Donald John
Trump (b.
June 14,
1946, in
Queens, New
York) was
the 45th
president of
the United
States,
serving from
January 20,
2017, to
January 20,
2021. A
hardcore
right-wing
extremist
Republican,
On December
18, 2019,
Trump became
the third
president in
U.S. history
to be
impeached by
the U.S.
House. The
Republican
U.S. Senate
acquitted
Trump on
both charges
of abuse of
power and
obstruction
of Congress
on February
5, 2020.
Trump was
impeached a
second time
on January
13, 2021,
for
incitement
of
insurrection.
The Senate
acquitted
Trump on
February 13,
2021. Donald
Trump is the
first
current or
former
president in
American
history to
be indicted
on felony
charges. He
was indicted
for the
first time
on March 30,
2023 by a
New York
Grand Jury
in
connection
with his
alleged role
in a hush
money
payment
scheme and
cover-up
involving
adult film
star Stormy
Daniels
during the
2016
presidential
campaign.
"Jeffrey Epstein
described himself as Donald Trump’s
“closest friend” and claimed intimate
knowledge of his proclivity for sex,
including cuckolding his best friends,
according to recordings obtained exclusively
by the Daily Beast. The convicted pedophile
even boasted of his closeness to Trump and
his now-wife Melania by claiming, “the first
time he slept with her was on my plane,”
which was dubbed the Lolita Express. Epstein
spoke at length about Trump with the author
Michael Wolff in August 2017, two years
before being found dead in his jail cell.
Wolff was researching his bombshell
bestseller Fire and Fury at the time."
"I do not
know how to put this gently or
tastefully, so I will factually
describe what happened last
night in Milwaukee: A former
president of the United States
held a rally, during which he
used a microphone holder on his
podium to pantomime the act of
giving fellatio.
I could
have put it differently. I might
have said that “a cognitively
impaired man, who has long been
showing signs of serious
emotional instability and has a
history of sexism and racism,
engaged in crude behavior in
front of a large audience.” But
that wouldn’t capture an
important reality:
This deeply
impaired man is tied
in the race to
become the next
president and could
be holding the codes
to the U.S. nuclear
arsenal in less than
three months."
"Escalating his
anti-immigrant rhetoric,
Trump is now calling the United States
“a garbage can for the world.” The
Republican nominee used the descriptor twice
on Thursday night during a campaign rally in
Arizona. “First time I’ve ever said ‘garbage
can’ but, you know what, it’s a very
accurate description,” he claimed. On Friday
in Texas, Trump again said, “We’re like a
garbage can. First time I said it was last
night.… I said it—I don’t know, just came
out, ‘garbage can.’ We’re like a garbage can
for the rest of the world to dump the people
they don’t want.”"
"Trump, while
president, expressed admiration for Hitler’s
Nazi generals. “I
need the kind of generals that Hitler had,”
he said in the White House, according to two
people who heard him. “People who were
totally loyal to him, that follow orders.”"
"Former President
Donald Trump delivered unusual and
vulgar remarks Saturday about the late golf
legend Arnold Palmer while campaigning in
Latrobe, Pennsylvania, as the campaign
enters the final stretch to Election Day. "
[ . . . ] ""This is a guy that was all man,"
the former president said. "This man was
strong and tough, and I refuse to say it,
but when he took showers with the other
pros, they came out of there, they said, 'Oh
my God, that's unbelievable.'"" [ . . . ]
"Palmer's daughter Peg Palmer Wears said in
2018 that
her
father, a political conservative who died in
2016 shortly before Trump was elected, was
"appalled" by Trump."
"Donald Trump
is spending part of his Sunday afternoon
behind the counter at a Pennsylvania
McDonald’s. The former president, who has
frequently said he loves the chain’s food,
donned an apron to work the fry machine and
hand food to customers at the drive thru.
It’s an attempt to bring attention to his
unfounded allegations that his opponent,
Vice President Kamala Harris, did not work
there during college." [ . . . ] "Rolling
Stone has reached out to the Harris campaign
for comment. A campaign official told CNN
that she worked at a McDonald’s in Alameda,
California, in the summer of 1983 while a
student at Howard University, working the
register as well as the fry and ice cream
machines."
Photo: Mother Jones;
Jabin Botsford/The
Washington
Post/Getty
"In
Arizona, older people recently
received a mailer declaring
Medicare had been cancelled. It
had a big red stamp that
proclaimed, “Medicare
Cancellation Notice.” Also
emblazoned on its front was
this: “Warning: Rates are going
up & plans are being cancelled.
Details enclosed.” Its return
address was the “Department of
Medicare Cancellation, Kamala
Harris Administration.”
That
return address should have been
a tip-off that this was not an
official notification—along with
a scrawled add-on in cursive: “I
hope you can afford to lose your
insurance! — Kamala Harris XOXO.”
It’s hard
to know whether any recipient
saw this and received a shock,
fearing their Medicare was being
cut off. But the group that sent
out this official-looking piece
of campaign literature, Make
America Great Again, Inc., a
pro-Trump super PAC, was
spreading false and misleading
information about Medicare and
about Harris."
"Donald Trump
left people mystified after garbling part of
his speech Sunday during a rally in Prescott
Valley, Arizona. While welcoming his
audience, the Republican proudly introduced
the many “Azure-asians” in the crowd.
Perplexed by what Trump uttered, several
people posted a clip of the speech on social
media to figure out what he was trying to
say."
"Hundreds of Donald
Trump followers were left stranded in
the California desert after a rally in the
Coachella Valley over the weekend. The rally
was held at an outdoor venue where
temperatures soared to over 100 degrees.
Despite the intense heat, thousands of
passionate Trump supporters braved the
elements to hear the former president speak.
During the rally, some supporters reportedly
collapsed because of the stifling heat.
