Shmuckbrothers presents:
The 2020 Shmuck of the Year
Donald Trump
Trump administration officials subpoenaed in probe into alleged 'extensive and dangerous' political interference at CDC
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
Soren Kierkegaard
'If I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash'
Trump Demands Either New Election ‘Immediately’ or Make Him ‘Rightful’ President Now!
The legacy of the 45th President of the United States
Federal criminal investigation into White House records removal.
Georgia criminal investigation of Trump for interference in state’s 2020
presidential election.
Federal criminal investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Select House Committee investigating Jan. 6 riot.
Federal criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
New York Attorney General Office civil investigation of Trump Organization business practices.
Manhattan District Attorney criminal case against Trump Organization.
Rape defamation lawsuit by the writer E. Jean Carroll.
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2021 Shmuck of the Year Contender
Basking in adulation at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the president said: “You know I’m totally off script right now and this is how I got elected, by being off script. And if we don’t go off script, our country’s in big trouble, folks, because we have to get it back.”
Trump threatens to wreak havoc on GOP from beyond the White House
His attacks on Republican governors since his loss offer a sample of what's in store.
‘This is simply not how the Constitution works’: Federal judge eviscerates Trump lawsuit
Trump calls on GOP state legislatures to overturn election results
Trump tries to drum out GOP election officials who won’t play his games.
“They have to overturn the results,” said Mr Trump.
“It would be easy for me to say let’s wait four years. But they cheated.
“These are bad people, they are horrible people, and they are people who don’t love our country.”
He said that judges were prejudiced against him, and the judiciary was conspiring against him.
“We have to turn the election over,” he said.
“All we need is some judge to listen to it properly without some political opinion.”
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True to form, on Friday a pro-Trump lawyer named L. Lin Wood, who spearheaded attempts to overturn Georgia’s president election results, lodged a new suit on similar lines, signing off his complaint that it he made his claims under “plenty of perjury,” rather penalty of perjury.
“I declare and verify under plenty of perjury that the facts contained in the foregoing Verified Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief are true and correct,” Mr Wood, an accomplished libel attorney with a large conservative following online, wrote in his complaint.
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New York Times
Published: January 21, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has handed lobbyists a new weapon. A lobbyist can now tell any elected official: if you vote wrong, my company, labor union or interest group will spend unlimited sums explicitly advertising against your re-election.
The Supreme Court struck down limits Wednesday in federal law on the overall campaign contributions the biggest individual donors may make to candidates, political parties and political action committees.
Welcome to the First Day of the Rest of your Life:
1985, the Supreme Court ruled that police could justify using deadly force only if the suspect posed a threat to officers or others. Suddenly, claims of "officer under attack" doubled to 62 percent of police killings, in recent years were about 21 times as likely to be shot and killed by police than their white peers.
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A former Shmuck of the Year winner
