The Donald Trump Score Card

Tech exec used access to White House computers to look for dirt on Trump, says special counsel

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"The filing does not allege that the content of any communications from the Executive Office of the President, or EOP, or any parties were compromised or read, and there is no indication that data collection went beyond identifying where the internet traffic came from and where it went.

Cybersecurity expert Rob Graham told NBC News that what Joffe appeared to have been doing was a search for domain names and addresses to which a computer had tried to connect.

When you type in the name of a website like Google.com, Graham said, DNS will translate it to a specific IP address and a specific group of servers. Monitoring such traffic reveals only that one computer or server is trying to reach another, he said, not the contents of a person’s screen or messages."

 

He really is a slimy fucker!! How he can be so widely worshiped, I'll never know!!

 

Tech exec used access to White House computers to look for dirt on Trump, says special counsel

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"According to prosecutors, Sussmann did not disclose to the agency, identified by The New York Times as the CIA, that he was working for a client when he provided the report, when he was actually representing “Tech Executive-1,” aka Joffe.

Legal experts said Sussmann could face additional legal exposure if he failed to disclose his relationship to Joffe.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Joffe said, “Contrary to the allegations in this recent filing, Mr. Joffe is an apolitical internet security expert with decades of service to the U.S. Government who has never worked for a political party, and who legally provided access to DNS data obtained from a private client that separately was providing DNS services to the Executive Office of the President (EOP).”

Joffe’s spokesperson said that under the terms of his contract, “the data could be accessed to identify and analyze any security breaches or threats.”"

 

Tech exec used access to White House computers to look for dirt on Trump, says special counsel

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“As a result of the hacks of EOP and [Democratic National Committee] servers in 2015 and 2016, respectively, there were serious and legitimate national security concerns about Russian attempts to infiltrate the 2016 election,” the spokesperson said. “Upon identifying DNS queries from Russian-made Yota phones in proximity to the Trump campaign and the EOP, respected cyber-security researchers were deeply concerned about the anomalies they found in the data and prepared a report of their findings, which was subsequently shared with the CIA.”

 

Durham is expected to have a difficult time convicting Sussman whose trial will probably take place in late spring 2022.


Tech exec used access to White House computers to look for dirt on Trump, says special counsel

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"At the time of the indictment, Sussmann’s attorneys issued a statement that said: “Michael Sussmann was indicted today because of politics, not facts. … This case represents the opposite of everything the Department of Justice is supposed to stand for.

“At its core, the Special Counsel is bringing a false statement charge based on an oral statement allegedly made five years ago to a single witness that is unrecorded and unobserved by anyone else. The Department of Justice would ordinarily never bring such a baseless case."”

 

The statement was allegedly made by Sussman to Baker who has said he can't remember if such a statement was made to him by Sussman.

 

Durham is looking for what he calls 'exploitation' and conflict of interest related to monitoring of DNS traffic related to Trump.

Durham's investigation has dwindled down to these types of issues that are wrapped in lengthy filings that read as a narrative of the alleged Deep State against Trump.

Trump has equated Durham's recent filing as proof of treason committed by Hillary Clinton and says it is worthy of the death penalty.

 

Danforth had thought he had found an excellent replacement for his Senate seat.

Article from January 2021.


As Josh Hawley loses a book deal over the Capitol riots, his GOP mentor says backing him was ‘the worst mistake I ever made’
By Teo Armus
January 8, 2021

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"John C. Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri, had once viewed Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) as a “once-in-a-generation” talent — a young, upstart politician with a promising future in Washington.

Yet after a mob of Trump supporters burst into the Capitol on Wednesday, Danforth said that campaigning for Hawley to take his old seat was “the worst mistake I ever made in my life.”

Hawley had been the first senator to announce he would object to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, citing baseless claims of mass election fraud. So when the rioters bashed inside, attempting to overturn the election, it was clear who was at fault, Danforth said.

“But for him it wouldn’t have happened,” Danforth told the Kansas City Star. He made the certification vote “a way to express the view that the election was stolen. He was responsible.”

The former senator was far from the only one to lay blame on his former protege. In the span of about five hours on Thursday afternoon, Hawley was denounced by one of his top donors, dropped from a book deal and lambasted by several Missouri Republicans. Calls for him to resign poured in from the editorial boards of Missouri’s two major newspapers and students at the law school where he once taught."