Prior to the event, several buses were
provided to transport supporters to the
rally location. However,
after the rally, poorly organized
transportation logistics and a lack of basic
services left many attendees scrambling to
find their way home, with many stranded
miles from their cars after the event ended,
as reported by the Times of San Diego."
"Hungarian Prime
Minister Viktor Orbán is preparing to serve
up a major policy gift for his best friend
across the Atlantic, former United States
President Donald Trump. He’s
concocted a way to let Trump, if he
successfully makes it to the White House for
a second term come November, wriggle out of
a $50 billion loan the U.S., the European
Union and leaders of the G7 offered to
Ukraine to back its fight for survival
against Russia. That would let Trump off the
hook, allowing him to tell Republican voters
that, if elected, he won’t give Ukraine
another cent. Hungary says it won’t consent
to a change in rules that would allow
Washington to play a major role in the loan
until after the U.S. election."
"Donald Trump
was criticized online on Saturday after he
made what some deemed as a "delusional"
comment at an event in Nevada. Trump over
the weekend appeared at a roundtable
discussion with Latin American supporters in
Las Vegas. At that event,
the
former president made a comment that
confused critics. "They want to do things
like no more cows, and no windows in
buildings," he said. "They have some
wonderful plans for this country."
"Former President
Donald Trumphas
delivered a barrage of lies and distortions
about the federal response to Hurricane
Helene. While various misinformation
about the response has spread widely without
Trump’s involvement, the Republican
presidential nominee has been one of the
country’s leading deceivers on the subject.
Over a span of six days, in public comments
and social media posts, Trump has used his
powerful megaphone to endorse or invent
false or unsubstantiated claims."
"Donald Trump
threatened on Friday to direct the justice
department to pursue criminal charges
against Google if he is elected president,
claiming the company was unfairly displaying
negative news articles about him but not his
2024 election opponent, Kamala Harris. The
complaint – the latest threat on the
campaign trail from Trump to wield the power
of the presidency in response to enemies
real or perceived – came in an abrupt post
on Truth Social. “It has been determined
that Google has illegally used a system of
only revealing and displaying bad stories
about Donald J Trump, some made up for this
purpose while, at the same time, only
revealing good stories about Comrade Kamala
Harris,” Trump said in the post."
"A Haitian
organization in Ohio filed criminal charges
against former President Trump and
running mate Sen.
JD Vance (R-Ohio) on Tuesday,
alleging the pair has caused harm by
spreading baseless smears about Haitian
immigrants." [ . . . ] "Trump and Vance have
continuously amplified a false online
conspiracy theory about Haitian immigrants
eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, elevating
an internet rumor to the national stage." [
. . . ] "The head of Haitian Bridge Alliance
brought charges on behalf of the
organization Tuesday in Clark County
Municipal Court under an Ohio statute that
allows private citizens to file criminal
charges."
"Days after Taylor
Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president,
the
Republican presidential nominee expressed
his distaste for the mega pop star — in all
caps. “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” Trump
wrote in a post on Truth Social on Sunday.
After the debate between Harris and Trump
had wrapped on Tuesday night, Swift threw
her support behind the Democratic vice
president."
"it took only a few
minutes into Tuesday night’s face-off at the
National Constitution Center, in
Philadelphia, for it to be clear that
greatness was not in reach for the
ex-President. To be fair, Harris started out
a bit shaky, launching into a canned speech
on her first answer about her plans to boost
small business, rather than addressing a
straightforward opening question from ABC
News’s David Muir about whether Americans
are better off today than they were four
years ago. From that point on, however, the
debate stage was all hers. Who says a petite
woman in a pants suit can’t own a six-footer
with a hundred pounds on her? For someone
like Trump, whose entire public
persona has been an exercise in projecting
dominance—physical and otherwise—it must
have been more than a little humiliating. He
even seemed flustered by Harris’s opening
gambit of coming over and shaking his hand.
By the end of the evening, prediction
markets and the instant polls were calling
Harris a big winner, Pete Buttigieg was
dunking on Trump’s “crazy uncle vibe,” and,
adding insult to injury, Taylor Swift
decided to pick this night to endorse Harris
in an Instagram post to her two hundred and
eighty-three million followers. The
historian Michael Beschloss concluded, “From
start to end, Kamala Harris has just
delivered what is easily one of the most
successful Presidential debate performances
in all of American history.”"
"In yet another
escalation of his long-running war with the
press, Donald Trump called into Fox &
Friends the morning after his debate with
Vice President Kamala Harris and threatened
to have ABC’s broadcast license pulled.
Trump was furious after the network
fact-checked several of his false claims
during the debate, like when Trump spread
debunked conspiracy theories about
immigrants eating people's dogs."
"During the past 48
hours, former President Trump has
boosted a barrage of social media posts that
included threats to jail critics and
opponents, repeated QAnon slogans and a
suggestion that Vice President Kamala Harris
slept her way to the top. Trump's Truth
Social musings and re-posts have grown more
frequent and more vitriolic as new polls
suggest he's losing ground to Harris"
"The US Army issued a
stark rebuke of former President Donald
Trump’s presidential campaign over the
incident on Monday at Arlington National
Cemetery, saying in a statement on Thursday
that participants in the ceremony “were made
aware of federal laws” regarding political
activity at the cemetery, and “abruptly
pushed aside” an employee of the cemetery.
“Participants in the August 26th ceremony
and the subsequent Section 60 visit were
made aware of federal laws, Army regulations
and DoD policies, which clearly prohibit
political activities on cemetery grounds.""
Aug. 29, 2024
Trump grinning like an idiot with the thumbs up for a photo op in the revered Section 60, where those photographs are not permitted. Photo: X
"Donald
Trump’s campaign was warned
about not taking photographs
before an altercation at
Arlington National Cemetery
during a wreath-laying ceremony
earlier this week to honor
service members killed in the
Afghanistan War withdrawal, a
defense official told The
Associated Press on Wednesday.
