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Political Failings of Donald Trump
Political Failings of Donald Trump
Political Failings of Donald Trump
-Using campaign and donor funds for his private businesses [13]
-Currently being investigated by the FEC for hiding 170 million in campaign
spending to major vendors, family members & associates by diverting the
money through firms led by then campaign manager Brad Parscale [14]
[15]
-Signing EO allowing him to purge federal workers for “disloyalty” [19] [20]
-7 members of his team including Ivanka and Kushner using their personal
email accounts and WhatsApp accounts to conduct official business [22]
[23] (Oh the irony here)
-26 sexual assault and rape allegations, which is a troubling high number
in and of itself, but is made worse by him making comments that consent
isn’t important when you’re of a certain status. [26]
-Blaming California for the forest fires, and sought to withhold their federal
aid during their largest wildfire in history, before changing his mind [29]
-His LONG history with conspiracy theories. Serious, research this one.
Everything from his birther theories with both Obama and Ted Cruz,
Obama wiretapping him, the DNC server to Biden and seal team 6. [49]
There’s a lot to unpack here. He romanticizes cult mentality by fostering
these baseless theories.
-Altering the Hurricane Dorian trajectory with a sharpie to back up his
false claims about its path [50]
-Dodging taxes and lack of transparency with his tax and financial
records, having over 1 BILLION in debt as a sitting president (a major
national security issue). [52] He says he prepaid his taxes which fact
checkers can find no evidence of, but he could easily settle it by, you
know, releasing the other years.
-Had to pay $2M to 8 different charities after being caught lying and using
his charity to settle his business debts & bolster his campaign [65]
-Creating the Muslim travel ban but hypocritically excluding countries that
benefit him [69]
-Transgender military ban [70]
-Had peaceful protesters hit with tear gas so they wouldn’t ruin a photo op
for him [81]
-Trying to swap Puerto Rico for Greenland, calling PR “dirty and poor” [94]
-Discrediting and demonizing our free press, calling them an enemy of the
people. [98] This is straight up propaganda. Even when something can
easily be fact checked, or is being distributed by a historically reputable
source he will cast doubt by calling it fake news. It’s Orwellian. In fact, the
quote that springs to mind is this- “The Party told you to reject the
evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential
command.” This one really deserves its own book. Oh wait, MIT press did
write one- “Trump & The Media” [99]
-Hypocrisy. There is a whole subreddit out there for your viewing pleasure
called TrumpCriticizesTrump. It takes his (mostly Obama era) tweets and
applies his own logic against him. There’s so much content. Talk about
“flip flopping on the issues” I don’t know anyone with more contrasting
views than Don vs Don. Almost every viewpoint he has is contradicted BY
HIMSELF. [108]
-Boasting about protecting the Saudi prince MBS after the murder of
Khashoggi, a journalist and dissenter speaking out against injustices in
Saudi Arabia [114]
-Soliciting foreign election meddling via a quid pro quo. Trump withheld
400m in military aid, then later released the aid as part of the quid pro quo
agreement with Volodymyr Zelensky. [115] This would later lead to the
impeachment proceedings
-Worst of all, his botched pandemic response. He lied about the nature of
the outbreak, lied about the transmissibility, lied about the fatality rate, lied
about his knowledge of it, supported anti-mask ideals which ultimately
hurt the economy[116], suggesting masks actually make you more likely to
contract Covid[117], lied about the scope of testing[118], falsely pushing
treatments that have been deemed as dangerous and ineffective[119],
disregarding scientific evidence and advise of experts[120], downplayed
the significance of the outbreak, comparing it to the flu[121], suggesting
the virus will go away without a vaccine[122], suggesting we should
embrace herd immunity[123], lied about using the DPA to order PPE
production[124], suggested hospitals were hoarding supplies and lying
about their PPE shortages[125], contracting Covid and then hosting a
superspreader event in the rose garden at the white house[126], as well as
his rally’s being spreader events. So much of his response has failed...
What’s worse than him downplaying the virus to the America people is he
knew better. He’s on tape with Bon Woodward sounding very competent,
repeating facts about how it spreads easily, how deadly it is(making it a
point to say it’s much worse than the flu) how it’s going to get worse, how
it’s not just older and immunocompromised that are at risk. [127] Then a
couple days later he’s telling the America people it’s nothing to worry
about, it’s just like the flu, it’s going to go away with warmer weather,
young people are practically “immune” and that covid affects “virtually no
one” 128]
Americas response to the pandemic is by far the worst in the world. As
Fauci said, “The numbers don’t lie.” [129] [130]
The saddest part is this is just a high level overview of the most notable
concerns I have thrown together in a few hours. Also the vast majority of
these only encompass his time in office these past 4 years. If I were to
make a definitive list of all of the scandals involving Trump, or all of the
problematic or legally questionable things Trump has done throughout his
entire career, I would have to quit my job.
-Shontae Pearce
11/08/2020
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