Except, that as the article noted, it takes a generation or so after the presidency to accurately appraise a presidency. But that doesn't work in Trump's favor. Relatively politically obscure before his campaign, Trump has managed to raise enough personal dust to invite prosecutorial and business attention to himself.

For a man whose sole commercial value was the Trump name, that's a bad thing. Highly leveraged, diminishing the 'Trump brand' is going to be expensive from the get-go. Starting with the case against the Trump Organization, legal issues may start rolling up his 'value'.

I don't believe Trump will ever serve a day in jail, but that's not the issue that truly hurts him- He's politically important because he's seen as a maverick and self made man. He has become a 'self-unmade man' with his jaw-jacking invective and attacks on anything not directly 'Trump'.

America will laugh about this in the future. To get there, we have to suffer from the remedy curing the American polity of Trumpism.

 

 

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Not even close.

The worst was owebuma, with Carter a close second.

Then a battle between Clinnochio, and a couple of accidental presidents, LBJ and Ford, then at least 20 more worse than Trump at least according to Dave...

Fox News has reported another article to add to the pile of Joe Biden’s shady dealings with foreign superpowers for personal gain. We know about Hunter Biden leveraging his father’s name for special treatment in China and the Ukraine. Americans remember Biden using Air Force 2 as his personal Brinks Truck, bringing Hunter along to close personal deals on taxpayer fuel and resources.

What many may not know about is the Biden Center that operates out of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).

Interestingly enough, Joe has just nominated the president of UPenn to be the next embassador to Germany. Funny how that keeps happening.

President Joe Biden has nominated the China-linked president of the University of Pennsylvania to be the next U.S. ambassador to Germany.

Amy Gutmann is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science and was praised by Fortune in 2018 as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” according to the university.

And she’s been president of UPenn since 2004.

Is nominating the president of a university you have a vested interest in shady? Most people would say yes. However this is not the most egregious thing about Biden’s relationship with UPenn and the Biden Center.  It turns out that the Biden Center has been largely paid for by donations from China.

Yes, the same China that has been getting a free pass ever since he’s gotten into office. Don’t let the PR statements and threats Biden’s been making against China fool you. Behind the tough talk, China’s been eating our lunch on Biden’s dime.

But between 2013 and last year, the university allegedly received tens of millions in undisclosed donations from China, according to the National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative-leaning public ethics group. And the dollar totals dramatically increased after the school opened its Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.”

The NLPC filed a complaint against UPenn last year, alleging $22 million in “anonymous” donations from the country for the Biden Center and $70 million from China in total.

The University of Pennsylvania has stonewalled all inquiries into the identities of the Chinese donors who made $22 million anonymous donations to the university,” NLPC Chairman Peter Flaherty told Fox News on Saturday.

“We think it’s time for her (Dr. Gutmann) to answer the question and identify the donors.”

Some may say that this is merely a coincidence. After all, the University of PA is a prestigous school, I’m sure many people from China want their kids to get in and maybe these donations have something to do with that.

Here’s the problem with that assumption. It turns out that Chinese donations for the Biden Center increased by nearly 400% the same year he announced his bid for President.

The Biden Center opened in March 2017, about a year before Biden announced his 2020 presidential campaign.

The complaint charges that in 2017, out of a total of $7.7 million in donations from China, $500,000 came from anonymous donors. After Biden launched his campaign in 2018, the total jumped to $27.1 million, with anonymous donors giving $15.8 million. And in 2019, Chinese donors gave $26.9 million to the center, $6 million anonymously.

“Academia is awash in Chinese cash,” Flaherty said. “It’s time for administrators to start answering questions about it.”

 

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Part II

When you pair the vast sums of money with the timing of Joe’s election campaign, it’s pretty clear that the Chinese money wasn’t just because China cares about educating the next generation. It seems that this was all about access to the Oval Office. Biden is also seemingly rewarding the people responsible for helping him get away with this.

Joe is recruiting all the people associated with the Biden Center and putting them in powerful roles within the government. Specifically in the areas of foreign policy.

Part III to follow 

Part III

And Gutmann is not the first person linked to UPenn’s Biden Center and the Chinese donation controversy to be nominated for a Biden administration role, and NLPC member Tom Anderson predicted in November that “every person” there would be a potential Biden administration member.

“This center was an incubation for Biden’s foreign policy team and it’s a natural place for his choice of secretary of state,” Tom Anderson, director of the public integrity project for the NLPC, told Fox News shortly after Biden announced Antony Blinken as his secretary of state pick.

Blinken had been the Biden Center’s managing director from 2017 until he left to join Biden’s presidential campaign in 2019. But he was never forced to answer questions about the Chinese donations during his confirmation hearings.

