Trump lost the 2020 presidency to Joe Biden. However, he also lost the senate, and the house of representatives, something that last happened in 1932. Trump joined the 25% of all U.S presidents who did not get re-elected (11/45).
A portion of the American electorate seem to forget or be unaware of Trump's history, character, morals, and ethics.
Here is a partial list of elements which should make a U.S. elector ponder.
Trump's various business ventures that failed
- Trump Airlines — "Trump borrowed $245 million to purchase Eastern Air Shuttle. He branded it Trump Airlines. He added gold bathroom fixtures. Two years later Trump could not cover the interest payment on his loan and defaulted."
- Trump Beverages — "Although Trump touted his water as "one of the purest natural spring waters bottled in the world," it was simply bottled by a third party. Other beverages, including Trump Fire and Trump Power, seem not to have made it to market. And Trump's American Pale Ale died with a trademark withdrawal."
- Trump Game — "Milton Bradley tried to sell it. As did Hasbro. After investment, the game died and went out of circulation."
- Trump Casinos — "Trump filed for bankruptcy three times on his casinos, namely the Trump Taj Mahal, the Trump Marina and the Trump Plaza in New Jersey and the Trump Casino in Indiana. Trump avoided debt obligations of $3 billion the first time. Then $1.8 billion the second time. And then after reorganizing, shuffling money and assets, and waiting four years, Trump again declared bankruptcy after missing ongoing interest payments on multi-million dollar bonds. He was finally forced to step down as chairman. "
- Trump Magazine — "Trump Style and Trump World were renamed Trump Magazine to reap advertising dollars from his name recognition. However, Trump Magazine also went out of business. "
- Trump Mortgage — "Trump told CNBC in 2006 that "I think it's a great time to start a mortgage company. … The real-estate market is going to be very strong for a long time to come." Then the real estate market collapsed. Trump had hired E.J. Ridings as CEO of Trump Mortgage and boasted that Ridings had been a "top executive of one of Wall Street's most prestigious investment banks." Turned out Ridings had only six months of experience as a stockbroker. Trump Mortgage closed and never paid a $298,274 judgment it owed a former employee, nor the $3,555 it owed in unpaid taxes."
- Trump Steaks — "Trump closed Trump Steaks due to a lack of sales while owing Buckhead Beef $715,000. "
- Trump's Travel Site — "GoTrump.com was in business for one year. Failed."
- Trumpnet — "A telephone communication company that abandoned its trademark. "
- Trump Tower Tampa — "Trump sold his name to the developers and received $2 million. Then the project went belly-up with only $3,500 left in the company. Condo buyers sued Trump for allegedly misleading them. Trump settled and paid as little as $11,115 to buyers who had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars."
- Trump International Hotel & Tower Panama - Trump sold his name and arranged financing. "During the financing, Ivanka Trump falsely claimed that over 90% of the units had been sold, and that their sale price was five times that of comparable units. Ivanka Trump also exaggerated demand for the units, claiming in 2009 they were selling out even as potential buyers were being offered substantial discounts. During the development, Donald Trump falsely implied that the Trump Organization had a financial stake in the project, and that it was acting as the developer, neither of which were true. (...) Orestes Fintiklis, who had bought a majority stake in the hotel condominium association, legally ousted them and had the Trump name removed from the building in 2015 and from the hotel March 5, 2018."
- Trump University or the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative — "Trump staged wealth-building seminars costing up to $34,995 for mentorships that would offer students access to Trump's secrets of success. Instructors turned out to be motivational speakers sometimes with criminal records. Lawsuits and criminal investigations abound. ". Trump was also found liable for running it without a license.
- Trump Vodka — "Business failed due to a lack of sales. "
- Trump Fragrances — "Success by Trump, Empire by Trump, and Donald Trump: The Fragrances all failed due to being discontinued, perhaps as a result of few sales."
- Trump Mattress — "Serta stopped offering a Trump-branded mattress, again likely due to slacking sales. "
- USFL : The New Jersey Generals - Cancelled in 1986.
- The Trump Network - A Multi-Level Marketing company which shut down in 2012.
- Tour de Trump - Cycling competition to which Trump lent his name and that he sponsored. Race met by anti-Trump protests. "After two editions, Trump withdrew his sponsorship of the race due to his business's financial problems. According to Packer, reflecting on the event in 2016, he and Trump "parted as good business friends", although he also explained that Trump's personality and celebrity, as well as the scandals surrounding Trump's marriage and business affairs, distracted from the event and annoyed European riders in the race".
- Trump SOHO (Hotel) - Was doing bad business under Trump's name, spiked as soon as the name changed.
- Trump Toronto (Hotel) - Was doing bad business under Trump's name, spiked as soon as the name changed.
