The Unofficial Trump Damage Scorecard

The High Crimes, Misdemeanors and Otherwise Hinky Stuff by Donald Trump

So, now we’ve seen how bad it gets.

How much damage one really bad president can do.

How much damage can one really bad president do?

Well, I’ll tell you…..

Now, I’m on record as pointing out some of these things before, and I’m obviously not a fan of Trump or the right, but I did promise to be objective and factual in my essays. So, I gave myself some parameters to follow.

For starters, none of these are based on Trump being a Republican, or a conservative, or Republicans being conservative, or conservatives being Republican or any other enticing combination of those words.

And not based on any policies or platforms, or on issues or anecdotes.

Nor are they based on any interpretation of liberal dogma that Trump has somehow violated.

This is not about politics or party.

No, this is simply a list of things that we just plain know that he did, out loud.

All of these actions have been seen in the media, or documented in some way by the government or even by Trump himself, and are presented in the general order they occurred. Some were incidents, or episodes, some were just ongoing daily patterns, practices and habits. Some are actual crimes, some are potentially criminal, and all are unethical systemic damage to our government and our political discourse. This covers acts since his term began and up to the present day.

He did these things.

Daily Patterns and Practices

- Four years and millions of dollars earned by the Trump Organization from global commerce with both foreign entities and US political groups staying at his resorts, and charging the government inflated rates for his own travel and security details’ rooms, meals and even charging golf cart fees for the Secret Service agents required to follow him on the course at his resorts, with all profits paid to a personal trust paying only to Donald Trump, and run by his children in complete transparency to him. He even owned a hotel down the street from the White House where foreign diplomats and lobbyists spent money to have ‘casual access’ to Trump. It was against the terms of the lease for any sitting politician to be on it, yet it was allowed by the Government Services Administration. All of this shredded the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution into confetti. (The president may not receive money or gifts from outside sources or business, foreign diplomats or political groups, and must only receive their presidential salary. He’s the first modern president to ignore that.) Claims that he donated his salary were unsubstantiated, and his earnings from his business during his term dwarfed his presidential salary. Later, his tax returns revealed all of this, and that he had made $6M in China during his first year of presidency. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, potentially criminal.

- The absolute trampling of the Hatch Act, forbidding political campaign activity on government property or using the power of office for political activities, from Trump’s children and staff hawking their products to the Republican Convention nomination speech being held on White House grounds. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, potentially criminal.

- And don’t forget the Logan Act, preventing unauthorized persons from contacting foreign leaders and diplomats, broken by Giuliani, Manafort and the ‘Ukraine crew’, working directly with foreign government agents, even approaching foreign leaders, under Trump’s direction and without an official government authority that allows it, including the criminal attempt to extort campaign dirt from the Ukrainian president. And, even now, continuously broken by Trump as he continues to meet at his resort with foreign leaders such as Hungary’s PM Orban, Israels’ PM Netanyahu and most recently, the Prince of Qatar, who funds Hamas. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, potentially criminal.

- Over 30,000 lies, falsehoods and disinformations from Trump in his speeches, and especially his social media posts, just during his term. They are practically uncountable since then. The outrageous lies he tells on social media and in his rally speeches are a veritable well of Stochastic Terrorism Trump pours out at every opportunity. Conclusion- unethical & damaging.

- Thousands of personal, on-the-record juvenile insults, lies and name-calling of individual Americans and politicians in his speeches, interviews and posts. Conclusion- unethical & damaging.

- An unimaginable pack of ‘foxes guarding the henhouse’ in every cabinet department, from an oil exec running the EPA to a Charter School advocate running Education to a last minute postal head crippling the post office to assist Trump’s voter fraud allegations. A good number of them served short terms before being caught in some kind of shenanigans. Conclusion- wildly unethical & damaging.

- The insultingly casual attitude towards the office, where, on a good day, he’d stop watching Fox News and hit the Oval Office by noon, and spent almost a year’s worth of his term playing golf at his own resorts. ($150M worth.) Conclusion- embarrassingly unethical & damaging.

