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TRUMP’S CHILDHOOD
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RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE & INAUGURATION
WALL & IMMIGRATION
COVID
CLIMATE CHANGE
ECONOMY DEBT TAX CUT
RACISM
THE BIG LIE
JANUARY 6TH
TRUMP’S CRIMINAL CHARGES
MILITARY DISRESPECT & WOMEN RIGHTS
FOREIGN POLICY
TRUMP’S LIFE TIMELINE
BACK COVER & TITLE QUOTES
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TRUMP'S CHILDHOOD PAGE
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/trump-family-wealth.html
Fred C Trump – NY Times – Donald was making 200k a year in today’s money by the age of 3
Trump was a millionaire by the age of 8
Donald Trump’s Childhood – Making of a President Part 1 on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhiEIfKJGJQ
Tim O’Brien – author “Trump Nation”
“The family had chauffeurs Donald was taken to school in a limousine”
Never had to work regular jobs, profound Brat
Trump has said he punched teachers when he didn’t like what he was told to do
Donald Trump is the product of abuse and neglect. His story is common, even for the powerful and wealthy.
https://www.pacesconnection.com/blog/donald-trump-is-the-product-of-abuse-and-neglect-his-story-is-common-even-for-the-powerful-and-wealthy
BOOK: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
How Trump was emotionally abused as a child
TRUMP's DAD’S BUSINESS EMPIRE PAGE
The creation myth of the billionaire businessman Donald Trump just imploded
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/politics/donald-trump-taxes-fred-trump/index.html
Besides co-signing loans, Trump’s Dad gave him a $60.7 million dollar loan & over 400 million in inheritance.
– How many houses/apartment buildings did Trump’s Dad own – Wikipedia: 14,000 apartments
– Fred Trump built houses in Queens, had a supermarket during depression, barracks for the Navy, FHA Fred built them houses that they paid for but way cheaper.
– Fred Trump’s money helped build Trump Tower
Trump received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from when he was a small child through the present day.
“My whole life really has been a ‘no’ and I fought through it,” Trump told a crowd in New Hampshire way back in October 2015. “It has not been easy for me, it has not been easy for me. And you know I started off in Brooklyn, my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.” THIS IS A LIE. His Daddy Fred had built a empire.
Fred gave him a loan of $60.7 million ($140 million in today’s money) not 1 million like Trump claimed. Donald received more than 400 million over his lifetime from his Dad’s holdings. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/trumps-small-loan-from-his-father-was-more-like-60point7-million-nyt.html
Besides co-signing, Fred Trump gave him a loan of $60.7 million. Donald received more than 400 million over his lifetime from his Dad’s holdings.
https://www.sportshistoryweekly.com/stories/donald-trump-usfl-nfl-football-herschel-walker-doug-flutie,1122
Trump bought USFL New Jersey Generals football team – Sept. 10 mil, Ivana & Warhol sat on panel for cheerleader tryouts. Trump tried to switch the league from Spring to take on NFL directly in the fall and they filed a $1.7 billion antitrust lawsuit against their league rivals and even though they won the case they were only awarded the USFL damages of only $3.00. (Trump was obsessed with trying to become an NFL team owner – that was his real goal – eventually he made a 1 billion bid for the Bills but lost 1.4 billion) Trump built a high-priced Generals roster that included Heisman Trophy winners Herschel Walker and Doug Flutie. Trump also had highly publicized but ultimately failed attempts to pry superstar Lawrence Taylor and famed coach Don Shula away from the NFL. “If God wanted football in the spring, he wouldn’t have created baseball,” Trump famously said in 1984.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/trumps-ownership-of-usfls-new-jersey-generals-fueled-anthem-fight-with-nfl.html
He leapfrogged his older brother to make his claim
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/politics/donald-trump-taxes-fred-trump/index.html
Donald actually got a loan from his Dad of 60.7 million (140 million today)
Soon after Donald graduated he was receiving the equivalent of 1 million a year from his Father
Donald tries to portray himself as a self-made billionaire who built his own empire but he had a lot of help from his DAD.
FRED C. TRUMP – evaded taxes using his family members, this is how he made his kids rich
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NY TIMES (went through 100,000 pages of financial documents):
But an investigation by The New York Times shows that by age 3, Donald Trump was earning $200,000 a year in today’s dollars from his father’s empire. He was a millionaire by age 8. By the time he was 17, his father had given him part ownership of a 52-unit apartment building. Soon after he graduated from college, he was receiving the equivalent of $1 million a year from his father. The money increased with the years, to more than $5 million annually in his 40s and 50s. In all, financial records reveal, Mr. Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413 million from his father’s real estate empire.
BeachHaven Apartments near Coney Island Brooklyn – Ground Leases (land is owned by different party than buildings above) BeachHaven leased the land and paid a Trust who owned the ground made up of Fred’s 5 children – $60,600 a year for 99 years (Same with Shore Haven apartments) Donald Trump received equivalent today of: 4.8 million
Fred Trump made his son not just his salaried employee but also his property manager, landlord, consultant and banker.
Family Mortgage –bought land for Shore Haven land and Fred got traditional mortgages from a bank, Fred transferred these mortgages to his children who then received the interest payments (not the banks) Fred did this with 14 other properties he owned {Southhampton Apts, Falcon Apts, Fiesta Apts., Fontainebleau Apts., Chelsea Hall, Nautilus Hall, Beach Haven Apts., Trump Village 1 & 2, Kendall Hall, Winston Hall, Wilshire Hall, Grymes Hill Apartments, Mariner’s Watch, VA., Sterling Oaks, VA.) Paying higher interest rates than he normally would. Donald Trump received equivalent today of: 7.8 million
Fred Trump provided money for Donald Trump’s car, money for his employees, money to buy stocks, money for his first Manhattan offices and money to renovate those offices. He gave him shares in multiple partnerships. He gave him $10,000 Christmas checks. He gave him laundry revenue from his buildings. He also gave him trust funds that were used to transfer a majority of Fred Trump’s empire to Donald Trump and his living siblings.
The biggest payday Donald Trump ever got from his father came long after Fred Trump’s death. It happened quietly, without the usual Trumpian news conference, on May 4, 2004, when Donald Trump and his siblings sold off the empire their father had spent 70 years assembling with the dream that it would never leave his family.
Donald Trump’s cut was: $177.3 million, or $236.2 million in today’s dollars..
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-fraud-fred-inheritance-millionaire-by-age-8-2018-10
Trump’s brother Robert also defended his parents on behalf of the President and his siblings, saying, “All appropriate gift and estate tax returns were filed, and the required taxes were paid. Our father’s estate was closed in 2001 by both the Internal Revenue Service and the New York State tax authorities, and our mother’s estate was closed in 2004.
Commodore Hotel Grand Hyatt, New York — Grand Hyatt Hotel (official name?) next to Grand Central Terminal
Fred Trump: How the US president’s father built the property empire that spawned his son’s billions
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fred-trump-tax-dodge-donald-inheritance-us-president-new-york-real-estate-queens-kkk-a8566421.html
Frederick Christ Trump (yes, you read that right) built up a huge property empire in the mid-20th century, incorporating 27,000 apartments and row houses in the New York City boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, while the young Donald was raised in a 23-room, nine bathroom mansion in the leafy middle-class suburb of Jamaica Estates, making a nonsense of his claim to have sprung from hardship.
A Trump Empire Built on Inside Connections and $885 Million in Tax Breaks
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/nyregion/donald-trump-tax-breaks-real-estate.html
TRUMP official site timeline: https://www.trump.com/timeline
Wikipedia Biz career of Donald: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_career_of_Donald_Trump
Paris Out – Trump put 70k into a Broadway Comedy which failed (one of his first ventures)
$70 million construction loan jointly guaranteed by Fred and the Hyatt hotel chain
According to journalist Wayne Barrett, Fred’s two-decade friendship with a top Equitable officer, Ben Holloway, helped convince them to agree to the project.
Trump Tower criticized for a contractor’s use of some 200 illegal Polish immigrant workers
Donald Trump’s drive to surpass his father’s success
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/07/16/donald-trump-ambition-and-taste-for-glitz-drove-him-surpass-his-own-father-considerable-success/w9GNiWpAsqzbTSsgkhVBhJ/story.html
Trump Tower’s Murky History and Murkier Future: Slumping Sales, Pentagon Leases, and Shadowy L.L.C.s
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/trump-towers-murky-history-slumping-sales-pentagon-leases
TRUMP BUSINESSES FAILURE PAGE
Watch Donald Trump’s 1995 DJT IPO And Eventual Bankruptcy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rsXb6p_jdA&t=4s
TRUMP has declared for bancruptcy 6 times. In 1995, Donald Trump took his company, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, public on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock got off to a strong start, but success didn’t last long as the company lost money year after year. Watch CNBC’s coverage of the IPO, the casino’s struggles, and the eventual bankruptcy less than a decade later.
Wall Street Journal – How Donald Trump Cut Deals to Avoid Bankruptcy in 1990s – owed 3.4 bn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt2vvFlEjZQ&t=1s
838 million personal debt, middle of a recession – video is 8 years ago, kept the info complicated. Worth more out of bankruptcy than in bankruptcy
1990s: After Bankruptcies, Donald Trump Goes From Building To Branding | NBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI9ZLawGE4g&t=6s
decent explanation- also has 1995 pizza hut commercial (with Ivanna)
Trump’s 4 business bankruptcies in 2 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEXkFNAhk_8
Inside the Bailout That Saved a Debt-Ridden Trump Organization | The Choice 2016 | FRONTLINE PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aEWBcdUg6k&t=3s
Bankers looked at him as a wonderful promoter but not a CEO or good investor. “Like a P.T. Barnum”
Trump was too big to fail.
The Real Story Behind Donald Trump’s Wealth – family history, how he built his empire but some isn’t correct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej1hlQgwXcA&t=15s
Not very good
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As his company’s stock collapsed and the investors lost all their money, Trump’s firm (through Trump himself) gave himself huge bonuses and paid for his jet
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In its short life, Trump the company greatly enriched Trump the businessman, paying to have his personal jet piloted and buying heaps of Trump-brand merchandise. Despite losing money every year under Trump’s leadership, the company paid Trump handsomely, including a $5 million bonus in the year the company’s stock plummeted 70 percent.
The shareholders sued him and it was settled (what was the settlement)
Trump was chairman from 95 to 2009 – the company lost more than 1 billion. He was Chief Executive from 200 to 2005 during which times prices plunged from $35 to 17 cents.
Trump received more than $44 million in salary, bonuses and other compensation during his time at the company, filings show. He also benefited from tens of millions of dollars more in special deals, advisory fees and “service agreements” he negotiated with his company.
The company began advertising its public offering of stock in 1995, saying shareholders would benefit from “the widespread recognition of the ‘Trump’ name and its association with high quality amenities and first class service.”
The early success didn’t last long. In less than a year, the company paid premium prices for two of Trump’s deeply indebted, privately held casinos, the Trump Taj Mahal and the Trump Castle. In essence, he was both buyer and seller, able to set whatever price he wanted. The company bought his Castle for $100 million more than analysts said it was worth. Trump pocketed $880,000 in cash after arranging the deal, financial filings show.
By the end of 1996, shareholders who had bet on a rosy Trump future were now investors in a company with $1.7 billion of Trump’s old debt.
Trump settled, agreeing to give creditors $17.5 million in cash and the proceeds from an auction of the Atlantic City land.
Another source on Trump’s Public company abuses
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2021/10/22/trump-had-a-public-company-before-it-was-a-disaster/?sh=421bb1f0d715
Nice chart: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/donald-trump-was-a-stock-market-disaster-2015-07-22
This might be the best article: The story of Donald Trump’s Atlantic City comeback is even worse than his collapse https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/6/13163220/trump-hotels-and-casino-resorts
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Source? – Trump Casino & Hotel Resorts (DJT) IPO to the tune of $140 million 44 million in salary and bonuses, offloaded debts, Mom-and-pop investors bought the stock, Trump bankrupted the company and wiped out the value of the stock, ruthlessly and unapologetically THCR shareholders
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Trump Went Broke but Stayed on Top
Instead, the bankers and investors to whom Trump owed money made a series of deals that left him wealthy. They let him keep some properties and took control of others, and they reduced Trump’s personal debt by about $750 million, more than four-fifths of the total.
They didn’t do it out of charity. Rather, the lenders were reluctant to confront Trump in bankruptcy court, where they would face years of delay and massive legal expenses. In the end, lenders said, they feared they would recover less money in bankruptcy than they could get by striking compromises with Trump.
They had the right to seize Trump Castle but chose not to do so
By April 1990, Trump and the businesses that he controlled had amassed debts of $3.4 billion, according to financial records.
He had personally guaranteed approximately $900 million of the debt, meaning that lenders could claim that much of his personal wealth if he was unable to make the loan payments.
Lost the yacht, his jet and his airline and gave up ownership in lots of his properties.
The deals reduced Trump’s personal indebtedness to $155 million from about $900 million, according to Trump Organization officials and Trump creditors. The total debt owed by Trump’s businesses has declined to $2.2 billion from $3.4 billion in April 1990, the Trump Organization estimated.
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NY Times on Atlantic city debacle has great details on buying and financing the casinos
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html
that the Taj would need to reap $1.3 million a day just to make its interest payments, a sum no casino had ever achieved.
By December 1990, when Mr. Trump needed to make an $18.4 million interest payment, his father, Fred C. Trump, sent a lawyer to the Castle to buy $3.3 million in chips, to provide him with an infusion of cash.
As all of his ventures neared collapse, Mr. Trump’s lenders insisted that he submit a business plan, appoint a chief financial officer for the Trump Organization and sell, among other things, the Trump Shuttle airline, his yacht and his stake in New York City’s Plaza Hotel, which also filed for bankruptcy protection. They also put him on a $450,000-a-month budget for personal and household expenses.
Within months, he reversed course, issuing $675 million worth of junk bonds, with a 14 percent interest rate, to finish construction and get the Taj open.
NPR article has a nice Atlantic City timeline:
https://www.npr.org/2016/10/03/496314538/trumps-financial-moves-in-the-90s-genius-or-colossal-failure
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Trump, who once bragged that he was the “King of Debt,” owed $70 million to 253 contractors who worked on the Taj and who, in turn, hired thousands of workers.
AP article: ‘Little guy’ contractors still angry at Trump Taj bankruptcy
https://apnews.com/article/10bbe40a86774bac9ad1fbd3a936c808
After the Taj opened in April 1990, the self-anointed “King of Debt” owed $70 million to 253 contractors employing thousands who built the domes and minarets, put up the glass and drywall, laid the pipes and installed everything from chandeliers to bathroom fixtures.
FORTUNE article: Donald Trump Got a Tax Break For Stiffing Contractors
https://fortune.com/2016/10/08/donald-trump-taxes-contractors/
What hasn’t been reported before is that those unpaid bills were also used to swell Trump’s future tax deductions. In other words, Trump not only stiffed many contractors, he also created a tax benefit off the backs of the tradesmen who built his casinos and skyscrapers. ($916 million dollar loss that could keep him from paying taxes for 18 years 1995 tax return – didn’t pay federal taxes for 2 decades)
USA TODAY exclusive: Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn’t pay his bills
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/
Donald Trump’s trail of unpaid bills
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trumps-trail-of-unpaid-bills/85685206/
REUTERS: Special Report: Trump’s art of the deal – Dispute your bills
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0T214P/
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Trump Board game image
https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/trump-the-failed-board-game/
Trump also sold cologne and mattresses
COMEBACK & CAMPAIGN - RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
WrestlMania 23 – Battle of the Billionaires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WrestleMania_23
Donald Trump: A History of the Presidential Candidate’s Involvement with WWE
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2669447-donald-trump-a-history-of-the-presidential-candidates-involvement-with-wwe
VIDEO: Vince McMahon vs. Donald Trump 15 years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3DufFa6fw8
Real Money was dropped from above at one match
Apprentice – Trump was making 1 million a show (maybe? fact check this), 185 shows
https://time.com/collection/reality-tv-most-influential-seasons/6197770/the-apprentice/
RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE and INAUGURATION
TRUMP’S SCARY HISTORY WITH RUSSIA
Putin’s banks & Oligarchs have funded Trump’s building projects since 2004 when U.S. banks cut him off. It was reported that Trump helped Putin’s Oligarchs and mafia launder money through sales of his condos. Russian Oligarch’s even had offices in Trump Tower & people working for Trump.
Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort, met to discuss minimizing U.S. opposition to Russia’s attacks on Ukraine in exchange for dirt on Clinton. He spent 2 years in prison before Trump pardoned him for hiding 12 million in payments from Putin for trying to install a pro-Russian gov’t in Ukraine since 2004.
The Russians interfered with the election by cyberattacks, hacking into state voter registration databases & email accounts (they leaked Clintons emails to WikiLeaks), spreading mass misinformation and divisive content through social media using fake accounts & targeted ads, and fake news websites and media outlets.
The Steele Dossier said that while at the Moscow Ritz for Miss Universe 2013, Trump was secretly filmed with prostitutes in perverted sex acts. This needs to be fact checked.
Put in: actual tweet from Trump 2013 about wanting Putin to be his best friend. He also sent Putin a personalized letter inviting him! (Who’s Your Vladdy?)
Lots of $ is probably why Trump not only refuses to criticize Putin but supports him.
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Putin’s banks & Oligarchs funded Trump’s building projects since 2004 when U.S. banks cut him off. Trump helped Putin’s Oligarchs & mafia launder money through sales of his condos – Trump’s S. Florida condos are nicknamed Little Moscow. Russian Oligarchs staff even had offices in Trump Tower & people working for Trump.
Russia interfered with the 2016 election supporting Trump by hacking into state voter registration databases & DNC email accounts (they leaked Clinton’s emails to WikiLeaks) and using Russian run troll factories to pose as Americans with social media accounts, fake news websites & blogs to spread massive disinformation & divisive content.
During the campaign, Trump & 18 of his associates had at least 170 contacts with Russian nationals – Michael Cohen, Lt. General Michael Flynn, Rick Gates, Roger Stone, George Papadopoulos received jail sentences. Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort also went to jail for hiding 12 million in payments for trying to install a pro-Russian gov’t in Ukraine since 2004. Manafort & Trump also unsuccessfully tried to blame Ukraine for the 2016 election interference.
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Paul Manafort spent 2 years in prison before Trump pardoned him for hiding 12 million in payments from Russia for trying to install a pro-Russian gov’t in Ukraine since 2004. Manafort & Trump also unsuccessfully tried to blame Ukraine for the 2016 election interference.
Michael Cohen, his advisor Lt. General Michael Flynn, his campaign official Rick Gates, his close friend Roger Stone, his foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos,
Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort, met to discuss minimizing U.S. opposition to Russia’s attacks on Ukraine in exchange for dirt on Clinton.
RESEARCH
Russian Money
MOVIE: ACTIVE MEASURES – I took a lot of notes 2018
*** synopsis is great https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8135494/plotsummary/#synopsis
This details Putin’s life and how the Oligarch’s, mafia and Putting came to power and all Trump’s dealing with Russia, including money laundering.
Putin’s true role within the KGB was to help protect deep cover Russian spies living under assumed identities within the United States and help develop active measures within the US to influence policymaking. Names of some of these spies are shown: Jack Barsky, Andrew Daulton Lee, and Karl Koecher. (KGB became FSB) more soviet espionage: (SIDE NOTES: https://profilpelajar.com/article/Soviet_espionage_in_the_United_States
“My idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple … We win and they lose.” Ronald Reagan https://connections-qj.org/article/beyond-propaganda-soviet-active-measures-putins-russia mentions troll factories)
There is no such thing as a former KGB man. — Vladimir Putin, 2006
Oligarchs: Semion Mogilevich (big mafia, 1st to launder a lot), former intelligence officials: Dnitry Medvedev, Aras Agalarov, Igor Sechin), Bidzina Ivanishvili, Dimitry Firtash (UKranian/Russian), Oleg Deripaska (Kilimnik ties to Manafort), Russian crime boss Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov (Trump Tower), Dmitry Rybolovlev, Taiwanchic (gambling ring Trump Tower)
The relationship between Donald Trump and Deutsche Bank is meticulously dissected. Trump started securing loans from Deutsche Bank around 2004 after years of searching for a lender. Trump proved several times to be a liability to the bank: defaulting on a $40 million loan, threatening to sue them, and publicly criticizing them for predatory practices. However, the relationship between Trump and Deutsche Bank only seemed to improve as the bank even began offering loans to his son-in-law Jared Kushner. Unsurprisingly, Deutsche Bank is found to have strong ties to Russian money laundering and an ensuing scandal forces the resignation of their CEO who promptly acquires a new CEO position at the Bank of Cyprus, proven to be another intermediary bank for Russian money laundering. Wilbur Ross, a supporter of Donald Trump and now Secretary of Commerce, is alleged to have secured this CEO position.
*** great article https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how-russian-money-helped-save-trumps-business/ this details all Trump’s dealings with Oligarchs back to 2004
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/06/donald-trump-king-of-debt-claims/
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Consider the Bayrock Group, a developer that once had lavish offices in Trump Tower. The firm worked with Mr. Trump in the mid-2000s to build the Trump SoHo in Lower Manhattan, among other troubled projects. One of its principals was a Russian émigré, Felix Sater, linked to organized crime who served time for felony assault and who later pleaded guilty to racketeering involving a $40 million stock fraud scheme.
Then there is Sunny Isles Beach, where over 60 individuals with Russian passports or addresses bought nearly $100 million worth of units in Trump-branded condominium towers in a part of South Florida known as Little Moscow.
All of Trump’s Russia Ties, in 7 Charts
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/connections-trump-putin-russia-ties-chart-flynn-page-manafort-sessions-214868/
2017 but has a nice graphic view of all the ties between people and who they know
Russia: Trump & His Team’s Ties – Congressman Eric Swalwell – REALLY GOOD
https://swalwell.house.gov/issues/russia-trump-his-administration-s-ties
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/real-estate-ties-link-trump-russia
Yet, Trump Tower and Trump Soho in New York City, and properties in Sunny Isles, Florida, have all been the sites of shadowy real estate purchases that come with connections to Russian gangsters. So far, there has been no evidence documenting that Donald Trump knew, at any point, that his businesses were connected to illegal or illicit deals.
Little Moscow and other Trump buildings (buy anonymously)
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-little-moscow-russians-helped-donald-trumps-brand-survive-the-recession/2016/11/04/f9dbd38e-97cf-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html
*******Great podcast on Russian Gangsters buying Trump Real Estate
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/real-estate-ties-link-trump-russia
started in the 80s in Trump Tower where you could buy places anonymously, in the 90s when ruble crashes money leaves Russia Trump World Tower 2001 1/3 bought by Russians, Sunny Isles Florida “Little Moscow” bought by shell companies; 2000s Trump SOHO two business men from Russia – we’ll build the buildings and use your name (Felix Sater)
Trump Tower in Russia
didn’t really research it, but they were still pursuing it in 2016
Russian Interference and Mueller Investigation
*****Mueller Report Shows Depth of Connections Between Trump Campaign and Russians
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-contacts-russians-wikileaks.html
Donald J. Trump and 18 of his associates had at least 140 contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks, or their intermediaries, during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition, according to a New York Times analysis.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42493918
July 2019 BBC article – At least 17 Trump associates had contacts with Russians or Wikileaks, which released hacked documents, during the campaign or transition with at least 100 face-to-face interactions, phone calls or electronic messages with Russians or Kremlin-linked figures and at least 51 individual communications.
PBS Senate Pane finds Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-panel-finds-russia-interfered-in-the-2016-us-election
Great timeline: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/russia-probe-timeline-moscow-mueller/story?id=57427441
Russian interference in the 2016 election was “sweeping and systematic fashion,” Robert Mueller said in his report, a fact that was evidenced by the indictment last year of the whole Russian troll farm behind much of the social media interference, known as the Internet Research Agency.
Michael Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, attends a gala in Moscow celebrating the Kremlin-backed television network RT, which paid Flynn more than $45,000 to attend. Flynn, who does not join the Trump campaign as an adviser for another few months, is captured on camera sitting next to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, meets in Moscow with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. In the summer of 2016, Rohrabacher also met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, months before the site released hacked Democratic emails received from Russian hackers.
JUNE 3, 2016: British publicist and Trump associate Rob Goldstone, who came into the Trump orbit when he helped promote and state manage the Miss Universe pageant, emails Donald Trump Jr., saying prominent Russians “offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary.” Goldstone says it is “very high level” and “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”
JUNE 7, 2016: Goldstone emails Trump Jr. again, looking to set up a meeting between Trump Jr. and a “Russian government attorney. (Natalia Veselnitskaya)” Two days later, Trump Jr. and the attorney meet in Trump Tower, along with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
LATE SEPT. 2016: Carter Page leaves the Trump campaign.
OCT. 19 AND OCT. 20, 2016: Steele compiles two reports alleging Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, met with Kremlin officials months earlier in Prague. The reports say the meeting took place in August and was intended to limit the damage from the exposure of “Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page’s secret meetings in Moscow with senior [Russian] regime figures in July 2016.” Cohen has denied the reports.
AUGUST 2017: Cohen states that Felix Sater, a frequent Trump Organization associate, suggested in mid-January 2016 that Cohen send an email to Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov to initiate approval process for the development of the Trump Tower Moscow, but “those permissions were never provided.” Cohen says he “decided to abandon the proposal” by the end of January. Cohen later pleads guilty to lying to Congress about the deal and admits that the project was discussed as late as June 2016, including communication about obtaining Russian government approval for the project.
FEB. 16, 2018: Mueller indicts 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies for exploiting social media to spread “fake news,” promote discord in the United States, and engage in what they called “information warfare.”
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections
Reuters Key Findings or Report: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN25E2OY/
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/breakdown-indictments-cases-muellers-probe/story?id=61219489
Over the course of his nearly two-year-long probe, special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors have now indicted 34 individuals and three Russian businesses on charges ranging from computer hacking to conspiracy and financial crimes. Those indictments have led to seven guilty pleas and five people sentenced to prison.
Aras Agalarov – Russian Oligarch 20 million for Miss Universe – son is Emin (Trump was in his music video) – Ritz Emin offered to send 5 prostitutes to his room – — Rob Goldstone tabloid journalist (Michael Jackson)
Felix Slater – Russian mafia
Sergei Milan – dossier
General Michael Flynn – Russia Today paid for it. Lied to FBI about his contacts with Russia. about conversation with Russian ambassador received money (45k) from Russia and was Trump’s national security advisor
Senator Jeff Sessions – Ambassador Kysliak (Spelling?) VK – Russian Facebook. MARCH 2, 2017: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who served as a top national security adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign, recuses himself from any campaign-related investigations.
Don Jr. – Clinton Russia email
Jared Kushner – failed to disclose a (met with a sanctioned Russian bank)
How Paul Manafort Helped Elect Russia’s Man in Ukraine
https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/
Paul Manafort – Lobying work in Ukraine. Mueller probe money laundering spent 2 years in jail before Trump pardoned him, got Kremlin backed Viktor Yanukovych (couldn’t speak Ukranian well since he was from Russian-speaking province of Donetsk ) elected (financial backing from Rinat Akhmetov) – Ukraine a secret ledger of off-the-books payments from the Party of Regions; Manafort’s name appears in the document 22 times, with payments worth $12.7 million designated for him between 2007 and 2012
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/magazine/russiagate-paul-manafort-ukraine-war.html
Paul Manafort met August 2016 in the Havana Room 666 5th avenue (owned by Kuschner family) Trump hangout met with Russian Kilimnik who described the Mariupol plan for Russia to take over Ukraine. Kilmnik (a Russian army veteran) and Manafort discussed how they first need Trump to win the election and discussed battleground state election strategy.
Manafort offered to give Russian billionaire ‘private briefings’ on 2016 campaign
Oligarch Rinat Akhmetov (Ukraine) concentration of industrial holdings in the Donbas region
Dmitry Firtash – Oligarch Ukranian gas
“perfect phone call”
https://time.com/5547607/paul-manafort-sentencing-donald-trump/
Manafort shared valuable campaign polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, who investigators allege has ties to Russian intelligence. Trump has called Manafort “decent man” and “a very good person,” raising suspicions that Trump was signaling he would pardon Manafort if he faced serious jail time.
Paul Manafort works with Russian Oligarh Oleg Deripaska
Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Angolan guerilla leader Jonas Savimbi, and Zairian strongman Mobutu Sese Seko were among his clients.
Mueller documents show Manafort pushed Ukraine conspiracy theory
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/03/mueller-documents-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump
During the 2016 election, Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort pushed the idea that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind the hack of Democratic National Committee servers
https://apnews.com/article/122ae0b5848345faa88108a03de40c5a
After the Mueller probe, several individuals were arrested, primarily on charges related to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Here are some of the notable individuals who were arrested as a result of the probe and their current statuses as of 2024:
- Paul Manafort: Manafort, who served as Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, was convicted of financial crimes and conspiracy charges. As of 2024, he was serving his sentence in prison. However, in 2020, Manafort was released to home confinement due to concerns about COVID-19 spreading in prisons.
- Michael Cohen: Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty to multiple crimes, including tax evasion, bank fraud, and campaign finance violations. He was sentenced to prison and released in 2020 to serve the remainder of his sentence under home confinement due to COVID-19.
- Roger Stone: Stone, a longtime associate of Trump, was convicted of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to prison but later received a commutation from President Trump. As of 2024, he is a free man.
- George Papadopoulos: Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign adviser (foreign policy advisor), pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with individuals connected to Russia during the 2016 campaign. He served a brief prison sentence and was released.
- Rick Gates: Gates, a former Trump campaign official and Manafort’s business associate, pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and making false statements. He cooperated with the investigation and received a reduced sentence of probation and community service.
- Alex van der Zwaan: Van der Zwaan, a Dutch attorney, pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about his interactions with Gates and another individual with ties to Russian intelligence. He served a brief prison sentence and was deported to the Netherlands.
These are just a few of the individuals who faced legal consequences as a result of the Mueller probe. Some have served their sentences, while others have received pardons or commutations.
Rick Gates
Rex Tillerson – criticized Obama for sanctions on Russia for Crimea and the shot down flight
Crowdstrike – online server co. investigated and proved Russia hacked US elections
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/
Why Trump asked Ukraine’s president about ‘CrowdStrike’
https://apnews.com/article/12d7f500b18d4412bbd330f17b30751a
Steele Dossier – (Totally unconfirmed) compiled by British spy Christopher Steele – The report says the alleged “cooperation” was “managed on the Trump side by the Republican candidate’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who was using foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, and others as intermediaries.”
that the Trump campaign agreed to minimize US opposition to Russia’s incursions into Ukraine in exchange for the Kremlin releasing negative information about Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton.
The dossier alleges that the Trump campaign made a secret deal with Russia in which Trump “agreed to sideline” the issue of Russian intervention in Ukraine. In return, the document claims, Russia promised to feed the emails it stole from prominent Democrats’ inboxes to WikiLeaks to damage Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.
A gas station parading as a country – Russia
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-panel-finds-russia-interfered-in-the-2016-us-election
It says the Trump campaign chairman had regular contact with a Russian intelligence officer and says other Trump associates were eager to exploit the Kremlin’s aid, particularly by maximizing the impact of the disclosure of Democratic emails hacked by Russian intelligence officers.