- Trump Golf Puerto Rico - Trump brought him to manage the failing gold course. The golf course went bankrupt under Trump's management. (1, 2)
However, the most damning is probably the warning in the SEC filing of the SPAC (Digital World Acquisition Corp) which will soon merge with Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (Truth Social) about the risks of doing business with Donald Trump:
"A number of companies that were associated with President Trump have filed for bankruptcy. There can be no assurances that TMTG will not also become bankrupt.
Entities associated with President Trump have filed for bankruptcy protection. The Trump Taj Mahal, which was built and owned by President Trump, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1991. The Trump Plaza, the Trump Castle, and the Plaza Hotel, all owned by President Trump at the time, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1992. THCR, which was founded by President Trump in 1995, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2004. Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc., the new name given to Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts after its 2004 bankruptcy, declared bankruptcy in 2009. While all of the foregoing were in different businesses than TMTG, there can be no guarantee that TMTG’s performance will exceed the performance of those entities.
A number of companies that had license agreements with President Trump have failed. There can be no assurances that TMTG will not also fail.
Trump Shuttle, Inc., launched by President Trump in 1989, defaulted on its loans in 1990 and ceased to exist by 1992. Trump University, founded by President Trump in 2005, ceased operations in 2011 amid lawsuits and investigations regarding the company’s business practices. Trump Vodka, a brand of vodka produced by Drinks Americas under license from the Trump Organization, was introduced in 2005 and discontinued in 2011. Trump Mortgage, LLC, a financial services company founded by President Trump in 2006, ceased operations in 2007. GoTrump.com, a travel site founded by President Trump in 2006, ceased operations in 2007. Trump Steaks, a brand of steak and other meats founded by President Trump in 2007, discontinued sales two months after its launch. While all these businesses were in different industries than TMTG, there can be no guarantee that TMTG’s performance will exceed the performance of these entities."
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Donald Trump would like you to think he owns or has built these properties with his name on them. But, more often than not, he just lends his name for a fee.
I suggest you check-out this article by Forbes which details what he truly owns.
I think you will be surprised at how little he actually owns compared to what he brags about.
Trump and the law
Trump and his associates filled 58 lawsuits involving the 2020 presidentials results. None of them resulted in a judgment agreeing that there was mass fraud in 2020 elections that would have changed the outcome. The list of all cases can be found here. It is also false that courts dismissed the cases without looking at the evidences presented. Some of the cases that were judged on the case's merit.
2024-02-28 Donald J. Trump was found guilty of fraud in New-York and ordered to pay $454 million, barred from doing business in state of New York for 3 years. He lost his first appeal to delay bond or reduce the sentence. USA Today has a great article about this so-called 'victimless' crime.
2023-08-07 Donald J. Trump is an adjudicated rapist. Judge says E. Jean Carroll allegation Trump raped her is ‘substantially true’. Here, and here. Note that Trump has stated numerous times that he did not know and had never met E. Jean Carroll (here, and here), that she is not his type and he would not be attracted to her. Yet, in court, when showed a picture taken in the late 1980s where he is talking to Caroll, the woman he would rape, he mistook her for Marla Maples, one of his ex-wives. Note that the initial defamation trial verdict was decided by a 9 person jury.
2024-03-07 Trump lawsuit against Orbis (the Steele dossier) dismissed. Trump must compensate Orbis $382,000
"In his 46-page judgment, Middlebrooks cited the lawsuit against James as among those that demonstrated “a pattern of abuse of the courts” by Trump."
2023-01-20 Trump fined nearly $1M for ‘revenge’ lawsuit against Hillary Clinton
"He (Trump) is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. He knew full well the impact of his actions.(...) As such, I find that sanctions should be imposed upon Mr. Trump and his lead counsel, Ms. Habba.”
"He (Trump) is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following the advice of a lawyer. He knew full well the impact of his actions.(...) As such, I find that sanctions should be imposed upon Mr. Trump and his lead counsel, Ms. Habba.”
"New York state Judge Saliann Scarpulla imposed the penalty after the president admitted to a series of abuses outlined in a lawsuit brought against him last year by the New York attorney general’s office.
Among other things, Trump acknowledged in a legal filing that he allowed his presidential campaign staff to coordinate with the Trump Foundation in holding a fundraiser for veterans during the run-up to the 2016 Iowa caucuses. The event was designed 'to further Mr. Trump’s political campaign,' Scarpulla said."
2018-04-09 Judge finalizes $25 million settlement for 'victims of Donald Trump's fraudulent Trump University'. Furthermore, Trump University was found liable for operating without the required license.
Involved in 4,000+ lawsuits!
What Trump's own associates, family, team, and party said
Mike Pence, Trump's Vice-President,
"Let's be clear on that point. It wasn't just that they asked for a pause. The president specifically asked and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes."
John F. Kelly, Trump-appointed Chief of Staff (2nd, and longest tenured)
"He (Trump) truly believed, when he brought us generals in, that we would be loyal — that we would do anything he wanted us to do."