The official spoke on condition
of anonymity to discuss a
sensitive matter concerning
Monday’s events. It came a day
after NPR reported, citing a
source with knowledge of the
incident, that two
Trump campaign staff members
“verbally abused and pushed”
aside a cemetery official who
tried to stop them from filming
and photographing in Section 60,
the burial site for military
personnel killed while fighting
in Afghanistan and Iraq. The
defense official told the AP
that the Trump campaign was
warned about not taking
photographs in Section 60 before
their arrival and the
altercation.
"“Barack Hussein
Obama. He was nasty to me. You know, he was
nasty. Michelle was nasty. They’re all
nasty. Nasty people. They were very nasty. I
was surprised. I thought he was, and I was
sort of nice to him. I said, no, you know, I
like him. It didn’t matter. They were nasty
to me.”"
"Foo Fighters say they
did not authorize Donald Trump’s use
of their hit track “My Hero” at a rally in
which he received the endorsement of
political rival-turned-backer
Robert F Kennedy Jr. The US rock band
said they were not asked for permission over
the song’s use and “would not have granted
it” if they had." [ . . . ]
"The
spokesperson added that “appropriate actions
are being taken” against the Trump campaign
and any royalties received as a result of
this usage will be donated to the Harris/Walz
campaign."
"“Do you remember when
Sheriff Joe was at the border. You
didn’t have people coming in. I think for
the one year he had one person come in, but
they got him,” Trump said. “Now we
have 3 million people coming in through your
border, your border.” Maricopa County,
however, does not share a border with
Mexico, although Arpaio did conduct crime
suppression sweeps in predominantly Latino
neighborhoods that were aimed at identifying
and deporting people in the country
illegally. A federal judge later ruled
Arpaio’s immigration actions were unlawful.
Trump’s claim that 3 million people have
come through the Arizona border with Mexico
is also not accurate, based on a review of
U.S. Customs and Border Protection data."
"But while Biden’s run
for re-election was largely sunk by a single
disastrous televised debate before a
national audience, Trump is ramping
up doubts with each chaotic, disjointed
speech as he campaigns around the country.
While rambling discourse and outrageously
disprovable claims, interspersed with spite
and vitriol, may seem nothing new to many of
Trump’s supporters and critics alike, the
former president appears to have been driven
to new depths by suddenly finding himself
running against Kamala Harris a month ago."
"Robert
F. Kennedy Jr. announced
Friday he is suspending his
long-shot campaign for president
and instead supporting former
President Donald Trump.
He did so at an event in
Phoenix, Arizona, during which
he encouraged voters in red or
blue states to vote for him but
said he would remove himself
from the ballot in battleground
states where he could act as a
"spoiler." [ . . . ] "Members of
his own family, too, were
critical of his views and of his
presidential run.
Fifteen Kennedy family members
made a statement by endorsing
Biden at a campaign stop in
Philadelphia when he was still
in the race."
"Donald Trump
is trying to brush off the fact that he
shared A.I.-generated images of Taylor Swift
endorsing his campaign to his Truth Social
account earlier this week, now claiming that
he doesn’t know “anything about them.” “I
don’t know anything about them, other than
somebody else generated them,” Trump told
Fox Business correspondent Gary Trimble
after his campaign event in Asheboro, North
Carolina, on Wednesday. “I didn’t generate
them.” One fabricated image shared by Trump
of the notoriously litigious pop star had
Swift clad in red, white, and blue, posing
like Uncle Sam before an American flag
emblazoned with the text: “Taylor wants YOU
to vote for Donald Trump.”"
"Donald Trump
has made yet another gesture of goodwill
toward the Capitol riot convicts: He's
planning to host an awards gala for them. A
“J6 Awards Gala” organized by pro-Trump
non-profit The America Project will be held
at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey on
September 5, with the former president and
Rudy Giuliani among the “invited” — but not
confirmed — speakers." [ . . . ] "In a
promotional video for the event,
Trump describes the convicts as "peaceful"
and "J6 hostages," and promises pardons for
them if he's elected president."
"Former President
Donald Trump received an immediate
backlash Thursday when he said the
Presidential Medal of Freedom he awarded to
Dr. Miriam Adelson, the widow of Republican
mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, was "equivalent"
and "much better" than the Medal of Honor,
the nation's highest military award for
bravery in combat." [ . . . ] ""I watched
Sheldon sitting so proud in the White House
when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal
of Freedom.
That's the highest award you can get as a
civilian. It's the equivalent of the
Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian
version," said Trump as he spoke from the
podium in front of multiple American and
Israeli flags. He added, "It's actually much
better because everyone gets the
Congressional Medal of Honor, they're
soldiers. They're either in very bad shape
because they've been hit so many times by
bullets or they are dead. She gets it and
she's a healthy, beautiful woman. And
they're rated equal, but she got the
Presidential Medal of Freedom.""
Former President
Donald Trump told attendees at a
conservative Christian event on Friday night
that they "won't have to vote anymore" if he
is elected into office in November. He
implored Christians to save America by
voting "just this time," so that he can win
the presidential election in a landslide
"that's too big to rig." Trump, who is the
Republican Party's candidate for president,
made his remarks at the end of a speech at
The Believers' Summit, an event hosted by
the conservative advocacy group
Turning Point Action, in West Palm
Beach, Florida. "Christians get out and
vote. Just this time," he urged.
"You
won't have to do it anymore. Four more
years. You know what? It'll be fixed. It'll
be fine. You won't have to vote anymore my
beautiful Christians."
"Arizona’s Family is
committed to holding all politicians
accountable during and after elections,
regardless of party. Our Investigates team
fact-checks statements as candidates and
elected officials make public appearances."
