1.
The Russia Scandal
Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, and
members of Trump's family are all implicated in the Russia scandal.
There is overwhelming
evidence that Trump’s campaign accepted help from Russia in the 2016 election. Many high level members of
Trump’s presidential campaign have already been investigated, indicted and
convicted of crimes in the Russia investigation. This is such a wide ranging
scandal with so many different people and so many different illegal activities,
that we will go into much greater detail later in this article.
2.
The Moscow Trump Tower Scandal
While running for
president, Donald Trump repeatedly lied about his business dealings with
Russia. He claimed at the time to have no involvement with Russia, but it has
since been revealed that he was negotiating with the Russian government and
Russian business interests about developing a Trump Tower in Moscow. It is a huge conflict of
interest for a US president - or presidential candidate - to have such a close
financial involvement with a foreign country, especially one like Russia that
is often an adversary of the United States.
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Link: Trump Told
Cohen to Lie about Moscow Tower Project - Vanity Fair
This article contains greater details about the Moscow Trump Tower scandal.
This article contains greater details about the Moscow Trump Tower scandal.
3.
The Trump Foundation Scandal
Trump used his charitable
foundation to pay for private and political expenses. For example, the Trump
Foundation illegally made a $25,000 contribution to the Florida Attorney
General who was investigating Trump’s fraudulent University. To cover up the
illegal payment, the Trump Foundation falsely reported the $25,000 contribution
on their taxes, claiming that it went to a charity in Kansas which, in fact,
never received any money from them.
4.
The Trump University Scandal
Thousands of people were scammed
out of large sums of money by the fraudulent Trump University. Although Trump
repeatedly said he would never pay a dime to the people suing
him, he was ultimately forced to pay $25 million to settle the lawsuits and
keep it from going to trial.
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Link - Federal
Court Orders Trump to pay $25 Million in University Fraud - NBC News A federal court approved a $25 million settlement with students who said they
were duped by Donald Trump and his now-defunct Trump University.
5.
Trump Porn Star Scandal
President Trump illegally paid
an adult film star to keep quiet about their affair during his presidential
campaign. Trump had his personal lawyer write checks totaling $130,000 to adult
film actress Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their affair. Although Trump has implied that no such affair ever took
place, he admits there was a non-disclosure agreement preventing Ms. Daniels from
talking about it.
6.
Trump Sexual Harassment Scandal
Trump’s own words
indicate he repeatedly committed sexual harassment. Trump bragged about
sexually groping women in the Access Hollywood recording. He also bragged about
going backstage at beauty pageants and seeing contestants half naked. When
those same women reported that Trump did the very things that he bragged about,
Trump suddenly claimed it wasn’t true.
Trump said this to
Howard Stern about the Miss USA and Miss Universe Pageants in 2005:
I’ll go backstage before
a show, and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else, and you
know, no men are anywhere. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of
the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it.
‘Is everyone okay?’ You know,
they're standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody okay?’ And you see these
incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that.
7.
The Michael Cohen Scandal
Trump’s strongest
defender was his private attorney, Michael Cohen, who testified before Congress
on Trump's behalf. That testimony got Cohen convicted of perjury. After his perjury
conviction, Cohen again testified before Congress. This time he called Trump a
racist, a con man and a cheat.
According to Cohen’s
testimony, Trump routinely made racist remarks, had Cohen threaten people, had
Cohen lie about the proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow and make hush money
payments to silence women with whom Trump had affairs. He also testified that
Trump used his charitable foundation to pay for his private expenses.
Cohen said Trump’s friend, Roger
Stone, talked with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, about the timing of making
Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails public.
8.
The Trump Inauguration Scandal
The Trump Inauguration committee
raised $107 Million. Much of that money is still unaccounted for. Trump’s
inaugural committee is being investigated for conspiracy against the United
States, money laundering, wire fraud, mail fraud, disclosure violations, and
straw donor violations, which enabled people who disguise their donations to
the Trump inauguration. Some of those illegal donations are believed to have
come from Russian businessmen.
9.
The Jared Kushner Security Clearance Scandal
Trump’s son-in-law, Jared
Kushner lied on his application for security clearance by not disclosing dozens
of contacts he’d had with foreign governments, including Russia. This type of
omission is a felony and usually more than enough to get someone’s security
clearance denied. However, National Security officials were ordered to give
Kushner the clearance anyway, which is an extraordinary national security
violation.
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Link - Security
Officials Overruled after Rejecting Security Clearance for Jared Kushner - NBC
News
10.
The Trump Immigration Scandal
In April of 2018, Trump
started a policy of separating children from their parents when they seek
asylum at the US border. Once separated from their parents, the Trump
administration did not maintain a process for reuniting the children with their
parents again. Members of the Trump
administration admitted that this horrific policy was intended to discourage
people from applying for asylum at the border. Trump lied when he said this
policy had been law for many years. The law does not mandate that kids be
separated from their parents.
11.
Trump's Multiple Conflict of Interest Scandals.
Unlike every other
president, Trump refused to divest himself of his business interests or put his
financial holdings in a blind trust. This means he knows how his actions as
president have a direct impact on his personal financial investments.
Walter Shaub Jr., the
director of the US Office of Government Ethics tried to get President Trump to
divest his business interests to avoid such conflicts but Trump refused. Shaub
saw so many ethics violations and conflicts of interest that he ultimately
resigned in protest.
Trump has profited greatly from
his presidency like no other president before him. After he became president,
Trump’s Mar-a-lago resort doubled its membership fees. The White house has
promoted Melania’s jewelry line and Ivanka’s line of clothing. During the 2016
election, Trump made millions of dollars when he charged his campaign for use
of Trump Tower, Trump’s airplane and Trump’s restaurants.
12.
Foreign Influence Buying Scandal
Government officials and
businesses from many foreign countries have increasingly chosen to rent office
space or stay at Trump owned hotels since Donald Trump became president.
Since, unlike previous
presidents, Trump has refused to divest himself from his business interests, he
financially benefits directly from every foreign country and foreign owned
business that rents his properties. This is the worst possible type of conflict
of interest for a President of the United States.
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Link - Trump's
Biggest Conflict Of Interest Is Hiding In Plain Sight - Forbes
More than 150 Trump tenants--from foreign governments to big banks--throw the president's business some $175 million a year without an accounting of who they are or how much they pay.
More than 150 Trump tenants--from foreign governments to big banks--throw the president's business some $175 million a year without an accounting of who they are or how much they pay.
13.
Trump's Highly Questionable Mental State
Trump alternates between
being a ruthless bully, who uses the office of the president to attack, smear
and ridicule people on a daily basis, to a self-pitying crybaby who is
constantly whining about how his political opponents, the media or the courts
are treating him.
Most US presidents learn to grow
a thick skin and ignore much of the criticism aimed at them, but Donald Trump
is so incredibly thin skinned that he has to attack anyone who even mildly
criticizes him, whether it’s the parents of a soldier who died in service to
his country, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico discussing the speed of the
relief efforts, or a celebrity who makes a joke about him on TV. Trump's petty
childishness seems to have no end. He frequently pounds out angry Tweets in the
middle of the night over minor comments by celebrities.
His Odd Obsession with
the Size of his Hands:
Years ago a magazine
editor referred to Donald Trump as a “Short fingered vulgarian”. Afterward
Trump often sent the editor pictures of himself torn from magazines with
circles drawn around his hands and the words “see, not so short” written next
to them.
After hearing about this,
Senator Marco Rubio joked about how small Trump’s hands were. Trump couldn’t
let it go. “Look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my
hands – if they’re small something else must be small. I guarantee there’s no
problem. I guarantee it.”
14. His Constant
Self-Congratulation Indicates Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
To hear Trump talk,
everything he does is always the best, the most, the tallest, the smartest. He
said he had the biggest election victory since Reagan (it wasn’t). He often
claims his book was the biggest selling book of all time (It wasn’t even in the
top 100). He constantly tweets that he has had the most successful presidency
of any president, EVER.
About terrorism, “I know more
about ISIS than the Generals, believe me.” He had the “largest crowd in
inaugural history”. His golf course is “the best resort in the country”. “I
would build a great wall – and nobody builds better walls than me, believe me.”
“I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created, believe me.” On
the day the World Trade Center fell in 2001, Trump bragged that his Trump Tower
was now the tallest building in New York.
15.
Trump has already been caught in more outright lies than any other president
Unlike most politicians,
Donald Trump, does not simply exaggerate, distort or mislead. He tells outright
lies that are easily disproved. Here is a small sampling of some of Trump's
whoppers.
A) Trump lied about US immigration
policy for Muslims vs. Christians.
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Link - Trump
claim about Muslims entering the US is false. - PolitiFact
Trump said US immigration policy made it easy for Muslims to enter the United States and nearly impossible for Christians to get in. Based on the known numbers of people entering the country, this statement was easily proved to be false.
Trump said US immigration policy made it easy for Muslims to enter the United States and nearly impossible for Christians to get in. Based on the known numbers of people entering the country, this statement was easily proved to be false.
B) Trump lied about seeing
thousands of Muslims cheering in New Jersey on 9/11.
During a speech in 2015, Trump
said, “I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of
people were cheering” as the World Trade Center collapsed. Trump insisted that
this cheering was reported extensively on TV at the time. Yet there is no
record of any news reports at that time saying this happened. The police have
no records of this happening. Trump literally made the whole thing up.
C) Trump lied about Obama
releasing “vicious prisoners” from Guantanamo Bay.
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Link - Trump
wrongly blames Obama for releasing terrorists - PolitiFact
Trump falsely claimed that the Obama administration released 122 “vicious prisoners” from Guantanamo Bay who returned to the battlefield. In reality, almost all of those prisoners were released by the Bush administration, not Obama.
Trump falsely claimed that the Obama administration released 122 “vicious prisoners” from Guantanamo Bay who returned to the battlefield. In reality, almost all of those prisoners were released by the Bush administration, not Obama.
D) Trump lied about
Mexico paying for the border wall.
Trump insisted before,
during and after the election that Mexico would pay for the border wall he
wanted to build, despite the fact that the Mexican government said they
would never pay for any wall. Shortly after becoming
president, he asked Congress to appropriate taxpayer’s money for the wall and
made no mention of Mexico paying for it.
Trump now claims he always meant
that Mexico would pay for the wall through improved trade agreements. However,
even if an improvement with our trade deficit with Mexico occurred, that money
doesn’t go into the treasury, and it couldn’t be used to pay for the wall.
E) Trump lied for years
about releasing his taxes.
Every presidential candidate
since the 1960s has voluntarily released several years of tax returns to be
viewed by the public and the media. This is a good faith gesture to prove they
have nothing to hide. After promising for years to release his income taxes –
even saying that he would be “happy” to do so – Trump announced after the
election that he would not release any of his tax returns. He clearly never
intended to do so and lied about it throughout the campaign.
F) Trump lied about
opposing the Iraq War.
Mr. Trump claims he had
opposed the war in Iraq, but in 2002 he told Howard Stern that he supported an
Iraq invasion. In an interview on Sept. 11, 2002, Stern asked Trump directly if
he was for invading Iraq. "Yeah I guess so," Trump responded.
"I wish the first time it was done correctly." There is no
record of Trump ever publicly opposing the invasion of Iraq before the war
started. Ironically, he now says we never should have left Iraq. We should
have, according to Trump, stayed in Iraq so we could take all their oil. “And I said, take the oil when
we leave. But we shouldn’t have really left.”
Now let’s look at the
Trump/Russia scandal in greater detail:
The complete list of Trump’s
connections with Russian leader Vladimir Putin are too numerous to list here.
Although Trump frequently repeats "No collusion" like his personal
mantra, many of his friends, allies and campaign workers have been indicted and
convicted of crimes in the Russia investigation.
16.
Trump’s campaign manager gave data to Russia which could help them interfere in
our election.
Paul Manafort, Donald
Trump’s former campaign manager, worked for a long time helping Russian
President Vladimir Putin install his handpicked politicians in places like
Ukraine. Due to Manafort’s long involvement with Putin, he had been under
investigation by US intelligence long before he worked for Trump.
As Trump’s campaign
manager, Manafort gave analytical polling data to suspected Russian spy
Konstantin Kilimnik. This data would enable them to carefully target the people
and regions of the country to influence the 2016 election. Manafort later went to prison
for lying to prosecutors to conceal the fact that he gave this data to the
Russians.
17.
Donald Trump Jr. sought help from Russia in getting dirt on Hillary Clinton.
In June of 2016, Donald
Trump Jr. responded to an email from a Russian lawyer who said the Russian
government wanted to give him dirt on Hillary Clinton, by saying “I love it”.
Soon afterward, Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner all met with the
Russian lawyer who said that Russia wanted to help Trump win. When asked about this later,
Trump Jr. lied and said the meeting had nothing to do with the campaign.
18.
Donald Trump publicly asked Russia to help in winning the election.
Just weeks after receiving the
offer of help from the Russian lawyer, Donald Trump publicly asked Russia to
release dirt on Hillary Clinton in order to help him win the election. Trump
promised that Russia would be "richly rewarded" for this. In the same
speech he mentioned lifting sanctions against Russia. Investigations later
revealed that Russia did, in fact, obtain information about Hillary Clinton and
leak it to help Trump get elected. It was also revealed that Trump adviser Michael
Flynn discussed lifting sanctions with the Russian ambassador.
19.
Trump changed the Republican Party platform to be more favorable toward Russia
In 2016, the Republican Party
had a plank in their party platform that was highly critical of Russia’s
involvement in Ukraine. After Trump secured the needed delegates to win the
Republican nomination, the Trump campaign quietly changed the Republican Party
platform to remove the section that supports Ukraine against Russia.
20.
Trump’s National Security Adviser had to resign after lying about his
involvement with Russia.
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Link - The
timeline of Flynn resignation looks bad for the Trump White House - The
Washington Post
Trump appointed as
National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, even though he was a registered agent
for a foreign country and had many undisclosed contacts with Russia.
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Flynn spoke to the Russian ambassador about lifting sanctions
against Russia.
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Flynn lied to the Pentagon about his ties to Russia on his
application for top security clearance.
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Flynn invoked the 5th Amendment and refused to
answer questions about his ties to Russia unless he received immunity from
prosecution.
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Ultimately, Flynn confessed to the charge of lying to the FBI in
a plea bargain agreement.
21.
A Trump foreign policy adviser was actually recruited by Russian intelligence.
Trump’s foreign policy campaign
adviser, Carter Page, who had many business dealings in Russia and traveled to
Moscow on behalf of the Trump campaign, was investigated by the FBI because he
had so many contacts with Russian intelligence that they tried to recruit him.
22.
Trump’s Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, lied under oath about his contacts
with Russia.
Sessions lied about his contacts
with Russian intelligence when he claimed he had not met with any Russian. In
fact he met with the Russian ambassador. While it was not illegal for Sessions
to meet with the ambassador, it was illegal to lie to Congress about it. This
forced Sessions to recuse himself for any involvement with the investigations
into the Trump Russia probe.
23.
Trump tacitly admitted to obstruction of justice regarding the Russia
investigation.
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Link - Trump
Told Russians That Firing Comey Eased Pressure From Investigation - The New
York Times
In an interview with NBC
News, Trump admitted that he fired the FBI director because of the
investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. That alone is
obstruction of justice, an impeachable offense. After Trump fired Comey, he
bragged to Russian officials visiting the White House that firing Comey took
“great pressure” off of him over the Russia investigation.
24.
Here's a list of reasons why the Trump campaign is under federal investigation.
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In late 2016, US intelligence agencies concluded with “high
confidence” that Russia was interfering to help Donald Trump get elected
president.
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On the campaign trail, Trump often repeated what turned out to
be false talking points about Hillary Clinton that came from the Russian news
media.
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Trump campaign manager, Paul Manafort spent years working for
Vladimir Putin to install pro-Russian politicians in countries like Ukraine
before volunteering to work for Trump for free.
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Manafort gave analytical polling data to a suspected Russian
agent which could help Russia target their interference in the election.
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During the campaign, Trump lied about his Moscow business
dealings.
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Trump's campaign adviser, Michael Flynn, spoke to the Russian
Ambassador about lifting US sanctions and then lied about it.
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Flynn later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in the Russia
investigation.
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Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner met with the Russian
ambassador in December and did not disclose his contacts with Russia on his
application for security clearance.
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Trump ordered National Security officials to give Kushner the
clearance anyway
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Jared Kushner, Manafort and Don Jr met with a Russian Lawyer
specifically to get dirt on Hillary Clinton – and then lied about it.
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A month after the meeting with the Russian lawyer, Trump
publicly asked Russia to reveal any information to hurt Hillary Clinton and
help him win the election.
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Trump adviser Carter Page had dozens of contacts with Russia
that Russian intelligence tried to recruit him.
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Trump got the Republican National Committee to remove their
harsh criticism of Russia from the Republican Party platform
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Trump admitted he fired the FBI Director to impede the Russia
investigation.
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Trump’s Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, lied to Congress about
his ties to Russia.
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Sessions illegally falsified information about his contacts with
Russia on his Justice Department security application.
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Trump’s first Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, had huge
conflicts of interest and stood to make a fortune if sanctions against Russia
are lifted.
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Trump adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the
FBI about the campaign’s ties to Russia.
25.
Trump ignored the deaths of thousands in Puerto Rico
After the official death toll
from Hurricane Maria rose to nearly 3000 people, Trump insisted that the actual
death toll was around 60 and claimed the Democrats made up that larger number
just to make him look bad. He actually trivialized the deaths of nearly 3000
people to make himself look like a victim.
26.
Thanks to Trump, our allies no longer trust us
After a terrorist attack in
Manchester England on May 25, 2017, the Trump Administration had leaked so much
classified information to the media that the United Kingdom said they would
stop sharing information about the terrorist attack with the United States.
Due to Trump’s incessant lies, insults and contrasting policy statements, many of our allies have publicly stated that they do not trust him and are struggling to gauge whether they can depend on the United States to honor commitments.
27.
For no apparent reason, Trump reduced automobile fuel efficiency standards
Although auto makers had already
agreed to higher fuel efficiency standards, Trump reduced those standards for
no apparent reason. Thanks to this decision, our fossil fuel consumption is
increasing as is our dependence on foreign oil and the amount of toxins in our
air. There was no positive economic benefit to roll back these standards.
28.
He’s making climate change worse.
Despite the objections of the
overwhelming majority of scientists, Trump is rolling back all the climate
change initiatives from the past few years. There is virtually no benefit to
this country by easing these standards, but Trump is rejecting the entire
scientific community just so he can help a few corporate CEOs make a few more
dollars at the expense of everyone else.
29.
Trump is destroying the best things about America.
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He eliminated federal funding to a program to feed the elderly.
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He cut funding for mammograms and other women’s health
screenings.
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He reduced environmental standards to allow more toxins in our
drinking water.
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He's made it easier for the mentally ill to get a gun.
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And his tax proposals redistribute more wealth from the poor and
middle class to the very wealthy.
30.
He is determined to take healthcare way from millions of Americans.
Every one of the proposed
replacements for Obamacare would take health insurance away from tens of
millions of Americans and give huge tax breaks to the very rich.
31.
He is setting us up for another collapse of he financial system
Dodd-Frank was the law enacted
to prevent another financial collapse like the one in 2008. Although many
people said it didn’t go far enough in regulating the financial institutions,
Donald Trump wants to repeal it altogether and take us back to the same
conditions that gave us the financial collapse that cost taxpayers a trillion
dollars to bail out big corporations. Once again this will benefit a few of his
wealthy friends, but it will hurt the rest of us.
32.
Trump has a bizarre relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Trump insists that he
got Kim Jong Un to end his nuclear weapons program despite the fact that all US
intelligence agencies report that program is continuing unabated. According to acting FBI Director
Andrew McCabe, when US intelligence agencies informed the president that North
Korea was developing missiles capable of reaching the United States, Trump
refused to believe them. Trump said he believed Vladimir Putin, who told him
that North Korea had no such missiles.
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Link - Trump
dismissed US advice on North Korea threat, says McCabe - The Guardian
Former FBI chief says president believed Russian leader over US security agencies and ‘a crime may have been committed’ over Comey firing
Former FBI chief says president believed Russian leader over US security agencies and ‘a crime may have been committed’ over Comey firing
33. Trump has lowered
the bar for future presidencies.
Prior to Donald Trump, we have
never before had someone become president with such a complete and total lack
of experience in governing and the military. No candidate has ever demonstrated
the ignorance of political issues that he did in the debates. No presidential
nominee has had such a well-documented history of sexist behavior toward women
as Trump. No candidate has ever had Trump’s tendency toward obnoxious, childish
and crude behavior. If Trump is the new normal, then this does not bode well
for the future of our country.
34.
Trump said he wants US troops in Iraq to take their oil.
Trump has in recent years repeatedly endorsed the bizarre, bellicose fantasy
that the U.S. could and should seize oil fields in Iraq and Libya. Donald Trump repeatedly
said we should keep US troops in Middle Eastern countries like Iraq
indefinitely for the purpose of seizing their oilfields and taking their oil.
He told the Wall Street
Journal “I always heard that when we went into Iraq we went in for the oil. I
said, ‘oh, that sounds smart.’ But, we never did. I would take the oil. “So you would keep troops in
Iraq after this year?” asked Wall Street Journal reporter Kelly Evans. “I would
take the oil,” Trump responded. Confused, Evans responded, “Does that mean
keeping troops there, or staying involved in Iraq?” “You heard me, I would take
the oil,” Trump insisted. “I would not leave Iraq and let Iran take the oil.”
35.
Trump appointed Steve Bannon, a white nationalist, as White House Chief
Strategist.
Steve Bannon is known for
racially divisive, sexist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim rhetoric on the
Breitbart website. It is the height of irony that Donald Trump, the president
who decries “fake news” hired one of the worst purveyors of fake news in the
country as his chief strategist.
36.
His solution to the threat of terrorism is to ban Muslims from entering the
country.
In December, 2015, Trump
issued this statement. "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and
complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's
representatives can figure out what is going on.” It is the first time any president ever proposed banning entry to the country
based on religion.
After becoming president, Trump
banned anyone coming from several mostly Muslim countries from entering the
United States. Strangely, many of the countries targeted have not produced any
terrorists who have attacked the US. Yet Saudi Arabia, which produced most of
the 9/11 hijackers, was not on the list.
37. He told is
supporters to assault non-violent protesters at his rallies.
More than once during
the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump encouraged his supporters to physically
assault non-violent protesters at his rallies. Here are a few Trump quotes from
his rallies.
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“You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were
in a place like this? They’d be carried out on a stretcher folks.”
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“I’d like to punch him in the face, I tell ya.”
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"Get him out of here. Knock the crap out of him would you?
Seriously. I'll pay the legal fees."
Trump also suggested that
"the 2nd Amendment people" might be able to stop Hillary Clinton if
she wins the election.
38.
Trump is quick to criticize just about anyone - except white supremacists.
After a group of neo-Nazis, KKK
members, and Confederate flag supporters violently clashed with counter
protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, President Trump refused to condemn the
white supremacists. He actually defended them and said there were violent
people on both sides and that there were many good people among the right wing
protesters. After a few days he read a statement saying he opposed the KKK.
Then the next day, he again defended the extremists.
39.
He is rolling back civil rights for gay and transgender people.
Trump’s Justice Department
intervened in a private civil rights lawsuit arguing that gay people are not
protected by the ban on sex discrimination in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Without consulting with the
Defense Department or Congressional leaders, Trump announced a ban on transgender
people serving in the military.
40. Trump routinely
makes sexist remarks about women and insults their appearance.
About Carly Fiorina:
“Look at that face... Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?
When a New York Times
columnist wrote about Trump’s bankruptcies, he sent her a copy of her article
with her picture circled and the words “the face of a dog” written across it.
In a Tweet he called
Bette Midler: “an extremely unattractive woman”. About Rosie O’Donnell, “If I
were running The View, I’d fire Rosie. I’d look her right in that fat, ugly
face of hers and say, ‘Rosie, you’re fired’”.
After Megyn Kelly asked
him in a debate about his history of making sexist remarks about women, Trump
proceeded to make sexist insults about her for months afterward, often calling
her a "bimbo".
Trump has bragged about
walking into beauty pageant dressing rooms unannounced as women were dressing.
When some women confirmed that he did this, he then denied it.
During the Republican primaries,
Trump posted an unflattering picture of Ted Cruz’s wife, Heidi, next to a
glamour shot of his wife Melania saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
41. Trump insisted that
a Federal judge should be removed from a case simply because of the Judge’s
Mexican heritage.
When federal judge Gonzalo
Curiel, who is of Mexican heritage, ruled against Donald Trump in a lawsuit
regarding Trump University, Mr. Trump said Judge Curiel should be removed from
the case because he was Mexican (although he was born in Indiana). Trump
repeatedly cited Judge Curiel’s Mexican heritage as the reason why he should be
removed from the case. When asked to explain how his remarks about Judge Curiel
were not racist, Trump dodged the question over 20 times.
42. Trump has taken
political debate to a new low with his petty insults and snide remarks.
We usually want the US
president to be a statesman - someone who treats people with civility and
respect. More than any other president in history, Trump engages in personal
attacks, insulting people's appearance, ethnic background or physical handicap.
He mocked a handicapped reporter, claimed Ted Cruz’ father was linked to the
Kennedy assassination, insulted the parents of a dead US soldier, and ridiculed
John McCain’s military service saying “I like people who don’t get captured”.
He uses nicknames like “lying Ted”, “little Marco”, “low energy Jeb” and
“crooked Hillary”.
Trump uses these endless insults
as a substitute for real debate because he's not capable of engaging in a
meaningful discussion of the issues.
43.
Trump’s complete lack of useful experience is hurting the country
Every president before Trump
either had military experience like Washington, Grant or Eisenhower or they had
experience in state or federal government. Donald Trump has no history of
military service and no experience in governing or legislating. He claimed that
his background as a successful businessman qualified him to be president but he
refused to release the most useful information to evaluate his success as a businessman
– his tax returns.
44.
He refuses to take the time to learn what he needs to know to be president.
During the campaign,
Trump demonstrated an appalling lack of knowledge about the topics being
discussed and often didn’t understand the question. He didn’t know the names of
foreign leaders or the names of many Islamic militant groups, didn’t know that
Russia had invaded Ukraine. He complained that any questions asking for
specific information are “gotcha questions”.
When asked a question
about our nuclear triad, Trump didn’t know what that meant and still couldn’t
answer after the questioner explained it to him.
Trump said that he would
learn about all of that after he became president. Sadly, his ignorance
continued into his presidency. After the election, he even refused to attend
most of his daily national security briefings.
In the summer of 2017, his own
Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, frustrated with Trump’s lack of knowledge
about urgent matters, called Trump a “moron” in front of other cabinet members.
When asked about this, Tillerson has not denied it.
45.
He possesses none of the qualities we usually demand from a president.
At the very least, we
expect our president to be tactful, civil and diplomatic, to be gracious, even
when dealing with political opponents. We expect him to fully understand the
issues and the way government works; to show humility and accept criticism
gracefully so he can learn from his mistakes. We expect him to conduct himself
like a gentleman. Donald Trump constantly fails on
every one of these levels.
46.
He has made America a laughingstock to the rest of the world.
His obsessive bragging caused
the entire United Nations General Assembly to burst out laughing during his
speech after he said “We’ve accomplished more than any other administration in
the history of our country.”
47. He made a fortune by
bankrupting his casinos and walking away with his investor’s money.
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Link - How
Donald Trump Bankrupted His Casinos, but Still Earned Millions - The New York
Times
Trump bragged that declaring bankruptcy was a smart business move that enabled him to make a fortune. When Trump declared bankruptcy, he closed down his casinos, put hundreds of people out of work, defaulted on his debts to contractors and suppliers
Trump bragged that declaring bankruptcy was a smart business move that enabled him to make a fortune. When Trump declared bankruptcy, he closed down his casinos, put hundreds of people out of work, defaulted on his debts to contractors and suppliers
48.
Trump’s charity made an illegal payoff to a politician and then lied about it
on their taxes.
The Trump Foundation
illegally made a $25,000 contribution to the Florida Attorney General who was
investigating Trump’s fake University. To cover up the illegal payment,
the Trump Foundation falsely reported the $25,000 contribution on their taxes,
claiming that it went to a charity in Kansas which, in fact, never received any
money from them.
49.
Trump violated anti-trust laws during a hostile takeover of a rival casino.
The Federal Trade Commission
said Trump violated the law by using illegal methods to try to take over a
competitor’s casino business. Ultimately, Trump had to pay a $750,000 penalty
for violating anti-trust laws
50.
Trump is violating ethics standards and profiting greatly from his presidency.
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Before taking office, most new presidents put their investments
into a blind trust to avoid any conflict of interest. Walter Shaub Jr., the
director of the US Office of Government Ethics could not get President Trump to
divest his business interests to avoid such conflicts. Shaub ultimately resigned
over Trump's ethics violations and conflicts of interest.
Trump has, in fact, profited
greatly from his presidency. He doubled the dues for his Mar-a-Lago resort and
doubled his profits at Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington, DC.
During his presidential campaign, he charged the campaign for using his
airplane and Trump Tower, making huge profits on each.
Summary
Don't take my word for
any of this. Every fact above can be independently verified, and I encourage you
to do so. You may have noticed
that many of these facts have little to do with Trump’s policies or political
views. Trump’s unfitness for the presidency transcends political ideology. His
tenuous mental state, divisiveness, total lack of qualifications for the job,
his personal corruption, his constant and obvious lies, and his vulgar,
obnoxious personality make him the most horribly unqualified person for the
presidency in history.
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