"My theory on why he likes the dictators so much is that’s who he is. Every incoming president is shocked that they actually have so little power without going to the Congress, which is a good thing. It’s Civics 101, separation of powers, three equal branches of government. But in his case, he was shocked that he didn’t have dictatorial-type powers to send US forces places or to move money around within the budget. And he looked at Putin and Xi and that nutcase in North Korea as people who were like him in terms of being a tough guy."
"President Trump questioned whether investigations by the Internal Revenue Service or other federal agencies should be undertaken into Mr. Strzok and/or Ms. Page. (...) he wanted to see Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page investigated.". Trump weaponizing the IRS to go after his enemies.
"A person (Trump) that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law."
"I would vote to remove Trump"
William Barr, Trump-appointed United States Attorney General,
"They wanted to overturn the election and they had no evidence for it."
"I repeatedly told the president (Trump) in no uncertain terms that I did not see evidence of fraud that would have affected the outcome of the election."
"I saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations but they were made in such a sensational way that they obviously were influencing a lot of people, members of the public, that there was this systemic corruption in the system, and that their votes didn't count, and that these machines controlled by somebody else were actually determining it — which was complete nonsense."
"Everyone was telling him (Trump) that the election was not stolen by fraud."
"Not only did we not find any fraud of that magnitude, but in the states, when you actually looked at the votes, it was very clear to me why he lost. He ran as the weakest person on the Republican ticket."
"I think he brought this on himself (indictments for electoral fraud). This is one of the reasons I oppose him for the Republican nomination."
“Someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process that is fundamental to our system and to our self-government shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office.”
Nikki Haley, Trump appointed U.S. Ambassador to the U.N
"He (Trump) is not the same person he was in 2016. He is unhinged. He is more diminished than he was.(...) He is now saying things that don't make sense."
"When you hear Donald Trump say in South Carolina a week ago that he would encourage Putin to invade our allies if they weren’t pulling their weight, that’s bone-chilling because all he did in that one moment was empower Putin.
He sided with a guy that kills his political opponents. He sided with a thug that arrests American journalists and holds them hostage, and he sided with a guy who wanted to make a point to the Russian people, ‘Don’t challenge me in the next election or this will happen to you too,’"
Kellyanne Conway, Trump appointed Senior Counselor to the President
"(Trump) says he's for the little guy but he actually built a lot of his business on the backs of the little guy and has a history of not paying contractors after they have helped him build something. The little guys have suffered.”
Chad Wolf, Trump-appointed Department of Homeland Security Secretary
"He’s the President. What he says matters. People listen to him – particularly supporters of his, I would say, really listen to him – so there is responsibility there.". About Trump's Jan 6th 2021 Capitol riot.
"I was disappointed that the President (Trump) didn’t speak out sooner on that (Capitol riot on Jan 6th). I think he had a role to do that. I think, unfortunately, the administration lost a little bit of the moral high ground on this issue by not coming out sooner on it."
Christopher Krebs, Trump appointed U.S Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
"The 2020 election was the most secure in U.S history"
"Trump fired me for saying this, but I’ll say it again: The election wasn’t rigged"
"My premise here is that there has to be accountability for inciting an insurrection, which is what this was. The noble step would have been the president admitting to the American people and the world that he lied, that it was not a stolen election. ... The right step would be to admit it and then resign."
Richard V. Spencer, Trump appointed Secretary of the Navy
"The 2020 election was the most secure in U.S history"
"Trump fired me for saying this, but I’ll say it again: The election wasn’t rigged"
"My premise here is that there has to be accountability for inciting an insurrection, which is what this was. The noble step would have been the president admitting to the American people and the world that he lied, that it was not a stolen election. ... The right step would be to admit it and then resign."
Liz Cheney, U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming, Republican
"I think that the most conservative of all conservative values is fidelity to the Constitution. So, you know, there certainly are people today who are caught in this cult of personality. But that's the opposite of conservative."
"People who say, 'Well, if he's elected, it's not that dangerous, because we have all of these checks and balances,' don't fully understand the extent to which the Republicans in Congress today have been co-opted. One of the things that we see happening today is sort of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States."
"I think that he (Trump) certainly is employing fascist techniques. I think that the tools that he is using, are tools that we've seen used by authoritarians, fascists, tyrants around the world. The things that he has said and done, in some ways, are so outrageous that we have become numb to them. What I believe is the cause of our time is that we not become numb, that we understand the warning signs, that we understand the danger, and that we ignore partisan politics to stop him."
Adam Kinzinger, U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois, Republican
"The best-case scenario is a completely inept, ineffective government. The worst-case scenario is look, in his four-year term, he (Trump) did not understand what he was doing. He was just trying to survive and he actually listened to people around him until the end. Now he’s going to put people around him that share his views, that will only reaffirm his views and, frankly, some of these people are pretty smart and they know how to work around the constitution or around the law to bring these authoritarian measures in."
