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"Donald Trump is not merely an 'imperfect' candidate. He poses a serious threat to the nation and to the Christians who fall for his appeals." "Christian leaders who support Trump will often acknowledge he has 'character flaws,' but they'll minimize those flaws with dismissive phrases like, 'I don't care for his mean tweets,' or 'I hear he had an active dating life before he became a Christian.' . . . This is foolish reasoning masquerading as mature Christian pragmatism." "They've yoked themselves to a corrupt leader of a toxic movement. They've done so in the name of Christ. They should repent." |
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"Whatever Russia did with regard to the 2016 presidential campaign, was it an assault on America's sovereignty, or merely meddling? Was it an act of war? Did Russian interference change the results of the 2016 presidential election? Was it treason? Is Donald Trump a traitor? A Russian agent? Or merely a so-called useful idiot who somehow, through willful blindness or colossal ignorance, does not even know how he has been compromised by Russia?" "President Trump was $4 billion in debt when Russian money came to his rescue and bailed him out, and, as a result, he was and remains deeply indebted to them for reviving his business career and launching his new life in politics." |
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"To most of the country, he was vulgar and vile, a misogynistic, racist firebrand, a buffoon who knew only his own pecuniary interests and prejudices and would stop at nothing to satiate them. He was clownish and repellent. But well before the election, it had become clear that he was far more dangerous than that suggested, that his buffoonery masked real demagoguery, that he was a tyrant who had mesmerized tens of millions of people, and that it didn't matter to them what he said or did. He spoke for them." "Why had Trump thrown American intelligence agencies, all seventeen of them, under the bus and sided with Putin instead? Why did he pull US troops out of Syria—as Putin wished? Why did Trump do and say nothing when it was widely reported that Russia was offering bounties to be paid to Afghan troops who killed American soldiers? How did it come to this? What did the Russians have on him? Could Donald Trump really be a Russian asset?" |
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"This book was made possible by Donald Trump and his supporters in Congress. For more than two years, they pursued multiple legal avenues to pry into the private client work of Fusion GPS, even as they labored to hide the Trump campaign's dealings with Russia. Their baseless allegations about Fusion's work, which at their core attacked the constitutional right to free speech, ultimately forced the firm and some of its clients to provide documents and testimony about its research efforts—information Fusion would have otherwise been contractually obligated to keep confidential. Congress's assault on Fusion provided the firm with an unexpected opportunity to tell the true story of its investigations into Trump and its work with Christopher Steele." "Trump's sweeping efforts to obstruct Mueller's probe—and the lies that landed several of Trump's top deputies in jail—ultimately succeeded in preventing investigators from learning what took place between Trump and Russia. Time and again, the special counsel's report says that prosecutors were not able to answer some of the most pivotal questions. Why did Manafort share polling data from key swing states with Konstantin Kilimnik, a man with ties to Russian intelligence? Who tipped Trump off to the impending leak from WikiLeaks? Did Roger Stone coordinate the release of hacked DNC emails with Russian intelligence and Julian Assange? Whom did Carter Page meet with in Moscow in June 2016? Did the Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud and Trump's Russian business associate Sergei Millian work on behalf of Russian intelligence? Why did Jared Kushner try to set up a secret back channel through the Russian ambassador? Mueller never found out. And on several of these fronts, it is not clear how hard he tried." |
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"TRUMP: My whole life has been deals. I've done great. Far greater than people understand." "TRUMP: I respect Putin. I think Putin likes me. I think I like him." "TRUMP: I hope you treat me better than Bush, because you made him look like a stupid moron, which he was." "Trump's voice is a concussive instrument. It is fast and loud. He hits hard or will lower his voice to underscore for effect. He is staggeringly incautious. And at times staggeringly repetitive, as if saying something often and loud enough will make something true." |
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"Trump said it was 'a whole presentation. It's a way of presenting. You've got to know your audience and by the way, for some people be a killer, for some people be all candy. For some people be different. For some people be both.'" "As rioters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, President Donald Trump watched on television from his private dining room next to the Oval Office. . . . It took 187 minutes to post a tweet telling his supporters to 'go home.'" "The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack later concluded that Trump 'engaged in a successful but fraudulent effort to persuade tens of millions of Americans that the election was stolen from him.' Garrett Miller, a Trump supporter who brought a gun to the Capitol on January 6, said, 'I believed I was following the instructions of former President Trump.'" |
