Well, it’s almost August. Isn’t something ‘bigly’ supposed to happen soon?
As of July 24th, 2021, Donald J. Trump remains a free man. He is clearly signaling that he wants to run for President in 2024. Being honest with yourself, over six months ago on January 6th, did you predict this would be the situation coming into August? Trump remains convinced that, even as a private citizen, he is magically immune from punishment. Untouchable, just like a mob boss. No matter what crime he is guilty of, consequences will never pertain to him. Over seven months after losing the Presidential election, Trump is still vehemently insisting, against all legal authorities and overwhelming evidence, that he was in fact the winner.
Over a month ago, Maggie Haberman, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times, tweeted: “ Trump has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isn’t how it works but simply sharing the information).” Thirty percent of Republican voters stated that they believe former president Trump will “likely” be reinstated as President in August of 2021.
Like an out-of-control, self-centered toddler who is having a prolonged temper tantrum, and enabling parents who persistently ignore the need for immediate discipline, Trump squeezes the air out of a large number of his supporters and the GOP. His death grip remains tight on many influential Republican governors and leaders in Congress.
Therefore, rational people have a ‘duty to warn’, or rather a ‘duty to remind’, the rest of the public about a list of numbers that have been fact-checked by reputable sources. This list does not include numbers related to current U.S. political issues like the climate crisis, voting laws, infrastructure changes, the health care system, the educational system, gun violence, women's reproductive rights, civil and human rights, policies pertaining to local police departments, immigration, national defense, foreign policy, etc. Instead, this list is focused on numbers related to Trump's psychopathology, which includes his ongoing civil and criminal lawsuits.
30,573 false or misleading claims (i.e., lies) made by Trump during the four years of his presidency.
6 lies daily on average in Trump's first year in office.
16 lies daily on average in Trump's second year of office.
22 lies daily on average in Trump's third year in office.
39 lies daily on average in Trump's fourth year in office.
85% of Trump’s statements were found to be untrustworthy or deliberately misleading while President (12% half-truths, 20% mostly false, 36% false, 17% “pants on fire” lies), according to PolitiFact on January 25th, 2021.
42 or more well-documented instances in which Trump incited violence with his words and behavior.
26 women who have allegedly been sexually harassed, abused or raped by Trump since the 1970s (and this only includes the women who filed complaints).
7 public statements where Trump referred to himself as a “stable genius”.
19,921 or more Tweets until Trump was finally blocked from Twitter on Janary, 8th, when he instigated a violent insurrection and repeatedly lied about the validity of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election results.
1000 or more people insulted on Twitter by Trump between when he first declared his candidacy until January 8th, 2021.
16 particularly manic or frenzied ‘Tweetstorms’ were documented during his presidency.
845 Tweets where Trump used the term “fake news” during his presidency.
50 Tweets where Trump referred the press the "enemy of the American people".
10 Tweets where Trump called a woman “nasty”. He used the word “nasty” to describe Hillary Clinton many times, House speaker Nancy Pelosi 4 times, Senator Kamala Harris 3 times, Senator Mazie Hirono 3 times, two well-respected White House reporters (Ashley Parker and April Ryan), Omarosa Manigault Newman, Meghan Markle, and the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen.
1 Tweet where Trump bullied a teenager with Asperger syndrome. After the Swedish teenage climate activist, Greta Thunberg, was congratulated for being named Time Magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year, Trump spitefully tweeted, “So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old-fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, chill!”
500 or more visits to Trump-owned properties at the expense of the U.S. taxpayers.
$142 million paid for by the U.S. taxpayers for Trump to play golf.
96 or more election campaign rallies during his presidency (many of which were held while the COVID-19 crisis was getting worse) and 12 tele-rallies were held while he was supposed to be working as President.
4 different chiefs of staff, which is much more than average.
4 different press secretaries, which is the most of any first-term President.
6 different communications directors, which is the most of any first-term President.
281 lobbyists who worked as inside the Trump administration.
20 out of 23 Trump cabinet members were millionaires - including 2 centimillionaires and 1 billionaire.