"He’s (Trump has) already convinced 30 to 40% of Americans that the system is rigged and so there’s nothing that makes me think for his four years in office he’s not going to continue to undermine faith in that system. And when that is permanently undermined, democracy’s over. It literally cannot survive that way."
"If he (Trump) does get through and he wins this time, he's going to interview 100 candidates for attorney general and only take the one that says, 'Mr. President, in essence, I don't care what the Constitution is. I'm going to do whatever you want as your servant at the Department of Justice."
Mitt Romney, United States Senator from Utah, Republican
"I don’t think I’ve heard a single member of my caucus, the Republicans in the Senate, say ‘you know, Donald Trump is great. Aren’t we lucky to have him as our leader?"
"Donald Trump represents a failure of character, which is changing, I think in many respects, the psyche of our nation, and the heart of our nation. That’s something which takes a long time, if ever, to repair."
"No question I don’t really have a home in my party. I come from a tradition of Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush and George W. Bush and John McCain. Those are the people that have shaped our party: anti-Putin, anti-Russia, anti-authoritarian, anti-Kim Jong Un. Character counts, the character of our leaders makes a difference, and it shapes the character of our country. That’s the party I’ve come from, and I don’t recognize that in the great majority of our party today."
John Boehner, Speaker of the U.S.House of Representatives, Republican
"(Trump) incited that bloody insurrection for nothing more than selfish reasons, perpetuated by the bullshit he’d been shoveling since he lost a fair election the previous November. He claimed voter fraud without any evidence, and repeated those claims, taking advantage of the trust placed in him by his supporters and ultimately betraying that trust.
"(The GOP must) take back control from the faction that had grown to include everyone from garden-variety whack jobs to insurrectionists."
Chris Christie, Trump appointed White House Transition Team, Governor of New Jersey, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey
"I did it (Join the Trump team) because he (Trump) was winning, and I did it because I thought I could make him a better candidate and a better president. I was wrong. I made a mistake"
"I think he’s (Trump) a coward and I think he’s a puppet of Putin"
"This is a billionaire (Trump) who refused to pay his lawyers with his own personal money, and instead, men and women out there who believe in him and wanted [him] to be elected president are donating money to try to forward his candidacy … and he’s diverting that money to pay his own legal fees."
"Trump wants to be Putin (Russia's dictator) in America"
Mark Milley, Trump appointed United States Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff
"We don't take an oath to a country. We don't take an oath to a tribe. We don't take an oath to a religion.We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant, or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator." (referring to Trump's comment that Milley was treasonous for talking directly to China's military command)
James Mattis, Trump appointed Secretary of Defense (1st)
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership."
"Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens"
“Today’s violent assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by Mr. Trump.” (about Jan 6th 2021)
"His (Trump's) use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice"
'Mattis was particularly exasperated and alarmed, telling close associates that the president (Trump) acted like — and had the understanding of — 'a fifth- or sixth-grader' Woodward quoted Mattis as stating
Mark Esper, Trump appointed Secretary of Defense (2nd)
"Based on his actions, again, if proven true under the indictment by the special counsel, no. I mean, it’s just irresponsible action that places our service members at risk, places our nation’s security at risk. You cannot have these documents floating around.” (asked whether Trump could ever be trusted with the nation’s secrets again)
"And yes, I do regard him (Trump) as a threat to democracy, democracy as we know it, our institutions, our political culture, all those things that make America great and have defined us as, you know, the oldest democracy on this planet."
"I think he’s unfit for office." (about Trump)
Anthony Scaramucci, Trump appointed White House Communications Director
"I found that when I was briefing him, I had to put pictures of him in the briefing. When I put the pictures in, it was a good sign, and when I didn’t put the pictures in, you couldn’t get him to focus on it."
"The guy (Trump) stinks and he’s a racist and he’s an American nativist."
"He is (Trump) a threat to the American democracy."
Christopher Miller, Trump appointed Secretary of Defense (3rd and final)
"Would anybody have marched on the Capitol, and overrun the Capitol, without the president’s (Trump) speech? I think it’s pretty much definitive that wouldn’t have happened."
H. R. McMaster, Trump appointed National Security Advisor
"We saw the absence of leadership, really anti-leadership, and what that can do to our country. (...) We've seen the President (Trump) stoking fears. (...) We saw the executive (Trump) who is supposed to enforce the law, undermining the rule-of-law."
John Bolton, Trump appointed National Security Advisor
"I mean, if Trump is elected, there will be celebrations in the Kremlin, there’s no doubt about it, because Putin thinks that he is an easy mark."
"(Trump) Not fit to be president. It’s not a question of the drama or his personality or something like that. It’s a question of his basic lack of competence to do the job.”
" A mountain of facts demonstrates that Trump is unfit to be president. If his first four years were bad, a second four will be worse.”
"Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and others, they think he's a laughing fool. And they're fully prepared to take advantage of him. Trump's self-absorption makes it impossible for him to understand that."
" I had certainly heard everything about Donald Trump that everybody else had. I'd met him several times beforehand. I met him several times after he became president. And I felt that - like his predecessors, that he would be disciplined by the gravity of the responsibility, the weight of the issues he would have to face, and that we could make good policy. And I found, to my dismay, that I was completely wrong on that."
"He looks at decisions through the prism of how they will be reported, for his performance, in the press, not for what the outcome is. For example, he did order, the early exit of Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Quds Force. But in listening to him, talk about his views, about why that was important, it was clear to me that it wasn't simply to eliminate this major figure, who was the leader of Iranian terrorist actions. It was because it would be such a big event, that he would get enormous credit for it. Now, every politician thinks of his position. But only Trump, I think, in American history, can be said as a president, who thinks only of its effect on him."
Rex Tillerson, Trump appointed Secretary of State
"His (Trump's) understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of U.S. history was really limited."
"If I could put a photo or a picture in front of him (Trump) or a map or a piece of paper that had two big bullet points on it, he would focus on that, and I could build on that. Just sitting and trying to have a conversation as you and I are having just doesn’t work."
"I’d have to say to him (Trump), ‘Well Mr. President, I understand what you want to do, but you can’t do it that way. It violates the law."
Elaine Chao, Trump appointed Secretary of the Department of Transportation
"Our country experienced a traumatic and entirely avoidable event as supporters of the President (Trump) stormed the Capitol building following a rally he addressed. As I'm sure is the case with many of you, it has deeply troubled me in a way that I simply cannot set aside.". Elaine Chao then resigned.
"When I was young, some people deliberately misspelled or mispronounced my name. Asian Americans have worked hard to change that experience for the next generation. He (Trump) doesn’t seem to understand that, which says a whole lot more about him than it will ever say about Asian Americans.” After Trump repeatedly used racial slurs when referring to her.
Betsy DeVos, Trump appointed Education Secretary
"I don’t think he (Trump) represents the Republican Party. I think he is an interloper."
"We should be highlighting and celebrating your Administration’s many accomplishments on behalf of the American people.
Instead, we are left to clean up the mess caused by violent protestors overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to undermine the people’s business. That behavior was unconscionable for our country.
There is no mistaking the impact your (Trump's) rhetoric had on the situation, and it is an inflection point for me.”. Excerpt from DeVos' resignation letter after the Jan 6th 2021 attack on the capitol.
Mick Mulvaney, Trump appointed Chief-of-Staff
"I quit because he failed to meet my expectations as a boss…. That was a time when we needed the President (Trump) to be the President, and he wasn’t."
"Evidence was presented that former President Trump knew some of the protesters were armed before encouraging them to go the Capitol, that right-wing extremist rioters communicated directly with the White House, that key Presidential advisers requested pardons, that the chief White House lawyer was concerned about getting ‘charged with every crime imaginable,’ and that someone within Trump world may be trying to tamper with committee witnesses.". About the January 6th committee.
Elinore F. McCance-Katz, Trump appointed Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Mental Health and Substance Use
"Thursday, January 7, 2021
I have chosen to resign today as the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use. (...)
It had been my plan to stay until the change in administration occurred, but my plans abruptly changed last evening when, on my way back from visiting an excellent residential treatment program in New York, I saw the violent takeover of the Capitol building. I believe that this behavior was totally unacceptable and, in my own heart, I simply am not able to continue. (...)
I cannot support language that results in incitement of violence and risks our very existence."
Fiona Hill, Trump appointed Sr. Director for Europe and Russia of the National Security Council
"There’s no Team America for Trump. Not once did I see him do anything to put America first. Not once. Not for a single second."
Fiona Hill says that Trump emboldened Putin to invade Ukraine by treating the country like a 'playground'Hill recalled Trump's praise for Russia's authoritarian leader, Vladimir Putin, as well as his disdain for NATO. She also mentioned his campaign to pressure Ukraine for manufactured dirt about Biden in the run-up to the 2020 election. The Ukraine pressure campaign saw Trump threaten to withhold military aid from the nation, which led to his first impeachment.
John E. Hyten, Trump appointed Commander of the U.S. Nuclear Forces
"The president (Trump) is an idiot. He is just a businessman without the basic understanding of national security."
Miles Taylor, Trump appointed chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security
"Make no mistake: I am a Republican, and I wanted this President (Trump) to succeed. But too often in times of crisis, Donald Trump has proven he is a man without character, and his personal defects have resulted in leadership failures so significant that they can be measured in lost American lives. I witnessed Trump’s inability to do his job over the course of two-and-a-half years inside the Administration. Everyone saw it, though most were hesitant to speak up for fear of reprisals."