The Republican Senate Intelligence committee detailed how associates of Donald Trump had regular contact with Russians and expected to benefit from the Kremlin’s help.
The report calls Manafort a, quote, “grave counterintelligence threat.” It notes that Manafort had access to sensitive information and that he was willing to share it with people who had ties to Russian intelligence. Crucially, the report says that includes one of Manafort’s closest aides, a man by the name of Konstantin Kilimnik who the committee says is a Russian intelligence officer. The report says that Manafort secretly shared internal campaign information with Kilimnik. It also says that Manafort and Kilimnik began in 2016 to push the false line, the falsity that it was Ukraine and not Russia that interfered in the U.S. election, which, of course, was to Russia’s advantage.
https://time.com/5565991/russia-influence-2016-election/
Over the course of the election, a wide-ranging group of Russians probed state voter databases for insecurities; hacked the Hillary Clinton campaign, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic National Committee; tried to hack the campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio and the Republican National Committee; released politically damaging information on the internet; spread propaganda on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram; staged rallies in Florida and Pennsylvania; set up meetings with members of the Trump campaign and its associates; and floated a business proposition for a skyscraper in Moscow to the Trump Organization.
The goal, as determined by the U.S. intelligence community and backed up by evidence gathered by Special Counsel Robert Mueller: To damage the Clinton campaign, boost Trump’s chances and sow distrust in American democracy overall.
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN14P2NI/
The CIA has identified Russian officials who fed material hacked from the Democratic National Committee and party leaders to Julian Assange WikiLeaks at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin through third parties, according to a new U.S. intelligence report, senior U.S. officials said on Thursday.
In an interview with Fox News this week, Assange said he did not receive emails stolen from the DNC and Clinton aide John Podesta from “a state party.” Assange did not rule out the possibility that he got the material from a third party.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-did-wikileaks-become-associated-with-russia/
Russian President Vladimir Putin is “committed to undermining our system or democracy, and our whole process.”
WikiLeaks published the hacked DNC emails beginning in July of 2016
Days later, then-candidate Donald Trump joked he hoped Russia would “find” Clinton’s missing 30,000 emails, causing an uproar from critics.
“I will tell you this, Russia: If you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” the GOP nominee said in Florida during a news conference. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/us/2016-presidential-campaign-hacking-fast-facts/index.html
CNN: 2016 Presidential Campaign Hacking Fast Facts
Great Timeline with in depth detail of hacking and when it happened.
Emin Agalarov Russian Pop Star (Trump was in his music video – his father is an Oligarch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZUNjFsgS8&t=218s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zQU_jI4Mek&t=14s – Emin denies the Steel dossier about getting Russian hookers to Trump’s room, he was also accused about being the one that organizing the 2016 meeting at Trump tower.
Trump Tower Meeting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Tower_meeting
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/31/politics/trump-tower-meeting-timeline/index.html
Trump Tower meeting emails ‘really bad,’ aide told Trump https://apnews.com/article/215ffd4a7c25473abd5a0b1781bb947b
Mueller Indictments and Prison Sentences
Here’s a breakdown of indictments and cases in Mueller’s probe
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/breakdown-indictments-cases-muellers-probe/story?id=61219489
CNN 6 Trump associates have been convicted in Mueller-related investigations
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/15/politics/trump-associates-convicted-in-mueller-related-investigations/index.html
**** 2020 All the Trump associates convicted or sentenced in the Mueller investigation
https://www.axios.com/2019/11/15/trump-associates-convicted-mueller-investigations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_charges_brought_in_the_Mueller_special_counsel_investigation
Putin and the KGB
Vladimir Putin was never the Soviet super spy he’d like us to believe. He was merely a KGB ‘errand boy,’ report says
https://www.businessinsider.com/vladimir-putin-was-not-soviet-super-spy-stasi-report-2023-6
Putin’s Career Rooted in Russia’s KGB – long history
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/russiagov/putin.htm
2020 Trump downplays massive cyber hack on government after Pompeo links attack to Russia
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/politics/pompeo-us-government-hack-russia/index.html
At least half a dozen federal agencies are now known to have been targeted in the breach, including the Department of Homeland Security’s cyber arm and the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy and State.
Trump Putin Summit
https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/trump-putin-timeline/
TRUMP TOUGH ON RUSSIA?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-tells-aides-not-talk-publicly-about-russia-policy-moves-n861256
Trump tells aides not to talk publicly about Russia policy moves But Trump, irked by Putin’s nuclear buildup, told him last week: “If you want to have an arms race we can do that, but I’ll win.”
On the record: The U.S. administration’s actions on Russia
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/on-the-record-the-u-s-administrations-actions-on-russia/
The Trump administration’s policy actions often seemed at odds with the President’s rhetoric. – the administration’s concrete actions on Russia from 2017 to 2019
Russian separatists who sh
ot down MH370 (plane), Trump argues the legitimacy of the claims that Russia was even responsible.
Trump says Putin ‘was a friend of mine’ in bizarre phone chat with golfer John Daly
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-putin-friend-john-daly-b2029785.html
MOVIES TO WATCH
Trump and Russia
https://www.amazon.com/Trump-and-Russia/dp/B07DYVC2JV
Trump and Putin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=455vMrEm958&t=2s
Trump’s Showdown (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsdbCjlZ5cQ&t=51s
List of movies: https://ew.com/movies/2018/08/21/guide-three-new-trump-focused-documentaries/
COVID
Trump’s 7 worst statements on the coronavirus outbreak
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/13/21176535/trumps-worst-statements-coronavirus
“It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear…warm weather would kill the virus ”
Suggested it is fine for people with Covid to go to work.
Timeline of Trump’s Coronavirus Responses
**** all quotes on a timeline https://doggett.house.gov/media/blog-post/timeline-trumps-coronavirus-responses
May 2018 – The Trump Administration disbands the White House pandemic response team.
July 2019 – The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency left the post, and the Trump Administration eliminated the role.
Trump’s Policy Failures Have Exacted a Heavy Toll on Public Health
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-policy-failures-have-exacted-a-heavy-toll-on-public-health1/
Despite the mounting threats of COVID-19 and global warming, he pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization and the Paris climate accord.
COVID-19 mortality in the U.S. was 40 percent higher than the average of the other wealthy nations in the Group of Seven (G7).
Faced with the pandemic, Trump suppressed scientific data, delayed testing, mocked and blocked mask-wearing, and convened mass gatherings where social distancing was impossible.
Despite the mounting threats of COVID-19 and global warming, he pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization and the Paris climate accord.
He tried, but failed, to repeal the ACA, then bent every effort to undermine it, pushing up the number of uninsured Americans by 2.3 million.
******12 Months of Photos from the Pandemic THE COST
https://time.com/covid-19-one-year-later-america-photos/
Trump’s Failures Coronavirus
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/5-ways-trump-administrations-policy-failures-compounded-coronavirus-induced-economic-crisis/
Great Photos from Time.com – https://time.com/covid-19-one-year-later-america-photos/
Total number of cases and deaths from COVID-19 in the United States (Updated Daily)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101932/coronavirus-covid19-cases-and-deaths-number-us-americans/
How US got to 500,000 deaths
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/23/timeline-how-did-the-us-reach-to-500000-deaths-from-covid-19
12 of Trumps Worst Contradictions about COvid
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/23/12-trumps-worst-coronavirus-contradictions/
Worst quotes and takes on Coronavirus
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/donald-trump-quotes
VIDEO Trumps 10 most outrageous lines on cornovavirus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0239jHlMYY
It’ll go away its fading
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/29/trump-coronavirus-science-denial-timeline-what-has-he-said
Pandemic TIMELINE
https://www.trumppandemic.net/timelines
Half a million Americans died – 400k while he was president
Downplayed to the public
We don’t need masks the millions are out of reach (for each, each, overreach, preach, speech)
U.S. had the worst outbreak in the whole world- More Americans died of Covid than did in World War II.
Mocked people for wearing masks and then got Covid
OTHER ARTICLES
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-downplaying-deaths-claimed-us-100000-milestone/story?id=70888441
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/timeline-of-trumps-covid-19-comments/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/trump-covid-pandemic-dark-winter/
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/07/trump-coronavirus-management-style-123465
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/8/21242003/trump-failed-coronavirus-response
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/5/21246327/coronavirus-trump-april-lost-month-jeremy-konyndyk
WALL & IMMIGRATION
Mexican President I’m not going to pay for that wall – Vicente Fox
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/25/donald-trump-former-mexico-president-vincente-fox-im-not-paying-for-wall
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-President-of-Mexico-say-he-wont-pay-for-the-wall
Child separation and trump “Zero Tolerance” policy at the border
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-a-trump-era-policy-that-separated-thousands-of-migrant-families-came-to-pass
This policy started to be a deterrent and was an idea of Tom Homan. But it was Stephen Miller Trump’s senior advisor who has been accused of being a white supremacist who wanted to separate children from their families. Attorney General Jeff Sessions enacted the “zero tolerance” policy. ” The Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy separated over 5,000 children from their parents, with no tracking process or records that would allow them to be reunited.
They voted on it. White supremacy and Stephen Miller said “If we don’t enforce this, it will be the end of the country as we know it.
Trump separation of thousands of migrant parents from their children
“Let’s talk about what we’re talking about,” Biden said. “What happened? Parents were ripped — their kids were ripped from their arms and separated and now they cannot find over 500 sets of those parents and those kids are alone. Nowhere to go. Nowhere to go. It’s criminal. It’s criminal.”
Mothers with babies and young children were left for hours in 90-plus-degree heat, sprawled out on concrete floors with little more than bologna sandwiches and Kool-Aid.
Trump ended the zero-tolerance efforts in June 2018, after six weeks.
https://www.congress.gov/event/116th-congress/house-event/LC64156/text?s=1&r=3
The Trump administration reversed a policy, for example, that largely protected pregnant women from detention.
https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_d2cfb15a-85e0-45a8-9112-8b92c2f77ae1
Separation happened under Obama only where parents were criminally prosecuted such as smuggling drugs across the border
In 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Justice Department would criminally prosecute 100% of illegal border-crossers, leading to a sharp increase in separations.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection carried out almost half a million child detentions during the Trump administration, data shows. More kids were held for 72 hours or more.
Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump yet to be reunited with parents
The Trump administration split apart thousands of migrant families under a blanket “zero-tolerance” policy that called for the prosecution of all unauthorized border crossers in spring 2018. Government watchdogs and advocates have found the separations began before and continued after the policy’s official start.
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/03/23/family-separation-timeline
Family Separation Timeline and secret pilot program in El Paso
Example of illegal separation
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/10/02/why-did-trump-administration-separate-asylum-seekers-their-kids/
WILL TRUMP DO IT AGAIN: https://apnews.com/article/separated-children-trump-biden-border-immigration-f9a73685d0ddbcda86e5b69997f5f7dd
During a CNN town hall in May, Trump was noncommittal on whether he would again separate families if elected. “When you say to a family that if you come we’re going to break you up, they don’t come,” he said when pressed.
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MUSLIM TRAVEL BAN
https://immigrationhistory.org/item/muslim-travel-ban/
On January 27, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order that banned travel to the United States for 90 days from seven predominantly Muslim countries–Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen–and suspended the resettlement of all Syrian refugees.
Executive Order 13769
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769
A license to Discriminate: Trump’s Muslim & Refugee Ban
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/licence-discriminate-trumps-muslim-refugee-ban
RECENT OCT 2023 Trump vows to expand Muslim ban and bar Gaza refugees if he wins presidency
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/17/trump-muslim-ban-gaza-refugees
Trump says he’d bring back “travel ban” that’s “even bigger than before”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-bring-back-travel-ban-muslim-countries/
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STEPHEN MILLER – started America First Legal Foundation – also PROJECT 2025
Miller is rumored to drink immigrant puppy blood every day.
Here’s what Stephen Miller would do on issue of race if Trump wins
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/04/02/axios-trump-ally-stephen-miller-race-lead-contd-vpx.cnn#fromHistory
Any government program that helps women or races specifically will be terminated – anti-white racism
He has already gone after the Rooney rule in the NFL, funds for women, minorities for business funds. Any minority program will be outlawed!!!
****2024 Extremist ex-adviser drives ‘anti-white racism’ plan for Trump win – report
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/01/trump-stephen-miller-anti-white-racism-plan
Former White House adviser and white nationalist Stephen Miller plans to reinterpret civil rights laws should Trump return to power
In 2019, after Miller was discovered to have touted white nationalist articles and books, 55 civil rights groups wrote to Trump, protesting: “Stephen Miller has stoked bigotry, hate and division with….and should immediately leave his post.” Letter;
https://civilrights.org/resource/letter-to-the-white-house-civil-rights-groups-call-for-stephen-millers-removal/
*****Quora – Stephen Miller in high school – lots of other comments
https://www.quora.com/How-far-do-you-think-Dark-Vader-Stephen-Miller-is-in-Trumps-ear-and-messaging
Wikipedia Stephen Miller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miller_(political_advisor)#fromHistory
‘White supremacy’ was behind child separations — and Trump officials went along, critics say
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/white-supremacy-was-behind-child-separations-trump-officials-went-along-n1237746
America First Legal, a Trump-Aligned Group, Is Spoiling for a Fight
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/us/politics/stephen-miller-america-first-legal.html
The legal group has filed complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asserting that “woke corporations” like Disney, Nike, Mattel, Hershey, United Airlines and the National Football League discriminate against white males.
How Stephen Miller went from teen troll to Trump whisperer
Jean Guerrero’s new book, ‘Hatemonger,’ details the Trump aide’s early influences — and how they shaped his work for the president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/08/07/how-stephen-miller-went-teen-troll-trump-whisperer/
he argued at an assembly that students should not have to pick up after themselves “when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.”
Trump Administration Angel of Darkness Stephen Miller Allegedly Wanted to Bomb Migrant Boats: Report
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/stephen-miller-migrant-boats
Stephen Miller Hoping to Traumatize Migrant Children From New Government Post
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/stephen-miller-mo-brooks
Stephen Miller Has Big Plans for a Second Trump Term
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/11/stephen-miller-big-plans-second-trump-term
he wants Trump yes loyalist attorneys and thats it
‘Grifters and sycophants’: the radicals who would fill key posts if Trump is re-elected
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/08/trump-second-term-lawyers-stephen-miller
Controversial former Trump aide Stephen Miller’s legal group is seeking lawyers with total fealty to ex-president
Santa Monica high school letter by Stephen Miller on political correctness
https://www.surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/letters/Letters-2002/MARCH_2002/03_27_2002_Political_Correctness_Out_of_Control.htm
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Change is when greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (the stuff coming out of car tailpipes) form a layer in Earth’s atmosphere and trap more heat in causing an increase in temperature.
THIS CAUSES:
— Stronger and more frequent: Hurricanes, Wildfires, Floods, Droughts, Tornadoes, Snowfall
— Rising Sea Levels
— Intense smog causing asthma, heart disease & lung cancer.
— Food shortages
Trump already has an energy plan named Project 2025, to get rid of renewable energy like wind & solar, gut the EPA & DOE, ruin the environment & lead the U.S. back to more coal and oil.
Images
Chart is from NASA – but I heavily modified it
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/graphic-the-relentless-rise-of-carbon-dioxide/
Background images of pollutions and natural disasters are both from A.I.
Research
—– What about saying something about Trump pulling back restrictions for dumping chemicals etc?
—– What about gutting the EPA?
