The Donald Trump Score Card

More Trump-Cohn style:

Retaliate tens times as much against the perceived transgression by your perceived enemy.

Use the delay tactic against your perceived foes.

Order by word of mouth instead of anything that could leave tracks.

Circumvent rules and laws. If that doesn't work, outright break them but in an underhanded fashion that evades the justice system.

 

On top of that, stack the justice system with cronies who will protect you.

 

Sounds similar to McCarthy and Graham visiting Trump at Mar-a-Lago to console him about two weeks after the insurrection at the Capitol.

For MSNBC, it's two weeks after the election.

 

Texas land commissioner offers Trump 1,402 acres for deportation facilities.


Texas land commissioner offers 1,402 acres to Trump for 'deportation facilities'

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/20/nx-s1-5192627/trump-press-marty-baron-david-remnick

excerpt:

"Marty Baron, the former executive editor of the Washington Post, says he expects the incoming administration "to go after the press in every conceivable way ... [using] every tool in the toolbox — and there are a lot of tools."

"I think [Trump's] salivating for the opportunity to prosecute and imprison journalists for leaks of national security information — or what they would call national security information," Baron says. "I would expect that he would deny funding to public radio ... and TV. And that he will seek to exercise control over the Voice of America and its parent company, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, as he did in his previous administration, trying to turn it into a propaganda outlet.""

 

Trump tried to take control of VOA in 2020 by trying to install one of his people to run it during the pandemic, but it required Senate approval that he didn't obtain. Trump threatened to adjourn Congress which would have allowed him to do a recess appointment without Senate approval. He never followed through.

Today, Trump is going further. He wants Congress to adjourn so that he can install a slew of his nominees that requires Senate confirmation but that he might not obtain due to his selections being unqualified.

It would be a bold move if Trump forced Congress to adjourn using executive action. It would probably end up in a long legal battle in the courts and possibly the Supreme Court.

 

Trump says he's not backing down on his nomination of Gaetz for attorney general.


Hacker got damaging sealed testimony against Matt Gaetz, attorney says

excerpt:

"The hacked files include an unredacted deposition of a woman who reportedly claimed to have had sex with Gaetz when she was 17."

 

Loopholes that could allow someone who has been elected president twice to serve more than eight years as president.


Fact Check: Trump comment about third term reignites constitutional debate

excerpts:

“While there is plenty of debate on the matter, the language of the 22nd Amendment talks only about limiting who ‘shall be elected to the office of the President’ (emphasis added),” Mr. Peabody, a professor of government and politics at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, told us in an email. “In my analysis, therefore, the 22nd Amendment does not prohibit a person from becoming or acting as president so long as this person is not elected to a third term as president.”


"Mr. Peabody also told us in an email that a twice-elected president could run for vice president and serve as president if the president dies, resigns or is removed from office."

 

An extreme approach for giving Trump a third term without being elected for it would involve the GOP making him Speaker Of The House. The Speaker doesn't have to be held by a member of Congress, an elected official, or even a politician. It could be an out-of-office Trump or Elon Musk. If a president and VP resigned, the Speaker would be next in line to assume the presidency.

It involves issues of faithfully executing the Constitution which is stated in the Oath of Office passage in the Constitution. It can be argued that a president and VP who intentionally resigned so that a Speaker could be installed as president would be violating a faithful execution.

 

Nude photos of Melania shown on Russia state TV just after Trump won the 2024 election.


Fact Check: Melania Trump's Nude Photos Aired on Russian State TV

excerpt:

Some posts suggested that the purported move by Russian state TV was an expression of control over Donald Trump.

One X post claimed: "This is Russia's state-run media airing salacious pictures of the future First Lady, Melania Trump. This is Putin letting Trump know that he is in charge. Watch as Trump rolls over." Another user wrote: "The message from Putin is clear: never forget that we own you or we'll release the Kompromat we have on you."

 

The photos of Melania are from the year 2000. They've been seen before.

It's curious that Russia state TV would air them just after Trump's reelection.

 

That's pretty ballsy of them to say, considering that's exactly what they are and what we want to see eliminated.

 

That's funny. Whoever wrote that clearly has no understanding of how negotiations work between adversaries of clout.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/20/transgender-bathrooms-capitol-johnson/

excerpt:

"House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said Wednesday that transgender individuals would not be allowed into restroom facilities in the Capitol and House office buildings that do not correspond with their sex assigned at birth, announcing the rule change about two weeks after Democrat Sarah McBride of Delaware became the first openly transgender individual elected to Congress."

 

Musk and Ramaswamy plan large-scale firings in federal workforce.


Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy outline plan for 'large-scale firings' in federal workforce under Trump

 

Trump is furious that Biden's judicial nominations have been confirmed by the Senate amidst absent GOP members.


https://www.axios.com/2024/11/20/trump-senate-judges-confirmations

 

Trump's been raging that he will force the Congress to adjourn to allow him to put his nominations in place without Senate confirmation.

Now he's upset that Congressional GOP members are absent. He needs to find a way to force them to not be absent and to attend Congress while he's not yet the president.

And then later, when he's president, force them to be absent.

 

Mitch McConnell wouldn't even allow Obama's nominations to come to the floor for a vote, including Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.

It gave Trump many open judicial positions to fill plus a seat on the Supreme Court.

At rallies, Trump talked like it was a decision Obama made to not try to fill all of those seats.

 

President-elect Musk and VP-elect Ramaswamy,

 

Musk and Ramaswamy are seen out in public at Trump-related events than the real VP-elect. What's his name. The one people have forgotten. The person whom the public actually elected to be the next VP ..............Vance!