"Trump has been exactly what we conservatives always said government should NOT be: expansive, wasteful, arbitrary, unpredictable, and prone to abuses of power. Worse still, as I’ve noted previously, he’s waged an all-out assault on reason, preferring to enthrone emotion and impulse in the seat of government. The consequences have been calamitous, and if given four more years, he will push the limits of his power further than the 'high crimes and misdemeanors' for which he was already impeached."
Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump's daughter and former advisor
"I respect general attorney Barr. So, I accepted what he was saying." (that the 2020 presidential election was not stolen and that her father had lost)
Maryanne Trump Barry, Federal Judge and Donald Trump's sister
"He (Donald Trump) has no principles. None. None."
"It is the change of stories, a lack of preparation, the lying"
"He (Donald Trump) doesn't read."
"He went to Fordham for one year and then he got into University of Pennsylvania. I guess he had someone take his exams."
John Mccain, U.S State Senator from Arizona, Republican
What Mccain said of Trump’s speech at a rally against illegal immigration in July 2015: "what he did was he fired up the crazies. Now he galvanized them. He’s really got them activated."
"Donald Trump's behaviour makes it impossible to continue to offer even conditional support for his candidacy."
"An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections." In March 2018, after Trump congratulated Putin's sham presidential election win.
Lindsey Graham, U.S. State Senator from South Carolina, Republican
"I think he's (Trump is) a kook. I think he's crazy. I think he's unfit for office.""He’s a race-bating xenophobic religious bigot."
"You know how to make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell."
Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S House of Representatives, Republican
"Trump is not a conservative. He's an authoritarian narcissist. (...) And he doesn't think in classical liberal terms or conservative terms. He thinks in an authoritarian way"
"He's a proven loser: he costs us the House in 2018. He costs us the White House in 2020. He costs us the Senate again and again and again."
Rand Paul, U.S Senator from Kentucky, Republican
Brad Raffensperger, Secretary of State of Georgia, Republican
Trump suggested the refusal to expose mass voter fraud in Georgia – on which Trump insisted but which did not exist – could be a “criminal offense”
"I felt then – and still believe today – that this was a threat. Others obviously thought so, too, because some of Trump’s more radical followers have responded as if it was their duty to carry out this threat.”
Todd Young, Republican senator.
Ty Cobb, Trump's White House Lawyer
"I hear Trump, you know, really for the first time in terms of the way this evidence is rolled out, you know, speaking in the terms of a mob boss. You know, giving a direct order to somebody that he probably should have no reason to believe, you know, would lie for him, but expecting her to do so."
"The Big Lie (That the 2020 election was stolen) has been good only for Trump and has brought him millions in donations, which some evidence suggests may have been mishandled. The Big Lie, and the related violence, election interference and other perceived misconduct, was and is an affront to this nation and its first principles. It has permanently soiled the history pages and deepened the abyss that divides our country"
"He has never cared about America, its citizens, its future or anything but himself. In fact, as history well shows from his divisive lies, as well as from his unrestrained contempt for the rule of law and his related crimes, his conduct and mere existence have hastened the demise of democracy and of the nation."
"(Trump poses) gravest threat to democracy we’ve ever seen."
Jenna Ellis, Trump's former attorney
“I simply can’t support him for elected office again. Why I have chosen to distance is because of that frankly malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he’s never done anything wrong.”
" If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post election challenges. I look back on this whole experience with deep remorse for those failures of mine, your honor, I have taken responsibility already before the Colorado bar who censured me, and I now take responsibility before this court and apologize to the people of Georgia."
Alyssa Farah Griffin, Communications director in Trump White House
"Fundamentally, a second Trump term could mean the end of American democracy as we know it, and I don't say that lightly. We all witnessed him trying to steal a democratic election before and go to historic and unconstitutional lengths to do so. And that just shows that he's willing to basically break every barrier to get into power and to stay into power."
“Despite publicly praising the military and claiming to be the most pro-military president, there’s a demonstrable record of Trump bashing the most decorated service members in our country, from Gen. Mattis to Kelly to Milley, to criticizing the wounded or deceased like John McCain. Donald Trump will fundamentally never understand service the way those who have actually served in uniform will, and it’s one of the countless reasons he’s unfit to be commander in chief.”
Cassidy Hutchinson, Assistant to Chief of Staff during Trump administration
Sarah Matthews, Trump's former Deputy press secretary
"When he refused to accept the results of the 2020 election, it started this slow burn in me where I felt really uncomfortable with the things he (Trump) was saying and doing, and then obviously it was a breaking point for me on January 6"
"I have said that if it is a choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in a general election, that even if I don’t agree with the policies of President Biden, that I would put policy aside and I would cast my vote for him for democracy. Because I look at Donald Trump, and this is someone who has shown us he will not uphold the Constitution"
“I think that Donald Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in our lifetime, and potentially in American history,”
Marco Rubio, Florida Republican Senator
"Guys, we have a con artist (Trump) as the frontrunner in the Republican Party, a guy who has made a career out of telling people lies...We cannot allow the conservative movement to be taken over by a con artist.”