—– Pulled U.S. out of the Paris Climate agreement
—– the Climate time bomb
DEBUNKING Climate Change DENIERS
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS1_3FQqr48-8V_DnW2ynVOTEeDKFDWen
good definition: Global warming occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) and other air pollutants collect in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar radiation that have bounced off the earth’s surface. Normally this radiation would escape into space, but these pollutants, which can last for years to centuries in the atmosphere, trap the heat and cause the planet to get hotter. These heat-trapping pollutants—specifically carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapor, and synthetic fluorinated gases—are known as greenhouse gases, and their impact is called the greenhouse effect.
Though natural cycles and fluctuations have caused the earth’s climate to change several times over the last 800,000 years, our current era of global warming is directly attributable to human activity—specifically to our burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, gasoline, and natural gas, which results in the greenhouse effect. In the United States, the largest source of greenhouse gases is transportation (29 percent), followed closely by electricity production (28 percent) and industrial activity (22 percent). Learn about the natural and human causes of climate change. https://www.nrdc.org/stories/global-warming-101#causes
******Love this: https://www.c2es.org/content/climate-basics-for-kids/ charts, causes, amounts easily explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDRxfuEvqGg&t=1s
The poorest will suffer the most, there are about 3.5 billion people who live in “hotspots” that will most be effected by climate change. Africa, Asia, South America, clean water, food, fishing, little help from government
**** 2024 Nat Geo – good simple video and definitions
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/global-warming-effects
The Greenhouse Effect – Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, Nitrous Oxide, Chloro-Fluorocarbons they let the sun’s light in but keep some of the heat from escaping (like glass walls of a greenhouse). Burning of fossil fuels has increased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by more than 1/3 since the industrial revolution. Carbon Dioxide levels haven’t reached this point for hundreds of thousands of years. (See chart)
consequences
Oceans – Antarctica, Greenland, melting causing rising Sea Levels
Weather – warmer temps make weather more extreme, heavy, erratic snowfall, more hurricanes, flooding, tornadoes, wildfires, longer and more frequent droughts
Food – growing crops becomes more difficult, less land for crops and water
Health – creates smog in urban areas and asthma, heart disease and lung cancer
Melting Arctic – disrupts the flow of the jet stream, creating more unpredictable weather pattern
Precipitation – is becoming more extreme
About a quarter of Carbon dioxide also results from land cleared for timber or agriculture.
Methane is another common greenhouse gas. Although it makes up only about 16 percent of emissions, it’s roughly 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide and dissipates more quickly. That means methane can cause a large spark in warming, but ending methane pollution can also quickly limit the amount of atmospheric warming. Sources of this gas include agriculture (mostly livestock), leaks from oil and gas production, and waste from landfills.
The world’s leading scientists regularly gather to review the latest research on how the planet is changing. The results of this review is synthesized in regularly published reports known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/donald-trump-climate-change-mar-a-lago-florida-flooded-sea-level-rise-global-warming-winter-white-house-a7677596.html
– Mar A Lago was sinking (Hurricane Sandy 2012) and Sunny Isles Beach Properties
– Donald Trump once said climate change was a “hoax” invented by the Chinese
– Trump’s EPA chief Scott Pruitt has rolled back former President Barack Obama’s plans to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired plants, ending the former administration’s so-called “war on coal” – an industry which provides far fewer jobs than in tourism or renewable energy. – said “Humans have flourished under warm climates
– He was praised for suggesting that he build a wall to stop coastal erosion by his golf course in Ireland, but he was condemned for campaigning against offshore wind-farms near his resort in Scotland, a battle which he lost in court.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/scott-pruitt-fox-news-epa-chief-climate-change-donald-trump-environmental-protection-agency-chris-wallace-a7665521.html
Wallace eats Pruitt alive in interview
— an executive order President Trump signed last week to dismantle President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which had required states to cut down on overall emissions and sought to limit carbon emissions from power plants. Wallace noted that the EPA, under Obama’s administration, had set a number of health milestones attainable by 2030 — if the Clean Power Plan were implemented. Those included 90,000 fewer asthma attacks, 300,000 fewer missed work and school days, and 3,600 fewer premature deaths per year.
— 166 million people living in unclean air, and you’re going to remove some of the pollution restrictions, which would make the air even worse.”
Drought, more powerful hurricanes, flooding, more wildfires,
USDA research
Auto Emmissions – rolled back fuel efficiency standards 5% to 1.5%
Vehicle emissions represent the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.
Most notably, he removed some two million acres in Utah that had been part of the Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah. According to a study published in May 2019 in Science, Mr. Trump is responsible for the largest reduction in the boundaries of protected land in U.S. history.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/climate/trump-legacy-climate-change.html
Scientists have long warned that if greenhouse gases in the atmosphere passed 400 parts per million, staving off a warming of 2 degrees Celsius would become far more difficult.
In September, the French government actually blocked a $7 billion contract to purchase American natural gas, arguing that gas produced without controls on methane leaks was too harmful to the climate.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html
World is on brink of catastrophic warming, U.N. climate change report says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/20/climate-change-ipcc-report-15/
Fish populations are dwindling, farms are less productive, infectious diseases have multiplied, and weather disasters are escalating to unheard-of extremes.
She pointed to the damage wrought by Cyclone Freddy, the longest-lasting and most energetic tropical storm on record
WHO Climate change and the terrible consequences
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health
MIT Will climate change drive humans extinct or destroy civilization?
https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/will-climate-change-drive-humans-extinct-or-destroy-civilization
Almost certainly not—but unless we act quickly to stop warming the planet, there will be very severe consequences for many, many people.
NY Times all Questions on Climate Change Answered
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/climate/climate-change-faq.html
TRUMP on THE CLIMATE
BBC What Does Trump Actually Believe on Climate Change (lots of quotes)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51213003
POLITICO 2024 – No more going wobbly in climate fight, Trump supporters vow
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/12/trump-second-term-climate-science-2024-00132289
“The approach is to go back to all-out fossil fuel production and sit on the EPA,” said Steve Milloy, a former Trump transition team adviser
‘We are writing a battle plan’
His words and actions on broader science questions — from scrawling on a hurricane map with a Sharpie to glancing bare-eyed at a solar eclipse to musing aloud about killing Covid with sunlight — repeatedly displayed a disregard for mainstream research.
Environmental Protection Agency, toward increasing fossil fuel production rather than public health protections. Seventy-three percent of U.S. adults want the government to do more to address climate change, according to a CNN poll released last month. Most want the government to cut emissions in half by 2030, including 50 percent of Republicans and 95 percent of Democrats, the poll found.
Conservatives have already written a climate plan for Trump’s second term
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/28/far-right-climate-plans-00107498
Hundreds of conservative operatives outlined a plan that Donald Trump, or any Republican, could use to purge climate action from the federal government.
Trump already has an energy plan named Project 2025, to get rid of renewable energy like wind & solar, gut the EPA & DOE, ruin the environment & lead the U.S. back to more coal and oil.
Trump repeatedly denies climate science and says ‘we shouldn’t be worried about global warming’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-climate-change-global-warming-b2459167.html
Brookings: What is the Trump administration’s track record on the environment?
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-is-the-trump-administrations-track-record-on-the-environment/
National Geographic: The most consequential impact of Trump’s climate policies? Wasted time.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/most-consequential-impact-of-trumps-climate-policies-wasted-time
https://news.trust.org/packages/trump-and-climate-change/
The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html
Natural Disasters on the Rise
https://usafacts.org/articles/are-the-number-of-major-natural-disasters-increasing/
***all sort of statistics on all types of natural disasters and where and how frequently they occur in which states
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/homeowners-insurance/natural-disaster-statistics/
CO2 LEVELS and the DANGER
CO2 – is .04 percent of the atmosphere
Before the industrial revolution, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere was about 288 ppm
CO2 levels are around 425 ppm (parts per million)
33 percent of the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide is attributable to humans
NASA main Climate change page with current levels
https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/?intent=121
EPA – Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data
NASA Graphic: The relentless rise of carbon dioxide
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/graphic-the-relentless-rise-of-carbon-dioxide/
In 2013, CO2 levels surpassed 400 ppm for the first time in recorded history. This recent relentless rise in CO2 shows a remarkably constant relationship with fossil-fuel burning, and can be well accounted for based on the simple premise that about 60 percent of fossil-fuel emissions stay in the air.
About 99 percent of the atmosphere is made of oxygen and nitrogen, which cannot absorb the infrared radiation the Earth emits.
https://www.quora.com/What-ppm-of-CO2-causes-oceans-to-boil-off
CO2 levels are around 417 ppm (parts per million) at 1% 10,000 ppm the Earth atmosphere can’t be used by humans. We are not going to cook ourselves.
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2019/07/30/co2-drives-global-warming/
CO2 makes up only about 0.04% of the atmosphere, and water vapor can vary from 0 to 4%. But while water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gas in our atmosphere, it has “windows” that allow some of the infrared energy to escape without being absorbed. In addition, water vapor is concentrated lower in the atmosphere, whereas CO2 mixes well all the way to about 50 kilometers up. The higher the greenhouse gas, the more effective it is at trapping heat from the Earth’s surface.
Good Q&A on CO2 ppm levels
https://www.quora.com/What-ppm-of-CO2-causes-oceans-to-boil-off
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-carbon-dioxide-the-big-cause-of-global-warming-when-there-is-only-04-percent-of-it-in-the-atmosphere?no_redirect=1
https://www.quora.com/Did-anyone-ever-prove-that-CO2-contributed-to-global-warming-In-the-past-levels-of-CO2-were-10-times-from-what-it-is-now-and-no-global-disaster-actually-happened-Why-do-we-think-CO2-is-a-problem
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-so-much-focus-on-CO2-since-CO2-represents-less-than-1-of-the-total-global-warming-potential-of-all-greenhouse-gasses-in-the-atmosphere
For the CHART I Did Research on the Earth & Human History Timeline
***** Love this simple text only TIMELINE of Earth and Humans
https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/timeline.html
Earth Timeline: A Guide to Earth’s Geological History and Events [Infographic]
https://earthhow.com/earth-timeline-geological-history-events/
Side note: 10k is called a Deca Millennium, 100k is centum millenium, A million years is called a Megaanum, an Aeon is a billion years.
Human timeline: https://earthhow.com/human-timeline/
Another timeline https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~cpd/history.html
Population collapse almost wiped out human ancestors, say scientists
Population collapse almost wiped out human ancestors, say scientists
Genomics analysis indicates that at least 800,000 years ago breeding individuals sank to as few as 1,300
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/31/population-collapse-almost-wiped-out-human-ancestors-say-scientists
800,000 years ago, a meteor slammed into Earth. Scientists just found the crater.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/800-000-years-ago-meteor-slammed-earth-scientists-just-found-n1112971
DOUG LAMALFA CONGRESSMAN – Climate Change Denier
CO2 Misconceptions: Debunking Doug LaMalfa on Climate Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBocJQt5xj4&t=41s
Quiz show: GOP deploys new climate messaging tactic
https://www.eenews.net/articles/quiz-show-gop-deploys-new-climate-messaging-tactic/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/09/doug-lamalfa-joe-biden-sotu/
https://usafacts.org/articles/are-the-number-of-major-natural-disasters-increasing/
Fact checking LaMalfa
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.33DW79X
Farm Subsidies – making the law and LaMalfa collecting 5 million
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2023/03/25-current-members-house-collected-14-million-federal-farm-subsidies
https://www.climateofdenial.org/track-climate-change-denial/doug-lamalfa/
Mar-a-Lago Sinking
https://www.everand.com/article/565333724/Trump-Claims-Sea-Level-Rise-Means-More-Homes-By-The-Ocean-Let-s-Take-A-Look-At-Mar-A-Lago
Thomas Edison loved Renewable Energy and knew Fossil Fules were bad for the environment
https://www.treehugger.com/thomas-edison-champion-of-renewable-energy-1204180
“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind, and tide.”
“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”
Oil Producers of the World – US number 1
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-worlds-biggest-oil-producers-in-2022/
Oil exports by country, US is 5th – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_exports
****Why we still pay more for oil – we still consume more than we produce – crude and refined, spare production is zero compared to Saudi Arabia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/08/us-is-worlds-largest-oil-producer-why-youre-going-pay-more-gas-anyway/
Oil is a finite source and we will run out by 2050
https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/run-out-of-oil.htm
Renewable Energy Leaders in the World
https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/11-countries-leading-the-charge-on-renewable-energy/
China is the global renewable energy leader hosting nearly half of the world’s total operating wind and solar capacity. They’re also the biggest investor in renewable energy worldwide, where nearly half of the world’s low-carbon spending took place in China in 2022 (US$546 billion).
Texas leading US States in renewable energy (California 3rd)
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/slideshows/these-states-use-the-most-renewable-energy
But South Dakota gets is largest percentage from renewable
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/02/us-state-with-most-renewable-energy-production/
ECONOMY DEBT TAX CUT
2017 Tax Bill for the wealthy (The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017)
Little Trumpy Grinch lied about his Tax Cut – Rocket Fuel
Trump said it juice the gross domestic product 4 to 6% – never went over 3%
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-biggest-accomplishments-and-failures-heading-into-2020-2019-12#accomplishment-tax-cuts-3
The Trade Deficit went up under Trump
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/
A record eight years and four months of monthly job gains — dating to October 2010 — ended February 2019, roughly a year before the pandemic.
How much did Trump pay in taxes each year?
it is going to cost me a fortune, this thing,” Trump said. “Believe me, believe me, this is not good for me.” St. Charles, Missouri (not true: pass through corporations, estate taxs 0.2%, repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax
TAXES Trump only paid $750 in taxes in 2017! $0 in 2020
Trump promised to cut the national debt but added 7.8 million to it
Congressional Budget Office –
Economic growth increased briefly in early 2018 but quickly fell back to or even below the modest levels that persisted before the 2017 tax cuts (see figure below).
Giving corporations a lot more money and showering the richest households would give them more cash to invest.
This would lower the cost of investing and spark a boom in investments in new manufacturing plants, office buildings, vehicle fleets and energy upgrades, among other things. These new investments would translate into faster productivity growth, higher economic growth and stronger wage and employment gains. But the first step in this chain — faster business investment growth — never happened.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christianweller/2020/01/29/trumps-wasteful-tax-cuts-lead-to-continued-trillion-dollar-deficits-in-expanding-economy/?sh=2ef300e366c4
($916 million dollar loss that could keep him from paying taxes for 18 years 1995 tax return – didn’t pay federal taxes for 2 decades)
Trump’s Taxes
https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/trumps-916-million-nols-art-dodge
TARIFFS
Tax Foundation
Tracking the Economic Impact of U.S. Tariffs and Retaliatory Actions
https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/tariffs-trump-trade-war/
The Trump administration imposed nearly $80 billion worth of new taxes on Americans by levying tariffs on thousands of products valued at approximately $380 billion (worth of imports) in 2018 and 2019, amounting to one of the largest tax increases in decades.
The Trump administration imposed several rounds of tariffs, amounting to an $80 billion tax increase on $380 billion worth of imports (based on 2018 values), ranging from thousands of products from China to steel and aluminum and washing machines and solar panels. Other countries responded by imposing retaliatory tariffs of their own.
Tariffs Raise Prices and Reduce Economic Growth
which results in lower income, reduced employment, and lower economic output.
also discusses Retaliatory Tariffs Imposed and Threatened
Harvard Gazette
*****Larger lesson about tariffs in a move that helped Trump but not the country
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/03/larger-lesson-about-tariffs-in-a-move-that-helped-trump-but-not-the-country/
Promising to reduce a longstanding trade deficit with China, curb theft of U.S. intellectual property, and reclaim manufacturing jobs, then-President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on a wide range of Chinese imports in January 2018.
