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.
"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.”
"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.
"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."
"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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indictment
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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indictment
Aug.
1, 2023
Donald Trump promises, if he
comes to power, to "eliminate
all diversity, equality, and
inclusion programs" created by
the federal government.
"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"
"The Trump
administration has
quietly but
systematically
removed mentions of
"sexual orientation"
and "gender
identity" from
executive branch
guidelines on
discrimination."
