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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Score: -1
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“In 2018, the Trump administration for the first time attempted a Defense Department-wide audit.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Score: 0
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Trump’s administration’s approach paved the way for less stringent regulation of toxic chemicals.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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/
Posted May 15, 2024
Updated: May 16,2024
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