After tariffs on Chinese goods jumped from 3 percent to 12 percent, Beijing retaliated by raising tariffs as high as 25 percent on many U.S. goods, including agricultural products and food, devastating U.S. farmers, particularly in the Midwest and Deep South. The USDA estimates that the retaliatory tariffs cost the U.S. $25.7 billion in revenues between 2018 and 2019, 95 percent of the total lost to tariffs imposed by European nations and Canada.
Trump’s actions failed to produce more jobs, and in some instances even had a negative effect on employment
The new tariffs combined with farm subsidies in the South and Midwest did not bring back jobs as President Trump had promised. Even separately, U.S. import tariffs had no positive effect on employment and China’s retaliatory tariffs had a negative effect.
One is that when you raise tariffs, there’s no guarantee that you’re going to reduce the value of imports; you might just increase prices instead.
Reason two is that when we increase import tariffs on China, U.S. consumers have the option to purchase those goods from other countries. The trade war led to a diversion of U.S. imports from China to U.S. imports from Vietnam
A third reason is that the types of jobs that the U.S. lost to import competition from China in the 1990s and 2000s are quite different from the types of jobs that would be created if those same industries were to expand operations today. The jobs that were lost were in factories built in the 1960s and 1970s,
For reasons we don’t fully understand, higher tariffs in China didn’t divert U.S. exports of farm products to other countries. The result was simply a decline in U.S. farm exports, farm jobs, and jobs in farm regions.
Tariffs are poorly targeted policy instruments for helping workers. They don’t target manufacturing employment, they target imports.
CNN
***Trump wants more tariffs. His earlier trade wars cost Americans $230 billion to date
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/donald-trump-tariffs-trade-war/index.html
Still, Trump’s tariffs were put on a relatively small share of all the goods consumers purchase. Several studies show they only marginally contributed to US inflation that followed the Covid-19 pandemic.
More jobs were lost than created
VIDEO Did Trump’s tariffs work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znEAtnp8b9U&t=3s
steel manufacturing did not go up; we produce less steel than before
Brookings: Did Trump’s tariffs benefit American workers and national security?
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/did-trumps-tariffs-benefit-american-workers-and-national-security/
80 billion brought in to the US Treasury
Multiple studies suggest this is not the case: the cost of tariffs have been borne almost entirely by American households and American firms, not foreign exporters.
Several hundred to a 1k per year per household
In these specific industries, then, tariffs have probably been good for workers. Hurt other workers.
And even those jobs that have been created have come at great cost: studies suggest American consumers paid about $817,000 in higher prices attributable to the tariffs for every job created in the washing machine industry and $900,000 in the steel industry. While policy interventions to support manufacturing jobs may be warranted, there are cheaper ways to do so.
During its first term the administration completed two major trade agreements: the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which updated the previous North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); and the so-called “Phase One” China deal.
Yet when we look in closer detail at the outcome of these negotiations, the threat of tariffs does not appear to have brought substantial gains to the U.S.
NY Times – Trump’s Tariffs Hurt U.S. Jobs but Swayed American Voters, Study Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/us/politics/trump-tariffs-jobs-voters.html
New research finds that former President Donald J. Trump’s tariffs did not bring back U.S. jobs, but voters appeared to reward him for the levies anyway.
How Trump’s Tariffs Really Affected the U.S. Job Market
https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/83746
A January 2021 study commissioned by the U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC) claims that former president Donald Trump’s trade policies cost the United States 245,000 jobs.
American deficits with China and the rest of the world were higher last year than they had been in over a decade.
RACISM
Trump record with colored people as President
– To make his case, Trump would cite achievements like a low Black unemployment rate (Not true 6.1% under Biden 5.3%), increased funding for historically Black colleges and universities (a congressional initiative, not an executive branch one) or passage of an opportunity zone program.
— Unemployment rate: 5.5% was twice that of whites (was 5.4% in Aug 2019, but then Covid happened) most of the jobs gained were low paid wages. the unemployment rate under Trump hit a low of 5.3 percent in August 2019, but had inched up to 6.1 percent before the pandemic struck in March 2020. Under Biden, the Black unemployment rate dipped to as low as 4.8 percent in April 2023; it was 5.3 percent in January.
Woody Guthrie wrote a protest song called “Old Man Trump” which details racial hate & discrimination in Trump’s apartments
Trump once again boasted he was the best president for Black Americans since Abraham Lincoln.
Elyse Goldweber, a Justice Department lawyer who brought the suit, recalled in 2019 that Trump remarked to her during a coffee break: “You know, you don’t want to live with them either.”
Trump took out a full page add calling for the death penalty of Central Park Five 1989
Former Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino president John R. O’Donnell, in the 1991 book “Trumped,” alleged that Trump once said that “laziness is a trait in blacks.”
**** https://www.vox.com/21524499/what-trump-has-done-for-black-people
The First Step Act – criminal justice reform bill
When Trump became president, his administration scaled back enforcement of fair housing laws such as the 1968 act.
************************(Note: Trump has changed his political party affiliation five times since 1987 before returning to the Republican Party in 2012.)
?? – First Step Act – criminal justice reform
– One step???
Said he was the greatest President for black since Abraham Lincoln and then quotes a bunch of wrong stats
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/05/trumps-claim-that-hes-done-more-blacks-than-any-president-since-lincoln/
No, Trump hasn’t been the best president for Black America since Lincoln
https://www.vox.com/21524499/what-trump-has-done-for-black-people
Fact check: Trump’s policies for Black Americans
Trump says he’s the “best president” for African Americans. Is that really true?
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/01/trump-black-americans-policies-433744
For example, Trump’s “Platinum Plan” for Black Americans is only two pages
Trump won just 8 percent of Black voters in 2016 and has talked more about criminals than criminal justice in the closing days of the campaign. He did, however, sign the bipartisan First Step Act and has granted 28 pardons and 16 sentence commutations.
Under the Trump administration, the Black unemployment rate steadily improved, dropping to 5.4 percent at its bottom in August 2019, compared to 7.5 percent when Trump took office in January 2017. But that achievement is attributable to economic growth that was already revving when Trump took office, economists say.
https://democrats.org/news/trumps-presidency-failed-black-americans/
Has Trump failed Black Americans?
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/has-trump-failed-black-americans/
Economy, Implicit Bias Training, Criminal Justice Reform and Policing, Judges and the Courts, COVID-19 and Affordable Healthcare
52 Harms in 52 Weeks
How the Trump Administration Hurt Communities of Color in 2017
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/52-harms-52-weeks/
REALLY good stats and facts about how Trump has harmed communities of color
It’s been an ‘exhausting’ four years for Black Americans. That likely won’t end with Trump.
For many Black people, Trump’s presidency was a source of constant stress. The end of this election doesn’t necessarily change that.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/it-s-been-exhausting-four-years-black-americans-likely-won-n1247877
Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2020
https://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12270880/donald-trump-racist-racism-history
Trump history of racism with a timeline by year
George Floyd and Black Lives Matter
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/not-accident-false-thug-narratives-have-long-been-used-discredit-n1240509
Race relations
Trump called Black Lives Matter “a symbol of hate”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/08/politics/trump-white-voters-blake/index.html
President Trump told supporters Saturday that there was “something very beautiful” about “watching everybody get pushed around” in Minneapolis as National Guard troops responded to the upheaval after George Floyd’s death.
DC Trump Bible Photo Shoot and Protest
Trump’s push for “law and order” only led to more chaos in DC Monday night (Awesome photos)
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/2/21277877/trump-law-and-order-protests-chaos-dc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_photo_op_at_St._John%27s_Church
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-church-visit-angers-church-officials
‘Not by accident’: False ‘thug’ narratives have long been used to discredit civil rights movements
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/not-accident-false-thug-narratives-have-long-been-used-discredit-n1240509
Charlottesville and George Floyd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally
Friday Aug 11th 2017 – hundreds of white nationalists marched through the University of Virginia campus while carrying burning torches.
Saturday Aug 12 2017 – Heather Heyer was killed as hundreds of white nationalists gathered for a “Unite the Right” rally to remove a Confederate statueof Robert E. Lee. (responsible for over 350k American soldiers deaths
Organizer Jason Kessler applied for a permit from the City of Charlottesville to hold the event at Lee Park
President Donald Trump On Charlottesville: You Had Very Fine People, On Both Sides | CNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmaZR8E12bs&t=236s
https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trumps-very-fine-people-both-sides-remarks/
********Best PHOTOS: https://time.com/charlottesville-white-nationalist-rally-clashes/
MORE good photos: https://abcnews.go.com/US/photos/white-nationalists-counterprotesters-clash-charlottesville-49178539/
Videos of Chants – https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/10/10/when-white-nationalists-chant-their-weird-slogans-what-do-they-mean (explanation of chants)
“Jews will not replace us! The South will Rise again! Russia is our friend! Hail Trump! Blut und Bloden (Blood and soil) ! We Will be back”
Vanguard America, Black Sun symbol, Identity Evropa, Antomwaffen Division, Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Confederate White Knights of Ku Klux Klan, (Chris Baker)
Where are they now 5 years later Kessler, Spencer, Baked Alaska (Tmothy Gionet), James Fields (driver)
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/08/11/unite-right-5-years-later-where-are-they-now
Richard Spencer(neo-Nazi, white supremacist) yelling Hail Trump (Side note: Spencer is friends with Stephen Miller both went to Duke)
https://www.wsj.com/video/white-nationalist-richard-spencer-sparks-protests-at-texas-am/0539C139-64F9-469F-B7D4-3D227C2F97CB
Trump blamed “many sides” for the violence at the rally, which resulted in the death of a counterprotester, Heather Heyer. He later said there were “very fine people on both sides.”
The Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy on illegal border crossings led to the separations of at least 5,500 families and saw children placed in cages.
In August 2017, far-right extremists gathering for a “Unite the Right” rally in Virginia clashed with counter-protesters, leaving more than a dozen injured and several under arrest. Shortly after 1:00 p.m. a vehicle driven by a rally-goer struck a crowd of pedestrians in an attack that killed a 32-year old woman and injured 19 others. White nationalists and far right extremists march through the University of Virginia Campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 11, 2017.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/08/11/unite-right-5-years-later-where-are-they-now
“You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides,” then-President Trump told the press about the men who appeared in Charlottesville on Aug. 12. “You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
The Charlottesville rally 5 years later: ‘It’s what you’re still trying to forget’
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1116942725/the-charlottesville-rally-5-years-later-its-what-youre-still-trying-to-forget
Photos https://time.com/charlottesville-white-nationalist-rally-clashes/
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/14/16143168/charlottesville-va-protests
What U.Va. Students Saw in Charlottesville
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/opinion/university-virginia-uva-protests-charlottesville.html
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Discrimination CASE 1970s
The Trumps personally told rental supervisors not to rent to blacks. From Spin article ““Fred Trump told me not to rent to blacks. He also wanted me to get rid of the blacks that were in the building…”
October 1973, the Civil Rights Division filed a lawsuit against Donald & Fred Trump,
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/02/trump-fbi-files-discrimination-case-235067
Trump lost the case proving they did discriminate against blacks and latinos
Roy Cohn – lawyer who did Red Scare Joseph McCarthy
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/back-discrimination-suit-dogging-donald-trump/story?id=41667286
https://clearinghouse.net/case/15342/?doc_page=2#document-list
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/02/trump-fbi-files-discrimination-case-235067
a C for Colored
https://apnews.com/events-united-states-presidential-election-6349efef6986435b95411dc2e8f8f2c4
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10157443575295533
Most of the Trump buildings had no minorities. Minoritites were pushed to a few lesser regarded buildings
The Trump Organization had 9,050 apartment units covered under the settlement agreement with the federal government, which housed only 399 minority residents across 35 covered properties, or only 4.4% of Fred and Donald Trump’s New York City rental real estate empire.
The Trumps segregated a small group of non-white tenants into a few of their properties, maintained a single building with just over half minority residents and virtually excluded minorities from 24 New York City buildings of the 36 total project covered in their 1975 settlement with the federal government which covered a mind-boggling 9,500 apartments.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-report-trump-housing-discrimination-2017-2
One of Fred’s tenants was folk singer Woody Guthie, who immortalized him in song: “I suppose/Old Man Trump knows/Just how much/Racial Hate/He stirred up/In the bloodpot of human hearts/When he drawed/That color line/Here at his/Eighteen hundred family project.”
The Open Housing Center of New York would later file a lawsuit against Donald Trump in 1982 for housing discrimination, which the Trump Organization settled in 1984.
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Father arrested at a KKK rally
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/28/in-1927-donald-trumps-father-was-arrested-after-a-klan-riot-in-queens/
In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens
He was arrested at a Klu Klux Klan parade in 1927. Donald has denied this incident vehemently, but the record of his father’s arrest exists. That said, it’s for failure to disperse at a rally—which doesn’t explain whether he was participating or just watching.
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Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump asked about shooting protesters
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1097517470/trump-esper-book-defense-secretary
Treyvon Martin – George Zimmerman (white vigilante Neighborhood Watch) acquitted Black Lives Matter 2013
Eric Garner – I can’t breathe
Breonna Taylor
THE BIG LIE
*****Trump’s drumbeat of lies about the 2020 election keeps getting louder. Here are the facts
https://apnews.com/article/trump-2020-election-lies-debunked-4fc26546b07962fdbf9d66e739fbb50d
This 2023 article sums up everything: recounts Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania & Wisconsin, lawsuits, voting machines, his own administration saying no fraud, suitcases and ballot mules false
By the numbers: President Donald Trump’s failed efforts to overturn the election
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/elections/2021/01/06/trumps-failed-efforts-overturn-election-numbers/4130307001/
The president and his allies filed 62 lawsuits in state and federal courts seeking to overturn election results in states the president lost, according to Marc Elias, a Democratic election lawyer who is tracking the outcomes. 61 failed from both Democratic & Trump Republican appointed judges. Many were thrown out of court
The Supreme Court also refused, to overturn the results on Trump’s behalf
Justice & Homeland Security said there was No serious fraud
Trumps’ handpicked Attorney General William Barr said there was no fraud
POPULAR VOTE COUNT
Biden beat Trump by over 7 Million votes
Georgia recount – lost by 11,779 votes
Wisconsin had a recount reaffirming gained 74 votes, Biden’s win.
Arizona recount
On Election Day in 2012, when President Barack Obama defeated his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, Trump tweeted that there were “reports of voting machines switching Romney votes to Obama.”
6 conspiracy theories about the 2020 election – debunked
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/presidential-election-2020-conspiracy-theories-debunked/
No, Dominion voting machines, sharpie markers, mail-in voting, suitcases, poll watchers, dead people
Trump’s false claims debunked: the 2020 election and Jan. 6 riot
Good article https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-false-claims-debunked-2020-election-jan-6-riot-2022-01-06/
Fact-Checking the Breadth of Trump’s Election Lies
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/politics/trump-election-lies-fact-check.html
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https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-montgomery/ fun article about voting machine fraud conspiracy
Computer programmer Dennis Montgomery was the source of an early version of the bogus claim that Donald Trump was cheated by a massive vote-hacking scheme. He’s pictured here in a 2009 mug shot after his arrest on charges of writing $1 million in bad checks to a Las Vegas casino. SOURCE: Riverside County, California, Sheriff’s Department.
Pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, who referenced Hammer and Scorecard on Fox News, The writer cited Montgomery’s claim that he had built a supercomputer called the Hammer years ago as a U.S. government surveillance tool, along with software called Scorecard that could be used to manipulate election results.
Drop boxes stuffed with Illegal ballots, hacked voting machines and election workers with suitcases full of fake Biden votes.
Sidney Powell appeared again on Fox, claiming to have “staggering statistical evidence” that Venezuela, China and Cuba worked with Dominion to steal the election.
