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Donald Trump Score Card

Donald Trump Score Card

DONALD TRUMP SCORE CARD

Following is a list of positive, negative, and questionable actions that Donald Trump reportedly and allegedly did.  This effort is to help us all better decide the value of this man to this country and if we should vote for him again.

PAST HISTORY

President Donald Trump was impeached twice during his single term in office. In each case, he was acquitted on all counts by the Senate.

The first impeachment of President Donald Trump occurred on December 18, 2019.

Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, was impeached for the second time on January 13, 2021, one week before his term expired.

“In each case, he was acquitted on all counts by the Senate.”

Source: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S4-4-9/ALDE_00000035/

Score:  THIS IS AN EMPIRICAL INDICATOR OF A POSSIBLE PROBLEM.

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“On January 6, 2021, many Trump supporters gathered near the White House to hear the president speak at an event known as the “Stop the Steal” rally. Trump continued to push the false claims that the election was “rigged” and that he won it. He stated that he would “never concede.” He also suggested that Vice President Pence could halt the certification of the Electoral College vote, a procedural formality that was scheduled to take place in the US Capitol building on that day.

For several hours that afternoon, a mob of Trump supporters violently invaded the US Capitol building, threatening to kill members of Congress and their staff, who hid inside. More than a hundred police officers were injured, and several rioters died—one shot by police and several from natural causes.”

Thus, Donald Trump refused to concede defeat and instead instigated an insurrection, stirring a mob that stormed the Capitol January 6 2021.

Source:  https://millercenter.org/president/trump/life-after-the-presidency
Score:  -1

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Trump openly appealed to Russia to steal his opponent’s emails.
Score:  -1

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Trump’s serial subservience to foreign strongmen such as Recep Tayyip Erdo?an of Turkey, Kim Jong Un of North Korea, and, of course, Russia’s Vladimir Putin—none of whom act out of a sense of shared interests with the United States.
Score: -1

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Trump’s dereliction of duty during the COVID-19 pandemic, which will have killed at least 400,000 Americans by the time he leaves office.
Score:  -1

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Trump had sex with women not his wife.
Score: -1

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“Trump administration’s National Defense Strategy stands out as one of the most important defense policy shifts of the last generation, reorienting the American military to confront rising and increasingly aggressive powers Russia and China.”

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impac t-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  +1

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Trump’s Interior Department stonewalled Congressional oversight and got away with it.
Score:  -1

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Trump dismantled Obama-era policies that were designed to curb abuses by for-profit colleges.
Score:  -1

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“The Trump administration played a major but little-noticed role in pushing Congress to enact the most sweeping overhaul of financial crimes safeguards in decades, measures intended to stop money flowing to terrorists, drug traffickers and other wrongdoers.”

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  +1

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“Under Trump, the Agriculture Department scaled back the $60 billion Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the food support program for low-income Americans formerly known as food stamps.” 
“The impact: 755,000 Americans have lost their access to food aid.”

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479
Score:  -1

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Trump’’s  “Labor Department finalized an overtime rule notably weaker than that issued under Obama, leaving millions of workers ineligible.”
“At least 8 million workers who would have been eligible for overtime pay under the 2016 version and now are ineligible; some estimates place the amount of wages lost at around $1 billion annually.”

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  -1

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“The Trump administration loosened the standards oil and gas companies had to meet for how much methane — the largest chemical component of natural gas and a major heat-trapping substance — they could allow to leak out of pipelines, storage tanks and other oil field infrastructure.”

Source:   https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  -1

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“In 2018, the Trump administration for the first time attempted a Defense Department-wide audit.”

Source:   https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  +1

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“The Trump, 2017 tax bill slashed individual and corporate tax rates and made dozens of other major changes to the tax code that affected virtually every facet of the economy, from small businesses to university endowments.” 

Source:   https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  0

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“At the end of 2019, Trump signed into law carefully crafted bipartisan legislation designed to ensure phone companies would install technology to verify that calls were authentic and bolster federal enforcement powers.”

Source:    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  +1

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Trump’s “Agriculture Department went to great lengths to quietly quash scientific research conducted by its employees or funded by government dollars, in particular research about how the agriculture industry could play a critical role in combating climate change.”

Source:    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479
Score:  -1

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“Early in 2020 the Trump administration released a big ball of rules meant to sweep aside barriers to sharing health information.”

Source:    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479
Score:  +1

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“Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress repealed transparency safeguards designed to protect hundreds of thousands of people working for companies bidding for federal contracts from sexual harassment.”

This would “required businesses to publicly disclose any sexual harassment or labor law violations over the previous three years whenever they bid on large federal contracts.”

“The impact: Federal contractors with a history of sexual harassment or other labor violations can win bids without having to reveal their problematic history.” 

Source:     https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  0

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“The Obama administration’s plan would have required automakers to improve fuel efficiency by 5 percent per year, but the Trump administration rolled those targets back to just 1.5 percent improvement each year.”

Source:     https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  -1

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 “Trump wanted to crack down on illegal immigration at the southern border, his administration also imposed tighter restrictions on legal immigration.” 

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  0

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Trump’s administration’s approach paved the way for less stringent regulation of toxic chemicals.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  -1

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LEGAL & CRIMINAL CASES AGAINST DONALD TRUMP

 

In August, Georgia Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, brought a sprawling RICO case against Trump and 18 codefendants, accusing them of forming an enterprise to illegally try to keep him in power despite losing the 2020 election.

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:  Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

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“Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith brought an indictment against Trump in Washington, DC, federal court. The case is being overseen by US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, who has overseen numerous criminal trials of January 6 rioters.”

“The indictment alleges Trump and a group of yet-unindicted co-conspirators conspired to stop Congress from doing its duty to certify now-President Joe Biden’s electoral victory in the 2020 election and rob Americans of their lawful votes.”

 “The Supreme Court is weighing whether Trump is immune from prosecution in the case, a legal battle that has effectively frozen proceedings. The high court is set to hear arguments on Thursday, April 25.”

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:   Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

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“Early in 2022, Trump turned over 15 boxes of documents — including some marked as classified and “top secret” — to the National Archives. But federal investigators scrutinizing the former president’s handling of records reportedly grew suspicious that Trump or people close to him still retained some key records. The FBI seized about a dozen boxes of additional documents during a raid of Mar-a-Lago last summer.”

Source:   https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:   Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

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New York’s, ManhattanDistrict Attorney Alvin L. Bragg’s office investigated whether Trump violated campaign finance laws in connection to hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. A grand jury voted to bring criminal charges against Trump in the case.”

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:  Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

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The Trump Organization was found guilty of 17 tax fraud counts on December 6, 2022 in a speedy, slam-dunk conviction in New York state court.

Score:  -5

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“New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization.  James said she uncovered a decade-long pattern of financial wrongdoing at Trump’s multibillion-dollar real-estate and golf resort empire.”

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:  Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

 

The Disqualification Lawsuits

Voters and advocacy groups in several states have filed lawsuits seeking to keep Donald Trump off the ballot in 2024. A case in Colorado brought by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has been litigated most extensively so far.”

“Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, passed shortly after the Civil War, forbids “an officer of the United States” (Donald Trump) from being “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the country.”

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

 

SUMMARY

The Above list Shows That Trump Is A Possible Political Threat To Democracy.

 

FINAL SCORE TOTALS:

-18

+5

POSSIBLY A FLAWED INDIVIDUAL:  +6

 

 

The above listed items came from:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/trump-worst-president-history/617730/

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

 

 

Posted May 15, 2024
Updated:  May 16,2024
By Score Card

Consider Running For A Republican Party Office.

Consider Running For A Republican Party Office.

Please contemplate running for a Republican Party office.  Listed next are some requirements and beliefs that our future Republican Party candidates should ponder and see if you agree with some of these party beliefs and ideals:

You should understand that Fascism is a way better form of government than Democracy.  You should not reveal that this is your intent.  You only need to impose it’s mission.   Democracy is so messy to administer while Fascism is singular in purpose and simple to install and enforce upon the public.  Also, a politician who portrays himself of her self as an authoritarian, often times comes across as being a decisive and powerful person.  The American public generally want strong leadership and will look past the actions you take if they can be seen as working for what is best for the ruling class and the party.    The modern Republican party is hurtling towards fascism.

As a fascist, you can believe that women should not have the right to an abortion, that women are not rulers of their bodies but men are.  You can outlaw abortions if you are a Republican.   Abortion was a 50/50 issue. Now, it’s Republican quicksand.

As a racist, you can ban books.  The rising Republican movement to defund public libraries.

If you agree that supporting the poor and vulnerable is a waste of money, then you are for being a Republican.

3 myths about the poor that Republicans are using to support slashing US safety net

You believe that no person can or should practice homosexual activities and beliefs.  You believe that every person was born heterosexual.  This is a wonderful way to exercise power because the homosexual community is very small and lacks power to oppose you.   Texas GOP platform embraces far-right and anti-gay rhetoric.

You agree that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by Democrats to thwart the business of mining, gas exploration and extraction.  The businesses of extraction can support Republican politicians financially to a significant level.   Extraction Oil Gas Gave 10 Million To Political Causes.

You believe that the NRA is not to blame in any way for gun violence in the United States and anyone should be able to buy a gun with no age restriction.  The NRA is also a significant political payment supporter.  How Much Influence Does The NRA Have Over Politicians?

You support and believe that the IRS should not be allow to inspect the super rich tax forms with any more care and inspection than a homeless persons.   The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax.

You do not need to have a very high intelligence quotient to be a Republican, in fact, it really helps you get elected by being seen as simple.   Who’s Smarter? Republicans and Democrats in Congress.

When you declare and list your prior history, you are allowed to lie about any and every aspect, every item.  It has been proven from prior history that pandering to the embellishment can really help your total vote numbers even when based on lies.   Study: PolitiFact says Republicans lie more.

 

But, there are some hidden problems for the fascist Republicans:

 

 

 

Posted:  5-30-2023
Updated:  5-31-2023

Alleged Scam Text Reveals Possible Issues at California EDD.

Alleged Scam Text Reveals Possible Issues at California EDD.

I received an alleged scam text into my phone, October 4, 2022, which follows:

“+1 (820) 465-2292”

“California Unemployment {EDD}: Your prepaid Card is temporarily on hold status .Please review recent transactions at caeddverifyprepaid.com Failure to complete can result in permanent account closure.

Msg & Data Rates May Apply”

 

I have no idea what a California Unemployment EDD prepaid Card is.  I am not getting any unemployment support from anyone.  

I should have not tried to connect to the web site address but I did to further my investigation and got this response:

“The connection to caeddverifyprepaid.com is not secure.”

 

I have no dealings with the California Unemployment agency so I decided to let them know that I was allegedly being scammed.  I went to their web site but could not find a phone number.  They only offered a prepared document for me to fill out using my computer:

 

https://edd.ca.gov/en/about_edd/contact_edd/

 

I chose the option at that web page to respond to this offer:  “Comments, Suggestions or Complaints”.

This took me to their prepared document that I had to fill out on my computer and print out and then send the document to them by mail.

Filling out the prepared computer screen document was flawed, in my opinion.  In each of the document sections it was impossible to add a space between words.  I had to place an underline or dash to convey the words that I needed to print.

I find this California EDD agency needs to vastly improve it’s operation for the following issues:

1:  Their phone number: 1-800-480-3287 was utterly useless.  I was not allowed to talk to anyone.

2:  Their prepared computer form was flawed by not allowing me to put spaces between words.  For example, the form asks for your name.  I was not allowed to place a space between my first and last name.  So, I put in an underline.

3:  I have to print this document?  I then have to mail it?  Why can’t I send the document by e-mail?  Why can’t I send the document from the current computer screen?

 

 

I decided not to send the document that I printed out because this would reveal my identity.  I run an anonymous web site blog.

Posted: 8-7-2022

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