The Donald Trump Score Card

https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article260782172.html

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"A Missouri locksmith who prosecutors say breached the Capitol on Jan. 6 dressed as George Washington rejected a plea deal with the government on Tuesday and is set to go to trial next year.

Isaac Yoder, owner of Yoder Lock and Key in Nevada, turned down the offer to plead guilty to one misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, his attorney told U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan. The charge carries a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $5,000 fine.

“After speaking to my client, he is choosing to reject the plea offer, and we would like to set a trial date,” John Machado said during a hearing via video conference in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Machado, who also represents some of the Oath Keepers charged in the insurrection, added that while requesting a jury trial, Yoder wanted to leave open the possibility of having a bench trial instead, which means a judge would hear the case and issue a ruling."

 

Flag, respectfully and sincerely, I am not sure to what your post is referring, but I certainly appreciate the thought that went into it.

 

Republican Lawmaker Resigns After Texting Alleged Pedophile 72 Times

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"The Republican Party has spent months, if not years, inciting a pedophilia panic in America, convincing thousands of their followers that everyone from teachers to the executives at Disney are grooming children for sexual deviance or abuse. But behind the scenes, their own officials are going down for actual links to pedophilia in ways that go far beyond meaningless culture war conspiracies.

Take 78-year-old Ray E. Holmberg, North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator, the former chairman of the body’s powerful Legislative Management Committee, and a grandfather of five. Holmberg announced on Monday that he is resigning from his position after a report on April 15 alleged he had exchanged 72 text messages with a man accused of serious child pornography crimes. The suspect, Nicholas James Morgan-Derosier, is currently awaiting federal prosecution on charges of possessing thousands of images of child pornography and allegedly kidnapping two children from their homes with the intent of sexually abusing them.

“Recent news stories have become a distraction for the important work of the legislative assembly during its interim meetings,” Holmberg said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. “I want to do what I can, within my power, to lessen such distractions.”

 

Hypocrisy.

Holmberg is similar to Donald Hartle of NV who used his dead wife's ballot to vote twice for Trump. He said that someone stole his wife's ballot to cheat on the election. It was a stunt to promote Trump's voter fraud allegations.

Hartle is CFO for businesses owned by state Republican party finance chairman Donald Ahern.

 

Robin Vos of WI extends Gableman's investigation after Trump threatens to support a primary opponent who he says will beat him.


Vos extends Gableman election review after pressure from Donald Trump

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"BROOKFIELD – Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is extending the taxpayer-funded contract of the former state Supreme Court justice leading a review of the 2020 election — a decision announced a day after former President Donald Trump sought to intimidate Vos by threatening a successful primary challenge if the review did not continue.

In a statement Monday that did not name Vos directly, Trump suggested to his millions of supporters that the Rochester Republican will see a successful primary opponent if he does not extend former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman's contract with the state Assembly.

"Anyone calling themselves a Republican in Wisconsin should support the continued investigation in Wisconsin without interference," Trump said.

"I understand some RINOs have primary challengers in Wisconsin. I’m sure their primary opponents would get a huge bump in the polls if these RINOs interfere," Trump said, using an acronym for "Republicans In Name Only.""

 

Pro-Trump Republican running for Michigan Speaker expelled from GOP caucus: report

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"On Tuesday, Bridge Michigan reported that Matt Maddock, a pro-Trump Michigan state representative angling to be speaker of the state House of Representatives, has been expelled from the Republican Party for violating caucus rules.

"Sources say current House Speaker Jason Wentworth, R-Wentworth, booted Maddock for 'violating caucus rules.' He allegedly discussed confidential caucus matters publicly, prompting his removal," reported Jonathan Oosting. "Maddock did not immediately return a voicemail seeking comment. As of Tuesday evening, the Milford lawmaker's page on the Michigan House Republican website was no longer active."

Maddock recently gained attention for proposing a bill that would force journalists involved in "fact-checking" to register with the state of Michigan and pay $1,000 in daily fines if they "mistakenly" call a politician's claim false.

According to WWMT, the decision to expel Maddock from the caucus is highly unusual."

 

Another self-defense claim.


A New York Man Doesn’t Deny He Swung A Flagpole At Police On Jan. 6. He’s Claiming It Was Self-Defense.

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"WASHINGTON — The first video that jurors saw Tuesday in the trial against Thomas Webster of New York, charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol, was recorded by a camera mounted on a police officer’s chest. It shows Webster up close as he gestures at the officer and yells at him to take off his “shit,” shoves a metal bike rack set up as a protective line, swings a flagpole at the officer after a scuffle and then charges, pushing the officer down to the ground.

The second video, presented by Webster’s lawyer, was captured from a camera up high at a distance. James Monroe said his client was angry and he didn’t deny that Webster had a physical confrontation with police. But he insisted that what the government alleged was an assault was an act of self-defense — that the part of the video that showed the officer making contact with Webster’s face after Webster pushed the bike racks and the officer swatted him back depicted the officer instigating violence by punching Webster."

 

Michigan Republican resigns from GOP post citing 'delusional lies'

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"Lansing — Tony Daunt, a longtime Michigan Republican insider, resigned Tuesday night from the GOP's state committee, saying party leaders had made the coming election a test of "who is most cravenly loyal" to former President Donald Trump.

Daunt, who is one of two Republican members of the Board of State Canvassers, made the comment in an email addressed to Judy Rapanos, chairwoman of the 4th Congressional District Republican Committee. The message was obtained by The Detroit News.

For five years, Daunt has been one of about 100 members of the Republican Party's state committee, a panel that helps guide the party's decisions. But that ended Tuesday with his immediate resignation, three days after a contentious GOP convention in Grand Rapids."

 

Trump got his way with the MI GOP convention. Two fringe candidates he supported were selected: DePerno and Karamo.

 

Roger Stone takes role in Canada provincial election.

Trump pardoned Stone for lying to Congress.


Roger Stone takes adviser role in Canada provincial election

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"TORONTO -- Roger Stone, one-time adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump, has been named as a senior strategic adviser to assist the Ontario Party in the June provincial election in Canada.

In making the announcement, Ontario Party Leader Derek Sloan called Stone a friend and accomplished American conservative political strategist.

“Roger’s insights into campaign strategies designed to take back Ontario will be invaluable to our grassroots campaign going forward,” Sloan said in a news release.

Stone, a long-time Trump confidant, was convicted in 2019 of lying to the U.S. Congress. He was subsequently pardoned by Trump."

 

Not being content with destroying United States democracy...

 

A second Trump term would not have stopped Putin from invading Ukraine | Opinion

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"Let's also remember when Trump threw his own intelligence agencies under the bus in Helsinki in a servile gesture to the Russian dictator and has never passed up an occasion to speak flattering words of him. Trump's infatuation with Putin continues even today, exemplified by his latest statement that called Putin's initial illegal invasion into Ukraine "genius." This is anything but the talk of someone who we can have expected to take a strong stance against the ruthless Russian dictator. If anything, it's the sort of talk that would now leave our NATO allies in Eastern Europe questioning whether the U.S. would defend them if Russia decided to take back even more territory from its former Soviet satellites.

Least we forget, we indisputably know that Trump held up military aid to Ukraine as he sought to extort the president thereof into kickstarting an investigation into President Biden's son. In point of fact, it's the reason Trump was impeached, for his first time. Ukraine, like most everything else in Trump's life, was never more than a tool to further his own interests."

 

Putin would not have "invaded" Ukraine, he would have "occupied" Ukraine if Trump had a second term.

 

Not to mention he was wanted to bail out of NATO.

 

Putin gave Trump one job...

 

And Trumph gave Putin one job, a blow job.

 

Trump blames Ukraine war deaths on what he claims was a rigged U.S. 2020 election.


Trump blames Ukraine-Russia war deaths on "rigged" election

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"It's a shame all those people are dead, all because of a rigged election," he said. "Because if our election wasn't rigged, you would've had nobody dead."

 

Vos Caves to Pressure From Trump and Extends Gableman ‘Investigation’ Again

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"Gableman has delivered two interim reports, most recently in March, but he has failed to meet numerous deadlines. None of his findings provided substantiated evidence that Trump actually won Wisconsin.

Gableman’s recommendation that the Republican-controlled Legislature take a look at decertifying Biden’s win was met with bipartisan scorn.

Despite these failings, Trump and the chair of the state Assembly committee on elections put public pressure on Vos, the state’s top Republican, to extend the secretive, haphazard, much-criticized probe—a $676,000 contract that paid Gableman $11,000 a month. Vos twice extended the contract, most recently last month.

As the deadline loomed, Trump issued a not-so veiled threat at Vos on Monday.

“Anyone calling themselves a Republican in Wisconsin should support the continued investigation in Wisconsin without interference,” Trump said in a statement.

“I understand some RINOs have primary challengers in Wisconsin,” Trump said without naming Vos or his primary challenger, Adam Steen. “I’m sure their primary opponents would get a huge bump in the polls if these RINOs interfere.”"

 

Gableman's inquiry was scheduled to end this week (and months before that), but Trump's threats to Gableman have extended it again.