The Donald Trump Score Card

Census Memo Cites ‘Unprecedented’ Meddling by Trump Administration

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"The Trump administration had long been open about its intention to change the formula for divvying up House seats among the states by excluding noncitizens from the population counts. That would leave an older and whiter population base in states with large immigrant populations, something that was presumed to work to Republican advantage."

 

Trump's rioters at his insurrection at the Capitol carrying a bust of him.


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No, it’s not a coup — It’s a failed ‘self-coup’ that will undermine US leadership and democracy worldwide

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"Past examples include President Alberto Fujimori of Peru, who dissolved the congress and curtailed the independence of the judiciary in 1992. Guatemala’s President Jorge Serrano Elías was rebuffed by the military and economic elites after he dissolved the congress and the judiciary in 1993. More recently, President Evo Morales of Bolivia fled the country after he tried to claim, in contradiction to what international observers concluded, that he’d won election to a fourth term.

Trump’s behavior constitutes a self-coup since he has sought to undermine the integrity of the November 3 election and has sought to overturn the results of an election. He urged voters to illegally vote twice; he sought to disenfranchise voters; he sought to coerce officials to alter the vote results. On January 6,

Trump explicitly urged the mob to “walk down to the Capitol,” to “demand that Congress do the right thing,” to “show strength,” and to “take back our country.”"

 

The U.S. Capitol Insurrection Sets a Dangerous Precedent

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"What happened on Wednesday matters regardless of “success” or “failure.” The history of coups and takeovers is instructive here. The first takeaway is that coups are a kind of theater, a chance for the participants to show off their strength and determination. Benito Mussolini and his party framed his 1922 March on Rome as a show of strength that forced the Italian government to cooperate with him, but in reality, he was allowed to go through with it. Mussolini did have thousands of supporters, but King Victor Emmanuell III chose not to deploy the army to quell them, and instead brought them into government. The Italian strongman and his supporters had a chance to demonstrate strength and took it. In a sense, that’s what happened in the Capitol: Those photos of Trump supporters resting their feet on Nancy Pelosi’s desk or walking off with government property will be used as recruiting tools for the far-right for years to come."

 

It's still on-going... It's to soon to say it has failed.

 

If there is ever an atempted insurrection like this again, then the police, national guard, or whoever is defending needs to be given one simple order that will make all the difference:
"As soon as they enter the building, SHOOT TO KILL."

 

The U.S. Capitol Insurrection Sets a Dangerous Precedent

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"Coups, even failed coups, illustrate weakness, and bad faith actors can capitalize on that weakness. The 1976 coup in Argentina happened amid internecine fighting between the left-wing and right-wing, leading to growing demands for somebody to restore order. The breach on Wednesday similarly highlighted weaknesses in our system. Not only were the Capitol police massively unprepared for what was an obvious threat, but it seemed disturbingly apparent that at least some police were sympathetic to the attackers. A number of reports have shown that law enforcement has been actively infiltrated by white supremacists around the country. Meanwhile, within Congress and the conservative media, there are still people, such as Florida Representative Matt Gaetz, ignoring the obvious and falsely claiming that the breach was carried out by Antifa. This atmosphere breeds complacency and ignorance of an obvious danger — one that a leader more calculating than Trump could capitalize on."

 

Trump and the language of insurrection | BrandeisNOW

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"When did this language start to become evident?

The general patterns I’m describing have been ramping up for a couple of years, but social media chatter among these extremists took on an especially foreboding, apocalyptic quality after the November elections. “Stay Calm. The Storm comes.” “Pay attention.” “Buckle up.” “You’re going to love how this movie ends.” “Nothing can stop what’s going to happen. Nothing.”

Supporters fervently hoped Trump would make a big move, declaring martial law to halt the election process and stage a re-vote. When each oracular prediction failed to come through, they would reassure one another Trump was still “5 steps ahead” or “playing 6D chess,” urging one another to “Trust the plan.”"

 

Trump and the language of insurrection | BrandeisNOW

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"In Trump's video message during the insurrection, he lied about the election being "stolen;" he told the people invading the Capitol, "We love you; you're very special," while also asking them to "Go home in peace." What is he doing here?

It’s classic Trump, having it both ways. History will likely show that Trump’s advisors wheedled him into making a gesture of damage control, so he told the rioters to go home. Yet he simultaneously doubled down on the “Stop the Steal” cause, reminding his base he’s been egregiously robbed. And his statement that “We love you; you’re very special” — the register of a parent speaking to a beloved child — would be hilarious if it weren’t so tragic.