"He is a con artist. He runs on this idea he is fighting for the little guy, but he has spent his entire career sticking it to the little guy — his entire career."
Ted Cruz, Texas Republican Senator
"I'm going to tell you what I really think of Donald Trump. This man is a pathological liar. He doesn't know the difference between truth and lies."
"The man (Trump) is utterly amoral."
"Out of 100 senators, zero believe you on the argument there is no quid pro quo. Stop making it.". Ted Cruz's advice for Trump’s legal team during Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.
Mitch McConnel, U.S Senate minority leader (Republican)
"The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president (Trump) and other powerful people, and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding ... which they did not like,", about Jan 6th 2021's attack on the capitol.
"There's no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day.", about Jan 6th 2021's attack on the capitol.
Richard B. Spencer, Organizer of the 2017 'Unite the Right' neo-Nazi demonstration in Charlottesville
Tucker Carlson, TV personality
"Some idiot on the Trump campaign had sent us the name of these dead voters who had voted. And we went and I repeated them on air, and it turns out some of them were alive. So I was just — I felt humiliated.”
Carlson said he was done with Trump and his unfounded claims of a rigged election: "We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait. I hate him passionately. ... I can’t handle much more of this."
"We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s (the “last four years”. The Trump presidency) been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn’t really an upside to Trump."
Turnover in Trump's administration
Surrounded by the best... criminals?
Steve Bannon, White House Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to President Trump
Elliott Broidy, Top fundraiser for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign
Kenneth Chesebro, Outside advisor
Jenna Ellis, Trump's legal advisor
Michael Flynn, Trump's U.S. national security advisor
Willfully and knowingly making materially false statements and omissions to the FBI
Rick Gates, Deputy Chair of Trump's campaign
Conspiracy against the United States
Paul Manafort, Chair of Trump's campaign
Filing false tax returns, Bank fraud, Failing to disclose a foreign bank account
Konstantin Kilimnik, employee of Paul Manafort
Conspiracy to obstruct. Obstruction of justice.
(FBI believes has ties to Russian intelligence)
Conspiracy to obstruct. Obstruction of justice.
(FBI believes has ties to Russian intelligence)
George Nader, Informal foreign policy adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign
Sex crimes involving minors
Peter Navarro, Trump advisor
Roger Stone, Trump adviser on 2016 campaign
Lying to authorities, Obstructing a congressional investigation, Witness intimidation, Contempt of Congress
George Papadopoulos, Trump's 2016 Foreign policy adviser
Making false statement to the FBI
Sydney Powell, Trump's attorney
Allen Weisselberg, Trump Organization's CFO
Tax evasion, Perjury
Tax evasion, Perjury
Michael Shvartsman and Gerald Shvartsman, helped fund Trump Media
Insider trading
Tina Peters, Election official
Engaging in a security breach to advance a false conspiracy theory of election fraud.
Tina Peters, Election official
Engaging in a security breach to advance a false conspiracy theory of election fraud.
Scott Hall, Republican poll watcher
Convicted and going through the U.S. justice system (innocents until proven guilty):
- Mark Meadows, Trump's Chief of Staff
Racketeering. - John Eastman, Trump's lawyer
Conspiring to commit false statements & writings. Forgery. State RICO charges. - Ray Smith, Trump’s legal team in Georgia
Soliciting a public officer to violate their oath. Making false statements. Forgery. Making false statements. Conspiracy. - Jeffrey Clark, Trump's private counselor
Attempt to commit false statements & writings. - Robert Cheeley
False statements - Michael Roman, Trump's Election Day Operations
Charges in connection with the fake elector scheme. - Stephen Lee
Witness tampering - Harrison Floyd
Racketeering. Witness tampering. Conspiring to solicit false statements & writings. - Trevian Kutti
Witness tampering. Conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements & writings. - Shawn Still, Georgia State Senate
Impersonating a public officer. Forgery. False statements. Attempting to file false documents. - David Shafer, Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party
Impersonating a public officer. Forgery. False statements. Attempting to file false documents. - Cathy Latham, Chairwoman of the Coffee County Republican Party
Racketeering. - Misty Hampton, Coffee County Election Supervisor
Racketeering. - Brad Parscale, Trump’s 2020 campaign manager
Assault. Campaign Fund Misuse. - Stefanie Lambert, pro-Trump lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election
Conspiring to seize voting machines
Trump pardoned his supporters, staff and political allies
- "Trump's use of the pardon power was marked by an unprecedented degree of favoritism. He frequently granted executive clemency to his supporters or political allies"
- "Many wealthy individuals paid tens of thousands of dollars to former advisors to Trump for them to lobby Trump to grant pardons, bypassing the review process of the Office of the Pardon Attorney."
