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Really? Because I don't see this as each of them sabotaging the others' efforts to leave. I mean, I can totally imagine them all not wanting to be the last one out the door and getting stuck with having to defend tfg, though.

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I think they have all the scruples of their master, so yeah.

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Huh. A year or so ago (in TFG time, which works out to 100 years in human time) we all used to joke about having Rudy Giuliani defend you on a traffic ticket would likely lead to you getting the death penalty.

Sounds like Epshteyn is actually that lawyer. And I'm so, so happy he is the one lawyer who has TFG's ear and is cutting out all the other lawyers.

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I went to cow college for four years, and I swear the only thing I learned was that if you drop a rat in the water, it will swim frantically for about 20 hours, then give up and drown. But if a psychologist, just as the rat gives up, reaches in and holds the rat above the water for a minute or so, that rat will swim frantically for three or four days more before giving up.

From that, I deduce that we are never going to be shut of these nutty lawyers, who are, in every way, like rats.

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Do conservatives in general need people around them to swat their hands away from hot stoves? Because it feels like they might.

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"...a 'case' that has NEVER BEEN CHARGED BEFORE..."

It appears finding another case such as this one is about as hard as locating a beige computer in an office.

"A core crime that the Manhattan District Attorney will likely include in an indictment of former President Donald Trump is 'falsifying business records in the first degree,' a felony under New York State law (N.Y. Penal Code § 175.10). Prosecutors and indeed all of us are compelled by the rule of law to consider how such a charge compares to past prosecutions. Are like cases being treated alike?

"Here it appears they are. Prosecution of falsifying business records in the first degree is commonplace and has been used by New York district attorneys’ offices to hold to account a breadth of criminal behavior from the more petty and simple to the more serious and highly organized. We reach this conclusion after surveying the past decade and a half of criminal cases across all the New York district attorneys’ offices."

https://www.justsecurity.or...

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Yep. Bragg said in a press conference that this charge is the bread and butter of his office.

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The standards the Trump administration aspired to.

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is mag-lev to gulag ?

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Can we add a charge for unclosed parentheses?

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We all would.

Which in itself is a good half of the problem.

With the selective enforcement, I mean

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And yet, all of those unhappy lawyers, with a single exception, have chosen to stay. Then again, they agreed to represent the orange asshole in the first place, even after seeing what's happened to those who went before them. No sympathy.

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Crooked Donnie "claims" he is "innocents" of the many "accusations" made against "him". He also "desparages" "juries" who listen to the "evidence" and "hold" "him" and his January 6th THUGS "responsible" "for" "their" "actions".

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He sold those classified documents for a pretty penny. He’s in hock to his eyeballs with rather unpleasant people he sold them for $$$ to pay his creditors because the griftbux won’t cover his debts.

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Linkie?

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Dunning-Kruger much?

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