"He that is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else" --Benjamin Franklin🤔
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Here are some key points about him: Presidency: Trump assumed office on January 20, 2017, succeeding Barack Obama. His vice president was Mike Pence, and he was succeeded by Joe Biden. Background: Born in Queens, New York City, Trump has been associated with various political parties over the years, including the Republican Party (1987–1999, 2009–2011, 2012–present), Reform Party (1999–2001), Democratic Party (2001–2009), and as an Independent (2011–2012).
Business Career: Trump was also the chairman and president of The Trump Organization from 1971 to 2017. Personal Life: He has been married three times, with his current wife being Melania Knavs. Trump has five children: Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany, and Barron. Legacy and Controversies: His presidency was marked by a range of policies, controversies, and legal affairs. Notable events include the impeachment proceedings, foreign policy decisions, and his active presence on social media.
Business Career: Trump was also the chairman and president of The Trump Organization from 1971 to 2017. Personal Life: He has been married three times, with his current wife being Melania Knavs. Trump has five children: Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany, and Barron. Legacy and Controversies: His presidency was marked by a range of policies, controversies, and legal affairs. Notable events include the impeachment proceedings, foreign policy decisions, and his active presence on social media.
From 'worst president' to 'highest respect': Trump softens opinion of Jimmy Carter in death President-elect Donald Trump had only kind words to say about Jimmy Carter upon his death on Sunday, calling the former president “a truly good man” who will be missed. At Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s estate in Palm Beach, Florida, flags were flying at half-staff on Monday in Carter’s honor. Trump offered a far less charitable view of Carter when he was alive. For years, Trump, a Republican, has mocked the one-term, Democratic commander-in-chief as the nation’s worst president. Just two months ago, on Carter’s 100th birthday, Trump suggested the terminally ill centenarian was happy because Joe Biden had finally replaced him as the worst president ever. (USA Today 12/31/24) READMORE>>>>> Will President Trump Change The Federal Tax Code In 2025? Before any new tax laws can take effect, they must go through three critical steps:1. The House of Representatives: Republicans currently hold a very slim majority in the House, with just 5 extra seats. This majority will shrink temporarily when 3 members leave to join the Trump administration, making the passage of any major legislation even more challenging until those seats are filled. 2. The Senate: Republicans hold 53 of the 100 seats, which gives them a slight majority. 3. The President: Once a tax bill passes both the House and Senate, President-elect Trump must sign the bill. (Forbes 12/28/24) READMORE>>>>> Trump tells death row inmates granted clemency by Biden to ‘go to hell’ in scathing Christmas Day message Donald Trump had no Christmas wishes for death row inmates whose sentences were commuted by Joe Biden. The president-elect told the prisoners to “go to hell” in a scathing Truth Social rant on Wednesday. In the lengthy two-post statement shared on his social media platform, he also aimed at the president, calling him “sleepy Joe” and the Democrats, dubbing them “radical left lunatics.” (Hindustan Times 12/26/24) READMORE>>>>> Trump transfers all his DJT shares to his revocable trust, SEC filings show President-elect Donald Trump this week transferred his entire stake of shares in Trump Media to a revocable trust of which he is the sole beneficiary, regulatory filings revealed Thursday evening. Trump did not receive any money for the gift of the 114,750,000 shares of Trump Media to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust on Tuesday, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Trump Media, which trades under the DJT ticker, closed at $35.41 on Thursday, making the value of the transferred stock more than $4 billion. (CNBC 12/19/24) READMORE>>>>>> Trump loses bid to toss hush money conviction on immunity grounds Donald Trump on Monday lost a bid to overturn his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's July ruling recognizing immunity from prosecution for a president's official acts. Justice Juan Merchan's denial of Trump's motion to dismiss the New York state case forecloses one avenue for the Republican president-elect to enter the White House on Jan. 20 for his second four-year term without the stain of a criminal conviction. (Reuters 12/16/24) READMORE>>>>>> Key lines: Trump’s ‘not playing games,’ he says in interview laying out 100-day agenda Donald Trump has made bold claims about his plans for when he takes office next month, from drastic action at the border to ending birthright citizenship and pardoning January 6 insurrectionists. When he sat down for his first postelection interview with a mainstream journalist, Kristen Welker of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he promised he would not encourage his Justice Department to go after his political enemies but added that he thinks some of them belong in jail. How those promises and desires will translate into action remains unclear, so it’s worth paying attention to what Trump said in that lengthy sit-down, which aired Sunday. Here are key lines from NBC’s interview, along with some context: (CNN 12/9/24) READ MORE>>>>> Trudeau travels to Florida to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after speaking against tariffs Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew to Florida to meet with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Canada's CBC News reported. The meeting comes in the wake of Trump's threat to impose tariffs on goods coming from Canada. Trudeau was expected to dine with Trump at Mar-a-largo Friday night, according to senior sources who spoke to CBC News on condition they not be named due to the sensitivity of the trip. The sources said the meeting was pushed for by Canadian officials, the Canadian broadcaster said. (CBS 11/29/24) READ MORE>>>>> From higher tariffs to lower taxes, will Donald Trump’s economic plan pay off? It’s the economy, stupid. So said James Carville when he was advising Bill Clinton in his 1992 presidential campaign and the phrase is as true now as it was 32 years ago. Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris this week for the same reason he lost to Joe Biden in 2020: millions of Americans were unhappy about the economic record of the incumbent party. Two out of three voters this week thought the US economy was on the wrong track – and that spelt trouble for Harris. The question is whether they will feel any differently at the end of Trump’s second term in the White House, when it ends in 2029. Looking at some of the policies proposed by the president-elect, it is by no means certain that they will. (The Guardian 11/8/24) READMORE>>>>> Trump Talks About Reporters Being Shot and Says He Shouldn't Have Left White House After 2020 Loss Donald Trump delivered a profane and conspiracy-laden speech two days before Tuesday's presidential election, talking about reporters being shot and suggesting he “shouldn't have left” the White House after his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden. In remarks Sunday that bore little resemblance to the speech he's been delivering at his recent rallies, the former president repeatedly cast doubt on the integrity of the vote and resurrected old grievances after trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Trump intensified his verbal attacks on what he cast as a “demonic” Democratic Party and the American media, steering his rally in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at one point to the topic of violence against members of the press. (US NEWS 7 World Report 11/3/24) READMORE>>>>> Anthony Scaramucci’s case against Trump I supported Donald Trump’s candidacy for President in 2016 because I believed that he was an entrepreneur who would usher in a new era of pragmatic, post-partisan politics. Saying that he has failed to deliver on that promise is an understatement. Instead, he demonstrated incompetence in the face of a global pandemic, succumbed to his nativist instincts and, when he lost the 2020 election, fomented an insurrection. I am supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 because I believe she is the candidate who can break us out of the cycle of ideological governance. Her commonsense policies align most with economic growth and social inclusion. (Fortune 10/31/24) READMORE>>>>> Donald Trump calls out Lancaster, York counties over alleged voter registration fraud Two Susquehanna Valley counties are investigating the filing of voter registration forms, and those investigations have caught the attention of former President Donald Trump. "WHAT IS GOING ON IN PENNSYLVANIA???" he asked in a social media post. Regarding investigations in York and Lancaster counties, Trump added, "Really bad 'stuff.' ... Law Enforcement must do their job, immediately!!!" Trump alleged that Lancaster County was "caught with 2600 Fake Ballots and Forms." (WGAL 10/30/24) READMORE>>>>> Election 2024 recap: Eyes on Texas as Trump pit stops in Austin; Harris in Houston Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have spent months courting pivotal swing state voters that could ultimately decide the election. On Friday, Trump will return to one of those states, holding a rally in Traverse City, Michigan. He'll also sit for an interview with Joe Rogan on his mega-popular podcast. Harris is set to appear at a rally in Houston, Texas, on Friday. The Lone Star State's widely expected to ultimately vote for Trump, but the vice president is expected to take the stage with Beyoncé to support Democratic Senate candidate Colin Allred, who is trying to unseat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. (USA Today 10/26/24) READ MORE>>>>> A president on trial? Many voters want Trump to face charges, even if he's elected A majority of Americans think it would be “wrong” for Donald Trump to have the Justice Department drop federal charges against him if he wins back the White House, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll. Legal observers say there's no chance a Trump Justice Department would continue the two federal cases he has asked judges to dismiss as a "witch hunt" led by a prosecutor he calls "deranged." But nearly 58% of likely voters who responded to the poll said it would be "wrong" for Trump to direct the department to drop the charges, compared to 30% saying it would be the "right" thing to do. Nearly one in 10 were undecided. A similar majority, 56%, said federal and state prosecutors should continue to pursue charges against Trump if he loses to Vice President Kamala Harris on Nov. 5, compared to 38% opposed, according to the poll. Nearly 5% were undecided. (USA Today 10/24/24) READMORE>>>>> Trump attempts to troll Harris by serving french fries at a Pennsylvania McDonald's Former President Donald Trump served up french fries Sunday at a Philadelphia-area McDonald’s, oversalting spuds and peppering in some jabs at Vice President Kamala Harris. The campaign visit in the critical battleground state just over two weeks from Election Day was designed to troll Harris, who has talked about working at one of the fast-food chain’s restaurants when she was younger. Without evidence, Trump has accused Harris of lying about the experience as a way to improve her working-class credibility. Trump repeated his unsubstantiated claims Sunday. (NBC News 10/20/24) READMORE>>>>> Could the once united Trump family be fading in this election? In late afternoon sunshine, Eric Trump shook his fist and led chants of “Fight! Fight! Fight!” The second son of Donald Trump told a fervent crowd: “They tried to smear us, they tried to bankrupt us, they came after us, they impeached him twice … then, guys, they tried to kill him.” A who’s who of the Maga movement had gathered for a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, less than three months after the Republican presidential nominee survived an assassination attempt there. Trump was joined on stage by running mate JD Vance and billionaire Elon Musk. But if he was looking for moral support from his family, he would have to settle for Eric. His other children – and his wife – were notably absent. The no-shows at Trump’s recent marquee event were indicative of a divided family keeping a lower profile than in past election cycles. When he took the political establishment by storm in 2016, the Trump family business was part of his brand. This time, at campaign stops where he gives disjointed and demagogic speeches, he cuts a more isolated figure. (The Guardian 10/19/24) READMORE>>>>> Opinion Trump wants to take back manufacturing jobs. It won’t work. “Foreign nations will be worried about losing their jobs to America,” former president Donald Trump declared at a rally in Savannah, Ga., last month, promising a “manufacturing renaissance” by walling off U.S. markets with high tariffs and punishing American companies that make stuff overseas. This sort of statement, based in nostalgia for past economic paradigms in which large numbers of American blue-collar workers manufactured many of the world’s goods, no longer just sounds out of place in American politics. It is also a fantasy. The idea that a bunch of countries (or one big Asian country, China) are hoarding industrial jobs that rightfully belong to the United States rests on a misunderstanding of the dynamics shaping manufacturing around the globe. The United States did not lose jobs primarily to countries with cheaper labor. It lost them, mostly, to technology. (Washington Post 10/14/24) READMORE>>>>> Trump is ‘fascist to the core,’ Milley says in Woodward book Retired Gen. Mark A. Milley warned that former president Donald Trump is a “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person to this country” in new comments voicing his mounting alarm at the prospect of the Republican nominee’s election to another term, according to a forthcoming book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward. Milley, 66, served for more than a year as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump before continuing in the role under President Joe Biden. Upon stepping down in September 2023 after more than 40 years in the military, Milley laid out his apparent concerns about Trump in a pointed retirement speech. “We don’t take an oath to a king, or a queen, to a tyrant or dictator or wannabe dictator,” he said. (Washington Post 10/12/24) READMORE>>>>> My choice to vote for Trump is driven by my faith in the Constitution and deep unwillingness to amend it, explicitly or via expansion and packing the Supreme Court by congressional legislation about the number of justices. Amendments to the Constitution's provisions about the Supreme Court or underhanded laws expanding the number of justices, which has been fixed at nine since shortly after the Civil War, would mark the beginning of the rapid end of the rule of law in the country.