 

Moreover, Durham's filings have emboldened Trump to also claim that, like his perception of being right about Hillary committing treason, he is also right about the 2020 election being stolen from him, which he thinks will be proven later by someone like Durham.

 

Trump needs to at least state John Durham's name correctly.

He recently referred to him as 'Robert' Durham.

 

If Trump ever returns to office, he would install someone even more loyal than Barr and have him assign a special counsel to investigate the 2020 election and formulate (like Durham) an evidence-lacking narrative that the election was stolen from him.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/15/why-trumps-accounting-firm-ditched-him/

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"It’s bad news for his company. The very firm that prepares his documents has arrived at its own findings that are consistent with at least some of the allegations made against the Trump Organization by investigators. It’s pretty damning that Mazars now says its own work can’t be trusted.

“Accounting firms don’t make the decision to quit their clients lightly,” said Barbara McQuade, a former federal prosecutor who is with the University of Michigan Law School. “ … They are distancing themselves from the Trump Organization because they fear that wrongdoing is likely to be exposed.”

Could Mazars be in trouble, too? McQuade said it’s possible. “This effort to distance themselves could be an effort at self-preservation,” she said. It depends on whether Mazars knew the information it was getting from the Trump Organization was false or whether it was misled, too."

 

Republicans still back Trump but don't want GOP to punish disloyalty - CBS News poll

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"One of Trump's ideas that finds favor within the party is his recent suggestion about pardoning people who forced their way into the Capitol on January 6. Six in 10 Republicans would support such pardons, putting them starkly at odds with the rest of the country.

Republicans' sympathetic stance to the January 6 protesters is very much connected to lasting concerns about the election. Many Republicans still say widespread voter fraud and irregularities occurred, a false and debunked claim that at least six in 10 have nevertheless endorsed over the past year."

 

61% of Republicans are supportive of pardons for Trump's rioters.

 

Ya jus cain't fix stupid...

 

Give em 500 years and they'll come around. They're still busy working out that flat earth thing.

 

Corporate donations to Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and other Jan. 6 election objectors have plummeted, and individual donors are Congress’s biggest fundraising force

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"Business leaders are clearly not buying the continuing narrative from many political leaders that efforts to overturn American democracy after the last election were “legitimate political discourse.” Newly released Federal Election Commission filings this month, now encompassing the entirety of 2021, show that all 93 of the incumbent members of Congress who failed in their constitutional duties to confirm the certified ballots of the Electoral College have suffered a major plunge in business support.

We’ve seen a resurgence of whining from cynical media about companies that let expire last year’s pledges to halt donations to these “objectors” in Congress. But the chorus of corporate critics has missed the forest for the trees. According to the new FEC filings, total corporate giving to those objectors fell a staggering 60% from calendar year 2019, the equivalent stage of the last election cycle. Putting this in context: All corporate political spending on Congress is down 28%; corporate support for GOP non-objecting members of Congress slipped that same 28%; and corporate giving to Democratic members of Congress fell just 19%. Thus, while businesses have lost some interest in supporting congressional campaigns in general, by this measure they are three times more wary of assisting objectors."

 

Opinion | Trump’s Big China Flop and Other Failures

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"Now, Chad Bown of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, who has been the go-to source on the trade war from the beginning, has a final assessment of that deal. And it turns out to have been a complete flop: “China bought none of the additional $200 billion of exports Trump’s deal had promised.”

So Trump was a chump; the Chinese took him to the cleaners. But if you want to do a post-mortem on the trade war, Trump’s haplessness in dealing with foreign leaders is actually a minor part of the story. Far more important is the fact that the shocks we’ve been experiencing since the pandemic began make the Trumpian view of trade look even more economically foolish than it did when he took office.

Peter Navarro, the man he chose as his trade czar, international trade is a zero-sum game. If other countries buy stuff from America, we win; if we buy stuff made abroad, we lose. Navarro and Wilbur Ross, Trump’s commerce secretary (he really knew how to pick them), made this explicit in a policy paper they put out during the 2016 campaign, which asserted that the trade deficit subtracts one-for-one from U.S. growth: Every dollar we spend on imports reduces our G.D.P. by a dollar."

 

(replying to post 5900) Of course they are. They will do and say anything to remain in congress, which includes lying, exposing their lack of morals and kneeling to the worst president that has ever held office. They are truly DESPICABLE.