment trial.

To reach their conclusions, the authors write that they consulted "court filings, media reports, congressional transcripts, and other sources," which were public but had never been compiled in the same place."

 

Republic takes Senate, Cyber Ninjas to court for audit records

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"The Arizona Republic has gone to court to demand records from the state Senate and one of its contractors to shed light on the audit of 2020 election results.

The news organization on Wednesday filed a special action in Maricopa County Superior Court seeking financial records and communications about the audit from the Senate and Cyber Ninjas, the contractor it hired to lead the work.

The Republic had earlier requested the information through the Arizona Public Records Law but was denied access, prompting the legal complaint.

How the audit is being conducted, the businesses doing the work, where the money is coming from and what officials are saying to each other about it are for the most part not publicly known."

 

'Slam dunk': Legal expert says Trump CFO faces 'very poor' chance of acquittal

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"Longtime Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg was indicted on tax fraud charges this week, and one former federal prosecutor believes that the case against him amounts to a "slam dunk."

Writing in The Daily Beast, former federal prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg argues that the case against Weisselberg is so strong that prosecutors likely won't need to rely on cooperating witnesses to make it, as they have sufficient documentary evidence of his crimes.

"It will not be difficult to establish that Weisselberg lived rent-free for years in an apartment paid for by his employer, or that the Trump Organization also paid for his grandchildren's tuition and the leases on his and his wife's Mercedes," he writes. "All of this is clearly income and the tax returns show it was never reported as such."

Zeidenberg then turns to the question of whether this will be enough to get Weisselberg to cooperate into prosecutors' investigations of former President Donald Trump."

 

Leaks say that a grand jury is set to meet three days a week for six months. It doesn't sound like the fringe benefit for Weisselberg is the only subject of the investigation.


New grand jury seated for next stage of Trump investigation

 

Florida again.


Latest alleged Oath Keeper arrested in Capitol riot turned over body armor and firearm
By Spencer S. Hsu
July 2, 2021 at 7:26 p.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...54d5aa-db5d-11eb-9bbb-37c30dcf9363_story.html

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"Another alleged Oath Keepers associate was arrested Friday in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, accused of joining a “stack formation” of organized members who prosecutors say marched up the east steps and entered the Rotunda in camouflage and tactical gear.

David Moerschel, 43, of Punta Gorda, Fla., was charged by criminal complaint Thursday with three counts, including conspiracy and obstructing Congress. Moerschel joined some defendants who prosecutors allege staged in advance at an Arlington hotel, where they say weapons were stored for a “Quick Reaction Force” site."

 

When Michael Bloomberg arrested 26 reporters in one day, he got a slap on the wrist from Obama. If the Justice Dept and FBI want to wait a few more years before defending freedom of the press, I can understand. Would you want to defend the freedom of speech of Fox News?