- "The cottage industry behind Trump’s pardons: How the rich and well-connected got ahead at the expense of others"
Trump's own words
- "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
- Draft-dodger Donald Trump speaking about John Mccain who was held and repeatedly tortured for five-and-a-half years after his plane was shot down in the Vietnam war:
"He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured." - When decorated war hero John Mccain died: "We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral."
- "THE USA IS NOW A THIRD WORLD NATION, A NATION IN SERIOUS DECLINE"
- "We have a very corrupt country" (Fact: The U.S. became more corrupt under Trump's presidency)
- "This guy (Mark Miley, General appointed by Trump) turned out to be a Woke train wreck who, if the Fake News reporting is correct, was actually dealing with China to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States. This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!"
- "Think of President Xi (President of China): central casting, brilliant guy. When I say he’s brilliant, everyone says, ‘Oh, that’s terrible.’ He runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist: smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There is nobody in Hollywood like this guy."
- "You know who’s one of the great beauties of the world, according to everybody? And I helped create her. Ivanka. My daughter, Ivanka. She’s 6 feet tall, she’s got the best body."
- "I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her."
- " After I met Ivanka and praised her to her father, he said, ‘Yeah, she's really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren't happily married and, ya know, her father . . ."
- Trump, believing the American F35 fighter jet to be literally invisible:
"You like the F-35? ... You can’t see it. You literally can’t see it. It’s hard to fight a plane you can’t see. (...) Well, it wins every time because the enemy cannot see it, even if it’s right next to it, it can’t see it." - "I moved on her actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her, and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and fuck her, she was married.
No, no, Nancy. No this was [inaudible] and I moved on her very heavily in fact I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said I'll show you where they have some nice furniture. I moved on her like a bitch. I couldn't get there and she was married. Then all-of-a-sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look.
Yeah that's her with the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything.
Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything." - "[Trump said] that more testing only reveals more infections and therefore increases the numbers. In a way, by doing all this testing we make ourselves look bad,”
- "Hey, he's [Kim Jong Un] is the head of a country. And he's a strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same."
- Repeating the lie that the justice system was weaponized against him, Trump states that he did or will for sure weaponize the system and break America's principle of separation of powers:
"... if I happen to be president and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say, ‘Go down and indict them.’ They’d be out of business. They’d be out of the election" - "I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden.". Stated with no claim of what specific corruption he is talking about. This is also not how the system works in a democracy with an independant justice system.
- "With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License?", stated Trump following reports by NBC News that his secretary of state had called him a moron after a discussion of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. A direct challenge to Freedom-of-the-Press and something that is commonplace in dictatorship such a China, Russia, and North Korea.
- "We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States.". This is akin to an oath of allegiance to the president.
- "Raise your right hand: ‘I do solemnly swear that I — no matter how I feel, no matter what the conditions, if there’s hurricanes or whatever — will vote, on or before the 12th for Donald J. Trump for president.". Trump stated that this was a joke. It says a lot about how seriously he takes the role of President of the U.S.A
- "We’re going to win at space.”. Filed in the WTF category.
- "I hold both countries responsible. I think that the United States has been foolish. I think we’ve all been foolish. … And I think we’re all to blame.". Answer to the question "Do you hold Russia at all accountable for anything in particular?" on Russia's meddling in the U.S' 2016 presidential elections.
- "They are poisoning the blood of our country. (...) And people are coming with disease. Mental institutions. We know they are terrorists." and here. Trump speaking of migrants from other countries coming to the U.S.
- "In 2016, I declared: I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution."
- "When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. …They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.".
- "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
- "Waterboarding is your minor form. Some people say it's not actually torture. Let's assume it is. But they asked me the question. What do you think of waterboarding? Absolutely fine. But we should go much stronger than waterboarding. That's the way I feel."
- "Oh, I would certainly implement that — absolutely." when asked whether the U.S. should create a database to track Muslims.
- "Nobody’s proven that he’s killed anybody, as far as I’m concerned.", speaking about Vladimir Putin.
- "The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment.", answering the question on whether women should be punished for having an abortion.
- "The problem is we have the Geneva Conventions, all sorts of rules and regulations, so the soldiers are afraid to fight."
- "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated."
- "We’re going to do a wall; we’re going to have a big, fat beautiful door on the wall; we’re going to have people come in, but they’re going to come in legally. (...) Mexico’s going to pay for the wall."
- "Congratulations to Kim Jung Un!"
- A candidate under federal investigation "has no right to be running". Trump is way past investigation; he has been indicted on 91 criminal charges.
- About Covid, Jan 22nd 2020: "We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine."
- About Covid, : "I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that"
- "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total."
- During one hurricane briefing at the White House, Trump said, "I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them?"
Trump's 30,573 lies & misleading claims over 4 years
Would you hire someone with just one hundredth of this track record of lies?