It’s becoming harder to keep track of all the ways Biden is profiting from foreign nations. It may take several years before we realize the scope of the Biden money operation. By that time, hopefully it’s not too late for America to turn things around and re-establish itself as the super power it’s supposed to be.

Good job Goodlibs!

You're sorta right: Trump is #41 or 42 of the 45 presidents rated.  The 'worst' are consisently Pierce, A. Johnson and Buchanen in that order. 

Did you put any thought into your post?
Every list of best presidents will never be accepted by any lib, no matter how legitimate, because libz think their opinion is ipso facto.

Now every lib list, is total opinion, and if any evidence is offered, the evidence is warped so as to be counter factual.

If you need evidence, look at all the Trump stories presented as fact, and as Trump lies, but we're proven to be total shams. 
The list is a minimum of 150 headline stories, and countless follow up stories that were absolutely lies by libz in and out of the media.

You only think you can lecture me, lib from your high perch where you can condescend, and imagine how valuable you are.

If you need to patronize, lib, go patronize a...

Good job Goodlibs!

A real reckoning of best and worst...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJJbaK4DYs

By a guy whose slide rule you are not fit to gaze upon.

If you ever even caught a glimpse of it you would be ruined from ever commiting another...

Good job Goodlibs!

The quality of the man, for example President Carter was a good honest man, a quality guy all the way around. Donnie is a pig of a man, low quality all the way around... 

Was the worst anti semite president until owebuma came along.

You libz have blinders for anti semitism, because you don't have any problem thinking very poorly of Israel and the Jews...

https://observer.com/2014/08/the-moral-disintegration-of-jimmy-carter/

When anti semitism rears its ugly head, libz are on top of it with a...

Good job Goodlibs!

You calling 'Jimmy' Carter an anti-semite is rich. The pot calling the kettle black.

Tell us- who are the 'muzzies' you're constantly referring to as adherents to a 'cult of death'? Semites, from Southwest Asia. They are a minority of the umma, maybe 5%, but Southwest Asian politics are the concept of Muslims.

You, anyone who disagrees with the tenets and directives of the muzzies is somehow racist, even though it would be impossible for anyone holding those criticisms to ACTUALLY be racist.

Also, it is widely accepted that an anti semite hates Jews and or Israel, or at a minimum considers them to be inferior.

Nice try, lib and...

Good job Goodlibs!

The Arabian Peninsula Muslim population constitutes 3.83% of the world's Muslims. Yet, you portray the few of the historically politically difficult area as typical of the rest of the Ummah.

Your perception of the term 'Semites' is a flawed rationalization, inaccurate simplification, typical of your bigotry- "They can't help how they act. Thats how they all are. That's just how they are." Is the phrase I hear from racists around me. They proclaim the isolated actions of the few as typical of the whole.

ALWAYS says that.

Proving yet again, it's in your intent, not mine to say the thing you think, revealing your true racist, bigoted nature.

Anti Semite

A person who is hostile to or prejudiced against Jewish people. OXFORD DICTIONARY, 

lib.

Nice try at whitewashing, and being the best version of an apologist and...

Good job Goodlibs!

Ask a lib question, get a lib answer...

Jack Cashill

flock of over 100 historians, a handful of them conservative, most of them university-based, cast their votes in the 2021 Presidential Historians Survey. Not surprisingly, the results confirm what we feared, namely that fake news can quickly become fake history. This twist is especially obvious for the presidencies of Barack Obama, ranked 10th out of 44, and Donald Trump, picked 41st.

Prominent historian Douglas Brinkley has made my case for me. Among the most prolific of the historians participating, Brinkley has written books on Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, and other historical figures. Given Brinkley’s prestige and the many prizes he has won, he has no excuse for saying something quite so literally ignorant as what he said about Barack Obama in a CNN panel on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration:

He’s almost unimpeachable. He has governed with such honesty and integrity, and he’s not only leaving with that 60 percent [approval rating] we keep talking, but a growing reputation. And the legacy of having eight scandal-free years is going to look larger and larger in history.

The saying goes that a scandal is not a scandal until the New York Times calls it a “scandal” on the front page, and by that definition, yes, the Obama administration was scandal free. By any sane definition, however, the Obama administration was awash in scandal.  By the standards used to impeach Donald Trump or even Bill Clinton, at least six of these scandals merited Obama’s removal from office:

the $4 billion black farmer scam known as “Pigford”; the gun-walking bungle called “Fast and Furious”; the catastrophic military intervention in Libya launched without congressional approval; the weaponization of the IRS against the Tea Party; the many lies told to excuse the Benghazi FUBAR; and, the mother of them all, the authorization of a coup against an elected president.

