The Donald Trump Score Card

Top contenders to replace nomination of Gaetz.

Trump's criminal defense attorney, Blanche, is on the list.


https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/21/trump-next-attorney-general-nominee-list-00191050

 

Trump might want to consider Giuliani. He's a former prosecutor.

 

Biden feels obligated to facilitate a smooth transfer of presidential power to Trump who is an existential threat to democracy.


White House confronted on friendly reception of 'existential threat' Trump: 'We are now in a different place'

 

Trump never invited Biden to the White House for the customary post-election meeting after he lost to Biden in 2020.

Trump also didn't attend Biden's inauguration.

 

A flurry of executive orders expected on Trump's first day in office.


'Like nothing you've seen': Trump team readies a flurry of executive actions for Day 1

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"Trump is preparing on Day One to overturn specific policies put in place by Biden, with plans to end travel reimbursement for military members seeking abortion care and to restrict transgender service members’ access to gender-affirming care, two people familiar with the plans said.

But much of the first day is likely to focus on stopping illegal immigration — the centerpiece of Trump’s candidacy. He is expected to sign up to five executive orders aimed at dealing with that issue alone after he is sworn in on Jan. 20, three Trump allies said on condition of anonymity.

By contrast, that is as many orders as he signed on all issues during the first week of his last term."

 

Walmart warns of higher prices if Trump implements his tariff wars.


Walmart warns of higher prices if Trump implements proposed tariffs

 

Trump taps former FL AG Pam Bondi for AG.


https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-transition-news-11-21-24/index.html

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“Pam was a prosecutor for nearly 20 years, where she was very tough on Violent Criminals, and made the streets safe for Florida Families. Then, as Florida’s first female Attorney General, she worked to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs, and reduce the tragedy of Fentanyl Overdose Deaths, which have destroyed many families across our Country. She did such an incredible job, that I asked her to serve on our Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission during my first Term — We saved many lives!” Trump said in a statement on Truth Social.

 

Sen. Rounds debuts bill to abolish Education Department.


GOP senator debuts bill to abolish Department of Education following Trump campaign promise

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"During his presidential campaign, Trump said, "One thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and sending all education and education work it needs back to the states.""

 

Court date set for December 2 for Giuliani to appear after he spread misinformation about Feeman and Moss.


Judge Schedules Hearing For Rudy Giuliani After Workers Say He Won't Stop Smearing Them

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"The women say that lasted only months. In recent comments on his podcast, “America’s Mayor Live,” Giuliani repeated his lie that the mother-daughter duo passed a USB drive to each other containing votes for Joe Biden when they were working the polls at an arena in Atlanta in Nov. 2020. Giuliani has long claimed the women somehow planned to upload phony vote records from the USB drive and tamper with the election results."

 

Trump's pledge to end clean energy initiatives expected to damage rural areas that voted for him


The Clean Energy Boom in Republican Districts

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"Randolph County, a rural square of green woods and farm fields in the middle of North Carolina, is the unlikely home of one of the biggest electric vehicle battery projects in the world.

Over the past two years, Toyota has announced a series of expansions that could invest more than $12 billion in the area, where it owns a manufacturing plant.

It’s part of the biggest announced investment — a total of $17.6 billion — that any congressional district has received since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, according to E2, a nonprofit group that collects data on clean energy projects tied to the bill.

Over the last two years, Biden’s landmark climate bill has ushered in more than $120 billion in announced investment across the country, per E2, supercharging spending in a burgeoning clean energy industry — think batteries, electric vehicles and solar — largely through tax credits."

 

Trump's needless, self-inflicted damage. He's not even president yet.

It's the behavior that would be expected from Trump.

Four more years of it.


Rove: Trump will pay a price for Cabinet pick ‘chaos’

 

Rove remarks about Trump's nominations:


“Inadequate vetting, impatience, disregard for qualifications and a thirst for revenge have created chaos and controversy for Mr. Trump before he’s even in office.”

 

Democrats: "How are we gonna be able to accuse HER of rape"?



AG Pam Bondi

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/21/5-things-pam-bondi-00191199

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"She nixed the Trump University fraud case

In 2016, news emerged that Trump paid a $2,500 fine because his foundation improperly donated $25,000 to Bondi’s political election committee in 2013 before her office opted not to pursue a fraud investigation into Trump University. Trump eventually paid $25 million to settle fraud complaints against the now-defunct university.