Gilliana and Dominion lawsuit – China, Noriega,
As the Hammer-and-Scorecard theory first started to spread, Christopher Krebs, then the Trump administration’s top cybersecurity expert, immediately tried to knock it down, tweeting that it was “nonsense” and “a hoax.”
Montgomery, 69, last year sold a trove of the purported evidence to Lindell, one of America’s most prominent Trump allies and election conspiracy theorists. “I own it,” Lindell said of Montgomery’s data, touting it as irrefutable proof Trump was cheated. “The machines are going to be gone!” he yelled, to uproarious applause. “We’re going to get our country back!” He bought it in 2021
Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department had seen no evidence of widespread fraud
Dominion voting machine – servers are in local election offices not Germany or Venezuela
Dead Voters –in PA and Michigan – zero proof and couldn’t come up with 1 example.
Poll Watchers- especially in Philadelphia and this was debunked when the livestream showed Republican poll watchers in the room
Mail in Ballots – have a series of built in safeguards to verify identity and prevent fraud
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Rudy Giuliani is ordered to pay $148 million to Georgia election workers he defamed
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/15/1219048410/giuliani-defamation-trial-money-georgia-election-workers
Rudy Giuliamani admitted his accusations were false that two Georgie election workers were cheating and scanning ballots multiple times to benefit Joe Biden
A hand-count audit in Georgia found votes to have been tallied correctly in the 2020 election, and a years-long investigation by the Georgia secretary of state’s office found the accusations against Moss and Freeman to be “false and unsubstantiated.”
The election workers were awarded this sum by a DC jury after being wrongfully accused by Giuliani of stealing votes and passing around a “USB port like a crack vial.” Mishandling ballots – admitted he made false statements about them
Giuliani facing 13 counts – Unlawfully change the outcome of the election, including impersonating a public officer and alternate electors
Great article: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/rudy-giulianis-2020-election-charges-explained
And in Pennsylvania, he falsely claimed that the state had received 700,000 more absentee ballots than it had distributed, according to the indictment.
Giuliani Says Democrats Used ‘USB Ports’ Passed Around Like ‘Vials of Heroin’ to Commit Election Fraud
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k94kz/giuliani-says-democrats-used-usb-ports-passed-around-like-vials-of-heroin-to-commit-election-fraud
Fact-checking Giuliani’s claims that food trucks hauled fraudulent Biden ballots in Detroit
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/election-2020-misinformation/h_a6f9f4db41324634af5cda8e5f252fab
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William Barr saying “Bullshit” about voter fraud Nov 23, Dec 1, Dec 14th
**** https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/politics/fact-check-trump-officials-testimony-debunking-election-lies/index.html
Unsupported evidence – top law enforcement official in the country
10 Trump election lies his own officials called false
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/politics/fact-check-trump-officials-testimony-debunking-election-lies/index.html
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Fox, Dominion reach $787M settlement over election claims
https://apnews.com/article/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trial-trump-2020-0ac71f75acfacc52ea80b3e747fb0afe
Sidney Powell pleads guilty over efforts to overturn Trump’s loss in Georgia and agrees to cooperate
https://apnews.com/article/sidney-powell-plea-deal-georgia-election-indictment-ec7dc601ad78d756643aa2544028e9f5
Why Did Sidney Powell Plead Guilty?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-did-sidney-powell-plead-guilty
Fact-checking the craziest news conference of the Trump presidency (Powell and Giuliani)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/19/fact-checking-craziest-news-conference-trump-presidency/
False reports claim election servers were seized in Germany
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-9754011363
Judge: MyPillow CEO, Mike Lindell must pay $5 million to man who debunked his claims
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIYemHjPSxA&t=196s
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/22/mike-lindell-election-dispute-decision/
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/26/my-pillow-mike-lindell-investigation-00097903
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Trump’s own people accepting the results
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/13/trumps-election-fraud-claims-were-false-here-are-his-advisers-who-said-so-00039346
Including Ivanka
Off the air, Fox News stars blasted the election fraud claims they peddled
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157558299/fox-news-stars-false-claims-trump-election-2020
Trump fires agency head who vouched for 2020 vote security
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-fires-christopher-krebs-dhs-5e63923e0c11c9155eb5af2362d78548
Christopher Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – President Donald Trump fired the nation’s top election security official, a widely respected member of his administration who had dared to refute the president’s unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud and vouch for the integrity of the vote.
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Plot to Overturn the Election (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
Watched this VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90O-q7dgS-I&t=1s
Plot to overturn the election, great stuff about Antrim county in Michigan with the 6,000 votes, the Arizona recount, Patrick Byrne (affair with a Russian spy) the Overtock CEO , Flynn, South Carolina plantation, ASOG report
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/dominion-byrne-complaint.pdf
Ramsland complaint Dominion Byrne
The report was debunked by the county’s Republican clerk, Michigan’s Secretary of State, and the Republican-led Michigan Senate Oversight Committee, which was “appalled” at the “willful ignorance or avoidance” of the truth by those behind the report, and recommended an investigation into “those who have been utilizing misleading and false information about Antrim County to raise money or publicity for their own ends.”
Michigan County Clerk made a human error Sheryl Guy
**** https://time.com/6128812/the-steal-antrim-county-michigan/
When she added that last-minute candidate for village trustee to the ballots, she should have updated the counting machines with the new parameters. But she hadn’t. So when the numbers started rolling in, they dropped into the wrong columns. A little over two thousand Trump votes had been shifted to Biden’s column. Her error.
At last, the night of November 6, the team of people working on the problem had stripped away all the compounded mistakes—they rescanned all ballots—and published the correct tally of votes: a win for Trump, by 3,800 votes. The county board of canvassers examined the results and certified them. The system worked as intended. The mistake had been noticed immediately. It had been investigated and corrected.
Bill Bailey
Also look up DePerno in Michigan who stole voting machines and ran for attorney general
Video of Trump & RNC Ronna McDaniel try to pressure Michigan officials to not certify there results
https://www.pbs.org/video/recording-further-reveals-trump-effort-to-overturn-election-1703287625/
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Movie 2000 Mules
FACT FOCUS: Gaping holes in the claim of 2K ballot ‘mules’
https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-covid-technology-health-arizona-e1b49d2311bf900f44fa5c6dac406762
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL2N2XJ0OQ/
Amazing Race vs. Apprentice fraud and rigged Emmys
https://people.com/politics/donald-trumps-rigged-emmy-awards-the-apprentice/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/us/politics/trump-apprentice-emmy.html
https://time.com/4537809/donald-trump-emmy-awards-debate/
Election fraud is rare
Despite Trump claims, voter fraud is extremely rare. Here is how U.S. states keep it that way
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2601HG/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/01/truth-about-election-fraud-its-rare/
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/refuting-myth-voter-fraud-yet-again
JANUARY 6TH
40 police officers were assaulted, 5 people were killed
The rioters at the US Capitol were among Trump’s supporters who had responded to his invitation to come to Washington, and he then directed his rally goers to march to the Capitol, knowing some of them were armed. Trump watched TV coverage of the riot passively for hours before intervening to try and stop the mayhem.
Cassidy Hutchinson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/28/trump-sought-lead-armed-mob-capitol-jan-6-aide-says/
Last year, Trump said the riot he helped to instigate at the US Capitol was a “beautiful day” in a town hall with CNN when, in fact, it was one of the sorriest episodes in the history of the republic. If he is elected president again, Trump has promised to pardon a “large portion” of the rioters.
—– research cont’d
Officer Brian Sicknick’s death could have been caused by bear spray, investigators believe
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/capitol-riot-death-brian-sicknick-b1801246.html
Fact check: Trump lies that Jan. 6 was ‘an insurrection caused by Nancy Pelosi’
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/08/politics/fact-check-trump-january-6/index.html
Jan. 6 panel sheds light on the 187 minutes Trump went dark during Capitol siege
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112323797/jan-6-hearing-recap-187-minutes
Jan. 6 report: Trump ‘lit that fire’ of Capitol insurrection
https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-committee-final-report-trump-bcfea6162fe9cfa0d120e86d069af0e4
Fallen police officer’s family speaks out three years after Jan. 6 Capitol riot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGY3QEW8YBU&t=5s
TRUMP'S CRIMINAL CHARGES
John Eastman – lawyer- memo on alternate electors
Judge recommends John Eastman be disbarred in California
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-recommends-john-eastman-disbarred-california-rcna145390
Kenneth Chesbro – electors scheme – plead guilty in Georgia election subversion case
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/20/politics/kenneth-chesebro-georgia-election-subversion/index.html
ALL CASES
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/trump-charges-jan-6-classified-documents/
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2023/trump-criminal-investigations-cases-tracker-list/
https://apnews.com/projects/trump-investigations-civil-criminal-tracker/
CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
The differences between the Trump and Biden documents cases
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-biden-documents-differences-special-counsel/
Trump – 300 documents, turned over in a 2 year period including some that had to be confiscated by a subpoena and many after Trump provided a sworn certification that all government records had been returned
ballroom, bathroom and storage room. “highly classified” including about nuclear programs
The documents Trump is charged with retaining allegedly included information about U.S. nuclear programs; defense and weapons capabilities of the U.S. and other countries; vulnerabilities of the U.S. and its allies to attack; and how the U.S. would retaliate in response to an attack. Prosecutors said they included material prepared by the CIA, NSA, the Pentagon, the Energy Department and other intelligence agencies. Efforst tto get back documents started Jan 2021 ended August 2022 FBI search. A federal grand jury issued two subpoenas, one for documents and another for security footage, in the months before the FBI search.
In addition to Mar-a-Lago, the special counsel alleges that some boxes with sensitive government records were brought to Trump’s property in Bedminster, New Jersey, and said Trump later shared some of the information with book writers.
Trump, on the other hand, is accused of falsely claiming he was cooperating fully with the FBI and had turned over all documents sought by investigators, even though he continued to keep dozens of them.
“[A]fter being given multiple chances to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, Mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite. According to the indictment, he not only refused to return the documents for many months, but he also obstructed justice by enlisting others to destroy evidence and then to lie about it,” Hur’s report stated.
Biden – several documents (dozens kept as Vide President) turned over in two days that were in his think tank in a locked closet, then allowed an entire search which found a couple more documents, 1 in his desk and a couple in his garage. Special Counsel Robert Hur.
In Mr. Biden’s case, his personal lawyer discovered sensitive government documents on Nov. 2, 2022, at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, where Mr. Biden kept an office after leaving the vice presidency in 2017. The attorney notified the White House Counsel’s Office, which in turn informed the National Archives. Two days later, the Archives told the Justice Department, and a U.S. attorney was soon tasked with looking into the matter.
In December, more documents relating to Afghanistan were found in the garage of the president’s Wilmington home, and Mr. Biden’s lawyers notified the Justice Department.
In the following weeks, the FBI conducted searches of Mr. Biden’s homes in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, with his consent. Agents later searched storage facilities at the University of Delaware.
Hur himself laid out the distinctions between Trump and Mr. Biden’s cases.
“Mr. Biden turned in classified documents to the National Archives and the Department of Justice, consented to the search of multiple locations including his homes, sat for a voluntary interview, and in other ways cooperated with the investigation,” the report said.
Pence – a couple documents turned over in less than 3 days at his home, consented to a search
https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-united-states-government-michael-pence-us-federal-bureau-of-investigation-9c2d7f472b8ff63f76f2c9fbb03dfde2
Numbers in special counsel report refute Trump’s claim that Biden had ‘more documents’
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/numbers-special-counsel-report-refute-trumps-claim-biden/story?id=108049663
Trump had 340 documents (more highly classified) Biden had 88
A timeline of events leading to Donald Trump’s indictment in the classified documents case
https://apnews.com/article/trump-documents-investigation-timeline-087f0c9a8368bb983a16b67dd31dcd4c
37 criminal charges for mishandling & then hiding hundreds of classified documents
Jan 20, 2021- Trump & staff personally packed boxes – stored in mar-a-Lago ballroom
March 15, 2021 – moved boxes to Mar-a-Lago business center
April 2021 – some boxes moved into bathroom /shower
May 2021 – highly accessible area Mar-a-Lago’s ground floor, some to summer home in Bedminister, New Jersey
May 6, 2021 – National Archives first asks that Trump turn over missing documents – then make repeated demmans
June 2021 – after not complying with requests, National Archives warns Trump through his representatives that it will refer the matter to the Justice Department if he does not comply
June 24, 2021: Boxes are moved to the storage room. More than 80 boxes are kept there.
U.S. defense closely guarde secrets(that he showed to golf buddies) sensitive defense information including nuclear
“Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this,” Trump said.
The incredibly damaging timeline of the alleged Mar-a-Lago coverup
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/28/trump-documents-coverup-allegations/
Classified Documents indictment – Grand Jury Subpoena
Mar A Lago flooded on purpose to wipe out servers?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/05/politics/mar-a-lago-pool-flood-suspicions-prosecutors-trump-investigation-classified-documents/index.html
***TIME timeline on Trump’s Classified – some good stuff
https://time.com/6286062/trump-classified-documents-investigation-timeline/
NEW YORK BUSINESS FRAUD
A $450 Million Blow to Trump’s Finances, and His Identity
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/nyregion/trump-civil-cases-millions.html
With interest Trump owes $450 million
HAS ANYONE BEEN SUED MORE THAN TRUMP?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/has-anyone-been-sued-more-than-trump.html
How many court cases has Trump been in? Trump has been involved in more than 4,000 lawsuits in his life. He now might hold the record for most lawsuits of all time
Trump and his businesses have faced at least 60 lawsuits over unpaid wages, including 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
4,095 lawsuits
https://www.azcentral.com/pages/interactives/trump-lawsuits/
Trump loses 93% of cases in court. We know, because we sue Trump and win.
https://democracyforward.org/updates/trump-loses-93-percent-of-cases-we-know-because-we-win/
Audio recording of him talking with memoir interviewer (author) showing him classified documents
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-caught-on-tape-referring-to-secret-information-stored-at-his-golf-club/
Trump allegedly discussed US nuclear submarine capabilities with Australian billionaire at Mar A Lago
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4240738-jack-smith-probed-trumps-nuclear-subs-discussion-with-australian-billionaire-report/
GEORGIA ELECTIONS CASE
Trump–Raffensperger phone call
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_phone_call
Trump, in Taped Call, Pressured Georgia Official to ‘Find’ Votes to Overturn Election
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia.html
TWICE IMPEACHED
2 impeachment trials, 2 escape hatches for Donald Trump
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-trials-coronavirus-pandemic-mitch-mcconnell-elections-4d1d7ec837c3e942dcbfda962a6dd691
Donald Trump becomes the first U.S. president to be impeached twice
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/majority-of-house-members-vote-for-2nd-impeachment-of-trump
Trump–Ukraine scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Ukraine_scandal
Trump impeachment: The short, medium and long story
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49800181
How the Ukraine invasion connects to Trump’s first impeachment — and where the players are now
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/24/ukraine-trump-impeachment-00011406
HUSH MOINEY
Unpacking the alleged crime that made Trump’s alleged crime a felony
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/22/trump-hush-money-trial-charges/
it’s not just falsifying business records it’s the intent to hide it from the voting public
TRUMP AND RIGGED EMMY AWARDS
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/us/politics/trump-apprentice-emmy.html
Groping Trump lawyer Boris Epshteyn
https://apnews.com/article/boris-epshteyn-scottsdale-nightclub-arrest-2021-trump-0798a2f24bb9c3ed373c7cbf3cf7578f
MILITARY DISRESPECT & WOMEN RIGHTS
CLARENCE “CORRUPT” THOMAS (and Ginni)
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/31/politics/thomas-alito-supreme-court-disclosures/index.html
Public approval of the Supreme Court is at an all-time low. Republican megadonor Harlan Crow
Jet Trips, 2 years of tuition at a private school for a child raised by, RV , loanforgiven
Bought house from Clarence Thomas and let his Mom live there for free
250k RV – FREE $250K DONOR RV
Thomas also disclosed Thursday that he had “inadvertently omitted” other information in past reports including a life insurance policy for his spouse, conservative activist Virginia Thomas that had a cash value under $100,000 and a bank account valued at under $70,000 in 2018.
