The Donald Trump Score Card

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    Security fears and dreams of minerals behind Trump's push to 'own' Greenland, experts say

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    "For America’s allies and Greenlanders themselves, however, Trump’s threats to seize the semi-autonomous Danish territory cut much deeper, and threaten to shatter the decades-old principle of Western defense cooperation.

    But there may be little they can do to stop it.

    “This is a threat that is completely appalling, to be honest,” Aaja Chemnitz, one of two Greenlandic lawmakers in the Danish parliament, said in an interview Thursday. “You can’t just buy another country, a people, the soul of Greenland,” she added."
     
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    Gun-toting feds in ski masks swarm the ICE agent shooter's home to retrieve belongings as the house sits empty amid claims he has gone into hiding | Daily Mail Online

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    Other family members appear to have had conflict with Ross over their political views – even arguing with him about far-right group the Proud Boys, after Donald Trump caused controversy by initially failing to condemn the group in a 2020 debate with Joe Biden.

    His sister Nicole posted a photo on Facebook in October 2020 of herself and a female friend wearing face masks with the caption 'I denounce and condemn white supremacy'.
     
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    It appears that Ross, the agent who shot and killed the woman in Minneapolis, is going into hiding.

    Federal agents were clearing out his house for him.


    Gun-toting feds in ski masks swarm the ICE agent shooter's home to retrieve belongings as the house sits empty amid claims he has gone into hiding
    By BEN ASHFORD, US SENIOR REPORTER
    Published: 14:03 EST, 9 January 2026
    Updated: 16:38 EST, 9 January 2026

    Gun-toting feds in ski masks swarm the ICE agent shooter's home to retrieve belongings as the house sits empty amid claims he has gone into hiding | Daily Mail Online

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    "Another neighbor told the Daily Mail that until recently Ross had been flying pro-Trump flags and a 'Don't Tread On Me' Gadsden Flag that is an emblem of the Make America Great Again movement.

    There's now no sign of Ross, his wife, or the flags."
     
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    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/world/europe/trump-putin-venezuela.html

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    "Sitting on a gilded chair in the green drawing room of the Grand Kremlin Palace, Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela, turned to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and spoke of their bright future together.

    “We will see relations flourish between the great Russia, today a leading power of humankind, and Venezuela,” Mr. Maduro proclaimed at the meeting, last May.

    Eight months later, Mr. Maduro is sitting some 4,700 miles away in a violent and overcrowded federal detention center in Brooklyn, having been spirited out of Caracas last Saturday in a U.S. military raid ordered by President Trump.

    A week has passed — and Mr. Putin has said nothing."
     
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    Donald Trump Was Never an Isolationist

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    "Even Venezuelans thrilled to see Maduro gone have reason to be unnerved. It’s as if China had bombed Quantico, placed Trump in shackles, and whisked him to Shanghai for trial. No matter how much some people in the United States loathe Trump, they would, at minimum, have questions.

    It’s hard not to think, in this moment, of George W. Bush. He spoke forcefully against “nation-building” at one of his debates with Al Gore, in 2000. “I just don’t think it’s the role of the United States to walk into a country and say, We do it this way, so should you,” he explained. Even as he went to war after 9/11, he plainly hoped to prevail through air strikes. Only when these failed to achieve their desired ends did he launch, in Afghanistan and Iraq, precisely the sort of protracted, bloody, and unpopular occupations he’d warned against."
     
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    Donald Trump Was Never an Isolationist

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    "Hence this past weekend’s assault on Venezuela, in which U.S. forces launched air strikes on Caracas and nabbed the head of state, President Nicolás Maduro. (At least a hundred people were killed, local authorities say.) Trump claims that his goal is to punish Maduro for heading a “vast criminal network” that has brought “colossal amounts of deadly and illicit drugs into the United States.” But this is hard to swallow. The drug that is killing people, fentanyl, is almost entirely produced in Mexico, and the drug Venezuela does play a (minor) part in transporting, cocaine, goes mainly from there to Europe. Also, didn’t Trump just pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran President, who had been sentenced to forty-five years in federal prison for conspiring to import four hundred tons of cocaine into the United States?"
     
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    ICE killing of driver in Minneapolis involved tactics many police departments warn against − but not ICE itself

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    "ICE’s current use-of-force policy prohibits its officers from “discharging firearms at the operator of a moving vehicle” unless it is necessary to stop a grave threat. The policy is explicit that deadly force should not be used “solely to prevent the escape of a fleeing suspect.”

    That point is relevant for evaluating the fatal shooting in Minneapolis. Videos show one officer trying to open the door of the vehicle that Good was driving, while another officer appears to be in front of the vehicle as she tried to pull away."
     
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    2026 can be expected to be a turbulent year in the U.S.

    Trump has $100 million from Congress to spend.on his deportation crusade.

    He knows that he could lose control of the House in the November 2026 election.

    The worst can be expected from him because he knows 2026 is his best opportunity.
     
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    ICE splinters over Minneapolis shooting: Whispers of 'murder'... exodus fears... and terror over what comes next | Daily Mail Online

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    'Should he be standing in front of the vehicle? No. But if you see the before, he is moving around to get the driver side door view point, but that's when she starts moving the vehicle.'

    Multiple federal agents told the Daily Mail the second and third shots fired at Good would likely never be justified and could result in criminal charges under normal circumstances.

    Yet Vice President JD Vance all but cleared Ross, telling reporters on Thursday the agent has 'immunity.'
     
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    Miller and Trump want White, Biblical, U.S. babies.


    Why the white America Trump dreams of is just a fantasy

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    "The other problem is that the proposed solutions from the Trump administration border on the absurd. They include a “National Medal of Motherhood” for particularly fecund mothers, fertility tracking classes and $1,000 to be deposited into “Trump accounts” for babies born during his presidency. These come amid a torrent of policies that will make childbearing tougher, such as cuts to federal support for children’s healthcare and nutrition, courtesy of the president’s tax-cutting bill."
     
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