Although not exactly impeachable, the fact that Obama knowingly lied at least 34 times in public to sell his “signature achievement,” the misnamed Affordable Care Act, should have dimmed Obama’s star at least a little. Even the Obama-friendly Politifact called his “If you like your doctor” flim-flam the 2013 “Lie of the Year.” Beyond the scandals were the relentless invasiveness and quiet brutality of Obama’s regime. As was his wont, Obama led from behind. His henchmen and henchwomen did the dirty work. 

They sent Nakoula Basseley Nakoula to prison for criticizing Islam in a video. They had journalists James O’Keefe and David Daleiden arrested for undercover reporting. They cyber-harassed reporter Sharyl Attkisson. They used search warrants on reporter James Rosen and several Associated Press reporters. They punished whistleblowers. They sent Edward Snowden into exile.

They turned a blind eye to the New Black Panther goons on Election Day 2008 in Philadelphia. They conspired to clear Hillary Clinton of criminal charges. And they discouraged all serious investigation into the murder of Seth Rich. Serious historians could have forgiven Obama all these transgressions had he succeeded in doing the one thing even Republicans hoped he could do, namely pull the races together.

Although uniquely positioned to succeed, he did just the opposite. He inarguably pulled the races apart. By accusing his critics of racism on almost every point of opposition, he and his allies poisoned the minds of the young and/or clueless, black and white. The faithful seem to forget that it was in eighth year of the Obama presidency that quarterback turned woke cultural icon Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the National Anthem, saying, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.”

As the pouting hammer-thrower Gwen Berry proved last week, this ignoble tradition has outlasted the Obama presidency.  As something of an historian myself — I have a Ph.D. in American studies from Purdue — I read Obama’s 2020 memoir A Promised Land hoping to get his perspective on these failures. Obama proved as blind to them as Douglas Brinkley.

Writing from his $12 million Martha’s Vineyard hideaway, he describes resistance to his presidency as “a slowly accruing, deliberately negative portrait … built from stereotypes, stoked by fear, and meant to feed a general nervousness about the idea of a Black person making the country’s most important decisions with his Black family in the White House.”

I felt compelled to write my own new book, Barack Obama’s Promised Land: Deplorables Need Not Apply, as a historical corrective. As to Obama’s scandals, what scandals? The omissions in A Promised Land are a scandal in themselves. That did not surprise me. More than a year after he left the White House, Obama told a tech audience in Las Vegas, presumably with a straight face, “I didn’t have scandals, which seems like it shouldn’t be something you brag about.”

Obama made this boast to contrast his presidency with that of Donald Trump. “Obama’s comments,” reported the Hill, “come as President Trump faces a slew of controversies, including the federal probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election” — a scandal, of course, of Obama’s making. As important as what President Trump accomplished is what he exposed.

Even before Trump was elected, he had panicked the bipartisan deep state into overreaction. Hillary Clinton and the DNC launched the Russia collusion hoax as a dirty trick operation, and the Obama administration finessed it, with the help of the FBI and CIA, into the foundation for a coup. The media meanwhile cheered on the co-conspirators.

As the coup progressed, renegade Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi said out loud what should have been obvious to even Douglas Brinkley: “Being on any team is a bad look for the press, but the press being on team FBI/CIA is an atrocity, Trump or no Trump.” It will take another generation of historians to put Trump and Obama in their proper places.

This generation is lost. Right now, for instance, Ronald Reagan is only one notch ahead of Obama. More telling still, FDR, Truman, and JFK are ranked ahead of Reagan.  The Democrat-friendly ranking suggests that fake news has been making history for much longer than we would like to think.

The libz we're very critical of Trump when all he did was exercise his freedom of speech to criticize the press for their bitter partisan corrupt, lying hackery. Their messiah owebuma rampantly abused the civil and constitutional rights of reporters and journalists without a peep from libz. The libz only speak up when their ox is being gored, or if they can get away with falsely claiming something similar.

The way the libz get away with false claims is a mystical...

 Good job Goodlibs!

"By the standards used to impeach Donald Trump or even Bill Clinton, at least six of these scandals merited Obama’s removal from office:"

Thank you mentioning that Trump was impeached- twice. That is unprecedented in American history.

Obama, with 3 successive Republican majorities in the House of Representatives in opposition to almost his every proposal, was not impeached once. Not once. Reminder- impeachement of the president is a HOUSE function, removal is a Senate action.

Trump was not removed from office because Mitch McConnell is a good Republican and Trump was posed as a Republican. No friendly fire from Mitch, in spite of Trump's hostility: