President Of Shames

By Tom Rodrigues

This is a documentary book to show the public that they voted for the wrong president, Mr. Donald Trump, who abused the trust of the American people. He lied thousands of times, announcing misinformation, misstatements, exaggerations, misleading, or flat-out lies. In addition, in his personal history and business ethics, he has over 3500 legal c

• Language: English
• Publisher: Westwood Books Publishing
• Release date: Feb 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9781648038273

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Brief

This book to show to the publics of the USA, especially the Republicans voters who never has or spend the time to know who they are voting for and cast their vote to wrong person who misused their trust, like the president of the USA today, Mr. Donald J. Trump, in his repeated misinformation, misstatement, exaggerations, misleading, or flat out lies, also his background and business history—over 3500 legal cases in state and federal courts, income taxes evasions, bankruptcy, twenty-six sexual harassment cases, more than six bankruptcy. All the information provided in this humble booklet is all supported by and from the biased sources and reputable organization in the US; all these data is factual. A 22,000 different lies, and most of them were repeated over 3791 times (his favorite lies are repeated 407), that he built the best economy in the world in less than three years up to the election day. The Washington Post’s Fact Checker column reported: Trump made 29,508 misleading or false claims by Monday, November 5, 2020. Trump fooled the public, he and the Republican hypocrisy. Trump incite his followers to riot the Capital, and the riots halt Congress meeting. He, his son, and his attorney Rudy Giuliani should be prosecuted for insurrection. Trump support the riots. Trump want to pardon himself and 100 other criminals. Congress impeached him. Trump is not fit and never fit for any office. The president has set a new record with more than 500 lies in one day, according to The Washington Post’s Fact Checker column.

Trump’s Legal History

An analysis by USA Today published in June 2016 found that, over the previous three decades, Donald Trump and his businesses have been involved in 3,500 legal cases in US federal courts and state courts, an unprecedented number for a US presidential candidate. Of the 3,500 suits, Trump or one of his companies were plaintiffs in 1,900, defendants in 1,450, and bankruptcy, third party, or other in 150. Trump was named in at least 169 suits in federal court. Over 150 other cases were in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida (covering Broward County, Florida) since 1983. In about 500 cases, judges dismissed plaintiffs’ claims against Trump. In hundreds more, cases ended with the available public record unclear about the resolution. Where there was a clear resolution, Trump won 451 times and lost 38.

Personal and Sexual Cases

In 1992, Trump sued ex-wife Ivana Trump for not honoring a gag clause in their divorce agreement by disclosing facts about him in her bestselling book. Trump won the gag order. The divorce was granted on grounds that Ivana claimed Donald Trump’s treatment of her was cruel and inhuman. Years later, Ivana said that she and Donald are the best of friends. A sexual assault claims from 1994 for child rape was filed against Trump on October 14, 2016, a case that was dropped and refiled, remaining in suspension as of November 4, 2016. In April 1997, Jill Harth Houraney filed a $125,000,000 lawsuit against Trump for sexual harassment in 1993, claiming he groped her under her dress and told her he wanted to make her his sex slave. Harth voluntarily withdrew the suit when her husband settled a parallel case. Trump has called the allegations meritless. When he has the beauty pageant, he used to walk into the dressing room, while the contestants changing their clothes. Trump’s team intimidated Miss France in the 2001 beauty pageant by claiming that she is transsexual.

The Veracity of Statements by Donald Trump

All these facts, and the information is compiled from Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, Fact Checkers, The Washington Post (top, monthly), and from the Toronto Star and CNN (bottom, weekly); all the data on false or misleading claims, and false claims, respectively. The peaks in late 2018 correspond to the midterm elections, in late 2019 to his impeachment inquiry, and in late 2020 to the presidential election. The Post reported 22,247 false or misleading claims in 1,316 days, an average of more than 16.9 per day. Almost one lie every hour he is awake, which is accelerated in 2018 up to 25,000 misleading statement with about twenty-four per day or one every hour, repeated his favorites lies over 3791 times. With total of 28,791 incidents of lies, by Monday November 5, 2020, made 29,508 misleading or false claims. The president has set a new record with more than 500 lies in one day, according to The Washington Post’s Fact Checker column.

Veracity and Politics

It has long been a truism that politicians lie, wrote Carole McGranahan for the American Ethnologist journal in 2017. However, Donald Trump is different, stated McGranahan, from other politicians, citing that Trump is the most accomplished and effective liar thus far to have ever participated in American politics. McGranahan felt that the frequency, degree, and impact of lying in politics are now unprecedented as a result of Trump.

Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley of Rice University stated that past US presidents have indeed lied or misled the country, but none of them were a serial liar like Trump. Donnel Stern, writing in the Psychoanalytic Dialogues journal in 2019, declared: We expect politicians to stretch the truth. But Trump is a whole different animal, because Trump lies as a policy, and he will say anything to satisfy his supporters or himself.

Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth, writing for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in 2017, described lies having always been an integral part of politics and political communication. However, Trump was delivering untruths on an unprecedented scale in US politics, both during his presidential campaign and during his presidency. Skjeseth also commented that no one in French politics was comparable to Trump in his provision of falsehoods.