"On Thursday, in the
midst of the July 4th holiday, a former
Donald Trump staffer who worked on his 2016
campaign went public with a series of texts
she allegedly made with Trump attorney Jenna
Ellis asking about
secret lawsuit settlements for accusations
of "sexual harassment and gender
discrimination" within the campaign.
In replies to those texts from attorney A.J.
Delgado, who posted them on-line, Ellis
appears to reply, "Yes off record — Boris
The campaign settled multiple lawsuits. Have
your investigator contact [campaign staffer]
Michael Glassner. I will of course tell you
the truth." As the Daily Beast's Josh Fiallo
wrote, the "bombshell" texts were included
in a filing by Delgado as part of a lawsuit
she filed against Trump campaign adviser and
he supervisor, Jason Miller, whom she has
accused of raping her while they were having
an affair."
"In speeches in Nevada and Arizona, former President Donald Trump continued to spread misinformation that undermines public confidence in state and federal elections:
Trump claimed that Kari Lake lost the Arizona governor’s race in 2022 because Maricopa County “machines just happened to be broken” — falsely adding, “only the Republican machines.” Some printers produced ballots that were too light for on-site tabulators, but the ballots could be counted later. Lake’s court challenges failed, and an independent review found no evidence of wrongdoing.
Trump also claimed, without evidence, that Abraham Hamadeh lost the 2022 attorney general’s race in Arizona because “his election was rigged.” A recount confirmed Hamadeh lost the election, and court challenges failed, too, due to a lack of evidence."
"Donald Trump was found guilty Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star, making him the first former president to become a convicted felon. The unanimous verdict from the 12-person jury ends a six-week trial in which prosecutors accused Trump of orchestrating an illegal conspiracy to influence the 2016 presidential election." [ . . . ] "Trump was convicted on all of the felony counts brought by prosecutors."
"Lending his
voice to
anti-diversity,
equity and
inclusion
fervor
sweeping the
Republican
party,
Donald Trump
telegraphed
a dramatic
shift to
America's
approach to
civil rights
if he wins a
second term
as
president,
vowing to
focus on
"anti-white"
racism, not
on racism
against
people of
color. Asked
about
supporters
who believe
anti-white
racism now
represents a
greater
problem than
anti-Black
racism, the
former
president
told Time
magazine: "I
think there
is a
definite
anti-white
feeling in
this country
and that
can’t be
allowed."
"
May 1, 2024
OF COURSE He's A Homophobe! Like There Was Really Any Doubt!
"Former
President Donald
Trump praised
German
dictator
Adolf Hitler
while in the
White House,
former chief
of staff
John Kelly
told CNN.
Trump
repeatedly
praised
authoritarian
leaders
while
serving as
president,
Kelly and
other former
senior
advisers
told CNN’s
Jim
Sciutto. Trump
praised
Chinese
leader Xi
Jinping,
North Korean
leader Kim
Jong Un and
Russian
President
Vladimir
Putin,
the former
aides said.
But his most
unnerving
praise was
for Hitler.
“He said,
‘Well, but
Hitler did
some good
things.’ I
said, ‘Well,
what?’ And
he said,
‘Well,
[Hitler]
rebuilt the
economy.’
But what did
he do with
that rebuilt
economy? He
turned it
against his
own people
and against
the world.
And I said,
‘Sir, you
can never
say anything
good about
the guy.
Nothing,’”
Kelly
recalled,
according to
Sciutto. “I
mean,
Mussolini
was a great
guy in
comparison.”"
"As reported
in Vox, one
of the
opening
battles of
the
Republican
presidential
primary—cuts
to Social
Security.
And even
though
former
President Donald
Trump says
he won’t cut
Americans’
Social
Security and
Medicare
benefits
many point
to promise
as an absurd
proposition—why,
because he’s
made similar
promises in
the past,
and they
were lies.
In Trump’s
2016
presidential
campaign he
repeatedly
pledged that
he wouldn’t
cut Social
Security,
Medicare or
Medicaid but
after he
entered
office, his
pledge all
but
evaporated.
Each one of
Trump’s
White House
budget
proposals
included
cuts to
Medicare and
Social
Security."
"Donald
Trump sparked
fresh World
War 3
concerns
this weekend
after he
“encouraged”
Russia to
attack
certain NATO
countries,
RadarOnline.com
can report.
Trump’s
shocking
remarks came
on Saturday
during a
2024
campaign
rally in
South
Carolina.
Trump’s
shocking
remarks came
on Saturday
during a
2024
campaign
rally in
South
Carolina.
According to
the former
president-turned-GOP
presidential
frontrunner,
he
“encourages”
Russia to
“do whatever
the h---
they want”
to NATO
countries
that fail to
spend at
least 2% of
their gross
domestic
product on
the
military.
The 45th
president
even
recounted an
alleged
conversation
he shared
with an
unspecified
president of
a NATO
country who
challenged
Trump’s
pledge not
to defend
their
country from
a potential
Russian
invasion."
"After
months of
negotiations,
a trio of
Senate
negotiators
unveiled a
$118 billion
bipartisan
agreement to
overhaul
some key
Biden
administration
immigration
policies.
But the
legislation
is already
hitting a
brick wall
in the House
where GOP
leaders are
declaring it
"dead on
arrival."
"The deal
creates a
real
opportunity
for Congress
to address
our borders
and make
progress to
a more
efficient
and
well-resourced
system,"
Senate
Majority
Leader Chuck
Schumer,
D-N.Y., told
reporters
after
details of
the proposal
were
released.
The bill is
part of a
national
security
funding
package that
includes
additional
money for
Ukraine and
Israel. But
as the issue
of the
border
becomes a
central
flashpoint
in the 2024
presidential
campaign,
and former
President Trump publicly
urges GOP
lawmakers to
oppose the
deal,
the
prospects
for the bill
reaching
President
Biden's desk
seem bleak."