0 funerals or memorial celebrations attended for fellow Republican, Senator John McCain. After Senator McCain’s death, multiple anonymous sources informed the Atlantic that Trump said, “We’re not going to support that loser’s funeral. What the fuck are we doing that for? Guy was a fucking loser”.
1 viciously callous remark from Trump about the Senator McCain, who spent over five years as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war. “He’s not a war hero, I like people who weren’t captured.”
0 funerals or memorial celebrations attended for Democratic Congressman and civil rights icon, John Lewis.
1 canceled visit to the graves of 1,800 American soldiers at the Aisne-Marine American Cemetery (near Paris, France) because Trump allegedly did not want to get his hair disheveled in the wind and rain. Trump did not understand the point of visiting a cemetery “filled with losers” and “suckers”.
56 or more well-documented instances of egregiously racist statements, decisions or policies the Presidential campaign and during his presidency, according to Wikipedia.
1 Hurricane Dorian forecast track and intensity map that was altered with a black Sharpie pen.
0 times that Trump released his tax returns to the public, despite repeating stating he would release his taxes after the Internal Revenue Service was done with an audit. He broke the 40-year custom of presidential candidates making their tax returns public. The New York Times revealed that Trump paid no income taxes for most of the past two decades (due to reporting massive losses to his businesses and illegal tax deductions).
300+ Tweets over 13 days (from November 3rd to November 16th) where Trump proclaimed he “won”, “stop the steal” or emphatically attacked the integrity of the election results. Trump had been whining about “fraud” months before the November 3rd, 2020 election, and even while votes were being cast. These allegations of fraud were rejected as being totally meritless by numerous state and federal judges, state and local election officials, multiple governors, the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security and the Electoral College.
15 or more well-documented signs that Trump behaved as an authoritarian leader.
4 authoritarian leaders that Trump publicly praised were Russia’s Vladimir Putin, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
1 Republican-led Senate report on election interference in 2016, which laid out an extensive web of contacts between Trump campaign advisers and Russian officials.
2000 or more times when Trump called journalists and news outlets “fake news”, which was a subversive attack on a free press. Trump tried to blacklist reporters and entire news outlets from his events. He called journalists “scum” and “slime”. He bullied reporters of all ethnicities but, most especially, minority female reporters. He once opened mocked a reporter for having a disability.
1 speech where Trump urged people in North Carolina to vote twice both via the mail and in person and therefore commit voter fraud as a way to test mail-in voting systems.
86 lawsuits were filed by the Trump campaign and allies after Election Day on November 3rd, 2020. Trump and his associates lost all but one minor case that was later overturned by a state Supreme Court.
237 individuals total were granted executive clemency (pardoning or commuting their sentences) but they were previously charged or convicted of federal crimes. Experts stated that Trump egregiously abused this Presidential pardon power with self-serving and politically motivated favors, such as the cases of Roger Stone or Michael Flynn.
143 pardons and commutations granted for convicted criminals (including Steve Bannon) in the last two days of Trump’s presidency.
370 Congressional staffers from over 100 House offices and 15 Senate offices signed a letter, which blamed Donald J. Trump for how “our workplace was attacked by a violent mob trying to stop the electoral college vote count.”
20 times that Trump specifically said the word “fight” in his speech to a large pro-Trump crowd on January 6th, 2021.
31 or more Congressional, federal or state criminal investigations. The state of New York is still conducting criminal investigations into Donald J. Trump and many others who worked at Trump businesses. They include probes into potential bank fraud, tax fraud and insurance fraud, as well as the falsification of business records, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office. For the Trump administration as a whole, the number of investigations became so large that the Associated Press set up a “Trump Investigations” website to track them all in real time.
1 separate civil investigation of tax fraud by Trump and his company in the State of New York.
$21,000,000 in “highly unusual” payments from Trump’s Las Vegas hotel to other Trump companies, and then paid himself in cash, according to Trump’s 2016 tax records. If these payments to himself were not used for actual business expenses, and were instead used for a tax deduction, then that would be illegal.