Trump would never say such a thing to BLM demonstrators, or protesters objecting to the Kavanaugh hearings. If he’s called on the carpet for that profession of love, I won’t be surprised if he claims he was heroically trying to mollify an angry crowd to save lives. Trump has mastered the skill of plausible deniability."

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...7b3c88-51d1-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html

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"He cleaned up car keys, and Trump flags, and water bottles — as well as some alarming items such as body armor. There were some police posted nearby. “I asked the officers if it was theirs, and they said no,” says Kim. He says he found a manufacture date on the armor: It had been bought just weeks earlier, as if for this very occasion.

Kim kept cleaning. He cleaned the Rotunda, Statuary Hall, the crypt. It was 1 a.m. The litter was a testament to the violence. “There was some metal furniture that was broken, which was pretty amazing to me,” he says. “These are like, metal benches that were just broken to pieces.”

A lot of things were broken to pieces, or pilfered, or defaced. Windows and door frames. The placard above House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s door. Camera equipment owned by the Associated Press. A photo of the late congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, with a quote about the necessity of getting into “good trouble,” that had stood on an easel outside of the office of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.).

The office of the Senate parliamentarian was ransacked. A bust of President Zachary Taylor was smeared with what appeared to be blood.

Missing: Laptops from the offices of Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Pelosi and others. Mail. Paperwork. Records that the Department of Justice referred to cryptically as “national security equities.”"

 

The problem with this is it creates "martyrs" for the "cause"...

 

A natural selection phenomenon is probably contributing to decisions to not run again.

The GOP members who voted to impeach Trump are likely the ones who are the most aware of and frustrated with the current illegal, unethical, undemocratic nature of the GOP and the most likely to not want to run for office again.

Add to that the threats that they have been receiving, including death threats from Trump's people.

Before he announced that he would not to run again in 2022, U.S. Rep. Gonzalez of Ohio mentioned that when he arrived at the airport in Cleveland, he was met with an entourage of security to protect him, activity that he hadn't experienced before and that seemed disturbing to him.

 

If America's government is occupied with a Trump induced civil war, Russia and China will benefit the most. Russia just might go after Ukraine and China takes Taiwan. It sounds like Trump knew he was setting up a multi-front war? While this happens, Trump's followers want to patrol the southern border to keep Mexicans out.

 

Pretty much true.

 

Trump officials interfered with the 2020 census beyond cutting it short, email shows

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"Former President Donald Trump's administration alarmed career civil servants at the Census Bureau by not only ending the 2020 national head count early, but also pressuring them to alter plans for protecting people's privacy and producing accurate data, a newly released email shows.

Trump's political appointees at the Commerce Department, which oversees the bureau, demonstrated an "unusually" high level of "engagement in technical matters, which is unprecedented relative to the previous censuses," according to a September 2020 email that Ron Jarmin — the bureau's deputy director — sent to two other top civil servants.

At the time, the administration was faced with the reality that if Trump lost the November election he could also lose a chance to change the census numbers used to redistribute political representation. The window of opportunity was closing for his administration to attempt to radically reshape the futures of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Electoral College."

 

Trump wanted to end early and manipulate to his advantage the 2020 census, the same as the 2020 election.

 

A cold civil war.


Imagine another American Civil War, but this time in every state

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"The UVA data also showed a stunning 41% of those who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 also said it might now be "time to split the country."

Researchers have found such downbeat assessments of America's democracy are especially salient among the young. Last month, the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School published a poll that found half of voting age Americans under 30 thought our democracy was "in trouble" or "failing." A third also said they expected there to be "a civil war" within their lifetimes. And a quarter thought at least one state would secede."

 

Trump speaks at the 'Save America' rally.


Trump speaks at 'Save America' rally in Florence

 

Trump is still claiming he won Arizona.


No charges for 151 Arizona votes vetted over 2020 election fraud claims

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"Pima County Attorney Laura Conover said that while prosecutors found cases where voters knowingly submitted more than one ballot, "there is little to no evidence that they acted with the awareness that their actions would or could result in multiple votes being counted.

"What our investigation revealed was the genuine confusion about the electoral process, particularly relating to mail-in and provisional ballots, and the genuine fear, for a variety of reasons, that their initial vote would not count," Conover said in a statement.

No voter had more than one ballot counted, Conover said."