Donald Trump

Donald Trump ignored pleas to call off the mob and refused to say the election was over even a day after the attack. Here are other takeaways from the latest hearing in the U.S. House on the Capitol riot.

* + nyt.com

Gegen den früheren Präsidenten Donald Trump hatten die Demokraten in dessen Amtszeit zwei Amtsenthebungsverfahren im Kongress eingeleitet, zunächst wegen der sogenannten Ukraine-Affäre und später wegen der Kapitol-Erstürmung vom 6. Januar 2021. Trump wurde aber beide Male von den Republikanern im Senat vor einer Verurteilung bewahrt. Trump ist einer von nur drei Präsidenten in der US-Geschichte, bei denen es zu einem Impeachment-Prozess kam.

oct. 13, 2022, bbc -  trump has to testify -Ausschuss zu Kapitol-Sturm lädt Trump vor. Donald Trump soll unter Eid vor dem Untersuchungsausschuss zur Erstürmung des US-Kapitols aussagen. Folgt der Ex-Präsident der Vorladung nicht, droht ihm neuer juristischer Ärger. (i.e.)

nov. 22, 2022 - Supreme Court clears way for House to get Trump’s taxes. Ariane de Vogue, CNN — Supreme Court ebnet Weg für Herausgabe von Trumps Steuerunterlagen. Der Oberste Gerichtshof weist einen Antrag des ehemaligen Präsidenten ab, eine Übergabe der Dokumente zu blockieren. Damit kann die Steuerbehörde dem zuständigen Ausschuss des Repräsentantenhauses Trumps Steuerunterlagen aus sechs Jahren überreichen.] faz, 22.11.22 (afp-material)

* ***Trump left them to die. 43 Senate Republicans still licked his boots.*** In: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/13

In the rep. eyes: Biden clearly won the election with room to spare. In similar elections outcomes since 2004 (competitive but not too close), only about 10% to 15% of the losing candidate's backers had no confidence that the votes were counted fairly. Following this past election, it's around 50 points higher than that. The difference between those elections and this one seems pretty obvious and is the same as the linking factor between the reaction to the 2020 election and the events of January 6: Trump. Most Americans seem to recognize that link.

but: A clear majority, 55%, told Quinnipiac University back in February that the riots wouldn't have happened if Trump had not spent months lying about how the 2020 election was stolen. Not surprisingly, 59% of Republicans think the riots still would have happened without Trump saying anything about the election's legitimacy. Many Republicans can't believe anything bad about Trump. Most, 68%, said that Trump did everything he could to stop the events of January 6. Just 25% of Americans overall believe that. Trump still has this almost hypnotic spell over most Republicans. This has led him to not only leading in the 2024 Republican primary polls, but puts him in the strongest polling position of any former President who could run for another term. And because so many Republicans are willing to believe so many lies that make Trump look good, it's a big reason you should take his polling advantage seriously

* cnn ~ january-6-analysis

### trump and the covid-19-booster-shot

Dec 19. 2021:
Trump wegen Booster-Beichte ausgebuht - Kann er nun fürs Impfen werben, ohne die US-Impfgegner zu verprellen? Jetzt musste er zugeben, dass er geboostert ist. Das kam bei seinen Fans gar nicht gut an. 21.12.2021

* at pbs.org/newshour

### trump on putin, febr. 2022

*Trump Praises Putin, Leaving Republicans in a Bind.* G.O.P. leaders, while condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, were silent on comments made by the former president. Some figures on the right amplified them. (Foto vom President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia meeting with President Donald J. Trump in June 2019)

As Russia prepared to strike Ukraine and the United States rushed to defend neighboring allies in Europe, former President Donald J. Trump had nothing but admiration for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. He is “pretty smart,” Mr. Trump said on Wednesday at a Florida fund-raiser, assessing the impending invasion like a real estate deal. “He’s taken over a country for $2 worth of sanctions,” he said, “taking over a country — really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people — and just walking right in.” Historians called the remarks unprecedented. “The idea that a former president would praise the man or leadership who American troops are even now traveling to confront and contain,” said Jeffrey Engel, a presidential historian at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, “is astounding.” Yet Republican leaders, while condemning the invasion of Ukraine, stayed silent about the ex-president’s repeated praise this week for Mr. Putin, even as some Trump allies — from former administration figures to the Fox News host Tucker Carlson — amplified his Russian-friendly views to the party’s core. Foreign policy experts and Russia scholars said the apparent sympathy or ambivalence toward Moscow from elements of the right raised questions about the influence Mr. Trump continues to exert over candidates seeking to tap into his base, the legacy of a decade-old effort by the Kremlin to court American conservatives and the future of the G.O.P. amid a backlash against the Republican-led entanglements in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Cold War-era Republicans, historians said, would have repudiated comments like Mr. Trump’s as un-American. Anders Stephanson, a historian of foreign policy at Columbia University, recalled an earlier Russian invasion. “Could one imagine Dwight Eisenhower praising Leonid Brezhnev for invading Czechoslovakia in 1968?” he asked in an email. “I think not.” Trump Praises Putin, Leaving Republicans in a Bind. in: nytimes/2022/02/24/

### 27 Feb. 2022:

In an about-face, former US President Donald Trump has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Speaking at the CPAC conservative gathering in Florida, he called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "a brave man" and praised him for "hanging in." "The Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling, it's an outrage and an atrocity that should never have been allowed to occur," Trump said, adding that it would never have happened had he been president. The remarks are in sharp contrast to his words earlier in the week when he called Russian President Vladimir Putin "genius" and told donors at his Mar-a-Lago Club that Putin's moves were "pretty smart." On Saturday, Trump again lauded Putin as "smart" Bei dw.com/en/ukraine-russian-troops-in-kharkiv …

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### The Charges

* Former US President D. Trump indictet, including conspiracy to defraud the US, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of US-citizens, Washington DC
* Racketeering charges in Georgia,Atlanta
* Akten-Fall

What is the difference between being indicted v charged? The difference comes down to who filed the charges. An **indictment** means a grand jury - set up by a prosecutor to determine whether there is enough evidence to pursue a prosecution - has found probable cause that someone committed a crime. A **charge** comes when a prosecutor accuses someone of a criminal offence.

**Die Verfahren gegen Trump**

* Verfassungsrechtliche Verfahren
	+ Möglicher Ausschluss von der Präsidentschaftswahl
	+ Die Wegnahme von Geheimdokumenten

* Strafrechtliche Verfahren
	+ Trumps Rolle rund um den Aufruhr am 6. Januar 2021
	+ Incitement
	+ Versuchter Wahlbetrug (conspiracy to defraud the US)

* Zivilverfahren
	+ Die Abrechnung der Schweigegeldzahlungen
	+ Der Bundesstaat New York wegen Geschäftsbetrugs
	+ Die Schriftstellerin E. Jean Carroll wegen Verleumdung
	+ Die Opfer des Sturms auf das Kapitols

Dazu: https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2024-01/carrol-trump-klage

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* Recherchen widerlegen Trumps Theorie vom Betrug in Arizona
	+ Immer noch behauptet Donald Trump, bei der Präsidentschaftswahl in Arizona betrogen worden zu sein. Die Nachrichtenagentur AP fragte alle Countys des US-Bundesstaats ab – und fand kaum Unregelmäßigkeiten. 17.07.2021

* [https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/us-wahl-2020-recherchen-in-arizona-widerlegen-donald-trumps-theorien-vom-wahlbetrug-a-6ce41d65-4e57-4e35-8eb4-bb83ca182eba

* https://www.unionesarda.it/de/articolo/news-sardegna/cagliari/2021/01/08/trump-ammette-la-sconfitta-elettorale-morto-un-agente-rimasto-fer-136-1101830.html
* The texts to Trump's chief of staff show that his allies knew what was happening at the Capitol -- serving as a bitter rebuke to the attempted rewriting of January 6, cnn dec 14
	+ Meadows faces contempt vote in the House
	+ Man who threatened to shoot Pelosi given over 2 years in prison
	+ Trump says Pence is 'mortally wounded' inside the GOP
	+ Washington DC sues Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members for 'coordinated act of domestic terrorism'
	+ What the 'Trump for Speaker' movement is \*really\* about

jan 2022

* Biden decries Trump’s ‘singular responsibility’ for the Capitol riot One year since the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, the sitting president sharpened his rhetoric toward his predecessor — without using Trump’s name. politico news/2022/01/06/