In addition, in July, Thomas traveled to Crow’s private Adirondack resort for vacation.
One trip Thomas reported was to Crow’s lodge in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, where the investigative news site ProPublica has reported that Thomas visits every year.
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-money-complaints-sparked-resignation-fears-scotus
A few weeks later, Thomas boarded Crow’s private jet to head to Indonesia. He and his wife were off on vacation, an island cruise on Crow’s 162-foot yacht.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/clarence-thomas-rv-loan-senate-inquiry.html
Justice Thomas’s R.V. Loan Was Forgiven, Senate Inquiry Finds
The justice failed to repay much, perhaps all, of the $267,230 loan. His benefactor wiped the slate clean, with ethical and potential tax consequences.
The Senate inquiry was prompted by a Times investigation published in August that revealed that Justice Thomas bought his Prevost Marathon Le Mirage XL, a brand favored by touring rock bands and the super-wealthy, with financing from Anthony Welters, a longtime friend who made his fortune in the health care industry.
this details everything **** https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court
38 destination vacations, including a previously unreported voyage on a yacht around the Bahamas; 26 private jet flights, plus an additional eight by helicopter; a dozen VIP passes to professional and college sporting events, typically perched in the skybox; two stays at luxury resorts in Florida and Jamaica
The New York Times recently surfaced VIP treatment from wealthy businessmen he met through the Horatio Alger Association, an exclusive nonprofit. Among them were David Sokol, a former top executive at Berkshire Hathaway, and H. Wayne Huizenga, a billionaire who turned Blockbuster and Waste Management into national goliaths. (The Times noted Thomas gives access to the Supreme Court building for Horatio Alger events; ProPublica confirmed that the access has cost $1,500 or more in donations per person.)
Records and interviews show Thomas had another benefactor, oil baron Paul “Tony” Novelly, whose gifts to the justice have not previously been reported. ProPublica’s totals in this article include trips from Crow.
Donald Trump once asked to be a member but Huizenga spurned him, according to three of Huizenga’s former employees.
Clarence Thomas never repaid his loan for the RV
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/clarence-thomas-anthony-welters-luxury-rv-loan-forgiven
The Supreme Court has a Clarence Thomas (and Ginni Thomas) problem
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/supreme-court-s-clarence-thomas-ginni-thomas-problem-ncna1292351
Kellyanne Conway is now caught up in Clarence Thomas’ latest ethics scandal
https://www.businessinsider.com/kellyanne-conway-clarence-thomas-ethics-scandal-2023-5
John Oliver just made Clarence Thomas an offer he thinks the SCOTUS judge can’t refuse
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-oliver-million-dollars-clarence-thomas-scotus-resign-2024-2
Supreme Court Ethics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
VIDEO HILARIOUS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE-VJrdHMug&t=208s
Offers Clarence 1 million a year and an RV to quit
A running list of Clarence Thomas’ many scandals
https://theweek.com/in-depth/1022846/a-running-list-of-clarence-thomas-scandals
Friends of the Court (Alito w donor Singer, Clarence private school tuition, mothers house, vacations)
https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-scotus
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire -Luxury vacations with Harlan Crow
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow
Harlan Crow
https://www.fastcompany.com/90895268/what-to-know-harlan-crow-billionaire-clarence-thomas
Nazi symbol I put on surfboard – Hitler Artifacts
https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/04/07/clarence-thomass-billionaire-benefactor-collects-hitler-artifacts/
ProPublica: Clarence Thomas’ Secret Life of Luxury
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l650TOL1PbM&t=2302s
CNN Report reveals what Clarence Thomas said privately about his salary
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWeWgshzAnk&t=11s
TRUMP UNHINGED QUOTES
Dictator Day One
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritarian-presidential-election-f27e7e9d7c13fabbe3ae7dd7f1235c72
NATO let Russia do what they want
https://apnews.com/article/trump-nato-foreign-aid-russia-2b8054a9fe185eec34c2c541cece655d
Jews who vote Democrat hate their religion
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-comments-jews-democrats-outrage/
DIRESPECT TO VETERANS & MILITARY
Trump Has Mocked the U.S. Military His Whole Life
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/08/trump-mocked-us-military-troops-losers-whole-life/
John Kelly confirms Trump privately disparaged U.S. service members and veterans
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/john-kelly-confirms-trump-privately-disparaged-us-service-members-vete-rcna118543
Trump fires back at John Kelly: He “just can’t keep his mouth shut”
https://www.axios.com/2020/02/13/trump-tweets-john-kelly-criticism
Trump, under fire for alleged comments about veterans, has a long history of disparaging military service
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-under-fire-for-alleged-comments-about-veterans-has-a-long-history-of-disparaging-military-service/2020/09/06/76aba4b8-f053-11ea-9279-45d6bdfe145f_story.html
Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/
Trump panned over reports he called US war dead ‘losers’
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54034707
Trump attacks on our military go beyond ‘losers,’ ‘suckers’ smears
https://pascrell.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4452
“I don’t wanna tell you what I had to go through with these people—some of the dumbest I’ve ever met in my life,” Trump said
https://newrepublic.com/post/176285/trump-trash-military-officials-dumbest-people
***** How veterans feel about Trump
https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-think-veterans-feel-about-Trumps-comments-about-them-being-suckers-and-losers
TRUMP THE DRAFT DODGER
Did a Queens Podiatrist Help Donald Trump Avoid Vietnam?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/us/politics/trump-vietnam-draft-exemption.html
Trump received a medical exemption from Vietnam for bone spurs in his heels. (Typical way rich people don’t have to go to war)
I had done the research to determine that the lottery had nothing to do with his Vietnam draft status. According to his Selective Service record, he had been granted a medical deferment a year before his lottery number was assigned in December 1969 (though his precise diagnosis was not included).
https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/23/opinions/trump-vietnam-deferment-opinion-dantonio/index.html
New York Times: Daughters of foot doctor say he diagnosed Trump with bone spurs as ‘favor’ to Fred Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/26/politics/trump-bone-spurs-vietnam-war/index.html
What Trump’s Draft Deferments Reveal
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/trumps-military-draft-deferment-isnt-unusual/579265/
JOHN MCCAIN
VIDEO: Trump: “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured” (C-SPAN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=541Cg2Jnb8s
Trump on John McCain: ‘I like people who weren’t captured’
https://apnews.com/article/id-cde31d2fa3a244d29de77b31a59b799a
What Donald Trump was up to while John McCain was a prisoner of war
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/20/what-donald-trump-was-up-to-while-john-mccain-was-suffering-as-a-prisoner-of-war/
John McCain, War Hero, Senator, Presidential Contender, Dies at 81
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/obituaries/john-mccain-dead.html
Before he was a senator, John McCain was a war hero and POW
https://ktar.com/story/1871130/before-he-was-a-senator-john-mccain-was-a-war-hero/
—- Slamming John McCain about the wall even after McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer
TRUMP WILL CUT SOCIAL SECURITY and MEDICAID
Trump suggests he’s open to cuts to Medicare and Social Security after attacking primary rivals over the issue
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/politics/trump-entitlements-social-security-medicare/index.html
Trump just opened the door to Social Security cuts. Take him seriously.
https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/3/12/24098773/trump-social-security-medicare-cuts-entitlements-position-2024
BREAKING: Trump Calls To Cut Texans’ Medicare and Social Security Again
https://www.texasdemocrats.org/media/breaking-trump-calls-to-cut-texans-medicare-and-social-security-again
In every year of his presidency, Trump tried to cut Medicare and Social Security programs, and he’s making it crystal clear that he’ll try again while giving massive tax cuts to billionaires and corporations if he gets another chance.
TRUMP BLOODBATH COMMENT
Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses the election
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-bloodbath-loses-election-2024-rcna143746
Trump made the comments at a rally in Ohio, where he spoke about auto manufacturing. The Biden campaign responded by criticizing the former president’s “threats of political violence.”
Trump warns of ‘bloodbath’ for auto industry and country if he loses the election
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/16/politics/trump-bloodbath-auto-industry-election/index.html
Donald Trump warns of ‘bloodbath’ if he loses 2024 election while talking about the auto industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwP2mlcJJSw&t=22s
TRUMP “Poisoning the blood” HITLER COMMENT
Trump on ‘poisoning the blood’ remarks: ‘I never knew that Hitler said it’
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-poisoning-blood-remarks-never-knew-hitler-said-rcna130958
The former president said Friday that he didn’t know Hitler had used the term, but he has repeated it throughout the week after the comparison was made by critics.
Trump repeats ‘poisoning the blood’ anti-immigrant remark
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-repeats-poisoning-blood-anti-immigrant-remark-2023-12-16/
TRUMP JANUARY 6th HOSTAGES and PARDONING THEM
Trump Salutes Insurrection ‘Hostages
https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/trump-salutes-insurrection-hostages/
Trump escalates solidarity with Jan. 6 rioters as his own trials close in
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/03/23/trump-jan-6-rioters-rhetoric-campaign/
Donald Trump Salutes Jan. 6 ‘Hostages’ at Ohio Rally
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-salutes-jan-6-hostages-national-anthem-plays-1880028
Trump’s dark rally speech offers preview of 2024’s outrage cycle
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/17/trump-rally-bloodbath-january-6
VIDEO: Trump’s Controversial Comments At Ohio Rally
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1461960141060931
VIDEO: See Pence’s reaction after Trump salutes Jan. 6 prisoners at rally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m_YnFO8ZO8&t=5s
TRUMP DICTATOR DAY ONE
https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2023/12/09/wannabe-dictator-donald-and-his-day-one/
Wannabe dictator Donald and his Day One
FOREIGN POLICY
Good Timeline and summaries of foreign policy moments
https://www.cfr.org/timeline/trumps-foreign-policy-moments
2017 – Inauguration, withdrawal Trans-Pacific Partnership, Travel Ban, Syrai strike, Revisiting NAFTA, Trip (Saudi Arabia, Israel, West Bank, Italy, Vatican City, Belgium & Italy) addresses NATO G7, Leaves Paris Agreement, Trump and Qatar problem, rolls back Cuba, Group of Twenty meets with Putin, war of Words with North Korea, New Afghan strategy, winding down DACA in 6 months, UN address and North Korea, revisiting the Iran deal, trip (Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam), breaks decades of US policy recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
2018 – Tariffs on steel and aluminum, accepts Kim Jong-un’s invitation to meet, US-China trade war China tariffs at Group of Twenty Trump & Xi Jinping agrees to cease-fire, Syrian air strikes, Zero Tolerance border policy, withdraws from Iran Nuclear agreement and adds new sanctions, US embassy moves to Jerusalem, Trump meets Kim, withdrew from Human Rights Council (Nikki Haley), Trump and Putin in Helsinki (Closed doors) after Trump says Russia didn’t interfere with US elections, New NAFTA called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, Khashoggi Saudi journalist is assassinated inside Saudi consulate in Turkey Trump back Saudi Prince, US withdraws from Syria (Mattis resigns)
2019 – picks Guaido as Venezuelan president (w 50 other countries) over Maduro, 35 day shutdown of the US government after rejecting funding for the Wall, China trade war, more tariffs 10 to 25%, Trump walks back on Iran, first President to set foot in North Korea (soon after N Korea resumes missile tests), changes Asylum rules (asylum seekers stay in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras or Mexico while waiting claims), Taliban talks cancelled, Impeachment hearing begins over Ukraine dealings, withdrawal from Syria after call with Turkey’s Erdogan (Turkish troops invade to fight Kurds who helped us kill the Taliban, Kurds trun to Putin & Assad), Saudis blam Iran for attack on oil fields so Trump gives Saudis more troops and weapons, Islamic State Baghdadi killed hiding in Syria
2020 – A U.S. drone strike kills Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force, in Baghdad, new Middle East Peace plan with no Palestinian involvement, Senate acquits Trump UKranian charges, US Taliban agreement, Coronavirus March 13, 2020 declares an national emergency, COVID fallout, Trump pulls out of the World Health Organization, Lowers troop amounts in Germany, Arab Gulf and Israel unite agreements goes against Iran and angers Palestinians, days after losing to Biden Trump fires Defense Secretary Mark Esper (Christopher C Miller acting Defense Secretary), US withdrawals from Treaty on Open Skies.
SYRIA AND KURDS
Abandoned by U.S. in Syria, Kurds Find New Ally in American Foe (Russia)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/world/middleeast/syria-turkey-invasion-isis.html
Trump defends decision to abandon Kurdish allies in Syria
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-syria-ap-top-news-international-news-politics-ac3115b4eb564288a03a5b8be868d2e5
Here’s What Has Happened in Syria in the Week Since Trump Abandoned the Kurds
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/why-trump-decision-abandon-kurds-syria-disaster-898493/
Rolling Stone
DROPPED OUT OF THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL
TRUMP'S LIFE TIMELINE
1946 – June 14 born to Fred and Mary (McLeod)
1959 – attends New York Military Academy
1965 – Fordham University before transferring to Wharton
1968 – Bachelor of Science in economics University of PA (Wharton School of Finance)
1971 – father named him president of his real estate business Brooklyn and Queens
1973 – October- the Civil Rights Division filed a lawsuit against Trump Management Company
violated the Fair Housing by discriminating against black and hispanics
1974 – Commodore Hotel demolished – Grand Hyatt Hotel 6 yrs later
1975 – Consent Decree to settle discrimination
1976 – Grand Central Hyatt – Commodore Hotel – Hyatt and Fred Trump co-signed loan?
NYC was in terrible shape and Trump got big tax breaks
1977 – marries Ivana Zelnickova Winklmayr – Dec 31 – Donald Trump Jr. is born
1980 – Trump Tower – 48 story
1981 – Ivanka Marie Trump is born
1981 – Trump Parc & Trump Parc East – condominium conversion
1983 – Trump Tower – opened celebrated with Ed Koch 58 story concrete & glass
1983 – bought USFL New Jersey Generals football team – Sept. 10 mil, Ivana & Warhol cheerleader tryouts
1984 – Eric Fredric Trump is born
1985 – Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach, FL – 10 mil
1985 – Trump Place, NYC – Sale of St. Moritz Hotel – Acquisition & Mgement: Trump Castle, Atlantic City
1986 – Wollman Rink – renovated the ice rink Ed Koch under 3 million budget
1987 – Book: The Art of the Deal – also established charity Donald J Trump Foundation (51 wks on best seller list)
1988 – Trump Airlines – Eastern Air Shuttle 365 Million, never turned a profit default on loans
turned over to creditors
1988 – Trump Palace ??
Empire ST. Building ??
