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Historian: Trump is the worst president in the history of the U.S.

JKR wrote:

Historian: Trump is the worst president in the history of the U.S.

Yes.  He's at the bottom with Andrew Johnson.

Donald Trump, Michelle Obama Most Admired in 2020

https://news.gallup.com/poll/328193/donald-trump-michelle-obama-admired-...

"Americans are most likely to name President Donald Trump and Michelle Obama as most admired man and woman in 2020. Trump tied former President Barack Obama for the honor last year but edged out his predecessor this year..."

"2000 for our great people, not $600! They have suffered enough from the China virus!!!"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1343916418316824583

lol. (thread)

Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dies of COVID-19 complications, aged 41

So far today, Johns Hopkins has reported 3,708 reported deaths due to COVID19 — the highest number of new deaths the U.S. has ever added in a single day, according to JHU data. Today brought 247,163 new cases so far.

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1344123536970047490?s=20

Trump going out with a bang.

Now they tell us! Trump was Tough on Russia!

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1346103373309890563

"The Trump administration was pretty tough on the Russians. They armed Ukraine [with Canada's help]. They armed the Poles. They extended NATO operations in ways even the Obama administration had not done. The maintained the sanctions. So I don't think it will be that different [under Biden].' - CNN

The domestic terrorism Trump incited at the U.S. Capitol cements him as the worst president ever; THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL BOARD; JAN. 6, 2021

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The peaceful transfer of U.S. presidential power dating back to George Washington and John Adams more than two centuries ago ended with Donald Trump’s incitement of an insurrection Wednesday when hundreds of his supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. This domestic terrorism was meant to prevent the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s decisive victory in the Electoral College, and it left at least one person dead — a San Diego woman — and several people injured. The chaos cemented Trump’s reputation as the worst president of all time. But it will also cement the ruined reputations of shameless cheerleaders who put party over country for a president for whom lying came as naturally as breathing.

A man wearing a shirt which had 'Camp Auschwitz' emblazoned on it was seen among a pro-Trump mob that stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday

https://twitter.com/jackiepeiser/status/1346971111997591552?s=20

Like historical fascist leaders, Trump has presented himself as the single source of truth. His use of the term “fake news” echoed the Nazi smear Lügenpresse (“lying press”); like the Nazis, he referred to reporters as “enemies of the people.” Like Adolf Hitler, he came to power at a moment when the conventional press had taken a beating; the financial crisis of 2008 did to American newspapers what the Great Depression did to German ones. The Nazis thought that they could use radio to replace the old pluralism of the newspaper; Trump tried to do the same with Twitter.

Thanks to technological capacity and personal talent, Donald Trump lied at a pace perhaps unmatched by any other leader in history.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.html?searchResultPosition=1

Now it's sinking in: Wednesday's Capitol Hill riot was even more violent than it first appeared

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/09/media/reliable-sources-january-8/index.html

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Editorial-Re...

Jared and Ivanka told the Secret Service not to use ANY of the half-dozen bathrooms in their home, so the federal government has been spending $3,000 a month — more than $100,000 to date — to rent a basement studio, with a bathroom, from a neighbor.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1349766994560630784?s=20

US President Donald Trump has awarded a top US honor to King Mohammed VI of Morocco, citing his decision to begin normalization of relations with Israel.

The Legion of Merit is a rarely awarded decoration that can only be bestowed by the president, and typically on heads of state or government of other countries.

The honor comes after the United States in December recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over the entire Western Sahara territory, including the disputed area between southern Morocco and Mauritania. Morocco, in turn, agreed to resume partial diplomatic ties with Israel in the near future, establish direct flights between the nations, and promote economic and technological cooperation.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-gives-top-award-to-moroccos-king-for-normalizing-with-israel/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Pack Your Shit and Go!

How Trump 'Appeased' Russia

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/01/how-trump-appeased-russia.html

"In fact, no other US administration since the Cold War has been more aggressive towards Russia than Trump's."