- The absolute trashing of our foreign diplomatic ties, insulting our allies and kissing up to despotic regimes. Conclusion- unethical & damaging.

- The outrageous stupidity on constant display, from windmill noise cancer to the Continental Army taking airports to ‘light in the body’ to ’nuking hurricanes’ to the more modern ‘sharks and batteries’, ‘no water’, ‘Hannibal Lecter’, and ‘immigrants eating pets’ to actually believing the vice president could simply overturn electoral votes and award him the presidency. Conclusion- unethical & damaging and astonishingly dumb.

- Possibly the most dispassionate, clumsy, self-aggrandizing, disingenuous, selfish, narcissistic and malevolently greedy and mean person to hold any public office, much less the office of president. Conclusion- unethical & damaging. (And really embarrassing!)

- The constant incitement of hatred for opponents and any who would dare to cross him, engendering a very real and severe hatred of their fellow citizens by his supporters, ramping up the vilification to a toxic level, and polluting social media with lies, juvenile name-calling and absurd recriminations. And, for many of Trump’s targets, it results in manifest Stochastic Terrorism- a torrent of violent threats to themselves and family, sent by Trump supporters to personal phones, emails and social media accounts, all usually profane, and many threatening death. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, potentially criminal.

- The outright rejection of oversight by any and all government bodies, from the Justice Department, to Congress to the Courts, defying subpoenas and court judgements throughout his term, and installing department heads that would stop such commands, like Mnuchin blocking subpoenas for Trump’s taxes from the IRS, and Barr intentionally misrepresenting the Mueller Report to national media. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, potentially criminal.

Epidosodic Actions

- Speaking of Mueller, even a Republican-led Senate Committee found overwhelming evidence that Russia had helped Trump in 2016, and Mueller found ten instances of obstruction by Trump, which he stated unequivocally would have been charged were Trump not president, and that while he couldn’t charge Trump, he had in no way exonerated him. Blatant collusion with Russia occurred during the 2016 election, and Trump pardoned those convicted in the scheme that didn’t rat on him. Putin’s help was still in play in 2020, as well, and Russian bots are still spreading the election fraud ‘big lie’ everywhere in 2024. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, potentially criminal.

- Outright extortion of a foreign government, Ukraine, by withholding $300M in government funds approved by Congress and making them and a diplomatic meeting contingent on their President Zelensky fabricating political dirt on campaign opponent Joe Biden. That’s four actual crimes right there- extortion, misuse of government funds, foreign election interference and election fraud. He was impeached for it but not convicted. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, criminal.

- And, possibly treason. (I know what the Constitution says.) If we knew what Trump said to Putin in his several un-witnessed and unrecorded (by us) private phone calls and meetings, and if it had been witnessed by two US personnel as the Constitution requires, then maybe we’d know why Trump cut off support for the Kurds in Turkey and Syria, pulling our troops, leaving the Kurds to be slaughtered en masse and abandoning a military base that was not destroyed and was in Russian hands just hours later. And if he did, indeed, give up an ally and a US base to Putin, that would amount to treason as defined by the Constitution. We may never know. Putin knows, though, and maybe he’ll tell us when he’s through with Donald. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, potentially criminal.

- The heinous dismissal of the COVID 19 virus and it’s devastating toll on the nation, and his failure to even try to save hundreds of thousands of lives by simply advocating safe behavior, like masks and social distancing. Conclusion- horrifically unethical & damaging, potentially criminal.

- The first president to conspire to defraud the Electoral College with forged elector certificates with the intention of subverting the Constitutionally mandated certification of the presidential election, presided over by the vice-president, on the 6th of January, by artificially invoking the objections clause in the 13th Amendment with the fake electors and soliciting Vice President Pence to arbitrarily reject electoral votes in favor of Trump’s ‘alternates’. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, criminal.