1989 – Trump the board game – discontinued in a year Failed
1989 – appears on the cover of Time
1990 – divorce/separates with Ivanna – removed from Forbes 400 list not reinstated until 96
1990 – Trump faces1 billion dollars in debt – agreement with bankers and allowance
after Reagan Boom US Savings and loan collapse – Iraq/Kuwait oil prices, july 90 to March 91
1991 – files for branruptcy for the 1st time – starts the Comeback
1993 – married Marla Maples Dec (had a daughter Tiffany Oct 13)
1995 – Trump Casino & Hotel Resorts IPO to the tune of $140 million stock DJT
bought into the Trump Casino & Hotel Resorts IPO to the tune of $140 million
1995 – 40 Wall Street – bought for 1 mil, 35 mill in renovations now worth 500 million
1996 – buys Miss Universe Organization
1999 – divorced Marla Maples
2001 – The Dot Com tech bubble and 9/11 terrorist attacks
2003 – Files suit against Native American tribe and rival developer Eastern Pequots
2004 – The Apprentice debuted to great ratings $1 million for episode (spinoff Celebrity Apprentice)
2004 – Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy – Sept 27 – delisted
2005 – married Melania (Knauss) pregnant with Barron William Trump
2005 – September Access Hollywood with Billy Bush on bus (Washington Post Oct 7, 2016)
2005 – Trump University non-credited 2010 sued by students NY Attorney General $40 mil defrauding
2005 – Trump International Tower Chicago former Chicago Sun-Times headquarters in 2005 for $73 million
2006 – Baron Trump is born March 20
2006 – Trump Vodka “Success Distilled” failed by 2011 FAIL
2006 – Go Trump.com luxury travel search engine shut down a year and half later FAIL
2006 – Trump Mortgage – shut down in a year and a half FAIL
2007 – Jan receives star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
2007 – Trump Magazine – Failed in a year and a half
2007 – Trump Steaks June Sharper Image – Fail (also Trump Steakhouse LV closed for 51 health code violations
2007 – 2008 – The Great Recession – too big to fail financial crisis – subprime mortgage
2012 – Offers Obama 5 million to the charity of his choice in exchange for birth certificate
2014 – Trump Entertainment Resorts casinos in Atlantic City filed for bankruptcy for 4th time FAIL
2015 – announce campaign remarks about Mexican immigrants being rapists and drug dealers
2015 – NBC cuts ties with Trump over immigration remarks and stop airing Miss America/Universe
2016 – tape released of Access Hollywood
BACK COVER & TITLE QUOTES
TITLE PAGE
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” Trump remarked at a campaign stop at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. “It’s, like, incredible..”
BACK COVER QUOTE PAGES
https://www.nps.gov/moru/learn/historyculture/why-these-four-presidents.htm
George Washington
“The preservation of the sacred fire of Liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”
“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light”
Abraham Lincoln
“I leave you hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.”
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
Lincoln: If I were two faced, would I be wearing this one
https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/abraham-lincoln-quotes
https://presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/lincoln-quotes/?pg=2&sz=10
https://abrahamlincoln.org/features/speeches-writings/abraham-lincoln-quotes/
https://www.azquotes.com/author/8880-Abraham_Lincoln
https://www.nps.gov/articles/secret-symbol-of-the-lincoln-memorial.htm
Theodore Roosevelt
“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight – that he shall not be a mere passenger.”
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth.”
“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”
To announce that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about anyone else.”
“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we require him to obey it.””Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.”
“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”
https://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=991271&module_id=339333
Thomas Jefferson
“We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self – government.”
Donald Trump
“I know words, I have the best words… Bing bing, bong bong bong, bing bing… Rosie O’Donnell is a fat pig….January 6th was a beautiful day!”
“Bing bing, bong bong bong, bing bing. You know what that is, right?”
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/donald-trumps-bing-bong-speech
“Rosie O’Donnell is a big fat pig”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM2GFtO5VP0&t=71s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlD9REqnxCg 2007 she’s a pig
I know words, I have the best words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM2GFtO5VP0&t=2s
“you once told contestant on celebrity apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees”
https://www.independent.co.uk/us/donald-trump-quotes-the-10-scariest-things-the-presumptive-republican-nominee-has-ever-said-a7015236.html
If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her (The View, 2006)
“All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.” How To Get Rich (2004)
“If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?” (Twitter, 2015 – later deleted)
“I would bring back waterboarding and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.” Republican Presidential Debate, ABC News 2016)
https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/politics/donald-trump-arizona/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/politics/donald-trump-hugh-hewitt/index.html
“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”
Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign, made a controversial statement at a rally in Iowa on January 23, 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ljHhR8XPA&t=78s
Ummm black people (Jimmy Kimmel March 12, 2024 – campaign speech, Trump talking lying about losing a million jobs and then just said “black people” out of nowhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ljHhR8XPA
“I’d fire Rosie. I’d look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers and say, ‘Rosie, you’re fired.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlD9REqnxCg
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/us/donald-trump-keeps-insulting-rosie-odonnell-heres-how-their-feud-started.html
Donald Trump 2007
“I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
Trump does his own PR by posing as a made up guy “John Barron” – in a thinly disguised voice (He tried to get the other owners to help him pay for the 8.25 million dollar Flutie contract
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/02/sports/trump-asks-help-in-paying-flutie.html
Jesus
“I would bring back waterboarding and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.” Republican Presidential Debate, ABC News 2016)
Donald J Trump
Donald Trump compilation: The 90 most shocking things he’s said during election campaign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAIfU5RBBso&t=12s
The 7 DUMBEST Trump Statements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv9sH5ptgRA&t=15s
Nuke Hurricanes, Revolutionary War airport in 1776, Clean Coal, You can’t see the F35 even if its right next to it (actually stealth means radar), Puerta Rico is surrounded big water – water is wet from the standpoint of water, the noise from a Windmill causes Cancer, inject disinfectant to fight Covid would do a number on your lungs,
What about forest fires by unswept grounds, water deactivating magnets, declassifying documents with his mind
Quote about parents of Korean veterans calling him and a reporter asks if they were 120 years old?
https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-most-stupid-thing-that-Donald-Trump-has-said-before-or-after-becoming-president
Here Are Twenty Other Disturbing, Awful Things That Trump Has Said This Month, and It’s Not Over Yet
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/here-are-twenty-other-disturbing-awful-things-that-trump-has-said-this-month-and-its-not-over-yet
Donald Trump’s 57 most outrageous quotes from his Arizona speech
https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/politics/donald-trump-arizona/index.html
69 things Donald Trump has said about women
https://theweek.com/donald-trump/655770/61-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-women
Donald Trump’s Trail of Comments About Women
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/us/politics/donald-trump-women.html
Donald Trump stupid Nuclear speech
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/18iy455/what_is_the_dumbest_thing_donald_trump_ever_said/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-sentence/
What are President Trump’s most stupid full sentences, if any? “If any” refers to full sentences, of course.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-President-Trump-s-most-stupid-full-sentences-if-any-If-any-refers-to-full-sentences-of-course
OTHER
OTHER GENERAL BIOGRAPHY AND TIMELINE
RESEARCH
***** CNN: Donald Trump Fast Facts – Biography and Great TIMELINE of Trump June 14, 1946
https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/04/us/donald-trump-fast-facts/index.html
He has portrayed himself in cameo appearances in movies and on television, including “Zoolander,” “Sex and the City” and “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.”
During an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says his office is investigating Trump’s charitable foundation “to make sure it’s complying with the laws governing charities in New York.”
*** How Trump Invented Trump
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2015-how-trump-invented-trump/
2015 written while a candidate, has a lot of backstory and biography
BIOGRAPHY – great list biography and 1st 100 days of presidency and all policies after
https://www.biography.com/political-figures/donald-trump
BBC: Donald Trump’s life story: From hotel developer to president
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35318432
ABC: What happened during President Trump’s first year? A timeline of key events
https://abc7.com/trump-first-year-president-donald-potus/2964376/
What real estate does Trump really own in New York City 2024
https://www.curbed.com/article/trump-lawsuit-real-estate-nyc-letitia-james.html
The Reason Donald Trump’s 2005 Tax Return Was So Yuge? Chinese Investors.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-reason-donald-trumps-2005-tax-return-was-so-yuge-chinese-investors
How Donald Trump Lucked into the Most Lucrative Deal of his Career (with the Chinese)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-lucked-most-lucrative-155819514.html
The celebrity tycoon so despised what he called a “very bad and destructive” transaction that he sued his Chinese partners to block it. He hurled accusations of kickbacks, tax fraud, and a nefarious plot to shortchange him by hundreds of millions of dollars. But all of Trump’s loudest bluster and legal muscle couldn’t prevent the 2005 sale of a swath of land along Manhattan’s Hudson River. Trump’s best transaction turned out to be one in which the self-described master dealmaker had no power, got dragged along screaming–and then benefitted hugely
Trump’s best transaction turned out to be one in which the self-described master dealmaker had no power, got dragged along screaming–and then benefitted hugely. Put simply, Trump got really, really lucky by parlaying the sale of what was variously called Trump Place and Riverside South–it’s now known as the latter–into a big share in two of America’s premier office buildings, 1290 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, and the fabled former Bank of America complex at 555 California Street in San Francisco.
Donald Trump’s Best and Worst Gambles (Mostly Real Estate)
https://www.cnbc.com/2010/11/09/Donald-Trumps-Best-and-Worst-Gambles.html
Donald Trump’s 16 Biggest Business Failures and Successes
https://time.com/3988970/donald-trump-business/
Lots of great photos with Stars, list all businessses like Trump Vodka, Board game etc.
Donald Trump’s property portfolio – the staggering real estate collection of the former US president
https://www.homesandgardens.com/news/donald-trump-property-portfolio
All of Trump’s properties with photos
The Lost City of Trump
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/29/trump-robert-moses-new-york-television-city-urban-development-1980s-218836/
GOLF: The former Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly in 2019 published a book titled Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump that delves into the former president’s relationship with the game.
Quote from Commander in Cheat: “Trump doesn’t just cheat at golf,” Reilly writes. “He throws it, boots it, and moves it. He lies about his lies. He fudges and foozles and fluffs. At Winged Foot, where Trump is a member, the caddies got so used to seeing him kick his ball back onto the fairway they came up with a nickname for him: ‘Pele.’”
AWESOME BONUS RANT
I owe my Trump-supporting friends an apology. I’ve been critical of the Trump presidency these last four years, and am still exhausted from the experience. But to be fair, President Trump wasn’t that bad, other than when he incited an insurrection against the government, mismanaged a pandemic that killed nearly half a million Americans, separated children from their families, lost those children in the bureaucracy, tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church, tried to block all Muslims from entering the country, got impeached, got impeached again, had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history, pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden, fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia, bragged about firing the FBI director on TV, took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community, diverted military funding to build his wall, caused the longest government shutdown in US history, called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate,” lied nearly 30,000 times, banned transgender people from serving in the military, ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions, vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers, refused to release his tax returns, increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion, had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history, called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers, coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist, refused to concede the 2020 election, hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House, walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl, called neo-Nazis “very fine people,” suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID, abandoned our allies the Kurds to Turkey, pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans, incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic, withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords, withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal, withdrew the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership which was designed to block China’s advances, insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter, pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op, failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies, called Haiti and African nations “shithole” countries, called the city of Baltimore the “worst in the nation,” claimed that he single handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas” even though it hadn’t gone anywhere, forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader, believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from the Russia probe, suggested the US should buy Greenland, colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges, repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people,” claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID
was a country, told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public, called his exceedingly faithful vice president a “p—y” for following the Constitution, nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet, nominated a corrupt head of the EPA, nominated a corrupt head of HHS, nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department, nominated a corrupt head of the USDA, praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies, refused to allow the presidential transition to begin, insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death, spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president, falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote, called the Muslim mayor of London a “stone cold loser,” falsely claimed that he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year, considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions, mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID, locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones, used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus,” hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser, pardoned several of his shady associates, gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his batshit crazy conspiracy theories, got into telephone fight with the leader of Australia(!), had a Secretary of State who called him a moron, forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history, botched the COVID vaccine rollout, tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him, charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties, constantly interrupted Joe Biden in their first presidential debate, claimed that COVID would “magically” disappear, called a U.S. Senator “Pocahontas,” used his Twitter account to blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivanka’s merchandise, opened up millions of pristine federal lands to development and drilling, got into a losing tariff war with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers, claimed that his losing tariff war was a win for the US, ignored or didn’t even take part in daily intelligence briefings, blew off honoring American war dead in France because it was raining, redesigned Air Force One to look like the Trump Shuttle, got played by Kim Jung Un and his “love letters,” threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution, botched the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them, pressured the governor and secretary of state of Georgia to “find” him votes, thought that the Virgin islands had a President, drew on a map with a Sharpie to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a hurricane, allowed White House staff to use personal email accounts for official businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing, rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury and asbestos, pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID, rolled back regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers, held blatant campaign rallies at the White House, tried to take away millions of Americans’ health insurance because the law was named for a Black man, refused to attend his successors’ inauguration, nominated the worst Education Secretary in history, threatened judges who didn’t do what he wanted, attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci, promised that Mexico would pay for the wall (it didn’t), allowed political hacks to overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and other issues, struggled navigating a ramp after claiming his opponent was feeble, called an African-American Congresswoman “low IQ,” threatened to withhold federal aid from states and cities with Democratic leaders, went ahead with rallies filled with maskless supporters in the middle of a pandemic, claimed that legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were “witch hunts,” seemed to demonstrate a belief that there were airports during the American Revolution, demanded “total loyalty” from the FBI director, praised a conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles, completely gutted the Voice of America, placed a political hack in charge of the Postal Service, claimed without evidence that the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower, suggested that the US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country, suggested that COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered with the help of top government doctors and treatments not available to the public, overturned energy conservation standards that even industry supported, reduced the number of refugees the US accepts, insulted various members of Congress and the media with infantile nicknames, gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address, named as head of federal personnel a 29-year old who’d previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties, eliminated the White House office of pandemic response, used soldiers as campaign props, fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him, demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade, hired a shit ton of white nationalists, politicized the civil service, did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the U.S. government, falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts, claimed that Black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won, insulted reporters of color, insulted women reporters, insulted women reporters of color, suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uighurs, attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him, summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the election, spent countless hours every day watching Fox News, refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas, hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer, tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him, acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney, attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused him of sexual assault, held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present, didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media, stopped holding press briefings for months at a time, “ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power, led a political party that couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform, claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers, tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course, suggested that the government nuke hurricanes, suggested that wind turbines cause cancer, said that he had a special aptitude for science, fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure, blurted out classified information to Russian officials, tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida, fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban, hired Stephen Miller, openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could hear them, interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel, abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the U.S. during the war, tried to get Russia back into the G7, held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden, seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive, lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated, falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they weren’t, shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies, still hasn’t come up with a healthcare plan, still hasn’t come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks,” forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID, told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” fucked up the Census, withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic, did so few of his duties that his press staff were forced to state on his daily schedule “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings,” allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act, seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win, constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president which presumably includes four that were assassinated and his predecessor whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show star named Donald Trump, claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened, said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake, claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him, claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President, created a commission to whitewash American history, retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain, claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there, hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims, had a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill millions of Jews and others, bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties, apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House, stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians, falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police, said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about, tried to rescind protection from DREAMers, gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic, tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax, said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states, deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented, claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln, touted a “super-duper” secret “hydrosonic” missile which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile or may not exist at all, retweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile, forced through security clearances for his family, suggested that police officers should rough up suspects, suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs, tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender, suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher, nominated a climate change sceptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy, retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called “Fuck tha Police” at a campaign event, hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags, accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address, claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were “spending too much time” on Russia, mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, obsessed over low-flow toilets, ordered the rerelease of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release, called for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek), hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech, took advice from the MyPillow guy, claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists, said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure, never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign, falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent, announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria which not only handed Russia and ISIS a win but also prompted his defense secretary to resign in protest, insulted the leader of Canada, insulted the leader of France, insulted the leader of Britain, insulted the leader of Germany, insulted the leader of Sweden (Sweden!!), falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues, blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually, continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders, said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked, left a NATO summit early in a huff, stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that, called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary, refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise, and a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment.