The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump-backed US Rep. Alex Mooney wins W.Va. GOP primary

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"Susan Smith, a small-business owner in Valley Grove, voted for Mooney at a local elementary school Tuesday morning. She lives in McKinley’s former district and said she always voted for him in the past. But not in this election.

“When Mr. McKinley started voting with the Democrats and the current administration, that’s when things changed,” said Smith, who cited McKinley’s vote for Biden’s infrastructure bill and the Jan. 6 commission. “I’m sorry to be losing a congressman, but we cannot have a Republican congressman voting with the Democrats. West Virginia did not need the money from this un-infrastructure bill.”

In the general election, Mooney will face openly gay former Morgantown city councilor Barry Wendell, who bested security operations manager Angela Dwyer during Tuesday’s Democratic primary.

Mooney enters the general election as a heavy favorite to win. West Virginia hasn’t elected a Democrat to the House since 2008."

 

Yeah, West Virgina didn't need any of the money from the "un-infrastructure" bill. "We gots all the cinderblocks and rocks we need to keep our shacks kinda straight on this here mountain side..."

 

In reality, he wants a surplus of white babies.

 

Clarified.

 

With the Catholic church, that's not that far from the truth. I personally know a couple that have been trying to adopt and so far they have over $25k in it and their only resort was Thailand - maybe. I know another that went through Catholic charities and that was $50k ten years ago....racket? You better believe it.

 

Some of Trump's supporters would rather see a bipartisan infrastructure bill fail (because it was bipartisan and didn't include Trump's border wall money) and wait another four years for Trump to be reelected (maybe) so that he can fail another four years at infrastructure, like he did in his first term, for a grand total of 12 years of failure.

"Take that, liberals!"

 

Baked Alaska plea deal hearing goes half-baked.


Plea Hearing Goes Off the Rails for Far-Right Rioter ‘Baked Alaska’

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"A plea hearing for Anthime Gionet quickly went off the rails Wednesday when the far-right video blogger, who was scheduled to plead guilty to participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection riot, suddenly declared he was innocent.

Gionet, better known online as Baked Alaska, was charged with violent entry and disorderly conduct after allegedly livestreaming himself storming the Capitol while calling a cop a “fucking oath breaker” and “piece of shit.”

“Occupy the Capitol, let’s go. We ain’t leaving this bitch,” he said in the livestream, which was later used against him by the FBI.

Gionet was scheduled to plead guilty in D.C. federal court Wednesday to a misdemeanor of unlawful picketing or parading in the Capitol but when Judge Emmett Sullivan asked Gionet why he wished to plead guilty, he blurted out: “I wanted to go to trial but the prosecutor said if I didn’t go to trial they would put a felony on me so I think this is probably the better route. I believe I’m innocent.”

Sullivan replied that he “can’t take a plea of guilty if you say you’re innocent” and urged Gionet’s lawyers to pick a trial date.

“I’m never going to force anyone to plead guilty if they’re not guilty,” Sullivan said, telling Gionet that if he wants a fair trial “you’ll get a fair trial.”

Gionet asked Sullivan if it was fair for the government to threaten him with a felony, to which Sullivan said that was a matter for his lawyers.

Federal prosecutors denied that they threatened to add a felony but said they would continue investigating Gionet if he pleaded not guilty, and they may or may not file superseding charges at a later date."

 

Seems like a felony to me, but, hell, what do I know. A misdemeanor of unlawful picketing might as well be a jaywalking ticket. I wonder how much we're paying to defend this jackass.

 

After praising Biden and criticizing Trump for the insurrection (as the recorded conversation reveals), Graham (like McCarthy) visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago in February 2021.


Lindsey Graham latest Republican to 'bend the knee' to Trump in Mar-a-Lago visit

As Trump's latest intra-party feud rages, Sen. Graham heads to Mar-a-Lago on a peace mission | CNN Politics

 

Graham's remark about the GOP not being able to continue without Trump raises the question of what the GOP would do without him if he died or became incapacitated. The party has made so much of its existence hinge on him.

 

John Eastman, Trump's former lawyer, asked Pennsylvania lawmakers to throw out absentee ballots to overturn Biden win

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"John Eastman, Donald Trump's former lawyer, urged Pennsylvania lawmakers to sow doubt in the 2020 election and even suggested throwing out absentee ballots so Trump could take the lead in the state, according to emails obtained by ABC News and sent to the Jan. 6 committee by the Colorado Ethics Institute.

"For example, depending on how many ballots were counted that were received after the statutory deadline (say 10,000 for example's purpose), those 10,000 votes need to be discarded, and you can take the absentee ballot ratio for each candidate in the counties were late-received ballots were illegally counted and deduct the pro-rated amount from each candidate's total," Eastman wrote to Pennsylvania Republican state Rep. Russ Diamond on Dec. 4, 2020.

"Then, having done that math, you'd be left with a significant Trump lead that would bolster the argument for the Legislature adopting a slate of Trump electors -- perfectly within your authority to do anyway, but now bolstered by the untainted popular vote," he continued. "That would help provide some cover.""

 

Gableman's salary cut in half.

The investigation was supposed to end in April 2022 but Trump pressured Vos to keep it active.


Michael Gableman's election investigation paused, pay cut in half amid legal fights salary cut in half.

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"An investigation into the 2020 election in battleground Wisconsin will be paused while five lawsuits play out, and the salary for the former state Supreme Court justice leading it will be cut in half, the Assembly speaker said Wednesday.

However, the investigation could be revived if courts rule that elections officials and others must comply with the subpoenas issued by Michael Gableman, said Robin Vos, Wisconsin's top state Republican lawmaker, who hired Gableman using taxpayer money.

Gableman's review was originally supposed to end in October, but Vos has granted extensions the latest of which was through April 30. Last month, under pressure from Donald Trump, Vos allowed the contract to go forward indefinitely.

Vos said Wednesday that was to deal with five ongoing lawsuits, three of which relate to open records and two are about his powers as special counsel. Gableman's taxpayer-funded salary will be cut from $11,000 to $5,500 a month, but the overall $676,000 budget for the work will not grow, Vos said."

 

DeSantis' new congressional boundaries blocked by Leon County judge.

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"TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s new congressional boundaries drawn by Gov. Ron DeSantis were blocked from being used in this year’s elections Wednesday by a Leon County circuit judge who ruled they discriminate against Black voters in North Florida.

The decision, certain to be appealed by the state, brings a new level of at least temporary chaos to this year’s election season, with candidate qualifying for congressional seats in Florida only a month away.

At the heart of the case is the current Congressional District 5 held by U.S. Rep. Al Lawson, a Black Democrat whose seat stretches from Jacksonville to the Tallahassee area, and includes Gadsden County, the state’s only majority black county.

The new map, crafted by the Republican governor and approved by the Florida Legislature last month, scatters more than 370,000 Black voters who had been in Lawson’s heavily Black, Democratic-leaning district across four North Florida districts."

 

Eastman is involved in trying to decertify Biden's win in WI.


John Eastman, Trump's former lawyer, asked Pennsylvania lawmakers to throw out absentee ballots to overturn Biden win

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"ABC News reported exclusively that Eastman was recently part of a small group of Trump allies who secured a private meeting in March to try and convince the Republican leader of the Wisconsin state Assembly to decertify Biden's win."

 

I don't know, because when abortion was illegal the vast majority of Back Alley Abortions were performed on white women

 

Everyone always talks about Biden's low approval numbers but compared to Congress as a whole, Biden's numbers look like George Washington's

 

GOP donors increasingly split over support for Trump as midterms approach

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"As the 2022 midterm elections approach, some GOP super PACs are spending millions of dollars to oppose primary candidates endorsed by Donald Trump -- suggesting a deepening rift within the Republican Party.

In several high-profile primaries, GOP donors -- some dissatisfied with the direction of the national party as Trump teases another White House bid in 2024 -- have poured large sums into supporting Republicans running against Trump-backed candidates, financial disclosures show.

The Ohio Senate GOP primary last week was an early demonstration of Trump's continued influence over the party, as the Trump-endorsed candidate, Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance, claimed victory with the backing of Trump-aligned megadonors like Peter Thiel and Rebekah Mercer. Yet Vance's GOP rivals -- most of whom also identify as supporters of Trump -- were backed by millions of dollars from top Republican donors like Bernard Marcus, Stephen Warren and Paul E. Singer.

All told, the race drew more than $40 million in spending from super PACs and outside groups over the last few months, according to Federal Election Commission disclosure filings.

Similarly, the Pennsylvania Senate GOP primary slated for next week has already seen close to $30 million in spending from outside groups, including from super PACs funded by top Republican donors like Singer, Ken Griffin, and Stephen Schwarzman. To date, GOP groups have spent more than $20 million to attack Trump-endorsed candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz and support his primary rival David McCormick, filings show."

 

Trump rioter arrested.


Pole-wielding Capitol rioter arrested on multiple felony charges

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"A North Carolina man who came prepared for the January 6 Capitol riot with a helmet, goggles and knee pads has been arrested by the FBI on charges that he attacked multiple officers with his fists and a large pole.

David Joseph Gietzen, 38, of Sanford, North Carolina, is charged with eight counts, including assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon. The assaults took place between 2:13 and 2:31 p.m. on the day of the riot, according to a Department of Justice news release.

The FBI criminal complaint against Gietzen stated that he was captured on police bodycams and open-source footage of the riot “wearing a green jacket, jeans, knee pads, and on occasion a white helmet and/or goggles. Gietzen is seen consistently moving up and down the police line along the security gate barriers… pushing with the crowd against the barriers and thrusting his fist against U.S. Capitol Police officers’ shields.”"

 

A fuming Trump woke up military officials in the middle of the night after protesters toppled a Confederate statue: book

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"One consistent thread through many of the post-Donald Trump presidency books is that he was so furious about the news he was rushed to an underground bunker during the Black Lives Matter protests that he spent the remainder of the summer desperately searching for something to make him look tough again.

Mary Trump detailed extensively in her book that the psychology in the Trump family surrounded the necessity of men looking strong. Weakness was the worst possible sin in the eyes of Fred Trump Sr.

In Defense Sec. Mark Esper's book A Sacred Oath, the summer of 2020 resulted in many demands from the president to call in soldiers to Washington, D.C., Seattle, Portland and other places.

During one such night, Esper describes being dead asleep when Trump called on the secure line and ordered soldiers be sent into D.C. because statues were being toppled. To Trump, it seemed like an emergency.

“Statues are being torn down in D.C. They’re going after Jefferson and Washington next. You need to get the Guard in there immediately," he said to Esper over the phone.

A groggy secretary agreed, calling Gen. Mark Milley. The two men turned on their televisions and couldn't find the story. Mark Meadows got called too."