- Which was supported in advance by planning a rally within walking distance of and during the certification in Congress, and the purposeful incitement of the rally crowd to attack the Capitol on that day, January 6th, 2021, causing millions in damage, with rioters heard calling to hang Vice President Mike Pence for failing to award Trump the presidency, even setting up a gallows, and resulting in one Trump supporter being shot and killed by security as she attempted to climb through a window she broke into Congressional office chambers, 4 more Trump supporters dying from heart attacks, over-exertion, one even accidentally tasering himself, 1 officer dying the next day from injuries, 4 officers dying after by suicide, over 140 injured police, including an officer beaten with an American flagpole. Some were sprayed with bear mace, another was tasered 5 times, and, of course, a Confederate flag was proudly marched though the Capitol building. Trump was impeached for it but not convicted. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, incredibly criminal.

- As if that wasn’t enough, he was indicted on 38 federal felony counts under the Espionage Act after being caught red-handed with over 11,000 some government documents squirreled away in boxes with his personal stuff at his resort in Florida, hundreds bearing Confidential, Secret or Top Secret classifications, as well as EMPTY classified folders. Absolutely devastating national defense intelligence, ranging from our defense capabilities to our attack contingencies to ours and other country’s nuclear programs. Literally, the most coveted security info in the world. It appears he collected it all during his term, painstakingly sorting it and hiding it between personal docs in almost 80 boxes, apparently oblivious that they would be missed when his term ended. Worse yet, he fought the retrieval process all along, stonewalling the National Archives for over a year, giving them a partial shipment, lying to the FBI about remaining documents- causing the warrant, where the FBI found another 33 boxes of documents, even Top Secret documents in Trump’s own desk. Amazingly, the Trump-appointed judged has tampered with the case, allowing bizarre motions and delays, and ultimately dismissing it over Trump’s allegation that the special prosecutor was illegally appointed. Between his maudlin pandering to Putin, Orban, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping, and the 345 top secret docs he stole, we have no way of knowing how much he may have shared or sold unless our spies find it on their spies. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, even more incredibly criminal.

- So, he was indicted on four counts, including three for conspiracy and obstruction for Jan 6 and and one charge of violating civil rights for his efforts to disenfranchise voters through the electors scheme fraud. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, incredibly criminal.

- He was also indicted for his electoral schemes in Georgia. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, also incredibly criminal.

- And, lest we forget to mention- his 34-count felony conviction for the election interference / hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels and his actions in hiding it from his 2016 campaign. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, convicted criminal.

- Oh, and, as long as we’re counting, there’s the NYC corporate fraud case- a state crime with a guilty verdict and a $458M fine. Trump organization, is being disgorged and disbanded. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, convicted criminal.

- We also have the sexual assault/defamation suit, where he was ruled factually to have committed rape and held liable for $88M in damages. Conclusion- unethical & damaging, criminally liable.

- There’s also the mountain of debt left behind in cities he’s used for his rallies. Conclusion- unethical & damaging. Really shitty behavior.

So, far, that’s the high points.

So far.

We haven’t said anything speculative- this is not about what he’s going to do if he wins. It’s merely a list of things he’s done.

Just to make things a bit harder, conservative judges are coming through for Trump, especially on the Supreme Court, where the ‘FedSoc Six’- Federalist Society-placed conservative majority- has outrageously ruled that Trump has immunity for whatever he calls ‘alleged official acts’, which, of course, he claims is everything he ever did in office.

So, by their reckoning, everything I listed here is immune from prosecution because he can allege they were ‘official’.

(This does not mean that Biden can’t be charged for multiple crimes in office if Trump wins. The immunity will only apply to Trump.)

Now, this is a point to stress. Trump’s defense against the indictments he faces, and, indeed, his defense and rationale for any of the things we’ve listed, is not that he didn’t do it.

He did.

His only defense, which the FedSoc Six now appear likely to swallow, is that he was allowed to do them.

