All but one of the checks/balances failed to keep Trump in check
- Legislative branch failed
- Judiciary branch slow/limited & then supreme court stacked
- Executive branch - complicit/co-opted
- Impeachment failed
- DOJ co-opted (limiting Mueller too)
- FBI/CIA absent/limited
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The only one which stopped Trump was the vote.
I can not understate how lucky America is with a Biden victory
If Trump was not so stupid he could have taken Covid seriously from the start & it would have gained him enough voters for an Electoral College win
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We think the first term was bad.
The second term would be exponentially worse.
FB and Fox News would be spreading effective misinformation/propaganda campaigns
Trump would have unimpeded power setting him up as a de facto dictator.
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Here's a list of the many things Trump got away with in his first term with no actual consequences:
1) Extorting Allies with quid pro quos 2) Unprecedented profiting/fleecing from official business 3) Never "furnished" his tax returns
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4) Allowing foreign adversaries to interfere in the election and American affairs 5) Allowing foreign adversaries to put bounties on American soldiers heads
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6) Firing and replacing inspector generals/watch dogs with sycophants: internal watchdogs for the intelligence community, Defence department, Health and Human services, Transportation Department and State Department 7) Using the DOJ for his own needs
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8) Put unconfirmed loyalists unlawfully in positions of power e.g. see Chad Wolf & William Pendley 9) Insulting most of America's LONG STANDING allies including Australia, Canada, Britain 10) Cozying up to Dictator including Putin, Xi Jingping, Kim Jong Un and Bolsonaro
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11) Coarsening presidential discourse with personal insults, name-calling and invoking/inciting violence "when the looting starts, the shooting starts. 12) Gassing and shooting American citizens for a photo op (among all the other attacks on 1st amendment)
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13) Removing career long service men/women/experts e.g. Marie Yovanovitch, Rick Bright & Alexander Vindman 14) Using Giuliani to collude w/ adversaries to manufacture dirt on a political opponents 15) Continual normalisation/excusing of his unpresidential actions/behaviour.
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16) Undermining the USA's own intelligence agencies e.g. siding with Putin. 17) Installing sycophants in highest positions: John Ratcliffe as director of intelligence, Dejoy: Postmaster General. 18) Continually politicizing/partisan/stacking supreme court after RBG's death.
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19) Making over 22 000 lies or misleading claims to the American people 20) EVERYTHING involving Mike Flynn and Roger stone 21) Abusing pardoning power: e.g Dinesh D’Souza, Bernard Kerik, Rod Blagojevich
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22) Using Gov resources for partisan means e.g. Sharpiegate, pressuring officials to justify it 23) Covid - Deaths = >240k, Long lasting effects = potentially >11 million Americans + economic damage 24) #PPEGATE - see How Trump profited off coronavirus in 10 steps video
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25) Dividing the nation and praising white supremacists. "Fine people on both sides" 26) Racism & Attacking four congresswomen of colour "Go back and help fix the totally crime infested from which they came"
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27) Manufacturing/overstating "others" as scape goats e.g. "Radical leftists" and "Anti-fa". 28) Telling boogaloos/proud boys to "Stand back and stand by" 29) Appointing 3 supreme court justices and >30% of the judges on the federal courts.
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30) Contradicting scientists/experts - undermining the effectiveness of the Covid task force & touting unsafe drugs/agents "Hydroxychloroquine" & " inject bleach" 31) Bigotry: calling African countries "shitholes" and Mexicans "rapists
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32) Kids in cages and over 545 kids forcibly separated from their families 33) Terribly executed Trade War with China which resulted in US taxpayers footing the massive bills to bail out farmers. 34) Continuously violating the emoluments clause e.g. see Trump's hotels
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35) 1/4 time spent in office at his own golf courses costing taxpayers >$142 mil 36) Fraud which was settled during his presidency e.g. Trump University & his charity Trump Foundation 37) Incitement of violence to his supporters/armed forces to attack his political opponents 18/
38) Individual 1: Illegal hush money to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal - Which ATM only Cohen is in jail for. 39) Continually attacking the free press/media. 40) Revoking press passes for dozens of journalists.
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41) Demanding son-in-law Jared Kushner be granted security clearance despite objections by intelligence officials warned that Kushner could be compromised by foreign governments. 42) Imposing a "Muslim travel ban"
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43) Using White House for political purposes 44) Allowing/using the White house for financial purposes/endorsements + repeatedly violating the Hatch ACT
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45) ALL THINGS involving Steve Bannon - far right nationalist as chief strategist 46) Profiting off the presidency e.g Doubling his Mar-a-Lago initiation fee to $200 000 when he became president.
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47) Attacking ANY private company who he dislikes e.g. Goodyear Tires, Tik Tok etc 48) Attacking war heroes e.g John McCain and "Losers and suckers" 49) Promoting conspiracy theories: OBAMAGATE, Qanon etc
51) Using Federal resources to hide/destroy evidence e.g Ukraine transcript to highly classified server. 52) Destroyed/hid records from previous meetings with Putin.
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52) Encouraging police officers/law enforcement to rough up suspects 53) Watching up to 7 hours of TV rather than undertaking presidential duties.
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54) ATTACKING & UNDERMINING every facet of democracy & enabling/complicit in cheating in the electoral process-see below thread of >45 examples 55) Nepotism of unqualified personnel: Kushner, Ivanka, Eric, Don Jr, Barr's son-in-law/daughter, Rudy's son 26/
56) Utilizing stolen personal data of over 60 million Americans from Facebook through Cambridge Analytica and using psychographics to influence the 2016 election. (Steve Bannon was involved in this too)
57) Refusing to concede - barring President-elect Biden from receiving crucial intelligence information 58) Slowing down testing, refusing supplies to Democratic states, Kushner punishing "blue states", co-opting Covid data bypassing CDC going directly to White House
59) Continually attacking/undermining Obamacare public ally & in the courts for 4 years, without even having a healthcare plan to replace it with. DURING A PANDEMIC. 60) Embezzling/laundering money through many operations e.g. Inauguration campaign, Trump's defence fund etc
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61) Dodging A LOT of charges: Obstruction of Justice, Campaign finance violations, Federal/New York State Tax charges, Real-Estate Fraud, Emoluments cases, Congressional tax/financial cases, MLM fraud suit, Mary Trump's fraud suit, E. Carroll’s Defamation Suit, Mueller etc
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62) Failing to pay local cities for services provided after hosting rallies totalling millions of dollars. 63) Passing tax cuts which disproportionately benefited the wealthy (the top 1% received >90% of benefits) 64) Withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement
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65) Specifically targeted LGTBQ+ rights 66) Banned the CDC from using certain highly necessary words such as "Evidence Based", "Science-based", "Diversity" etc. (1984 anyone?) 67) Authorised the longest government shut down in US history (Dec 22 2018 - Jan 25 2019)
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68) Illegally putting his name and signature on stimulus checks 69) Pay to play $500 billion PPPloan program/scam w/
"loans" going to Mitch McConnel's wife, Kanye, Kushner's family, lobbyists etc 70) Mocked disabled reporter, "grab them by the p*ssy"
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71) Fleecing his base by using 60% of "donations" from his base to pay off his own debt and a PAC. 72) Not pay his own lawyers or the arbitrators. 73) Diminished the integrity and accuracy of the 2020 U.S. Census
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74) Paying NO income tax 11 out of 18 years and paying a maximum of $750 in Federal Income Taxes in 2016 & 2017. While simultaneously paying China almost $200 000 in taxes between 2013-15. 75) Employed undocumented/"ILLEGAL" workers at his wineries and golf clubs.
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76) Continued to push the " Obama birther" conspiracy theory. 77) Raised the Federal debt/deficit to over $27 Trillion. 78) Wasted the courts time with an unprecedented amount of frivolous lawsuits.
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79) Wished alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell "Well" 80) Takes "no responsibility" for Coronavirus, has failed to show basic empathy or mourn the deaths of the +250k USA coronavirus deaths. 81) Jefferey Epstein's "suicide" under the DOJ's watch & potential coverup
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Talk about all the active measures by Trump/GOP/RUS to alter election results and undermine confidence in the electoral process.
- Voter suppression
- Dismantling USPS
- Colluding/extorting foreign countries
- Voter/counter intimidation
- Hacking
Just be VERY careful about playing into their game of attempting to discredit the WHOLE election. They want to and their main goal is to discredit democracy and the electoral process.
If I had to select one to push at this time I would perhaps only select the dismantling of the USPS and that the only evidence of "voter fraud" is from republicans.
Picture this - part 1
- Trump & his Admin held accountable for their crimes
- Police accountability
- Major investigation into FB/Social media and our data.
- True sanctions on any foreign countries who interfere in elections
- An independent electoral commision
Picture this - part 2
- Independent watchdogs reinstated for all department Trump has fired
- Universal healthcare
- No life time appointed supreme court judges
- Decrease the riches ability to tax dodge
- Expunging minor drug offences
Picture this - part 3
- Presidents should be vetted by an independent commission for security threats and foreign links.
- Presidents should have to release their tax returns to run.
- Compulsory voting to encourage voting and to prevent effective disillusionment campaigns