The Donald Trump Score Card

In Trump's perception, attributes for a senior level position in a second Trump administration.

 

Derrick Evans had started his term as a WV lawmaker when he went to the Capitol on Jan. 6 and rioted.

He resigned from his lawmaker position after his arrest.

He was sentenced to three months in prison.

Now he's running for a U.S. Congressional seat in WV.


Derrick Evans for US Congress makes Beckley stop to meet supporters - WOAY-TV

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“The only elected official in the country to be arrested and thrown in prison for peacefully and patriotically protesting the stolen election,” said the congressional candidate. “And when the people are reminded that I’m the guy that actually had the courage to do that, I think it helps us. The American people and the people in southern West Virginia are looking for fighters.”

If Evans was in charge of West Virginia he said, “We’re gonna mine coal, build coal-fired plants, and supply our people with electricity coming from coal. You can try to stop us but you’re gonna be met with a bunch of hillbillies holding guns. That’s where we’re at right now as a country, as far as I’m concerned.”

 

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/22/ma...ws-hitlers-steps-with-glorification-of-jan-6/

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"Lately, Trump's taken to saluting when they play the J6 version of the song rather than putting his hand over his heart in the usual manner. And at a recent rally in Ohio, this absurd ritual was introduced by what sounded like a WWE announcer bellowing “Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the horribly and unfairly treated Jan. 6 hostages." I'm only surprised the man didn't yell, "Let's get ready to ruuumble!" as Trump strutted around the stage. '

This rank political bastardization of the Star Spangled Banner by exalting criminals who beat police officers and sacked the U.S. Capitol, from the man who ranted endlessly about NFL players taking a knee during the National Anthem, may be the most audacious troll ever attempted."

 

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/22/ma...ws-hitlers-steps-with-glorification-of-jan-6/

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"Trump now opens every rally with a recording of the so-called "January 6 choir" — a group of inmates held in the DC jail on felony charges related to the insurrection — singing the National Anthem with a voiceover by Trump himself droning the Pledge of Allegiance. (They actually released it as a recording and a bunch of deluded cultists bought it.)

He used this version of the anthem at his very first rally this cycle, which he held in Waco Texas, the site of one of the right's most infamous clashes with the government, the Branch Davidian standoff back in 1993 (which I wrote about last year.) They weren't subtle about the message. They even played footage of the insurrection on the big screens behind Trump with the discordant strains of the inmate choir over it while everyone held their hands over their hearts. This was not a coincidence. They understood the symbolism of choosing that location to proclaim the Jan. 6 criminals to be martyrs to the MAGA cause.

Simply put, this is how it's done. Fascism, that is."

 

The Trump Docket: 'Very puzzling' problems in Florida and a 'strange possibility' brewing

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“It continues to rest on this notion that Trump has been prattling on about; that somehow, the Presidential Records Act limits the application of the Espionage Act … but one has nothing to do with the other. The PRA passed in wake of Nixon and no one has thought it had anything to do with classified documents. PRA was intended to reduce the ability of presidents to abscond with their records, to make it harder. With Nixon, they had to buy his records off of him and PRA made it so you can’t dot that, basically. “The idea that. without ever saying so, the legislation “somehow gave the president a new right to walk away with classified records if he somehow declared them to be personal is just ludicrous,” he said.

“Trump is making these arguments because he’s not the best strategist and he also doesn’t really have great arguments on the merits. But the idea that Judge Cannon is, as evidenced by that ruling, somehow entertaining those rulings is disturbing.”

 

Rubio says he'd be honored to be the VP for Trump who he says is a con man.


Marco Rubio Says He'd Be "Honored" To Serve As Vice President To Guy He Used To Call A "Con Man"

 

Seizing Trump’s New York properties will not be easy for Letitia James

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“If I was Donald Trump, I would be calling up every US billionaire I know to ask them to borrow the money,” said Bailey. “He needs a sugar daddy to come in right now and bail him out.”

 

Here’s what happens if Trump can’t get a $464 million bond | CNN Politics

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"If Trump doesn’t come up with the money, his options shrink considerably.

“I don’t see any other way he could stop the process from proceeding without going into bankruptcy or getting a bond,” Smith said.

Trump and his team could sell smaller properties as a way to try and satisfy the debt.

“At the end of the day, he’ll do anything before letting Tish James put on a metaphorical padlock on 40 Wall Street,” Harry Litman, a former deputy assistant attorney general, told CNN on Friday.

While the clock is about to run out, some experts question why a grace period was even given.

“There’s no reason for courtesy when he owes $455 million dollars to the people of the state of New York after being found persistently liable for fraud,” Pollock said. “That’s not someone you typically extend courtesy to.""

 

Seizing Trump’s New York properties will not be easy for Letitia James

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"Further, James has to hope that Trump hasn’t placed his properties in an irrevocable trust for his children in which he collects the interest but no longer has control. “The attorney cannot touch anything in an irrevocable trust,” said Bailey.

If it’s held in a limited liability company with other parties, and James attempts to seize and sell it, that would set off a series of lawsuits before there would be foreclosure. Even if successful, the bank holding any mortgage would take repayment priority over the state after an auction.