Harris is pledged to radically changing the court. Trump is opposed to court-packing. That imperils the most important general feature of the Constitution — separation of powers — as well as the First Amendment specifically, the right to free speech and especially the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. This should matter to every person of faith, no matter their religious views or no views at all. My choice is also driven by knowledge — first-hand, personal knowledge gained while serving in the executive branch from 1984 to 1989, and by experience gained since 1989 when I left the Beltway for California to become a journalist, lawyer for clients needing land use permits from the federal government and a law professor at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law. My years as a young lawyer fresh off a clerkship with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, began as a member of the Reagan administration in 1984. The jobs 40 years ago showed me how the federal government actually runs. I worked as a lawyer in the White House Counsel’s office, for two attorneys general at the Department of Justice, and at the Office of Personnel Management. --Hugh Hewitt 9/19/24 Fox News Op/Ed . -- I don't think I've ever said this before. So we do these rallies. They're massive rallies. Everybody loves, everybody stays till the end. By the way, you know, when she said that, well, your rallies people leave. Honestly, nobody does. And if I saw them leaving, I'd say, and ladies and gentlemen make America great again and I'd get the hell out, ok? Because I don't want people leaving. But I do have to say so I give these long sometimes very complex sentences and paragraphs but they all come together. I do it a lot. I do it with raising cane. That story. I do it with the story on the catapults on the aircraft carriers. I do it with a lot of different stories. When I mentioned Doctor Hannibal Lecter. I'm using that as an example of people that are coming in from Silence of the Lambs. I use it. They say it's terrible. So they say so I'll give this long complex area for instance that I talked about a lot of different territory… You know, for a town hall, there's a lot of people but the fake news likes to say, the fake news likes to say, oh, he was rambling. No, no, that's not rambling. That's genius. When you can connect the dots. Now, now, Sarah, if you couldn't connect the dots, you got a problem. But every dot was connected and many stories were told in that little paragraph --Donald Trump word salad - Townhall in Flint, Michigan; 9/17/24
Trump casts doubt on future debates with Harris Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday cast doubt on whether he would attend future debates against Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump faced off with Harris Tuesday night in his first debate against the new Democratic contender, who performed better than President Joe Biden did in his first debate against Trump, which prompted Biden to drop out and endorse Harris. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has supported Trump, said on X that Harris exceeded expectations. “While I don’t think the debate hosts were fair to @realDonaldTrump, @KamalaHarris exceeded most people’s expectations tonight,” Musk wrote. (My Hometown 9/11/24) READMORE>>>>> Harris braces for the most critical moment of her political career at debate with Trump Kamala Harris’ joyful campaign will Tuesday be hit by the blunt force of reality — a debate with Donald Trump — the most menacing political foe of modern times. The vice president transformed the 2024 election after President Joe Biden’s abject debate showing against Trump on CNN in June led him to end his reelection bid. She restored several swing states to the electoral battlefield and has had Democrats dreaming of a stunning turnabout in a race most thought they were well on the way to losing. Yet her success in unifying her party, branding herself as a fresh voice of generational change and closing into a dead heat with Trump in polling has so far not cemented a reliable path to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. Indeed, if the election were on Tuesday, the ex-president, who has already defied an assassination attempt and scores of criminal charges, could still win. (Finbold 9/9/24) READMORE>>>>> Feds file new indictment in Trump Jan. 6 case, keeping charges intact but narrowing allegations Special counsel Jack Smith filed a new indictment Tuesday against Donald Trump over his efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election that keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against him following a Supreme Court opinion that conferred broad immunity on former presidents. (Virginia-Pilot 8/27/24) READ MORE>>>>> Trump responds to Obamas' DNC speeches: 'He was very nasty' Former president and Republican nominee Donald Trump offered some rare praise for his White House predecessor ahead of Barack Obama's speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. He may have spoken too soon. Just ahead of Michelle and Barack Obama's speeches at the national convention, Trump, a harsh critic of Obama and his time in office, actually offered some rare praise for his predecessor while speaking to reporters Tuesday. That praise? Trump referred to the 44th president as a “nice gentleman” whom he happens to “like and respect,” in an interview with CNN. “I thought he was a terrible president. He didn’t do the job. He let people take advantage of us on trade,” Trump said while on the campaign trail in Michigan. “Especially trade—he was very weak on trade. But I happen to like him. I respect him and his wife.” (The Tennessean 8/21/24) READ MORE>>>>> Musk told Trump that Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings "not as scary as people think." Trump: "That's great." Of the many, many weird exchanges between Donald Trump and Elon Musk in last night's mock interview, their casual remarks about nuclear devastation might be the most bizarre: Musk: "Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed but now they're full cities again." Trump: "That's great. That's great." Musk: "Yeah, so it's not as scary as people think." (Boing Boing 8/13/24) READ MORE>>>>> Trump Media reports $16.4 million quarterly loss Former president Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media reported a $16.4 million loss and less than $1 million of quarterly revenue, showing that the business’s financials remain tentative following a public debut earlier this year. Trump Media and Technology Group, which owns the social media platform Truth Social, said Friday the company earned $837,000 in revenue for the second quarter, while shelling out millions of dollars of legal expenses associated with its stock market listing. Trump has relied heavily on Truth Social in his presidential campaign, where he posts frequently to his 7.5 million followers. He began using the platform after his Twitter account was suspended in 2021. (Washington Post 8/9/24) READ MORE>>>>> Donald Trump missteps stir growing Republican worry, campaign seeks Vance reset Donald Trump's comments questioning Kamala Harris' Black identity and stumbles by his running mate JD Vance are prompting growing unease among Republicans. In response to a backlash over Vance's remarks about childless women, the Trump campaign is seeking to help him move past the controversy by focusing on issues such as the border that resonate with the GOP base. Republican allies outside the Trump campaign are downplaying their 2024 presidential nominee's recent statements about his Democratic rival and her race as they move into damage control mode with less than 100 days until Election Day. Some in the party are genuinely concerned, though. (USA Today 8/4/24) READ MORE>>>>> Scaramucci: ‘Disaster’ if Trump doesn’t debate Harris Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci signaled Saturday that former President Trump could face “disaster” if he doesn’t debate Vice President Harris ahead of