Trump a Serial liar

Fabrications have long been a part of American politics, wrote Sheryl Gay Stolberg in The New York Times in 2017, as several presidents in the previous fifty years have lied. Stolberg cited that Dwight Eisenhower lied about a US spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union, Lyndon Johnson lied to justify US policies regarding Vietnam, and Bill Clinton lied to conceal his sexual affair. Meanwhile, Stolberg recounts that Richard Nixon was accused of lying in the Watergate scandal, while George W. Bush was accused of lying about the need for the Iraq War (with Donald Trump being one accuser of Bush lying). However, Stolberg states that President Trump, historians and consultants in both political parties agree, appears to have taken what the writer Hannah Arendt once called ‘the conflict between truth and politics to an entirely new level … Trump is trafficking in hyperbole, distortion and fabrication on practically a daily basis.

Mark Barabak of the Los Angeles Times has described in 2017 that US presidents of all stripes have previously misled the public, either accidentally or very purposefully. Barabak provided examples of Ronald Reagan, who falsely stated that he had filmed Nazi death camps, and Barack Obama, who falsely stated that if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it under his Affordable Care Act. However, Barabak goes on to state that White House scholars and other students of government agree there has never been a president like Donald Trump, whose volume of falsehoods, misstatements and serial exaggerations are unparalleled.

Business Career

Within years of expanding his father’s property development business into Manhattan in the early 1970s, Trump attracted the attention of The New York Times for his brash and controversial style, with one real estate financier observing in 1976, His deals are dramatic, but they haven’t come into being. So far, the chief beneficiary of his creativity has been his public image. Der Scutt, the prominent architect who designed Trump Tower, said of Trump in 1976, He’s extremely aggressive when he sells, maybe to the point of overselling. Like, he’ll say the convention center is the biggest in the world, when it really isn’t. He’ll exaggerate for the purpose of making a sale. The architect Philip Johnson said in 1984 that Trump often lied, adding But it’s sheer exuberance, exaggeration. It’s never about anything important.

In 2018, journalist Jonathan Greenberg released audio recordings from 1984 in which Trump, posing as his own spokesman John Barron, made false assertions of his wealth to secure a higher ranking on the Forbes 400 list of wealthy Americans, including claiming he owned over 90 percent of his family’s business.

A 1984 GQ profile of Trump quoted him stating he owned the whole block on Central Park South and Avenue of the Americas. GQ noted that the two buildings Trump owned in that area were likely less than a sixth of the block.

In a 2005 interview with Golf Magazine, Trump said he was able to purchase Mar-a-Lago in 1985 by first purchasing the beach in front of it, then announcing false plans to build large houses between Mar-a-Lago and the ocean.

Alair Townsend, a former budget director and deputy mayor of New York City during the 1980s, and a former publisher of Crain’s New York Business, said I wouldn’t believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized. Leona Helmsley later used this line as her own when she spoke about Trump in her November 1990 interview in Playboy magazine.

When the stock market crashed in October 1987, Trump told the press he had sold all his stock a month before and taken no losses. But SEC filings showed that he still owned large stakes in some companies. Forbes calculated that Trump had lost $19 million on his Resorts International holdings alone.

Challenging estimates of his net worth he considered too low, in 1989, Trump said he had very little debt. Reuters reported Trump owed $4 billion to more than seventy banks at the beginning of 1990. After three Trump casino executives died in a 1989 helicopter crash, Trump claimed that he, too, had nearly boarded the helicopter. The claim was denied thirty years later by a former vice president of the Trump Organization.

In 1997, Ben Berzin Jr., who had been tasked with recovering at least some of the $100 million his bank had lent Trump, said During the time that I dealt with Mr. Trump, I was continually surprised by his mastery of situational ethics. He does not seem to be able to differentiate between fact and fiction.

David Fahrenthold investigated the long history of Trump’s claims about his charitable giving and found little evidence the claims are true. Following Fahrenthold’s reporting, the attorney general of New York opened an inquiry into the Donald J. Trump Foundation’s fundraising practices, and ultimately issued a notice of violation ordering the Foundation to stop raising money in New York. The Foundation had to admit it engaged in self-dealing practices to benefit Trump, his family, and businesses. Fahrenthold won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for his coverage of Trump’s claimed charitable giving and casting doubt on Donald Trump’s assertions of generosity toward charities.

In 1996, Trump claimed he wagered $1 million on 20-to-1 odds in a Las Vegas heavyweight title boxing match between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson. The Las Vegas Sun reported that while everyone is careful not to call Trump a liar, no one in a position to know about such a sizable wager was aware of it.

A 1998 New York Observer article entitled Tricky Donald Trump Beats Jerry Nadler in Game of Politics reported that Nadler flatly calls Mr. Trump a ‘liar’, quoting Nadler stating, Trump got $6 million (in federal money) in the dead of night when no one knew anything about it by slipping a provision into a $200 billion federal transportation bill.

Promoting his Trump University after its formation in 2004, Trump asserted he would handpick all its instructors. Michael