"Former
President Donald
Trump and
failed
Arizona
gubernatorial
candidate Kari
Lake were
blasted by
columnist
E.J. Montini
in The
Arizona
Republic
Wednesday
for relying
on — and
fighting to
perpetuate —
chaos at the
border as a
"campaign
strategy."
This comes
as President
Joe Biden
and Senate
Republicans
have struck
up a
bipartisan
plan that
would
tighten
border
security and
implement
several GOP
policy goals
— but it
appears
headed for a
dead end as
Trump
heavily
lobbies
House and
Senate
Republicans
to kill the
deal and
Speaker Mike
Johnson
(R-LA) has
said he's
unlikely to
allow it a
vote. "A
bipartisan
deal to
address the
border
problem is
the best
thing for
the
country,"
wrote
Montini.
"But it is
the worst
thing for
Donald
Trump, who
has made the
border
crisis the
key element
— if not the
only element
— of his
campaign.
The same is
true of
sycophants
like U.S.
Senate
candidate
Kari Lake,
who follows,
head bowed,
in Trump’s
footsteps.""
"Former
President Trump told
his
supporters
during a
rally in
Nevada that
he is fine
with being
blamed for
tanking the
bipartisan
border bill
currently
negotiated
in the
Senate." [ .
. . ] "Trump
told his
supporters
on Saturday.
“I’ll fight
it all the
way. A lot
of the
senators are
trying to
say,
respectfully,
they’re
blaming it
on me. I
say, that’s
okay. Please
blame it on
me.
Please.”"
"the GOP
front-runner
has endorsed
downgrading
China’s
trade status
with the
United
States — a
move that
would lead
tariffs
between the
world’s two
largest
economies to
skyrocket.
Revoking
China’s
status as a
“most
favored
nation” for
trade —
which is
applied to
almost all
countries
the United
States
trades with
— could lead
to federal
tariffs on
Chinese
imports of
more than 40
percent,
according to
one
analysis. Trump has
floated
imposing a
10 percent
tariff on
nearly all
$3 trillion
in annual
imports from
all
countries,
including
China.
Privately,
Trump has
discussed
with
advisers the
possibility
of imposing
a flat 60
percent
tariff on
all Chinese
imports,
according to
three people
familiar
with the
matter who
spoke on the
condition of
anonymity to
relay
private
conversations.
All these
options
would lead
to enormous
disruptions
to the U.S.
and global
economies
that would
far surpass
the impact
of the trade
wars of
Trump’s
first term"
"A federal
court jury
awarded a
total of
$83.3
million in
damages to
E. Jean
Carroll for
defamatory
comments Donald
Trump made
about her as
president in
2019,
remarks
attacking
her
character
that kicked
off years of
threats and
harassment
from the
former
president’s
supporters.
Most of the
award
involved $65
million in
punitive
damages
after jurors
concluded
that Trump
acted
spitefully
and wantonly
toward
Carroll
after she
accused him
of sexually
assaulting
her in the
1990s.
Jurors also
awarded a
combined
$18.3
million in
compensatory
damages."
"Former
president
and likely
Republican
nominee Donald
Trump is
moving to
quash any
hopes of a
bipartisan
compromise
on
immigration
and Ukraine
as the
Senate
prepares for
votes as
early as
next week on
a possible
deal.
Fresh off
his win in
the Iowa
caucuses
this week,
Trump took
to Truth
Social to
insist that
any deal
contain
every
conservative
demand for
border and
immigration
changes, an
aggressive
position
meant to
force House
GOP leaders
into
rejecting
any Senate
compromise."
"Thierry
Breton, a
French
commissioner
who is
responsible
for the
European
Union’s
internal
market,
said Trump made
the remarks
to European
Commission
President
Ursula von
der Leyen at
the World
Economic
Forum in
Davos in
January
2020." [ . .
. ] "“You
need to
understand
that if
Europe is
under
attack, we
will never
come to help
you and to
support
you,” Breton
quoted Trump
as saying
during the
Davos
meeting. “By
the way,
NATO is
dead, and we
will leave,
we will quit
NATO,” Trump
also said,
according to
Breton,
speaking at
an event
hosted by
the Renew
Europe
political
party at the
European
Parliament."
"“Draft
dodging” Donald
Trump has
been slammed
for mocking
late
senator John
McCain for
his war
injuries. At
a campaign
event in
Iowa on
Saturday –
on the
three-year
anniversary
of the
January 6
Capitol
riots – Mr.
Trump
mimicked Mr.
McCain’s
war-inflicted
injuries
that left
him
physically
disabled and
unable to
raise his
arms over
his head."
"Maine on
Thursday
became the
second state
to bar Donald
J. Trump from
its primary
election
ballot after
its top
election
official
ruled that
the former
president’s
efforts to
remain in
power after
the 2020
election
rendered him
ineligible
to hold
office
again." [ .
. . ] "The
official in
Maine,
Secretary of
State Shenna
Bellows,
wrote in her
decision
that Mr.
Trump did
not qualify
for the
ballot
because of
his role in
the Jan. 6
attack on
the Capitol.
A handful of
citizens had
challenged
his
eligibility
by claiming
that he had
incited an
insurrection
and was thus
barred from
seeking the
presidency
again under
the 14th
Amendment of
the
Constitution."
"Facing
criticism
for
repeatedly
harnessing
rhetoric
once used by
Adolf Hitler
to argue
that
immigrants
entering the
U.S.
illegally
are
“poisoning
the blood of
our country,” Trump insisted
he had no
idea that
one of the
world’s most
reviled and
infamous
figures once
used similar
words. The
Nazi
dictator
spoke of
impure
Jewish blood
“poisoning”
Aryan German
blood to
dehumanize
Jews and
justify the
systemic
murder of
millions
during the
Holocaust.
“I never
knew that
Hitler said
it,” Trump
told
conservative
radio host
Hugh Hewitt
on Friday,
volunteering
once again
that he
never read
Hitler’s
biographical
manifesto,
“Mein
Kampf.”"
"The
Colorado
Supreme
Court ruled
Tuesday that
former
President Donald
Trump is
disqualified
from holding
the
presidency
under the
Constitution's
so-called
insurrection
clause and
ordered the
secretary of
state to
exclude his
name from
the state's
Republican
presidential
primary
ballot. The
landmark
decision
from the
divided
Colorado
Supreme
Court that
Trump cannot
hold public
office under
the Civil
War-era
provision is
unprecedented,
and it marks
the first
time a court
has found
him to be
ineligible
to return to
the White
House due to
his conduct
surrounding
the Jan. 6,
2021, attack
on the U.S.
Capitol.
Never before
has a court
determined
that a
presidential
candidate is
disqualified
under the
clause,
Section 3 of
the 14th
Amendment."
"The talks
come as Donald
Trump,
the
Republican
presidential
front-runner
in 2024,
delivered
alarming anti-immigrant
remarks
about
“blood”
purity over
the weekend,
echoing Nazi
slogans of
World War II at
a political
rally.
“They’re
poisoning
the blood of
our
country,”
Trump said
about the
record
numbers of
immigrants
coming to
the U.S.
without
immediate
legal
status.
Speaking in
the
early-voting
state of New
Hampshire, Trump,
drew on
words
similar to
Adolf
Hitler’s
“Mein Kampf” as
the former
U.S.
president
berated
Biden’s team
over the
flow of
migrants.
“All over
the world
they’re
pouring into
our
country,”
Trump said."
"Donald
Trump is
raising new
alarms about
what he
would do if
he makes it
back to the
White House,
even
referring to
himself in
an interview
Tuesday
night as a
"dictator,"
but only, he
said, on
"Day One.""
"Former
president Donald
Trump denigrated
his domestic
opponents
and critics
during a
Veterans Day
speech
Saturday, calling
those on the
other side
of the aisle
“vermin” and
suggesting
that they
pose a
greater
threat to
the United
States than
countries
such as
Russia,
China or
North
Korea. That
language is
drawing
rebuke from
historians,
who compared
it to that
of
authoritarian
leaders. “We
pledge to
you that we
will root
out the
communists,
Marxists,
fascists and
the radical
left thugs
that live
like vermin
within the
confines of
our country
that lie and
steal and
cheat on
elections,”
Trump said
toward the
end of his
speech,
repeating
his false
claims that
the 2020
election was
stolen." [ .
. . ] "Trump
also
received
widespread
criticism
and
condemnation
recently
from groups
such as the
Anti-Defamation
League for saying
in an
interview
that
undocumented
immigrants
were
“poisoning
the blood of
our country.”
"In a public
reference to
his plans,
Mr. Trump
told a crowd
in Iowa in
September:
“Following
the
Eisenhower
model, we
will carry
out the
largest
domestic
deportation
operation in
American
history.”
The
reference
was to a
1954
campaign to
round up and
expel
Mexican
immigrants
that was
named for an
ethnic slur
— “Operation
Wetback.”
The
constellation
of Mr.
Trump’s 2025
plans
amounts to
an assault
on
immigration
on a scale
unseen in
modern
American
history.
Millions of
undocumented
immigrants
would be
barred from
the country
or uprooted
from it
years or
even decades
after
settling
here. Such a
scale of
planned
removals
would raise
logistical,
financial
and
diplomatic
challenges
and would be
vigorously
challenged
in court.
But there is
no mistaking
the breadth
and ambition
of the shift
Mr. Trump is
eyeing."
"After the
assault on
Israel by
Hezbollah, a
designated
terrorist
organization, Trump complimented
the
intelligence
of the
attackers.
“You know,
Hezbollah is
very smart,”
Trump said.
“They’re all
very smart.”
Trump’s
long-time
buddy,
Vladimir
Putin
doesn’t hide
his
allegiance
to Hamas and
offers no
apologies
for backing
Hamas"
"Trump [
. . . ] has
a long
history of
vocally
supporting
authoritarian
states and
leaders
around the
world,
including
Russian
President
Vladimir
Putin,
Chinese
President Xi
Jinping, and
North Korean
Leader Kim
Jong Un. The
White House
also
condemned
the
statement,
calling
Trump’s
language
“dangerous
and
unhinged.”
“It’s
completely
lost on us
why any
American
would ever
praise an
Iran-backed
terrorist
organization
as ‘smart,’”
White House
deputy press
secretary
Andrew Bates
said in a
statement.
"In a
statement to
CNN, Kelly,
the longest
serving
chief of
staff in the
Trump
administration,
confirmed to
network
anchor Jake
Tapper a
number of
details
published in
a 2020
article by
The
Atlantic,
including
remarks made
by Trump
during an
official
visit to
France in
2018. “A
person that
thinks those
who defend
their
country in
uniform, or
are shot
down or
seriously
wounded in
combat, or
spend years
being
tortured as
POWs are all
‘suckers’
because
‘there is
nothing in
it for
them,’”
Kelly told
CNN in his
lengthy
statement
about Trump.
“A person
that did not
want to be
seen in the
presence of
military
amputees
because ‘it
doesn’t look
good for
me.’” [ . .
. ]
"Trump did
not want to
visit the
graves of
the American
soldiers
buried at
Aisne-Marne
American
Cemetery in
France,
saying, “Why
should I go
to that
cemetery?
It’s filled
with
losers.” The
former
president
also
referred to
the 1,800
U.S. Marines
killed in
World War
I’s Battle
of Belleau
Wood as
“suckers”
for getting
killed."
"The motion,
filed in the
District
Court for
the District
of Columbia,
refers to a
post made
by Trump on
his Truth
Social
platform on
September
22. In the
post, the
ex-president
accused Ret.
Gen. Mark
Milley, the
former chair
of the Joint
Chiefs of
Staff, of
committing
treason and
suggested
that he
would have
been put to
death in the
past. "This
guy turned
out to be a
Woke train
wreck who,
if the Fake
News
reporting is
correct, was
actually
dealing with
China to
give them a
heads up on
the thinking
of the
President of
the United
States,"
Trump posted
to his 6.3
million
followers."
"Donald
Trump’s
aggressive
response to
his fourth
criminal
indictment
in five
months
follows a
strategy he
has long
used against
legal and
political
opponents:
relentless
attacks,
often
infused with
language
that is
either
overtly
racist or is
coded in
ways that
appeal to
racists. The
early
Republican
presidential
front-runner
has used
terms such
as “animal”
and “rabid”
to describe
Black
district
attorneys.
He has
accused
Black
prosecutors
of being
“racist.” He
has made
unsupported
claims about
their
personal
lives. And
on his
social media
platform,
Truth
Social,
Trump has
deployed
terms that
rhyme with
racial slurs
as some of
his
supporters
post racist
screeds
about the
same
targets. The
rhetoric is
a reminder
of Trump’s
tendency to
use coded
racial
messaging as
a signal to
supporters,
an approach
he has
deployed
over several
decades as
he evolved
from a New
York City
real estate
tycoon to a
reality
television
star and,
eventually,
the
president."
"A grand jury in Georgia has indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 allies on state charges stemming from his efforts to overturn his 2020 electoral defeat in the Peach State.
The 41-count indictment was unsealed Monday and is the fourth criminal case that Trump is facing.
The indictment returned by the Fulton County grand jury includes 13 charges against Trump. He now faces a total of 91 charges in four criminal cases, in four different jurisdictions — two federal and two state cases."
COMPLETE TRUMP INDICTMENT
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Aug. 15, 2023
Trump Indicted By Grand Jury In Special Counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 Investigation
"Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges stemming from his efforts to remain in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election, adding to the former president's ongoing legal troubles as he mounts a third bid for the White House.
According to the indictment handed up Tuesday by a federal grand jury, Trump faces four charges: conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights."
COMPLETE TRUMP INDICTMENT
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Aug. 1, 2023
Donald Trump promises, if he comes to power, to "eliminate all diversity, equality, and inclusion programs" created by the federal government.
"In his
interview
with Bret
Baier on Fox
News,
broadcast on
Monday, July
19, 2023,
Donald Trump
said: "I'd
close up the
border
because we
can't have
prisoners
and people
from mental
institutions
coming into
our country.
"They're
emptying out
from all
over the
world, not
just from
the three or
four
countries we
talk about,
the
neighboring
countries,
all over the
world,
they're
coming into
our country
at levels
we've never
seen before,
Bret, and we
have to stop
it. "And
they are
emptying out
their
prisons, and
they're
emptying out
their mental
institutions
and insane
asylums into
the U.S.,
and we're
not a
dumping
ground.""
"Former
president Donald
Trump was
outright
hostile
toward the
LGBTQ+
community
before that
tactic was
in vogue
again with
right-wing
conservatives.
He banned
transgender
servicemembers
from
participating
in the
United
States Armed
Forces.
While the
Supreme
Court was
preparing to
hear the
Bostock v.
Clayton
County case,
his
administration
argued that
gay and
trans
workers were
not
protected by
federal
civil rights
law. In 2020
however, the
Supreme
Court ruled
that Title
VII of the
Civil Rights
Act of 1964
protected
gay and
transgender
employees
from
discrimination."
“In little
over an
hour, Donald
Trump suggested
the United
States
should
default on
its debts
for the
first time
in history,
injected
doubt over
the
country’s
commitment
to defending
Ukraine from
Russia’s
invasion,
dangled
pardons for
most of the
Capitol
rioters
convicted of
crimes, and
refused to
say he would
abide by the
results of
the next
presidential
election.”
"A federal
jury has
found former
President Donald
Trump liable
for battery
and
defamation
in the
lawsuit
brought by
writer E.
Jean
Carroll, who
says he
raped her in
a Manhattan
department
store in the
mid-1990s.
The nine
jurors, who
deliberated
for barely
three hours
before
reaching
their
unanimous
conclusion,
did not find
that Trump
raped
Carroll. But
they agreed
that he
"sexually
abused" her
and that he
defamed her
when he
denied her
story. "
““The
defendant Donald
J. Trump repeatedly
and
fraudulently
falsified
New York
business
records to
conceal
criminal
conduct that
hid damaging
information
from the
voting
public
during the
2016
presidential
election,”
says a
statement-of-fact
document
released
with the
indictment
from D.A.
Alvin Bragg
today after
an
arraignment
of Trump.
During and
in
furtherance
of his
candidacy
for
President,
the
Defendant
and others
agreed to
identify and
suppress
negative
stories
about him,”
the
indictment
reads. “Two
parties to
this
agreement
have
admitted to
committing
illegal
conduct in
connection
with the
scheme.””
"Classified
documents
relating to
nuclear
weapons were
among the
items FBI
agents
sought in a
search of
former
president Donald
Trump’s
Florida
residence on
Monday,
according to
people
familiar
with the
investigation."
"Former
President Donald
Trump on
Tuesday described
Russian
President
Vladimir
Putin’s
invasion of
Ukraine as
“genius” and
“savvy,”
praising his
onetime
counterpart
for a move
that has
spurred
sanctions
and
universal
condemnation
from the
U.S.
government
and its
trans-Atlantic
allies.
“I went in
yesterday
and there
was a
television
screen, and
I said,
‘This is
genius.’"
