The Donald Trump Score Card

Some of the prospective jurors essentially called Trump anal.

It conjures up the scene from the movie Airplane where the kid, Jimmy, said to his father that while on the plane they probably wouldn't have to hear about the news of his ongoing sex scandal.

After being roughed up by his father on the plane, Jimmy is thinking, "Maybe it's the caffeine."

His mom next to him is thinking, "I always serve dad decaf. Maybe he's just an asshole."

 

Trump was unhinged during first week of hush money trial. He'll only get weirder.

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"If Trump seemed bananas during jury selection, wait until opening arguments

By the end of the week, a full jury along with alternates had been seated, so opening arguments are expected to begin Monday.

And Trump will again have to be there. He’ll have to be in that courtroom every day of the trial because that’s how it works when you’re the defendant in a criminal case in Manhattan.

If Trump didn’t want to be there, he should’ve thought twice about paying $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, according to his former attorney Michael Cohen, along with several other alleged actions that led to his 34-count indictment. An excellent way to stay out of a courtroom is to not engage in dodgy behavior."

 

Meagain appears to be the first person in this thread to have mentioned the Stormy Daniels saga when it was first starting to be talked about occasionally in the media but seemingly with little interest by the media.

It seemed like a strange, underworld transaction at the time. No one was sure if it would amount to anything significant. It eventually led to the arrest and conviction of Cohen and the arrest of Trump.

Avenatti, who was initially on the side of Daniels, ended up in prison after being convicted of stealing about $300,000 grand from her plus money from other entities. He's currently serving a 14-year prison sentence. He's now on Trump's side. Trump's defense team has been in contact with him to possibly use him as a witness for Trump in the hush money criminal trial.

 

The Watergate burglary seemed like an obscure crime when news of it first broke. Who would have thought.

 

Pecker turned out to be the first witness after opening arguments today.

 

Merchan permits prosecutors to cross-examine Trump is he chooses to take the stand.


Trump Suffers a Major Loss Just Minutes into Hush-Money Trial

 

Melania attends Log Cabin Republicans’ fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago.


Melania Trump Reappears, in Black

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"Yes, she’s officially back. And as ambiguously as ever.

While Mrs. Trump’s words on unity and equality may have been directed to the audience in the ballroom, the outfit she chose for the occasion — a covered up black Michael Kors pantsuit with a leather belt wrapped tightly twice around her waist — seemed to be speaking to a different forum entirely. One scrolling past the images she and the event’s organizers posted to their social media feeds and focused on what was going on in a courtroom farther north, where she conspicuously has yet to appear but where her ghostly presence hovers over the proceedings."

 

Four men from CA sentenced to federal prison for rioting at Capitol.


4 Southern California men sentenced to federal prison for Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot

 

U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Kari Lake's claim about electronic tabulators supposedly being too susceptible to voting fraud.


Supreme Court denies request by Arizona candidates seeking to ban electronic vote tabulators

 

Capitol rioter with Confederate flag is sentenced to 30 months in prison.


Jan. 6 rioter with 'I heart TRUMP' hat and a Confederate flag gets prison for assaults on officers

 

Trump spending on legal bills soars to $76 million.


Trump committee's spending on lawyers soars to $76 million, draining funds to fight Biden

 

Trump Was Warned to Return Records to Archives, Unsealed Documents Say

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"In late November 2021, as officials at the National Archives were trying to persuade former President Donald J. Trump to return a trove of records he had taken from the White House when he left office, one of Mr. Trump’s associates advised him in the sharpest terms possible to give the materials back, newly unsealed documents show.

“Whatever you have, give everything back — let them come here and get everything,” the unnamed associate told Mr. Trump, according to an interview the person gave the F.B.I. “Don’t give them a noble reason to indict you, because they will.”

Less than two years later, that admonition proved prescient. Federal prosecutors charged Mr. Trump last June with violating the Espionage Act, accusing him of illegally holding onto more than 30 highly classified documents and obstructing the government’s repeated efforts to retrieve them."

 

Trump said his personal items, like his golf pants, were mixed in with the top-secret government documents. Therefore, he didn't want to return them.

 

FBI notes indicate Trump promised Nauta pardon in second term.


Trump co-defendant Walt Nauta promised pardon after 2024 election, witness in classified docs case told FBI

 

Trump has become increasingly desperate with his whataboutism.

He's complaining that supposedly too much security exists near the courthouse and that it should be moved to colleges where people are protesting in favor of the Palestinians.

He's also upset about the lack of his supporters showing up near the courthouse, insinuating that the police presence is making them avoid it.


Trump Melts Down Over Lack of Supporters Protesting His New York Trial

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"The Palestinian Protests at Columbia University have CLOSED THE COLLEGE DOWN. But the area surrounding the Courthouse, in Downtown Manhattan, is closed up like a drum, with New York City’s Finest (Police) all over the place. Why not send some to Columbia to protect Jewish Students, and others. The University would then not have to Shut Down. Republicans want the right to protest in front of the Courthouse, like everyone else!"

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/politics/supreme-court-trump-immunity-analysis/index.html

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"But throughout the 21st century, the conservative movement has won far more consequential victories at the Supreme Court than it has through legislation or executive branch decisions. Indeed, rulings by the GOP-appointed majority have delivered conservatives victories on issues that Republicans had virtually no chance to achieve through congressional or presidential actions – from retrenching federal voting rights laws and limiting federal and state gun regulation to ending the constitutional right to abortion.

The rulings by the GOP-appointed justices over roughly the past two decades have produced cumulative policy changes “way more extensive than any administration, even within unified control of government, has been able to generate,” said Paul Pierson, a University of California at Berkeley political scientist and co-author of the upcoming book, “Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era.”"

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/politics/supreme-court-trump-immunity-analysis/index.html

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"Waldman, a former White House speechwriter for Bill Clinton, points out that while the Supreme Court has already kept Trump’s election subversion trial on hold for months, there’s ample precedent for it moving forward quickly from this point. In a recent analysis, he noted that the court has moved very rapidly after oral arguments to decide other cases setting the limits of presidential power: The court decided Bush v. Gore, for instance, just three days after it was argued. It issued its unanimous decision forcing then-President Richard Nixon to turn over Watergate-related tapes just two weeks after it heard that case; Nixon resigned two weeks after the decision. Those examples, Waldman said, suggest the Supreme Court could easily return a decision in the immunity case by mid-May, increasing the chances that Trump will face a jury before he again faces the voters."

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/politics/supreme-court-trump-immunity-analysis/index.html

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"McConnell, though, argues that the substance of the court’s likely decision will render this debate about its timing moot. He predicts the Supreme Court will rule that Trump can’t be criminally prosecuted for actions that fall within his official responsibilities as president, but can for private actions beyond that orbit and will send the case back to the trial court to decide which counts in the indictment fall into which category. “It is going to take some time to sort through the indictment and figure out which parts are ok and which parts aren’t,” said McConnell, a former appellate court judge appointed by George W. Bush. “I think anybody who thinks the case is going to go to trial and be decided before Election Day is having a pipe dream.”"