2 civil investigations because two women are suing Trump for defamation for calling them "liars" after they accused him of sexually assaulting them before he was elected.
$170,000,000 in money laundering to conceal payments made to the Trump family or campaign. In 2020, a nonpartisan watchdog filed a complaint with the Federal Election Committee (FEC) alleging Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign broke the law.
1 former Trump campaign chair (Paul Manafort) who worked with a Russian agent, was convicted of crimes and then pardoned by Trump.
2 requests from the Trump administration for foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. elections. Many months after the Mueller trial, the bipartisan (and Republican-chaired) Senate Intelligence Committee’s report provided damning details about the extent of cooperation with direct links between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence operatives.
11 episodes where Trump obstructed Congress (which is supposed to be a federal crime), according to the Mueller Report. Under Trump’s orders, the report’s redactions and its supporting material was placed under temporary "protective assertion" due to “executive privilege”. Suspiciously, there were many missing documents, testimonies and other evidence that was never reviewed by the Republican-controlled Senate to conclusively determine if Trump had "coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its election interference activities".
1 additional instance of ‘obstruction of justice’ when Trump offered General John Kelly the job of F.B.I. director but demanded loyalty only to him. Special counsel Robert Mueller never learned of this information because Trump's lawyers intentionally limited the scope of the Mueller team's two-hour interview with General Kelly.
1 phone call on July 25th, 2020, where Trump made “inappropriate" political demands of the Ukrainian president or blatantly tried to coerce a foreign country to investigate a political opponent, according to credible and trustworthy sources such as Lt Col. Alexander Vindman, who testified in the House impeachment hearings.
54 violations of the Hatch Act by 14 Trump administration officials from 2017 to late October, 2020, as well as nearly 100 additional pending investigations for alleged violations by 22 officials. It is illegal for federal employees (including the President) to participate in partisan political activities on governmental property but this law was flouted.
11,780 votes that Trump pressured the Georgia secretary of state to "find" because he assumed a fellow Republican would be willing to illegally overturn the state election results in an early January 2021 phone call — for which, an investigation has been launched.
$1,100,000 or more in U.S. taxpayer funds was paid to Trump-owned venues, which is an egregious conflict of interest.
671 (10% of its total) mail-sorting machines from facilities across the U.S. — including 76 in the predominantly Democratic state of California — were removed or completely dismantled three months before the 2020 Presidential election. The Trump-appointed Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy fired 23 US Postal Service managers, eliminated workers’ overtime pay and removed thousands of curbside mailboxes, especially in predominantly Democratic communities.
11 Trump administration officials who inappropriately used a personal email account for executive branch communication.
1 phone call on December 27, 2020, where Trump brazenly pressured Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to falsely declare the election "illegal" and "corrupt" even after the DOJ had not uncovered any evidence of widespread voter fraud. "Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen," Trump said on the call, according to Donoghue's notes.
11 people involved in Trump's presidential campaigns or his administration have been formally charged with crimes as of July 24, 2021 (in alphabetical order: Steve Bannon, Tom Barrack, Elliott Broidy, Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, George Nader, George Papadopoulos, Roger Stone, and Allen Weisselberg).
70,562 mental health professionals and 27 esteemed psychiatrists and psychologists sounded the alarm about the Dangerous Case of Donald Trump at the beginning of his Presidency because they were concerned that he was “unfit” to serve as President because of observable executive function problems and being a 'malignant narcissist’ – a classification that has four components: 1) Narcissistic Personality Disorder, 2) Antisocial Personality Disorder, 3) paranoia and 4) sadism, according to psychologists John Gartner, Lance Dodes and Justin Frank.
When will there finally be some real consequences? The above list does not even include all the horrible numbers related to his administration’s policies or actions. The numbers suggest that this upcoming August, the only federal building that Trump should be living in is a federal prison.
What is your objective interpretation of the above numbers? What do they say about the likelihood of Trump being formally convicted of crimes and sentenced to prison before January 6th, 2022, the one-year anniversary of the insurrection at the US Capitol building?