November. Harris, who was officially nominated Friday to lead the Democratic ticket in the fall, has pressured Trump to agree to debate her on the ABC News-led Sept. 10 date he originally set with President Biden, who dropped out of the race last month. (The Hill 8/3/24) READ MORE>>>>> Crypto libertarians and Silicon Valley billionaires: The mashup fueling new support for Trump An unlikely alliance backing Donald Trump has emerged as a new political force in 2024: crypto libertarians and some vocal tech-world figures from Silicon Valley. The union is helping to fill Trump's campaign coffers and could become a central player in Washington next year if Republicans take control. (Yahoo Finance 7/27/24) READ MORE>>>>> Donald Trump Trashes Republicans After Amendment Loses by 'Only One Vote' Writing on Truth Social, Trump said: "Just heard from Great Congressman Andrew Clyde of Georgia that the Amendment to Defund the Prosecution of a Presidential Candidate prior to November's Election did not pass, 26-25. "It lost by only one vote, because one Republican, Mike Simpson of Idaho, stupidly voted NO, and two 'Republicans,' David Valadao of California and Dan Newhouse of Washington, the only two remaining Impeachers in the House of President Donald J. Trump, didn't show up to vote,' Trump added. "They must have had more important things to do. Also, Mike Garcia of California, David Joyce of Ohio, and Juan Ciscomani of Arizona, didn't show up to vote. Thanks very much, fellas, for your great support!" (Newsweek 7/13/24) READ MORE>>>>>> Justices give presidents immunity for official acts, further delaying Trump’s trial Donald Trump is immune from prosecution for official acts as president but can face trial for private conduct, a divided Supreme Court ruled Monday, declaring a broad new definition of White House power that may stand for generations and will further delay Trump’s election interference case in D.C. The 6-3 decision along ideological lines makes it highly unlikely that the 45th president will go to trial on charges of trying to subvert the 2020 election before voters cast ballots in this year’s presidential contest, in which Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee. (Washington Post 7/1/24) READ MORE>>>>> The Trump Trials: A history lesson for the future The Supreme Court issued its “rule for the ages” Monday morning, and it was a doozy, so we wanted to land back in your inbox with what we think are the big takeaways from the court’s decision on presidential immunity. As much as the ruling draws new lines around what conduct can lead to the prosecution of future presidents, it also implies some pretty shocking reinterpretations of past White House conduct. (Washington Post 7/1/24) READ MORE>>>>> Don't let MAGA theatrics fool you: Donald Trump's 34 felony convictions are not helping him Many people mistake cynicism for savviness. So, of course, it took no time at all for some political pundits to rush forward to declare that Donald Trump's historic 34 felony convictions would somehow "help" him. Republicans rushed to beat their chests and made loud threats that Democrats will rue these convictions, even though it was 12 randomly selected jurors in Manhattan, and not the Democratic Party, that convicted Trump. He falsely claimed that his "poll numbers have gone up substantially" since the verdict. (So far, it hasn't moved the polls much, though it seems to have made some voters more hesitant to support Trump.) The campaign claimed a $53 million fundraising haul in the aftermath of the verdict, though this should be taken with a grain of salt, as they lie constantly. And, of course, Republicans ran towards every microphone is sight to feign outrage and declare that an upswell of once-skeptical Americans would now vote for Trump. Who knew there was a massive constituency of voters outraged that New York would enforce its laws against criminal conspiracies to defraud the public? Alas, the GOP theatrics appear to have scared some folks. (Salon 6/4/24) READ MORE>>>>> Donald Trump Judge Issues Exceedingly Rare Order The judge in Donald Trump's classified documents case has ordered Trump's co-accused to explain why he was so late in filing a motion. This is the second time in two weeks that Judge Aileen Cannon has demanded an explanation from Trump's valet, Walt Nauta, who is accused of hiding classified documents at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. The legal website Law And Crime called Cannon's order "exceedingly rare." (Newsweek 6/4/24) READ MORE>>>>> After conviction, Trump speaks at Trump Tower Former President Donald Trump is addressing reporters on Friday morning -- the day after being found guilty on all 34 counts in his hush-money trial. Trump is speaking from the atrium of Trump Tower just feet away from the golden escalator he rode down in 2015 when he kicked off his first bid for president. Now, nearly nine years later, Trump is further responding to his conviction and the legal battles he faces that have been much of the focus of his third presidential bid. Campaign officials and some supporters were also expected to be present. (ABC 5/31/24) READ MORE>>>>> Donald Trump tries to turn his guilty verdict into campaign fuel and attacks criminal justice system Donald Trump launched into attacks on the judge in his criminal trial and continued to undermine New York’s criminal justice system Friday as he tried to repackage his conviction on 34 felony charges as fuel, not an impediment, to his latest White House bid. Trump spoke to reporters at his namesake tower in Manhattan on Friday, his return to campaigning a day after he was convicted of trying to illegally influence the 2016 election by falsifying business records to hide a hush money payment to a porn actor who claimed they had sex. (AP 5/31/24)READ MORE>>>>> Donald Trump’s media allies are demanding retribution in the wake of his conviction. Following weeks of attacks targeting the historic hush money case against the former president, prominent right-wing media figures immediately flooded the public discourse Thursday with extreme and disturbing rhetoric after Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts. On Fox News and other right-wing outlets, pro-Trump media personalities erupted in anger, blaming everyone from Judge Juan Merchan and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to President Joe Biden and the entire U.S. justice system for the “disgraceful” conviction (CNN/5/31/24) READ MORE>>>>> 'Shameful': Republicans quickly come to Trump's defense after his conviction It didn’t take long after a jury found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts in his New York hush money trial for Republicans to quickly jump to their presumptive presidential nominee’s defense. Speaker Mike Johnson, second in line to the presidency and the top Republican on Capitol Hill, called it a “shameful day in American history.” “This was a purely political exercise, not a legal one,” Johnson claimed. (ABC News 5/30/24)READ MORE>>>>> Erin Burnett Thoroughly Debunks Biden Assassinating Trump Conspiracy Promoted on Fox News and Right-Wing Media Erin Burnett opened her show on Wednesday night focused on the growing conspiracy that the Biden DOJ was planning on assassinating former President Donald Trump. Burnet reported how Trump and his allies were “absurdly” accusing President Biden of trying to assassinate the former president before citing an email from Trump’s team called the “Palm Beach Playbook,” which comes from the website DonaldJTrump.com. “The very first line under Top News also claims that ‘deadly force was authorized against Trump during an FBI raid at Mar a Lago. That, you know, the intent of that being a possible assassination,'” Burnett said. (MediaIte 5/23/24) READ MORE>>>>> GOP lawmakers conflate standard FBI policies with an assassination attempt on Trump It didn’t take long after a jury found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts in his New York hush money trial for Republicans to quickly jump to their