“Letitia James will be able to get the cash and the furniture but that won’t come anywhere near the judgement,” Bailey said. “James probably knows that she used an arcane statute not meant for this type of case, and knows the decision will get cut down on appeal. If she gets $100m that would be good news for her.”"

 

Seizing Trump’s New York properties will not be easy for Letitia James

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"Collecting a financial judgement is a slow and arduous process, according to New York real estate attorneys, especially when the assets that could be seized to satisfy that judgement are properties withheld in a complex web of ownership and titles, subject to mortgages and co-ownership claims.

The same problem that Trump says he faces raising a bond against his properties is the same problem that James could find in liquefying his assets to satisfy the punishment brought in after she won a fraud trial against Trump’s real estate empire.

“Bonds people do not like to use property as collateral because it’s hard to liquify the asset if there’s a default,” said Adam Leitman Bailey, a real estate attorney, “and for the attorney general this isn’t so easy either. It’s going to be very difficult to seize his properties. It takes a lot of work.”"

 

Rubio's comments about Trump in 2016.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...37e16c-2410-11e6-aa84-42391ba52c91_story.html

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"Over the course of his presidential bid, Sen. Marco Rubio called Donald Trump a “con man” who was “dangerous” and unqualified to control the nation’s nuclear codes. He ridiculed the businessman’s manhood and warned he would “fracture” the Republican Party if he was the nominee.

By March — a few days before Rubio dropped out — the senator from Florida said with a cracking voice that it was "getting harder every day" to envision supporting his rival.

But now Rubio is on board, saying that he plans to attend the Republican convention in Cleveland and that he would be “honored” to help Trump however he can."

 

Trump didn't just fracture the GOP. He took over the entire party. He now runs the RNC.

When Trump was runnng in 2016, people were speculating whether the GOP would let Trump into its group.

 

Trump's social media business has gone public.

Article about the last time one of Trump's businesses went public.


The last time a Trump company went public it didn't go well for investors

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"The Atlantic City, New Jersey, company lost money every year, but its stock prices did well — for a time. In the initial public offering, the company raised $140 million, selling 10 million shares at $14 each.

By 1996, the stock reached a high of $35 a share before plummeting later that year, in part because the company bought another casino for $100 million more than its estimated $400 million value, The New York Times reported in 2016.

The company, meanwhile, kept bleeding cash. The year the stock peaked, it lost $66 million. In 1999, it lost $134 million. And in 2004 — when the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange — it lost $191 million, according to a CNBC review.

A spokesman for Trump’s campaign did not return a request for comment."

 

The twisted world of Trump.

Trump wants selective absolute immunity for himself but wants Biden prosecuted for supposed crimes as president for which Trump gives no evidence.

Trump thinks he's entitled to immunity from Biden who Trump claims, without evidence, is prosecuting him.


Trump suggests that, if re-elected, he would have Biden indicted

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“Joe would be ripe for Indictment. By weaponizing the DOJ against his Political Opponent, ME, Joe has opened a giant Pandora’s Box,” Trump wrote. “As President, I was protecting our Country, and doing a great job of doing so, just look around at the complete mess that Crooked Joe Biden has caused. The least I am entitled to is Presidential Immunity on Fake Biden Indictments!”

 

Trump is arguing that whatever he did after the 2020 election should have absolute immunity because he was no longer campaigning, just performing what he sees as his official acts as president to try to overthrow a fair election that Biden won.


Trump suggests that, if re-elected, he would have Biden indicted

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"Trump also seems to be arguing that whatever he did after the 2020 election should have absolute immunity because he was no longer campaiging, just performing what he sees as his official acts as president to try to overthrow a fair election that Biden won."

 

Trump was campaigning on the Ellipse outside of White House property on his own time helping to incite a riot to overturn a fair election that he lost.

U.S. Congressman Mo Brooks tried the same argument as Trump to try to have the DOJ protect him from civil suits against him for helping to incite a riot at the Capitol with his 'start kicking ass' speech at the Ellipse standing next to Trump.

Brooks lost.

 

Trump appears to undercut his own defense in new rant: 'So you don't want full immunity?'

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"At what point are the actions of a sitting President, using LAWFARE against his opponent for purposes of Election Interference, considered ILLEGAL?" Trump asked Saturday.

He then continued:

"I believe, as do various highly respected legal scholars, that Crooked Joe Biden has long since crossed over that very sacred threshold!!!"

 

Whatever unfounded accusations Trump levels at Biden, according to Trump, Biden would be protected by absolute immunity (because if he wasn't, according to Trump, all hell would break loose on a president with lawsuits filed against the president, which would cripple every president's decision making while in office).

 

GOP Congress committing slow suicide by further whittling down its members to make it more like Trump when its margin has been near zero.


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If Trump is reelected, expect higher prices on everything because of his more aggressive trade wars than in his first term and his push for zero or negative interest rates.


Bill Maher panics over Trump's gain with young voters: Biden might lose 'because hot dogs cost more'

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"Later in the discussion, Maher theorized that Trump is winning over young voters because he's a "great liar," pointing to his rhetoric over the cost of food.

"Here's what he's been saying about food: ‘Food that costs 40, 50, 60% more than it did a few years ago.' Well, food is up like 20% since Biden became president, not all his fault," Maher said. "Trump says bacon ‘up five times.’ Well, it's up 12%. See, this is a big problem when you don't know anything.""