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"Graydon Young testified against Stewart Rhodes and other members of the Oath Keepers militia group. The defendants had been charged with seditious conspiracy against the United States and other crimes related to the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress. In his testimony that day, Young explained to the jury how he and other Oath Keepers were provoked to travel to Washington by President Donald Trump's tweets and by Trump's false claims that the 2020 Presidential election was 'stolen' from him. And, in emotional testimony, Young acknowledged what he and others believed they were doing on January 6th: attacking Congress in the manner the French had attacked the Bastille at the outset of the French Revolution." "The Select Committee believes that the entire White House senior staff was in favor of a Presidential statement specifically instructing the violent rioters to leave. But President Trump refused." |
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Free, 72-page report
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"Donald Trump and his supporters have failed to present evidence of fraud or inaccurate results significant enough to invalidate the results of the 2020 Presidential Election. We do not claim that election administration is perfect. Election fraud is a real thing; there are prosecutions in almost every election year, and no doubt some election fraud goes undetected. Nor do we disparage attempts to reduce fraud. States should continue to do what they can do to eliminate opportunities for election fraud and to punish it when it occurs. But there is absolutely no evidence of fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election on the magnitude necessary to shift the result in any state, let alone the nation as a whole. In fact, there was no fraud that changed the outcome in even a single precinct." |
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"The president has waged an all-out assault on reason, preferring to enthrone emotion and impulse in the seat of government." "The Donald J. Trump administration will be remembered as among the most tumultuous in American history." "Through a toxic combination of amorality and indifference, the president has failed to rise to the occasion in fulfilling his duties." "The criticism of the Trump administration is so frenzied that ordinary Americans are struggling to discern truth from fiction. There is only so much the public can absorb. When everything is a crisis and a scandal, the end result is that nothing is." "America's Founders could never have imagined today's world, where public mobs are supercharged by social media." |
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In The Making of the President, Roger Stone writes of "Donald Trump's hostile takeover of the GOP."
Stone begins with an account of first meeting Trump in 1979: "I met Donald Trump through Roy Cohn, the legendary mob and celebrity lawyer, who was an attorney and advisor to the young real estate mogul. . . . When I arrived at Cohn's brownstone law firm on the Upper East Side, I was told to go to a second floor dining room where Mr. Cohn would meet me. He was wearing a silk dressing gown. His heavy-lidded eyes were bloodshot, most likely fro a late night of revelry. Seated with Cohn was his client, a heavy-set gentleman who had been meeting with Cohn. 'Meet Tony Salerno,' said Roy. I was face-to-face with 'Fat Tony' Salerno, at the time the boss of the Genovese crime family." Stone admits, "It's true that as a New York developer, Donald Trump bought concrete from a mob-connected company controlled by Salerno." Stone writes, "It was Richard M. Nixon who first noticed the potential for a presidential bid by Donald Trump. . . . Trump was intrigued by Nixon's understanding of the use of power. Nixon's pragmatism also appealed to the New York developer. At Nixon's request, I extended an invitation to Donald and his wife Ivana for a weekend in Houston. . . . Nixon was in rare form. He and Trump spoke privately for hours, with the New York real estate mogul peppering the former president with questions. For both Trump and Nixon this was an important and pivotal moment. Nixon came out of his self-imposed exile and Trump absorbed as much as he could from the former president, who was downright impressed by the Manhattan businessman. . . . Had he lived to see the 2016 presidential race, Nixon would surely have savored the fearlessness and ferocity with which Trump routinely lambasted the mainstream media." Stone says that Trump wanted to enter the 2000 presidential race because Al Gore and George W. Bush were "absolutely terrible," and all the other candidates were "a**holes." Those running at the time included Gary Bauer, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Sen. John McCain, Steve Forbes, and Alan Keyes. Trump entered the 2000 race to chase a more liberal constituency. Stone writes that Trump adjusted his public positions to run for president in 2016, because "he was trying to win support from Republicans who are generally conservatives. Of course his stand on certain issues changed. In politics, you play to your audience—plain and simple! Trump knows this better than anyone." |