presumptive presidential nominee’s defense. Speaker Mike Johnson, second in line to the presidency and the top Republican on Capitol Hill, called it a “shameful day in American history.” “This was a purely political exercise, not a legal one,” Johnson claimed. (NBC News 5/21/24)READ MORE>>>>> GOP lawmakers conflate standard FBI policies with an assassination attempt on Trump It didn’t take long after a jury found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts in his New York hush money trial for Republicans to quickly jump to their presumptive presidential nominee’s defense. Speaker Mike Johnson, second in line to the presidency and the top Republican on Capitol Hill, called it a “shameful day in American history.” “This was a purely political exercise, not a legal one,” Johnson claimed. (NBC News 5/21/24)READ MORE>>>>> Trump social media account shares video mentioning "unified reich" A video posted to Donald Trump's account on his social media network Monday included references to a "unified reich" among hypothetical news headlines depicting an election win by him in November. The headline appears among messages flashing across the screen such as "Trump wins!!" and "Economy booms!" Other headlines appear to be references to World War I. The word "reich" is often largely associated with Nazi Germany's Third Reich, though the references in the video Trump shared appear to be a reference to the formation of the modern pan-German nation, unifying smaller states into a single reich, or empire, in 1871. (CBS News 5/21/24) READ MORE>>>>> Donald Trump biopic causes a stir in Cannes A new film about Donald Trump has had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, attracting mostly good reviews from critics but a legal threat from the former president. Titled The Apprentice, the biopic traces Mr Trump's origin story as an ambitious young property developer in 1970s and 80s New York. His spokesman described the film, which features a scene where he is seen raping his first wife Ivana, as "garbage", "pure fiction" and "election interference by Hollywood elites". The movie begins with a disclaimer that many of its events are fictionalised. (BBC 5/21/24) READ MORE>>>>> First Thing: Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago dinner with oil bosses House Democrats and the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew) have launched investigations into Donald Trump and the dinner he hosted at his Mar-a-Lago home and club last month with more than 20 oil and gas company executives. The Washington Post has previously reported that Trump promised at the meeting to undo Joe Biden’s restrictions on natural gas export permits, oil drilling and car pollution, if the executives gave him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign. Virginia Canter, Crew’s chief ethics counsel, said: “We are taking a very serious look at whether Trump’s fundraising pitch to the oil executives for $1bn would merit some further action.” Could these investigations lead to further fallout for the gas and oil industry? Sheldon Whitehouse, the senator from Rhode Island who chairs the Senate budget committee, which has subpoena powers, is also considering an investigation. “Trump’s offer of a blatant quid pro quo to oil executives is practically an invitation to ask questions about Big Oil’s political corruption and manipulation,” he said in an emailed statement. (The Guardian 5/15/24) READ MORE>>>>> Tommy Tuberville admits he came to New York to break Trump's gag order Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has admitted he came to New York City Monday to break a gag order for former President Donald Trump. MSNBC Anchor Nicolle Wallace reported Tuberville's public admission, made on the conservative channel Newsmax, as part of her coverage on Trump's ongoing criminal hush money trial and the gag order the former president has been fined for repeatedly violating. "I guess we love that he just gives it to us, right?" said a laughing Wallace. "Were you trying to go against the gag order and intimidate witnesses because Trump can't? 'Yes, sir.'" (Ray Story 5/14/24) READ MORE>>>>> Former Trump aide John McEntee sparks fury over outrageous TikTok video, ‘I give fake money to poor so that…’ John McEntee. Donald Trump's aide sparks online furing by saying he gives fake money to poor to get them arrested. Donald Trump's White House aide John McEntee has sparked online fury after he arrogantly admitted to giving fake money to homeless people so they can get arrested when they use it. McEntee said in a now viral TikTok video that he wants to help "clean up the community". The video posted a week back has over 7 million views and almost half a million likes. (Hindustan Times 5/13/24) READ MORE>>>>> Trump Says He’d ‘Immediately Deport ‘Anti-Americanism’ Protesters in Bizarre Rally Speech Much like the college administrators who called the cops on student protesters, Donald Trump‘s solution appears to be using the force of the state to quash any political uprising. While speaking on the war in Gaza during a campaign rally in Wildwood, New Jersey on Saturday, Trump criticized the pro-Palestine protests on American college campuses, saying, “When I’m president, we will not allow colleges to be taken over by violent radicals.” “If you come here from another country and try to bring jihadism, or anti-Americanism, or antisemitism to our campuses we will immediately deport you, you’ll be out of that school,” Trump continued. Trump also alleged the protesters were being funded by political donors who were unaffiliated with the schools. He has previously compared the campus protesters at Columbia University to the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, although he distinguishes the former as destructive and damaging and the latter group as “unbelievable patriots.” (Rolling Stone 5/11/24) READ MORE>>>>> FBI data shows America is seeing a 'considerable' drop in crime. Trump says the opposite. Jeff Asher is a New Orleans-based crime data analyst who has worked at the CIA and Department of Defense. He leans towards caution when describing trends in his line of work. Amid the heated crime rhetoric that is a staple of politics and is continuing this year – former President Donald Trump and his conservative allies in Congress and the media are using dire terms to describe crime trends in America – Asher has been carefully sifting through the data. The story he tells has been slow to emerge but stands in stark contrast to Trump's narrative. (USA Today 5/1/24) READ MORE>>>>> Trump and DeSantis meet in Miami for first conversation since Florida governor dropped out of GOP primary Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis met for several hours in Miami on Sunday, according to a source close to Trump. The meeting — their first conversation since DeSantis dropped out of the GOP primary in January — was arranged through Steve Witkoff, Trump’s longtime friend and luxury real estate developer, at the request of DeSantis, according to the source. It was first reported by The Washington Post. Witkoff is hosting a fundraiser in Miami for Trump next Sunday, according to a copy of the invite obtained by CNN. (CNN 4/28/24) READ MORE>>>>> Who will RFK hurt more, Trump or Biden? New startling poll might have the answer The big question continues to loom over the 2024 race: Will Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s run pull more votes from Joe Biden or Donald Trump? Pundits and polls have swung back and forth on the matter. But increasingly, recent polling has shown Kennedy could do more damage to Trump and that the former president and Kennedy attract the same voters. The latest was in a Marist poll that showed Biden beating Trump 43%-38% in a multi-candidate field that includes Kennedy. That’s five percentage points ahead of Trump, compared to the 2 percentage point advantage he had over Trump in an earlier survey. (NJ.com 4/22/24) READ MORE>>>>> How Many Times Does Trump Get To Violate His Gag Order Before Judge Merchan Jails Him?
It’s the fourth day since the beginning of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial of many, his third day back in court. And he really really really really really seems to want Judge Juan Merchan to put him in jail for violating gag orders. He’s clearly testing the judge, and if ever there was a fuck around and find out moment, this oughta be it. In any sane world, Trump should spend at least the next 30 days in lockup for this: (Wonkette 4/18/24) READ MORE>>>>> Poland’s president may meet Donald Trump ‘socially’ in New York Andrzej Duda, Poland’s conservative president, is expected to meet Donald Trump in New York on Wednesday evening, as some European politicians begin preparing for Trump’s possible return to the White House. Many mainstream European leaders fear the potential impact of a US that is less engaged on the continent, and less committed to the future of Ukraine. The potential meeting comes after the far-right Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, visited Trump in March. (The Guardian 4/17/24) READ MORE>>>>> Trump co-defendant attacks Fani Willis on race: 'Black women tried to control men by fear' Harrison Floyd, a former director of Black Voices for Trump, blasted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for trying to "control men by fear" by charging him with a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Floyd made the remarks during the Doug in Exile podcast on Thursday. The host asked Donald Trump's co-defendant how race came into play in the case. "The thing that upsets the district attorney, I think, and just my opinion as a Black man, is, so, it's two different things," Floyd explained. "In the Black community, I think just from a history in the community, Black women tried to control men by fear." (Raw Story 4/4/24) READ MORE>>>>> Donald Trump puts up $175m bond and avoids having his assets seized Donald Trump has posted a $175m (£140m) bond in New York - preventing the state from seizing his assets. The former US president had been given 10 days to make the payment after his lawyers successfully asked for the bond to be reduced from $454m (£362m). (Sky News 4/2/24) READ MORE>>>>> Cheney trolls Trump over Bible sale, suggests he read verse on adultery Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) took aim at former President Trump for launching an initiative to sell Bibles on Tuesday and encouraged him to read what the Bible says about adultery. “Happy Holy Week, Donald. Instead of selling Bibles, you should probably buy one,” Cheney wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, in response to a screenshot of Trump’s Bible pitch on Truth Social. (The Hill) READ MORE>>>>> Biden Campaign Lists Former Trump Officials Who've Turned Against Him And... Wow President Joe Biden’s campaign on Thursday shared a thread on X (formerly Twitter) of damning comments that 17 former top officials in Donald Trump’s administration have made to condemn the former president and presumptive GOP nominee. “The people who know Trump best won’t support him. Why should you?” the Biden campaign began the thread featuring videos of high-ranking White House officials ripping their former boss (The HuffPost 3/22/24 ) READ MORE>>>>> Trump accuses Biden of ‘border bloodbath’ as he fails to secure $464m bond in fraud case: Live Donald Trump has attempted to turn the tables on Joe Biden amid the furore surrounding his use of the phrase “bloodbath” by releasing a new campaign video compiling lurid news reports about “migrant crime” incidents to argue that the illegal immigration crisis at America’s southern border is the real “bloodbath”. The distraction tactic follows a day of stunning setbacks for the Republican presidential candidate relating to the court cases he is battling. (The Independent 3/19/24) READ MORE>>>>> Donald Trump endorses John Barrasso for Senate Republican whip Former President Donald Trump endorsed Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) for Senate Republican whip on Thursday, touting him as a “fantastic senator” who has his “complete and total endorsement.” Barrasso announced last week that he would run for Senate GOP whip instead of continuing in a crowded race including Sens. John Thune (R-SD) and John Cornyn (R-TX) to replace Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). By running for party whip, Barrasso is unopposed. (Washington Examiner 3/14/24) READ MORE>>>>> Judge Aileen Cannon says in Donald Trump's classified documents trial is not imminent A federal judge in Florida said Friday the prosecution's proposal to try Donald Trump starting July 8 on charges of hoarding national security documents is unrealistic, while the former president's lawyers suggested starting Aug. 12 or after the November election. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon scheduled the hearing to map out the scheduling options. Cannon did not immediately rule, but hinted that she did not see the case as being on the cusp of a trial, telling lawyers that “a lot of work remains to be done.” (USA Today 3/1/24) READ MORE>>>>> How Trump won South Carolina primary and why Nikki Haley isn’t quitting yet Frontrunner Donald Trump has cruised to victory in South Carolina’s Republican primary with the support of an almost unwavering base of loyal voters. But rival Nikki Haley says she is not dropping out of the United States presidential race. Despite her loss in a state where she previously won two terms as governor, Haley said she will stay in the race until at least the Super Tuesday primaries on March 5. (Aljazeera 2/25/24) READ MORE>>>>> Special counsel asks Supreme Court to let Trump's 2020 election case proceed to trial without delay Special counsel Jack Smith urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to let former President Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case proceed to trial without further delay. Prosecutors were responding to a Trump team request from earlier in the week asking for a continued pause in the case as the court considers whether to take up the question of whether the former president is immune from prosecution for official acts in the White House. Two lower courts have overwhelmingly rejected that position, prompting Trump to ask the high court to intervene. (WDSU 2/14/24) READ MORE>>>>> Trump questions whereabouts of Nikki Haley’s husband Michael, who is serving in military: ‘He’s gone!’ Former President Donald Trump mocked opponent Nikki Haley for not having her husband by her side — ignoring the fact that he’s serving in the military overseas. Speaking at a rally in Conway, South Carolina on Saturday, Trump took the jab at Haley while telling a story about meeting the former Palmetto State Governor at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. (New York Post 2/10/24) READ MORE>>>>> Retired conservative judge: ‘Trump disqualified himself’ from ballot Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday arguing that former President Trump is disqualified to run for public office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Luttig, a longtime conservative jurist on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, argued the Supreme Court justices, when they hear arguments next month in the case involving the Colorado Supreme Court decision to bar Trump from the ballot, should take a “textualist” approach to interpreting the constitution. (The Hill 1/30/24) READ MORE>>>>> Trump loses battle with E. Jean Carroll judge as testimony gets cut short
Trump reportedly ditched a staffer in Iowa after he lost a single county by a measly vote
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January 1, 2024: Old flight logs revealing that former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump took trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s famed “Lolita Express” jet resurfaced, on the anticipated eve of the bombshell court records dump expected to reveal hundreds of names tied to the financier’s sex trafficking ring. The 42nd and 45th commanders-in-chief were exposed as some of the high-profile passengers who rubbed elbows with the pedophile when the logs were released two years earlier during convicted madam Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial.
January 5, 2024: Donald Trump ridiculed President Biden over the economy, immigration and foreign policy before turning to personal mockery during an Iowa event. A few hours after Biden had given a sweeping denunciation of Trump, calling him a sore loser and a threat to American democracy, the former president made fun of Biden’s childhood speaking impediment.
January 5, 2024: 2 Paragraphs reported: Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is running for President against former President Donald Trump, but the fact that they’re competing for the same job has been largely obscured by the truism that no GOP candidate — except the cellar-dwelling Chris Christie — has been willing to take any significant political aim at Trump, whose lead in the Republican primary polls is enormous.” Haley and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the other ostensible contender for the nomination, have come around very slowly to criticizing Trump, with the political price for turning off Trump’s loyal base being way too high for either candidate to pay. (It’s also the case that since Trump has refused to participate in any of the RNC debates, they’ve never had to confront him directly.)
January 6, 2024: Washington Post reported: Donald Trump spent the days after Jan. 6, 2021, privately fuming about the election and his media coverage. Leaving office with an approval rating below 40 percent, he skipped Joe Biden’s inauguration and retreated to Mar-a-Lago. He was banned from posting on Twitter and avoided public appearances.The next month, he accepted an invitation to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, his first post-presidential speech. On the drive, Trump seemed surprised that the roads again closed for his motorcade, an adviser said. A rapturous reception appeared to lift his spirits, the adviser said. Still, his speech made no mention of the event that prompted his isolation: the deadly attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol.