"At former
President Donald
Trump’s
rally in
Arizona on
Saturday,
there were
enough
conspiracy
theories and
lies about
”election
fraud” and
“psy-op”
being spread
from the
stage by
Trump and
his cadre of
sycophant
GOP
lawmakers to
keep
hardcore
MAGA fans
happy."
"Investigations
by the US
House and
Senate have
added
granular
detail that
has
astonished
even
seasoned
election-watchers
in terms of
the scale
and
complexity
of Trump’s
attempted
coup."
"General
Mark Milley,
the chairman
of the Joint
Chiefs of
Staff,
likened Donald
Trump’s
effort to
hold on to
power after
the 2020
election to
Adolf
Hitler,
saying the
president
was
preaching
“the gospel
of the
Führer” with
his lies
about the
election
being
stolen,
according to
a new book
by two
Washington
Post
reporters.
As
chronicled
in I Alone
Can Fix It,
by Carol
Leonnig and
Philip
Rucker, the
Pentagon’s
top general
said shortly
before the
January 6
insurrection
at the
Capitol that
Trump had
led the
country to
the brink of
its own
“Reichstag
moment,”
viewing him
as a
potential
threat to
American
democracy. "
"Manhattan’s
district
attorney has
convened the
grand jury
that is
expected to
decide
whether to
indict
former
president Donald
Trump,
other
executives
at his
company or
the business
itself
should
prosecutors
present the
panel with
criminal
charges"
"Miles Taylor, a former DHS official who has endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, said Trump asked about trading Puerto Rico for the Danish territory amid trips officials took to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.
“The president’s talked before about wanting to purchase Greenland, but one time before we went down, he told us not only did he want to purchase Greenland, he actually said he wanted to see if we could sell Puerto Rico. Could we swap Puerto Rico for Greenland,” Taylor said Wednesday on MSNBC. “Because in his words Puerto Rico was dirty and the people were poor.”
“We don’t talk about our fellow Americans that way,” Taylor added. “The fact that the president of the United States wanted to take a U.S. territory of Americans and swap it for a foreign country is beyond galling.”"
"The Trump administration
has quietly
but
systematically
removed
mentions of
"sexual
orientation"
and "gender
identity"
from
executive
branch
guidelines
on
discrimination."
"The FBI has
released
nearly 400
pages of
records on
an
investigation
the bureau
conducted in
the 1970s
into alleged
racial
discrimination
in the
rental of
apartments
from
President
Donald Trump's
real estate
company. The
files detail
dozens of
interviews
the bureau
conducted
with Trump
building
tenants,
management
and
employees,
seeking
indications
that
minority
tenants were
steered away
from housing
complexes."
""Donald
started his
career, back
in 1973,
being sued
by the
Justice
Department
for racial
discrimination
— because
he would not
rent
apartments
in one of
his
developments
to
African-Americans,
and he made
sure that
the people
who worked
for him
understood
that was the
policy,""
""Top Chef"
host Padma
Lakshmi says
she would
never vote
for
Republican
presidential
front-runner
Donald
Trump
from being
elected.
"Even if he
wasn't the
racist
buffoon that
he is making
himself out
to be, I
probably
wouldn't
vote for
him,"
Lakshmi
said. [ . .
. ] "The
former wife
of author
Salman
Rushdie
noted that
because she
runs the
women's
health
organisation,
she has been
paying close
attention to
Trump's
recent
comments on
reproductive
rights
specifically,
that women
receiving
abortions
should be
punished. "I
think he is
insane. I
think he's
blabbing, I
don't think
he really
knows what
he is
saying, I am
not even
sure he
really
believes
that a woman
shouldn't
have a right
to choose.""
"In the
latest
attempt to
silence
conversations
about race
and gender
equity
deemed
“anti-American,”
President
Trump
issued an
executive
order last
week banning
federal
entities and
contractors
from
providing
employees
with
training on
“divisive
concepts”
and “harmful
ideologies”
related to
race and
gender. What
Trump deems
“harmful
ideologies”
are actually
concepts
diversity
trainings
use to
educate
individuals
on the
systemic
barriers and
discrimination
people of
color and
other
marginalized
groups still
face in this
country
today across
our
institutions
— from our
workplaces
and schools
to our
criminal
legal
system. The
recent Black
Lives Matter
and #MeToo
movements
have shown
that people
across the
country
fully
acknowledge
the
realities of
systemic
racism and
sexism are
still alive
and well,
and the need
to dismantle
the systems
and pursue
change is
more
important
than ever.
But rather
than engage
with these
conversations
taking place
across the
country,
the Trump
administration
seeks to
silence
individuals
and impose
an alternate
version of
American
history —
one that
erases the
legacy of
discrimination
and lived
experiences
of Black and
Brown
people,
women and
girls, and
LGBTQ+
individuals."
"New Jersey
casino
regulators
have fined
the Trump
Plaza Hotel
and Casino
$200,000 for
catering to
a
high-roller
by
transferring
black and
female
dealers from
his table."
"The
president of
the
Unification
Church of
America
demanded
apologies
yesterday
from
Donald J.
Trump
and two
newspapers
over what he
called
false,
racist and
inflammatory
reports that
the church
was seeking
to buy the
the
developer's
Palm Beach
estate,
Mar-a-Lago.
Saying that
the church
founded by
the Rev. Sun
Myung Moon
"has
absolutely
no interest
in this
property,"
the
minister,
Dr. James A.
Baughman,
attacked
reports in
The Palm
Beach Daily
News on
Thursday and
The New York
Post on
Friday that
quoted "a
Trump
associate"
saying that
the famous
home built
by Marjorie
Meriweather
Post, the
cereal
heiress,
might be
sold to the
church if
the city did
not let Mr.
Trump
subdivide
it."
May 26, 1991
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FOR BY STONEWALL DEMOCRATS OF ARIZONA
• NOT AUTHORIZED BY ANY CANDIDATE OR CANDIDATE'S
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