The Donald Trump Score Card

Kevin McCarthy pleaded ignorance about his photo with Trump at Mar-a-Lago weeks after January 6: book

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""I didn't know they were going to take a picture," McCarthy reportedly told an unnamed colleague, according to "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America's Future." The New York Times on Thursday reported new excerpts from the forthcoming book that will be published on May 3.

It's not clear what McCarthy meant by his reported comments. The photo of the pair is clearly posed."

 

Well... He's not wrong.

McCarthy is about as ignorant as they come.

 

First people from the county that contains Cleveland arrested for rioting at Capitol.

Ohio has over 40 people who have been arrested in connection to Trump's insurrection.


Feds charge three, including North Olmsted mother and son, in Jan. 6 Capitol riot

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"CLEVELAND, Ohio — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday accused three people, including a woman and her son, of participating in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Kimberly Wargo, 55, of North Olmsted and Colton Wargo, 26, of Westlake are charged with knowingly entering a restricted building and violent entry and disorderly conduct. Another man, Justin M. Smith, 20, of Brunswick, is charged with similar crimes.

All three were released from custody after making their initial appearances in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Greenberg. Kimberly and Colton Wargo were released on an unsecured $25,000 bond. Smith was released on a $20,000 unsecured bond. Their cases were transferred to U.S District Court in Washington, D.C., for the remainder of the proceedings.

The Wargos are the first from Cuyahoga County to be charged with storming the Capitol during an attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election. More than 40 others from Ohio -- and more than 700 nationwide-- have been charged in the wide-ranging investigation."

 

Summary of those from Ohio who have been arrested in connection to Trump's riot.

Christine Priola was seen in photos at the front of the Senate chamber.


36 Ohioans charged in Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol; only one held in custody pending trial

 

A good Christian.

 

Madison Cawthorn exposed GOP with orgy, drug claims: Ex-Senate candidate

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"In an interview with Warrior Poet Society that aired last week on Thursday, Cawthorn said that leaders he "looked up to" in the nation's capital invited him to an "orgy" and did a "key bump of cocaine" in front of him. He contended that the popular Netflix show House of Cards—which presents the fictional story of a corrupt political couple in Washington, D.C.—is largely accurate."

 

Utah school board candidate sentenced for involvement in Jan. 6 riot

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"A Toquerville resident who is running for the Washington County School Board was sentenced Monday for his involvement in the U.S. Capitol riot.

Willard “Jake” Peart, 46, remains on the ballot after receiving a sentence of three years probation from a judge who called Peart’s actions minor in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The Toquerville resident is running in District 5 of the school board, which covers most of Hurricane and the eastern part of Washington County. Peart faces Hurricane residents David Stirland, who is the incumbent, and Edyth Land in the primary election on June 28."

 

‘Stop the Steal’ rally participant with QAnon ties to face Kaptur in Ohio
By Felicia Sonmez
May 4, 2021 at 2:40 p.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/04/majewski-ohio-kaptur/

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"The Republican nominee who will face Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D) this fall in Ohio’s 9th Congressional District is an energy industry executive who has been associated with the false QAnon ideology, performed in a “Let’s Go Brandon” rap video and attended the Jan. 6, 2021, “Stop the Steal” rally in support of former president Donald Trump.

J.R. Majewski, who won Tuesday’s GOP primary with nearly 36 percent of the vote in a four-candidate race, has also gained notice for twice painting his entire 19,000-square-foot lawn with a banner in homage to Trump.

Majewski, 42, is the latest GOP political novice to defeat more establishment candidates in a closely-watched race. Last November, Republican Edward Durr Jr., a truck driver, defeated New Jersey state Senate President Steve Sweeney in one of that year’s most stunning Democratic losses. In 2020, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) became the first open QAnon supporter to win a seat in Congress. Greene was later ejected from her House committees; she has since sought to distance herself from QAnon but has continued to espouse other extremist beliefs.

In winning the GOP nomination to face Kaptur, Majewski bested two state lawmakers — state Rep. Craig Riedel and state Sen. Theresa Gavarone — and Beth Deck, a program manager at the Ohio Department of Veterans Services.

According to his campaign website, Majewski is an Air Force veteran who works in the nuclear energy industry. His campaign ads and social media presence have made Trump a focal point, and he has been endorsed by Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who has perpetuated the former president’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen."

 

Endorsed by Michael Flynn.

 

No accounting for stupid...

 

Melania's ex-friend ‘shattered’ after Trump gets away with inauguration self-dealing: ‘They stole so much!’

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"However, another government watchdog said the settlement was actually sort of remarkable given the difficulties prosecutors face when going after the rich and powerful.

“Donald Trump and his associates have a strategy of aggressive litigation and particularly delay tactics," said Noah Bookbinder, president of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "They will try to drag things out as long as possible. They will make it as difficult as possible. For the attorney general to get them to a place where they were willing to pay up is pretty remarkable."

“I wish it was more, and I wish it were all the money they got through self-dealing,” Bookbinder added. “It is frustrating that Donald Trump always seems to escape without admitting anything.”"

 

Morning Joe rips GOP 'freaks' in profane rant: 'What lies ahead if Trumpists keep winning?'

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"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott cost his state $4.2 billion in an anti-immigration stunt targeting truckers and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could cost Orlando-area taxpayers more than $1 billion by dissolving Disney's self-governance around the Magic Kingdom, and the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to roll back the right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years.

"What lies ahead if Trumpists keep winning?" Scarborough said. "It's just getting worse. Candidates like J.D. Vance say they want the centralized state in Washington, D.C., to seize all assets of the Ford Foundation because they are insufficiently loyal to Donald Trump, a man that he still claims had the 2020 election stolen from him."

"These people are, if I can quote Aristotle here, crazy as a sh*thouse rat," he added."

 

Trump endorsed Miller.


'Family values' Republican brought a convicted child sex predator for key role in her campaign

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"Illinois Republican Rep. Mary Miller, who is running for reelection on a family values platform, is relying on a convicted sex offender to chauffeur her to campaign events and collect signatures to secure her place on the ballot.

The Washington Examiner reports that Bradley Graven, who pleaded guilty to soliciting sex with a minor after a 2005 sting operation, recently has been spotted driving the congresswoman's family vehicles to campaign events. The newspaper was provided with multiple photos of Graven behind the wheel of the SUV and seated next to Miller at a campaign event in her district.

Miller is contending for the GOP primary nomination against fellow Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) in a newly created congressional district in southern Illinois. Her campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Miller has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump and her campaign website prominently features photos of the congresswoman with Trump. She is expected to appear with the former president at a June campaign event."

 

Article from 2017.

How Trump treats the working class.

Trump ordered to pay $283,000 in legal fees plus $32,000 for a fight he started over not wanting to pay $32,000 to a contractor.


https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/...rump-national-doral-miami-golf-course-9275404

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"Donald Trump is so rich. Big-league (bigly?) wealthy. So wonderfully wealthy that he apparently owes a Miami paint store $300,000 for work at his Trump National Doral Miami resort. So wealthy he's been fighting not to pay that $300,000 since last year. So wealthy that his lawyers officially lost an appeal yesterday and now he's gotta pay that $300,000 or try to appeal all the way to the Florida Supreme Court.

Yes, the president of the United States of America, the leader of the free world, the single most powerful human being on Planet Earth, a man who recently bombed Syria on a whim, lost a fight over a few thousand dollars' worth of paint supplies."

 

Court Upholds $300,000 Fine After Trump Refuses to Pay Miami Paint Store

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"Yesterday Miami's Third District Court of Appeal ruled that Trump Endeavor 12 LLC, which owns Trump National, owes the cash to a local store called the Paint Spot, which has been fighting to get money out of Trump since 2013. (Perhaps this is why a few of the president's latest budget proposals seem designed to let Miami sink into the rising ocean.)

According to court records, Trump agreed to pay the Paint Spot, which supplies Benjamin Moore paint, $200,000 for supplies to help renovate the Lodge at Trump Doral. But, Trump being Trump, in 2013 he simply decided he had "paid enough" of the contract and wouldn't fork over the last $32,535.87 he owed."

 

So much winning...

 

Court Upholds $300,000 Fine After Trump Refuses to Pay Miami Paint Store

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"It's a classic Trump move: He and his companies have been sued literally thousands of times, often for simply deciding that he no longer felt like paying prearranged sums to small companies and construction contractors.

So, in 2014, Circuit Court Judge Jorge Cueto slapped a lien on the entire Trump Doral resort and ordered the then-not-president to fork over cash or face a June 2016 foreclosure sale on one of his most-valued properties. In another classically Trumpian move, he persuaded the judge to cancel the foreclosure proceedings after he placed the $34,000 into an escrow account, according to Jose Lambiet. But, naturally, Trump still refused to actually give that money to the Paint Spot."

 

Trump has expertise at taking reasonable working class business people and turning them into the down-and-outers he says he's trying to help.


Court Upholds $300,000 Fine After Trump Refuses to Pay Miami Paint Store

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"In July, Judge Cueto ruled that Trump owed the Paint Spot both the money he'd stiffed the company on and $282,949 in attorney's fees. Trump filed an appeal. Through a series of convoluted, arcane filings, Trump's lawyers argued that the Paint Spot had technically filed a lien on the wrong subcontractor at Trump Doral.

Yesterday Miami's Court of Appeal ruled that Trump's claim was technically accurate and that the Paint Spot had, in fact, served the wrong party with a notice to owner (NTO). But the court then simply ruled that state laws say this error didn't actually matter because the Trump company was aware of the lien regardless.

"We further hold that Trump failed to establish that it was adversely affected by the error contained in the NTO," the ruling says. "We also affirm the final judgment awarding attorney’s fees."

So now, the president of the United States of America, whose sons now technically run his companies, will be forced to either admit he got beat by a tiny Miami paint company or will need to file a whole appeal to the Florida Supreme Court over $32,000 in paint. Good thing he "became president" last week."

 

https://theweek.com/articles/783976/brief-history-trumps-smalltime-swindles

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"President Trump has long claimed to be a fierce defender of the "forgotten" American. In his unsettlingly dark inauguration address, for example, Trump declared: "The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now. ... And I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never, ever let you down."

But Trump has long made a career of letting down just these sorts of Americans.

Despite his fiery rally rhetoric and over-the-top working-class bluster, Trump's hypocrisy on this score has always been gobsmackingly obvious, since in his former life as a real estate tycoon he left a long trail of small businesses and independent contractors feeling bilked or burned."

 

https://theweek.com/articles/783976/brief-history-trumps-smalltime-swindles

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"4. A drapery business in Las Vegas

Back in 2007, Larry Walters got an order for over $700,000 of curtains, pillow covers, and bedspreads for Trump's hotel in Sin City. Walters said additional orders grew the job to $1.2 million, but the developer, a joint venture LLC called Trump Ruffin, only paid $553,000. Eventually, Walters responded by halting work and keeping the remaining fabric as collateral. Trump Ruffin sued, and sheriff's deputies actually showed up at Walters' business to take the fabric away. Knowing they could drag the legal fight out, Walters eventually settled for $823,000 — about $380,000 short of what he said he was owed. He closed the business in 2011.

According to court records, Walters never had a dispute with any other client."