Sure, we can research and find complaints about any past president, but we can’t find this level of sheer criminality and unethical behavior- not even with Nixon.

If we inserted any other president’s name, your reaction to every point would likely be ‘he can’t do that’ or ‘what an asshole’. No president can do these things.

And, we have no clue as to how far and deep his creepy acts may go.

We have no idea of how involved Trump is with Saudi Arabia, only that they host golf tournaments at his Bedminster club. And, his son-in-law got a $2B investment from them immediately after Trump left office. It carried a hefty bonus for Jared.

As implied by the audio recording of him at Bedminster bragging about showing classified docs while admitting he couldn’t declassify them, we may indeed find that Trump has disseminated some of the info he took, and, classified or not, if it’s national defense info, and we track it to a hostile nation, say, China or Russia, that gets him back up to espionage and treason, right there.

So, yet another shoe could still drop in the documents case. A discovery like this would be a new case in a new jurisdiction, and the charge wouldn’t be the same as the ones disingenuously dismissed in Florida. This would be the much more serious charge of transmitting NDI. If they link the documents in his possession to agents killed in the field, there’s your treason again.

Like we said, we have no idea what Trump said to Putin, (I mean, what Putin told Trump to do) and we now know that he’s been talking with Putin since he left office. We know that Orban and Netanyahu have visited him.

Remember- Logan Act? Trump laughs at it, but that one’s tame compared to full on treason for giving away defense info. The Rosenburgs were executed for that. And, for giving it to the Soviet Union (Russia) at that.

Now, just to be clear again, this is not a political critique- these are all publicly known actions that are damaging to the nation and the law, or are criminal in nature. None of this is based on liberal vs conservative dogma, or parties, or policies, or even talking points. We haven’t mentioned Democrats or Republicans or any issues or platforms or anecdotes.

He did these things.

Regardless of party, every one of these acts is beyond the pale.

This is where the Democrat/Republican thing comes back to bite us all in the ass.

If Republicans could prove any kind of charges against Biden, he’d be out already. Had they been able to nail Obama with anything like any one of these, they would have.

But, when Democrats proved conclusively that Trump broke the law in both impeachments, Republicans let him off the hook over sheer party loyalty.

Because most Republicans are apparently entirely okay with all of it. They are so obligingly entrenched in Trump that they must defend or ignore the worst crimes a president can ever commit- sedition, election fraud, possibly even treason. (And, what about the vile, lying, boorish, malignant narcissist part? Oh. Well, many Republicans are like that, too.)

I don’t envy them being beholden to such a conniving schmuck- it’s plain to see that Trump is still directing the Republicans as if he was president, prompting the House to pass facetious bills and add absurd riders, telling the Senate to kill the border bill, all while he holds private conferences with despotic and far-right world leaders.

That’s quite relevant, as Trump and the GOP are planning on an autocratic reign, plotted and reasoned in their hopefully notorious ‘Project 2025’- a Christo-fascist manifesto that curtails civil rights, gives Trump total power and rationalizes it with right wing talking points, such a ‘Marxist Democrats’, ‘liberal indoctrination’ and ‘wokism’.

And, in these final days before the election, Trump is bursting at the seams to tell us about his ‘secret’ with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. We all already know that it’s another federal crime in real time- conspiracy to obstruct a government function- as Johnson will scheme to warp the certification process to get it thrown to the House so they can install Trump.

Of course, these things have their contingencies, you know. Trump’s very freedom is contingent on winning the election and making his charges go away. Johnson’s ability to help is contingent on the Republicans holding their 26-22 state margin in the same election. If the two split states and two red states swing blue, it’s game over for Trump.

Whether he pays a criminal price or is elected again and wipes it all out, it’s his accountability that is being contested, not his actions.

He did these things.

When all is said and done, Trump may well turn out to be not just the worst president, but the most criminal person in American history.

I mean, he’s got Al Capone beat by a country mile.

C.2024 Cousin B