Mr. Trump has tethered his success to the politics of law and order, stoking fears and then positioning himself as the only person capable of confronting them. As for what — or whom — Americans should fear, Mr. Trump virtually always targeted people of color and people who protested for their rights: Mexicans, migrants from Central America, Black Lives Matter activists, the diverse array of protesters in major cities last summer.

But this month, it was a largely white mob trawling the Capitol grounds with Trump banners and zip ties, and killing a police officer. And yet the president did not preside over a tear-gas-fogged show of force, as he had during a protest for racial justice before the White House last summer. Instead, he praised these supporters on the evening of the riot — “you’re very special,” he assured them, “we love you” — before trotting out the “law and order” comment the next day under pressure from advisers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/16/us/politics/trump-law-order.html

Greenblatt was succeeded by Kushner’s 31-year-old “coffee boy,” Avi Berkowitz. Known as Jared’s “mini-me,” Berkowitz met Kushner while playing a game of pick-up basketball and now occupies the position of U.S. Middle East envoy. Consequently, Ashrawi and the late Erekat, both of whom earned PhDs and committed their lives to peace, faced an American counterpart whose last job was producer of the “Trump Tower Live” talk show on Facebook.

https://www.cornellrooseveltinstitute.org/intl/digital-diplomacy-and-its-palestinian-discontents

Taking the word of a Trump's pro-Greater Land of Israel flack?  Jared's mini-me?

President Donald Trump, in one of his final acts of office, released current and former members of his administration from the terms of their ethics pledge, which included a five-year ban on lobbying their former agencies.

The ethics pledge was outlined in one of Trump’s first executive orders, signed on Jan. 28, 2017, as part of his campaign pledge to “drain the swamp.” It required Trump’s political appointees to agree to the lobbying ban, as well as pledge not to undertake work that would require them to register as a “foreign agent” after leaving government.

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-lobbying-e911209abab83899eadd18b5776f6095?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Politics

A half-decade of Trumpism has accelerated a conversation about the threat of far-right extremism across Western democracies. From Germany to New Zealand to the United States, far-right gunmen have carried out bloody terrorist assaults. They were animated by hatred of migrants and liberals. In some cases, a line could be drawn from their radicalization to Trump’s incendiary rhetoric.

Despite Trump and the right’s demonization of antifa — a loosely knit group of far-left activists — domestic data shows that far-right or white-supremacist plots in the United States vastly outnumbered those hatched by leftist or anarchist radicals in 2020.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/01/22/biden-west-face-threat-far-right-extremism/

Mary Trump: Donald will be Exposed as a Serial Rapist in Court; YouTube

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Mary Trump: Donald will be Exposed as a Serial Rapist in Court; YouTube

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It's a duopoly. All American Presidents are Monsters...AAPAM!

Here are all the times Joe Biden has been accused of acting inappropriately toward women and girls

https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-allegations-women-2020-campaig...

And how many times has it been stated: This claim about election fraud is disputed

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Sean Wilentz, a professor of American history at Princeton University, said that Mr. Trump was the worst president in history, hands down.

“He’s in a whole other category in terms of the damage he’s done to the Republic,” said Mr. Wilentz, citing the radicalization of the Republican Party, the inept response to the pandemic and what he called “the brazen, almost psychedelic mendacity of the man.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/23/us/politics/trump-presidential-history.html

I've heard some variant of this a lot recently, and it's bizarre. Worse than those who owned slaves? Worse than Andrew "Trail of Tears" Jackson? Worse than Ronald "Central American death squads" Reagan? Worse than George W. Bush, who murdered half a million people in Iraq and set up a gulag that still exists? What kind of mental gymnastics do people have to do to rehabilitate these monsters in order to put Trump at the bottom of the list? Is it really about having a veneer of pleasant-feeling civility over the carnage? Will we see the same rehabilitation of Trump when the Republicans nominate the Bison Helmet Rioter / Steve Bannon ticket in 2024?

Its like saying the current GOP invented fake news. The US has been imperialist for a very long time. Demonize and then attack has been the US's modus operendi for all that time.

Any bets on what new country Biden will attack first? Maybe Venezuela or will he directly invade Syria?

But the American public, agitated by the yellow press and American imperialists, demanded firm action. "Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain!" was the cry. On April 11, 1898, McKinley asked the Congress for permission to use force in Cuba.

For two years Trump paid $2.7 million over two years to the people and firms that organized the attack on the Capitol.

Trump's reelection campaign paid more than $2.7 million over two years to businesses and individuals that organized the rally in Washington which sparked the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol earlier this month, according to campaign finance records.

The startling payments were tallied by the Center for Responsive Politics in a report issued Friday. The Associated Press first revealed some of the payments last week, along with the critical involvement of Trump campaign money and actors in the event that instigated the Capitol riot, which claimed five lives, including that of a U.S. Capitol Police officer.

The center warned that the full extent of involvement by the Trump campaign and supporters may never be known because of dark money hidden in shell companies.

Eight paid Trump campaign officials were listed on the permit issued by the National Park Service for the rally, according to records. One of them, Maggie Mulvaney — the niece of Trump’s former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney — was paid $138,000 by the campaign through Nov. 23, which is the latest date covered by the most recent required campaign finance filings. She was listed on the permit as the “VIP lead” for the rally and worked as the Trump campaign’s “director of finance operations.”

Mick Mulvaney, who had become the special envoy to Northern Ireland, said he left the Trump administration this month in protest against the attack on the Capitol. “I was shocked, I was angered, I was sad, I was embarrassed,” Mulvaney told Fox News host Chris Wallace, who pressed him on his responsibility for enabling Trump.

Event Strategies Inc. got the lion’s share of payments — $1.7 million from the Trump campaign and a joint fundraising committee, according to records. Company owners — Justin Caporale, the Trump campaign’s advance director,  and Tim Unes — were identified on the permit as rally production and stage managers.

Event Strategies also received $2.1 million from the Trump-affiliated dark money group America First Policies from 2018 to 2019, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

On Jan. 6, Trump urged his supporters in a speech at the rally to go to the Capitol, and “fight” to seize the election. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness,” he exhorted. “You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”

Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said in his rally speech concerning the battle to overturn the election of Joe Biden: “Let’s have trial by combat!” 

Among others listed on the permit for that rally was Megan Powers, who worked as director of operations of the Trump campaign as recently as this month, according to her LinkedIn profile. She was paid $290,000 by the campaign from February 2019 through Nov. 23, according to the finance filings. She was listed on the rally permit as an operations manager.

Republican fundraiser Caroline Wren, identified as a rally adviser on the permit, and “backstage manager” Ronald Holden also received funds from the Trump campaign. 

Between mid-March and mid-November, Donald J. Trump for President Inc. paid Wren $20,000 a month, according to Federal Election Commission records, The Associated Press reported. During the campaign, she was national finance consultant for Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee of Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee, AP noted.

The nonprofit Women for America, which was the first group to request a rally permit, was given a $25,000 grant in 2019 by another pro-Trump nonprofit, America First Priorities, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

“The Trump campaign’s FEC reports really only provide a snapshot of who was paid by the campaign,” Brendan Fischer, the director of federal reform at the Campaign Legal Center, told OpenSecrets. “Using FEC reports to identify Trump campaign aides involved in the January 6 riot has its limits, because we don’t fully know who the campaign was paying.”

After AP broke the story about the Trump campaign links to the rally, a spokesman said in a statement that Trump’s reelection campaign “did not organize, operate or finance the event.” The statement insisted that no campaign staff members were involved in the organization or operation of the rally and that if any former employees or independent contractors were involved, “they did not do so at the direction of the Trump campaign.” The same statement was provided to Bloomberg after the Center for Responsive Politics issued its report.

The FBI is investigating whether money from enemy states or organizations may have also helped fund the storming of the Capitol. It’s looking into a mysterious $500,000 Bitcoin payment before the raid to extremist figures and groups that apparently was sent by a French national who later died by suicide.

Trump was impeached again earlier this month, this time for “incitement of insurrection” for his role in the storming of the Capitol. His trial in the Senate isslated to begin Feb. 8.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-campaign-officials-firms-fundi...