January 8, 2024: George Conway: “...it’s completely obscene. I mean, the notion that these people who tried to overthrow the government at his behest, tried to end constitutional democracy in America, and who are being prosecuted, who were indicted by federal grand juries for their crimes against the United States – to say that they are hostages is just definitionally absurd, but just morally obscene. The notion that people accept that, that he’s not drummed out of public life for saying something like that and that, indeed, people like Elise Stefanik parrot his lies is just one more condemnation, self-condemnation of the Republican party. I just don’t know how much lower they can go.”
January 9, 2024: Zachary Wolfe wrote at CNN: Former President Donald Trump has long argued that his supporters are so committed that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York City, shoot someone and not lose them. One of his lawyers made the argument in federal court Tuesday that he might not be prosecuted either. The question at hand is whether Trump and all presidents achieve “absolute immunity” from prosecution. Trump faces four different criminal prosecutions, and his strategy, beyond delaying these trials, is to argue that as a guard against political prosecutions he simply cannot be prosecuted.
January 9, 2024: Detroit News reported: President Joe Biden's support is on shaky ground in Michigan, and he trails Republican Donald Trump by 8 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup 10 months before the Nov. 5 election, according to a new statewide poll commissioned by The Detroit News and WDIV-TV (Channel 4). The survey of 600 likely general election voters in the battleground state found only 17% said Biden, the Democratic incumbent, deserved another term leading the country. That number marked a low for a major public officeholder in modern Michigan political history, said Richard Czuba, founder of Lansing-based Glengariff Group, which conducted the poll.
January 10, 2024: Donald Trump said at a Townhall: “We had no terrorist attacks at all during my four years... I had no wars. I’m the only president in 72 years, I didn’t have any wars.” Fact Check: Not True. See article at Washington Post.
January 16, 2024: Fox News reported: A federal appeals court has rejected former President Trump’s request to block Special Counsel Jack Smith from accessing his then-Twitter feed as part of his election interference case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C., ruled on the matter and denied further review. The decision comes after an appellate panel had rejected the original request.
January 16, 2024: Politico reported: Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in the swing state of Georgia, according to a poll from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the University of Georgia. Trump held a 45 percent to 37 percent lead over the incumbent Democrat among registered voters, according to the survey. The remaining respondents — nearly 20 percent — said they weren’t sure, wouldn’t vote in the race or planned to cast a ballot for another candidate. The survey did not name potential third party candidates.
January 21, 2024: The Washington Post reported: Donald Trump’s Iowa caucuses romp raises the stakes in Trump v. Anderson, the Supreme Court’s review of a Colorado ruling disqualifying him from the state’s ballot. Soon after the justices hear the case next month, Trump could be the presumptive GOP nominee. The meaning of the 14th Amendment’s disqualification-for-insurrection clause will cease being an academic hypothetical and start being a question of whether states can, in effect, block an unfolding presidential nomination process. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court briefs have poured in. Most retread familiar legal ground, but an amicus brief filed Thursday by election law scholars Edward B. Foley and Richard L. Hasen, along with election lawyer Benjamin L. Ginsberg, makes a distinctive appeal: Whatever you do, the trio urges the justices, don’t punt on the question of Trump’s eligibility. Either rule that he is qualified for the presidency or rule that he is disqualified from it, full stop — don’t reverse the Colorado decision on “procedural or jurisdictional grounds.”
January 21, 2024: Reuters reported: Haley woos independent voters in final New Hampshire push against Trump. Tom Mita, a 45-year-old non-profit worker in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is not registered with a political party. That makes him the perfect target for Nikki Haley, who needs independent voters for a chance to prevail in this pivotal primary state. Mita is thinking about voting for Haley, he told a pair of door knockers who were canvassing on behalf of the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations outside his suburban home on Saturday, but he isn't completely sold on her candidacy.
January 21, 2024: New Hampshire resident, Tom Mita: He wants Haley, who has so far spared Donald Trump from some lines of attack, to go after him more aggressively. He considers Trump a threat to democracy for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democratic President Joe Biden. If Haley pulls her punches, he may vote in the Democratic primary instead. "It's really about stopping Trump," said Mita, standing outside his door, hands stuffed in his pockets, on a 19-degree Fahrenheit day. "Best scenario would be if she comes out and says that she won't endorse Trump for president."
January 26, 2024: Newsweek reported: Former President Donald Trump on Friday was ordered by a federal jury in New York City to pay $83.3 million in damages to E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of defaming her reputation as a journalist by denying he raped her in the 1990s. Carroll had been seeking a minimum of $10 million, but the jury awarded her $18.3 million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages.
Trump lawyers quit. For $19.99 MyPillow Guy will now represent with a 2nd case for only cost of Shipping & Handling. --Zorek Richards 1/31/24 😉
"If only Republicans cared as much about America's well-being as about Trump's feelings." --Bill Kristol Z-NOTE: January 31, 2024:
Got problems with a natural disaster? Blame Biden. Problem solved.?
Right wing activist Nick Sortor tweeted this yesterday:
I’ve been on the ground here on Maui speaking with countless residents, and they’re FED UP with Biden and his lack of support The support for Donald Trump in Hawaii is at an ALL TIME HIGH, and a visit from him could change the entire trajectory of the relief effort and FORCE Biden to get it together. What Nick Sortor is doing is Maganazi propaganda by going to places with problems.....magnifying them and then manufacturing rage...then blaming it all on the Biden administration. It's Maganazi bait and switch propaganda (Sorry for your pain; but this wouldnt have happened if Trump was here #doh). Maganazi GOP has already made it clear that they want to blame everything on Biden and Democrats so they will look better in November 2024. It is imperative that all the Maganazi lies and propaganda be refuted. If Maganazis win in November America as we know it ends. The Maganazis and Maganazi Evangelicals DO NOT support the Constitution of the USA and are busy rewriting history. (like pretending Jan 6 wasn't pro-Maganazi or inspired by their Maganazi God (ie, Donald Trump). The battle also has to go beyond social media. Nick Sortor saying "support for Donald Trump in Hawaii is at an ALL TIME HIGH" is not true...but more likely high with the people he can manipulate and preach his false narrative to. Going after victims of a disaster is the lowest of propaganda styles but Maganazis have very little, if any, conscience left and is now a ploy for the Maganazi regime. Most importantly: Donald "Adolph" Trump approves their message. And BTW, Nick Sortor is vacation in Hawaii while pretending he is "uncovering" damages caused by the Biden administrations negligence.
February 10, 2024: Donald Trump, speaking at a rally in South Carolina, took a jab at Haley by mocking her that her husband is not at her side. Her husband, however, is serving in the military overseas.
May 14, 2024: Laura Ingraham on Fox News: "How do you get to the point where you think Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen are more credible than Donald J. Trump?"
Z-NOTE: April 23, 2024:
DONALD TRUMP GOES TO COURT
Donald Trump was in court again today. He seems clueless as to why he is there, but probably not more than his Maga fan club.. who have been told by Maga spokes people, like Lara Trump, that he is being charged for a clerical error. He is charged for a hush money scheme to hide things he was involved in so he could win the 2016 presidency.
Today he expressed concern as to why his supporters weren't there to protest. He said it was because the police presence was keeping people out. My theory: 6 Reasons they may not be there: 1) Their moms said they needed to stay home and clean up their basement bedroom 2) They might get arrested for previous crimes and misdemeanors. 3) They don't know where Gags come from and are afraid one might show up and give them orders. 4) They left all their Confederate Flags at back in Texas 5) They're visiting Nice Young Callgirls cuz they didn't know NYC stands for New York City. 6) Marjorie Taylor Greene told them Putin would send them a bus. -----------------
April is Grilled Cheese Month? I better start thinking up some tough questions then. -Zorek Richards
May 31, 2024: Donald Trump from court: "If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone," Trump said as he kicked off his remarks. "These are bad people. These are, in many cases, I believe, sick people."
The guy that compared Trump to Hitler is Trumps running mate.🙄
July 15, 2024:
Earlier this afternoon, Donald Trump formally won the Republican nomination during the convention roll call vote. House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that Trump had won 2,387 votes. There were 2,429 votes available but in three states and Washington, DC, the secretary of the convention announced that some votes would be cast “pursuant to the rules and procedures” of the convention. Donald Trump’s running mate pick is Ohio Sen. JD Vance. I guessed he would be the one early on because of the choices he was the one who most spoke in circles like a Maga. Vance has said he would have refused to certify the election on Jan. 6, 2020, if he were in Pence's position."If I had been vice president, I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia and so many others that we needed to have multiple slates of electors," he told ABC News in February, "and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there. That is the legitimate way to deal with an election that a lot of folks, including me, think had a lot of problems in 2020. I think that's what we should have done." Eight years ago, in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, J.D. Vance was a bitter critic of Donald Trump. He called Donald Trump an "idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, he compared him to Adolf Hitler. "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler," he wrote privately to an associate on Facebook in 2016. I have zero hope for Trump/Vance to win. It's too early to tell from polling what could happen in November. An elderly man had a massive heart attack. After a long wait, the ER doctor appeared. Sadly, he said, "I'm afraid Grandpa is brain-dead, but his heart is still beating."
"Oh, Dear God," cried his wife in shock! "We've never had a Trump supporter in the family before!" September 7, 2024: Speaking at a rally in Wisconsin Trump said "I better win or you're gonna have problems like we've never had. We may have no country left. This may be our last election. You want to know the truth? People have said that. This could be our last election." That's called threatening the voters. Outside of 1930s Germany I am not aware of that working anywhere else.
September 12, 2024: Myron Pitts (Fayeteville Observer) wrote: During Tuesday night's presidential debate between Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and her Republican counterpart, Donald Trump, she exploited one of Trump's underrated negative traits: His superficiality. Harris brought up the fact that people were leaving Trump's campaign rallies early. This was too much for him. Crowd size means everything to him, which is why he lies about it all the time. He took the bait. His eyes grew wider. His angry expression grew angrier. She had knocked him off-balance and he never really recovered for the rest of the debate, watched by 67 million people. The exchange happened about 30 minutes into the nearly two-hour debate. Donald Trump doesn't live rent-free in my head. I send a monthly billing to the DOJ.
When the time comes they can forward them to Leavenworth. -Zorek Richards October 4, 2024: The Week reported that Janet Jackson has been echoing and circulating misinformation that has been amplified by Donald Trump. Jackson said she heard that VP Kamala Harris is "not Black."
ED NOTE: Harris has dual heritage as black and Indian. October 12, 2024: "Trump to Newsmax's Chris Salcedo: "There's never been a border so bad as this, and this is all self-inflicted. What they've done to our country is not even believable. Allowing murderers and drug dealers and everybody just — they don't even know who they are. All they know is they're murderers, drug dealers. They don't even know...They don't know where they are, who they are. They're all over the place. They came into our country totally unvetted, totally unchecked. And it turned out we had 13,099 murderers. We had many drug dealers, many terrorists. We had a year. There's never been a time like this. We cannot do this to our country. We've gone through four years of this with people that are incompetent, and we can't do this." October 20, 2024: Former Pennsylvania congressman Charlie Dent said he's voting for Harris.
"Even when you might agree with him, he's a difficult ally; he puts you in awkward positions where he is undermining the very reform he touts" October 20, 2024: Harris spokesperson Ian Sams said in a statement to NBC News: “When Trump feels desperate, all he knows how to do is lie. He can’t understand what it’s like to have a summer job because he was handed millions on a silver platter, only to blow it." October 20, 2024: Trump spends some time at a McDonalds in Philadelphia as an effort to troll Harris, who worked at a McDonalds when she was in college. The McDonald was NOT open and was a staged event. October 31, 2024: Anthony Scaramucci: I am supporting Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 because I believe she is the candidate who can break us out of the cycle of ideological governance. Her commonsense policies align most with economic growth and social inclusion.
The rally that Donald Trump hosted last weekend at Madison Square Garden was a dog whistle to Charles Lindbergh’s 1939 pro-“Americanism” rally at the same venue. The 1939 event, which featured a portrait of George Washington hung between American flags and swastikas, was a fascist, white supremacist rally cloaked in false patriotism. The rhetoric at each rally was shockingly similar. In 1939, speakers decried “job-taking Jewish refugees” and said it is “very much American to protect the Aryan character of this nation.” What's the difference between Donald Trump and a government bond? The bond will eventually mature.
November 21, 2024: Trump nomination of Bondi for AG: "For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans - Not anymore," Trump wrote in his official announcement of Bondi for attorney general. "Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again."
December 9, 2024: Trump on Meet The Press: Tariffs are going to make our country rich. Tariffs are going to help us pay off $35 trillion in debt. Tariffs are going to make our country safe because China, as an example, doesn’t want to play games with us if we’re going to do tariffs on them.
December 18, 2024: Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., told CNN Musk’s political opinions carry heavy weight given his proximity to Trump, warning “what Elon Musk thinks tends to eventually be what the president of the United States thinks. And if the United States takes an official position in favor of neo-Nazis in Germany, I mean, it is absolutely catastrophic.” |