Bondi said she was unaware of Trump University complaints at the time and that the contribution had nothing to do with her office’s decision not to pursue the case. Trump has said he admired Bondi for never backing away from him amid the controversy."

 

Police report reveals assault allegations against Hegseth, Trump's pick for defense secretary

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"SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by Pete Hegseth after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave, according to a detailed investigative report made public late Wednesday.

Hegseth, a former Fox News personality and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be defense secretary, told police at the time that the encounter had been consensual and denied any wrongdoing, the report said.

News of the allegations surfaced last week when local officials released a brief statement confirming that a woman had accused Hegseth of sexual assault in October 2017 after he had spoken at a Republican women’s event in Monterey."

 

Matt Gaetz says he won't be returning to Congress.

The GOP wants to bury the House ethics report on Gaetz.


"Not a good sign": House Republicans seek to bury Gaetz ethics report amid Trump's lobbying push

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"This is an article about Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominee who faces accusations of sexual misconduct. No, not Pete Hegseth, the pick to lead the Department of Defense who a woman accuses of raping her at a conference in 2017; no, not Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the serial adulterer whose former live-in nanny says she was groped by the anti-vaccine activist; and no, not Linda McMahon, the former WWE executive accused, per CNN, of knowingly allowing an employee “to use his position as ringside announce to sexually exploit children.”"

 

Gaetz says he's going to continue to fight but from a new perch.


Matt Gaetz says he will not return to Congress next year

 

‘Government by the worst’: why people are calling Trump’s new sidekicks a ‘kakistocracy’

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"Matt Gaetz chosen to run the justice department. Fox hosts in charge of the Pentagon and transportation. Elon Musk as head of layoffs. And Robert F Kennedy Jr and Dr Oz overseeing the nation’s health.

Some have likened Donald Trump’s administrative picks to a clown car; others are calling our incoming leadership a kakistocracy, or “government by the worst people”, as Merriam-Webster puts it.

The word has been trending online, with a burst in search traffic in recent weeks and a new dedicated subreddit. It’s not the first time Trump has (accidentally) made the term famous; many discovered it in his first term. But even after Gaetz’s departure, the kakistocracy of 2016 looks like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood compared with the president-elect’s new batch of sidekicks."

 

Republicans Were Ready to Torch Elon Musk for Blowing the Election. Then Trump Won

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"According to notes taken by a source who was on a Monday video conference call, Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney — now at consulting firm Actum LLC — told clients of the firm that when it comes to restructuring and overhauling the federal government, “Elon’s going to find out going to Mars is easier.”

Per the notes, Mulvaney added: “I highly doubt Elon will stick around to actually get it done.”

Since Trump defeated Harris, Musk has been a near-constant presence in Mar-a-Lago as the president-elect plans his return to the White House. Musk is not only advising Trump on Cabinet appointments, but also sitting in on calls with world leaders. Given his lack of an official role on the transition team, tensions have flared with others looking to guide the Trump’s decisions, including Boris Epshteyn, an adviser who supported the provocative nomination of former Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general despite a House Ethics Committee probe and previous Justice Department investigation into his alleged sex crimes. (Gaetz resigned from Congress before the Ethics Committee could release its findings.)"

 

How Trump won, according to the NBC News Exit Poll

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"Trump garnered the support of a remarkable 1 in 3 voters of color, most likely the best performance of any Republican presidential candidate since George W. Bush in his 2004 re-election effort. That included a striking shift of Latino voters into the GOP column compared with 2020 — they backed Trump by 13 points more.

Despite the attention paid to Trump’s abortion policies, as well as claims against him by multiple women accusing him of sexual assault and harassment, the gender gap remained stable. Women broke for Harris, 54%-44%, while men favored Trump, 54%-44% — a gap in support amounting to 22 percentage points. But in 2020, Trump performed even worse among women, losing them to Biden 57%-42%. His 2020 margin among men, 53%-45%, yielded a gender gap of 23 points.

A final factor favoring Trump: his appeal among Americans who are less attached to politics and elections:

First-time voters broke for Trump, 54%-45%. That was a huge reversal from four years ago, when new voters strongly favored Biden, 64%-32%."