I woulda posted this in the other thread but 3 posts…
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Anyway, I just want this shit done with.
I think it’s kind of silly for Democrats to expect Trump to suddenly be Dudley Do-Right and participate in these weird old school protocols of decorum like “conceding” an election, especially when they spent the last 4 years trying to take him out by any means necessary.[/quote]
This is just a mischaracterization of what went on over the last 4 years. Nobody did any “By any means necessary” shit to trump… here’s a short list complete with headers and links to reputable news sites… this by no means close to all of it…
Violence
Hate crimes rise under trump https://www.naacp.org/latest/naacp-sees-continued-rise-hate-crimes-legacy-trumps-racism/
Mail bomber radicalized by fox news https://abcnews.go.com/US/mail-bomber-cesar-sayoc-obsessed-trump-fox-news/story?id=64500598
Trump supports murderer Rittenhouse https://apnews.com/article/e5c0dd83a2c172c0aed75b0a91517a55
Trump refuses to transfer power peacefully https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/trump-power-transfer-2020-election.html
Out spoken trump support from florida charged with pipe bomb spree https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/26/suspected-explosive-devices-addressed-cory-booker-james-clapper-probe-expands-packages/
The gestapo has you now https://www.opb.org/news/article/federal-law-enforcement-unmarked-vehicles-portland-protesters/
The insurrection act https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-times-opinion-editor-resigns-amid-fallout-over-op-n1227081
Border patrol laugh at shooting migrants and threaten violence against politicians they don’t like https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-agents-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes
Trump laughs at murdering migrants… https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/10/mcconnell-elaine-chao-1358068
Steve bannon says 2019 will be the most vitriolic year since the civil war https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/431317-bannon-predicts-2019-will-be-most-vitriolic-year-in-us-politics
Roger stone threatens judge in his case with crosshairs on his websit https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/roger-stone-judge-crosshairs-796184/
Trump thinks White supremacists are very fine people…
Judge who blocked Trumps travel ban gets death threats https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/325614-federal-judge-who-blocked-second-travel-ban-received-threats
Trump supporter runs over protestor Do I really need a link for this?
Trump calls for the “Liberation of Michigan” far rights develop plot to kidnap governor… https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/08/michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer-kidnap-plot-busted-by-fbi.html
Paul Manafort’s judge getting death threats https://www.rollcall.com/2018/08/17/manafort-judge-says-hes-getting-death-threats/
Trump celebrates man who beat up journalist https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rally-montana-thursday-backs-greg-gianforte-body-slam-guardian-reporter-my-guy-2018-10-18/
Trump makes pelose fly into war zone with out the aid of military craft https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/17/politics/donald-trump-nancy-pelosi-trip-cancel/index.html
Video shows a mock trump shooting and stabbing a news media https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/14/fake-video-of-trump-shooting-media-and-opponents-shown-at-presidents-resort
Corruption
China all the sudden gives Ivanka 5 trademarks https://apnews.com/article/2ffd383b26d24597aa4aefbf4e5def48
Mcconnel will not allow witnesses in impeachment trial/ he doesn’t care that he has to https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/17/politics/mitch-mcconnell-response-schumer-impeachment/index.html
You will now fund trumps private defensive lawsuits https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/nyregion/donald-trump-jean-carroll-lawsuit-rape.html
Trumps new no experience post master fires 2 top heads grabbing more power for himself https://billmoyers.com/story/friday-night-massacre-at-us-postal-service-as-postmaster-general-a-major-trump-donor-ousts-top-officials/
Trump wants to use military $ for the wall Mexico is supposed to pay for https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/504734-trumps-use-of-pentagon-funds-for-us-mexico-border-wall-illegal-court
When the looting starts the shooting starts https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-when-the-looting-starts-the-shooting-starts
DOJ drops investigation into Flynn https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/07/top-prosecutor-in-flynn-case-abruptly-withdraws-amid-trump-attacks-243107
McConnel tries to get older republican judges to retire in favor of new younger ones https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/mcconnell-judges-republicans.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Trump breaks law in his head of immigration pick https://www.npr.org/2020/03/01/811023475/judge-says-ken-cuccinelli-was-appointed-unlawfully-to-top-immigration-post
Trump puts his thumb on the scales of justice https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-chinese-president-xi-told-him-coronavirus-will-killed-heat-april-1486571
Trump fires Navy secretary for upholding the law https://apnews.com/article/7902f59c504d427ca89a9bd3484a207d
Bill bar meets with news agency owner after Trump is unhappy with coverage (hint it’s fox ) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/22/william-barr-rupert-murdoch-muzzle-andrew-napolitano-fox-news-trump-critic-book
Trump foundation to dissolve after abuse and corruptions claims https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/nyregion/ny-ag-underwood-trump-foundation.html
Strong trump supporter Chris Collins charged with insider trading https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/17/chris-collins-sentenced-to-26-months-for-insider-trading-tip.html
People with green cards can’t enlist https://www.mic.com/articles/185297/exclusive-army-bans-green-card-holders-from-enlisting-a-move-that-may-break-federal-law#.MhEPPnIFS
Hud scales back fair housing rules https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/trump-hud-fair-housing-act
Border patrol agents shut down freeways in main and new Hampshire https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/us/maine-new-hampshire-border-patrol-checkpoints/index.html
Securities and exchange committee drops it’s inquiry into Kushner after trump is involved https://apnews.com/article/dcea3eecab2b478aacd70321c6ce9a91
Hundreds of immigrant children have been taken from their parents at the border https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/21/donald-trump-immigration-parents-children-separated/
Fires deputy director for going against him https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/16/politics/andrew-mccabe-fired/index.html
Saudi prince claims Kushner is his puppet https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/jared-kushner-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/
Waives punishment for convicted banks https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/trump-administration-waives-punishment-convicted-banks-including-deutsche-which
Trump nominates his golf buddies to cushy government jobs https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/11/02/trump-nominates-some-club-members-plum-government-jobs/823231001/
The new zoning laws benefit trump’s kids personally https://apnews.com/article/41847c1548e34d0ba8c339836b86ed93
Fires the consumer watchdog office (So when trump university rips you off you have no where to go but to seek unaffordable personal lawyers) https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-cfpb-advisory-board-fired-20180607-story.html
Tried to discredit Obamas proof of election tampering from russisa https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/obama-trump-russia-election-hacking.html?emc=edit_na_20170301&nl=breaking-news&nlid=60539443&ref=cta&_r=1
Trump’s “voter fraud expert” is registered to vote in 3 states https://apnews.com/article/80497cfb5f054c9b8c9e0f8f5ca30a62
Trump pardons Sherrif Joe for violating the constitution and civil rights… https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/25/politics/sheriff-joe-arpaio-donald-trump-pardon/index.html
Trump hides white house visitor logs https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/328857-trump-administration-wont-release-white-house-visitor-logs
Political groups no longer have to disclose dark money https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-groups/u-s-treasury-moves-to-protect-identities-of-dark-money-political-donors-idUSKBN1K704F?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5b4d619104d3015b814a5c66&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
Ice erasing records of prisoner treatment https://www.newsweek.com/us-historians-are-fighting-stop-ice-erasing-records-agencys-treatment-1049158?amp=1
Treason
Trump tells Russia of bahgdad raid before he tells congress https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-left-top-democrats-dark-about-al-baghdadi-raid-n1072556
Pelosi calls out Trumps ties to putin https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/pelosi-trump-russia-234664
Asks china to start investigation on the bidens https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-publicly-urges-china-ukraine-investigate-bidens-amid-impeachment-inquiry-n1061956
Believes Kim jong un on the death of otto warmbier https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/donald-trump-said-he-believes-kim-jong-un-played-no-role-in-death-of-otto-warmbier
Trump calls for favor before ukrain can get aid https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sondland-testimony-targets-trump-pompeo-confirms-deal-ukraine-n1086541
Trump declares national emergency to build wall – Even though Mexico will pay for it. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47247726
Kushner lies about contacts with Russia https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-fbi-kushner-exclusive-idUSKBN18N018
Sessions forgot to mention he dealt with Russia on trumps behalf https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-spoke-twice-with-russian-ambassador-during-trumps-presidential-campaign-justice-officials-say/2017/03/01/77205eda-feac-11e6-99b4-9e613afeb09f_story.html?utm_term=.d421fd72423a
DHS confirms russian election tampering https://www.google.com/search?q=DHS+confirms+russian+election+tampering&oq=DHS+confirms+russian+election+tampering&aqs=chrome..69i57.1164j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Kim Jong un praises Trump as your excellency https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/12/kim-jong-un-praises-donald-trump-your-excellency-letter/779572002/
Straight up stupid lies
Heat kills corona virus https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-chinese-president-xi-told-him-coronavirus-will-killed-heat-april-1486571
More lies about coronavirus https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-twitter-youtube-removing-false-covid-19-information-video-trump-share/
Almost 10,000 lies in the first 2 years https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/21/president-trump-made-false-or-misleading-claims-his-first-two-years/?outputType=amp&arc404=true
Trump claims his father was born in Germany for the 3rd time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/02/trump-wrongly-claims-his-dad-was-born-germany-third-time/
Trump threatens to cut GMs subsidies even though they get none https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/27/business/gm-trump-subsidies/index.html?utm_content=2018-11-27T19%3A58%3A06&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social
Deletes Research citations on climate change he doesn’t like https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations
Says everyone wants Ivanka to be an ambassador no one does https://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-donald-americans-daughter-un-1167418
Nepotism
Ivanka to sit the board to choose next World bank president https://www.reuters.com/article/us-worldbank-ivanka/ivanka-trump-to-help-select-candidate-to-lead-world-bank-white-house-idUSKCN1P902D
McCConnel’s wife sends money his way… https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/10/mcconnell-elaine-chao-1358068
Ivanka moves into the whitehouse https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/21/520965076/ivanka-trumps-move-to-the-white-house-raises-questions-about-ethics
Kushner lies on his security clearance. politifact.com/article/2019/feb/26/three-questions-could-entangle-jared-kushners-secu/
Eric trmp’s bo in law now on the DOE https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/320916-eric-trumps-brother-in-law-working-at-energy-dept
Theft
What happened to the election money? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/18/one-year-after-trumps-inauguration-no-one-say-how-they-spent-extra-money/1043804001/
Trumps friend bannon steals from wall wanters https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/politics/trump-campaign-nevada-mail-in-ballots/index.html
Bragged to his buddies about the tax break he got them https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mar-a-lago-christmas-trip/
Trump to sell public lands to private companies (I know it says lease but when they put up their oil derricks who really want ‘em back?) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-administration-lease-federal-lands_n_5b98f9b5e4b0511db3e7cd19
Puerto Rico Supposedly got 92 Billion in hurricane relief but only 14 billion showed up https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-check-trump-says-puerto-rico-got-92-billion-they-n1031276
Trump has to pay 25 million settlement over scam university https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/31/522199535/judge-approves-25-million-settlement-of-trump-university-lawsuit?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170331
Voter Fraud
Trump wants to delay the census https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/451248-trump-looking-very-strongly-at-delaying-census?fbclid=IwAR2c_rSt4vYUB66mdZqcKpQC29dwtPQ74yOxX7S3taExyOBWdsHbP7k-9zI
Trump doesn’t think your vote counts https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/politics/trump-campaign-nevada-mail-in-ballots/index.html
Trump blocks elections protection bill https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-blocks-bill-protect-elections-173459278.html
Take my word for it
McConnel blocks the release of Mueller report so nobody can actually fact check what repubs claim it says
Rules for thee but not for me.
Kushner and Ivanka use private email accounts for official business…
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/politics/jared-kushner-whatsapp.html
Trump’s commerce secretary use private email for business https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/24/wilbur-ross-private-email-national-archives-056287
Trump aides used private email for official business https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/20/trump-aides-private-email-elijah-cummings-243988
Trumps house keeper is undocumented https://www.vox.com/2019/2/4/18207096/victorina-morales-undocumented-immigrant-trump
Incompetence
Betsy devos takes down website for rights of disabled students https://www.cantwell.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cantwell-murray-seek-answers-from-betsy-devos-after-resource-website-for-federal-law-protecting-students-with-disabilities-is-taken-down-redirects-to-inadequate-source
Betsy devos gets rid of 72 policy decisions for disabled students https://thebestschools.org/magazine/devos-slashes-idea-guidelines/
Trump fires CDC infections expert stationed in China before outbreak https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv-idUSKBN21910S
Trump says he said not to reach out to mean governors https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-trump-told-pence-not-to-call-washington-michigan-governors.html
Pedophilia
Hired the DA that let Epstein off as the secretary of labor https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article225624945.html
Trumps favorite, Roy moore, is a pedophile https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/04/roy-moore-trump-backs-alabama-senate-candidate
Trump brags to Howard stern he get to look at naked teens https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-former-miss-arizona-tasha-dixon-naked-undressed-backstage-howard-stern-a7357866.html
Wishes the partner of some guy he didn’t know well https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/04/politics/donald-trump-ghislaine-maxwell-axios/index.html
Sexual Misconduct
Trump says all women accusing him of sexual harassment are lying… https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/27/donald-trump-sexual-harassment-claims-women-lying-white-house
Not my type https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/she-s-not-my-type-trump-says-e-jean-carroll-n1021331
Just bastardness
Trump holds up stimulus checks so the treasury can add his name… https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/4/15/21222046/trump-name-stimulus-checks-delays
Bullies lebron James and a reporter https://thehill.com/homenews/media/400365-dan-rather-blasts-trump-for-racist-criticism-of-lebron-james-don-lemon