*not a popular election (he did not win that)
He just keeps digging.
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FWIW she was referring to TWO kinds of people who support Trump.
There are 1) those who feel abandoned and desperate (and thus deserving of empathy and outreach) 2) and those she called âracist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobicâ ie âbasket of deplorablesâ
âJust be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trumpâs supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?â
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/08/31/deplorables-basket-hillary-clinton/
The people in this basket, emboldened by Trumpâs tweets, were âirredeemable,â she said. But there was another basket: Trump supporters who just felt the government had let them down and wanted change â and Democrats had to empathize to win these voters.
But I wonder if she would today say whether there are two baskets.
Or perhaps to your point, whether there ever were actually two baskets.
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Maybe, depending on Cannon. Plus Rudy (maybe) flipping, Meadows testified and agreed to further cooperate in exchange for leniency, and Trump lawyers to be charged.
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Obviously youâll still want a chaser!
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I still donât get what good Rudy does for prosecutors. They certainly canât put him on the witness stand. The defense will easily point out his flawed character and propensity for lies. Iâd think that would hurt them more than help
I also thought they subpoenaed his phones and records and already have all the info they need from him regardless if he agrees to cooperate or not. Itâs all so confusing
I donât think prosecutors have necessarily agreed to give Rudy much. The queen for a day thing means he comes in and says, âIf I were to testify to blah blah blah, what would you give me?â Prosecutors do agree that they wonât use what he offers in that session against him, but they can use whatever they already have. Itâs more or less a freeroll for prosecutors. Thatâs what I understand, IANAL.
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Itâs all kind of stupid, he very obviously âdid it,â itâs not like the outcome will hinge on testimony from Rudy Giuliani or anyone else, itâs just a matter of whether there is jury nullification.
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Bloomberg paywall but yeah, no shit
BREAKING. But falls into the âno kiddingâ category: Trump âStanding Orderâ to Declassify Documents Not Found by DOJ, ODNI - Bloomberg https://t.co/SaB1LnfWx6
â Andrew Weissmann đ» (@AWeissmann_) June 29, 2023
Or prosecutors make an absurdly bad deal.
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Anatomy of a mistrial from juror notes. Later retried and found guilty of Medicare fraud. âNullificationâ can just be weird people thinking weird things.
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And she oughta know
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From those written statements, it appears that we have got some pretty sharp elementary school students on these juries.
I know itâs a George Carlin bit, but ânormalâ people are unimaginably stupid.
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Wasnât able to make it enough for you
To be open wide, no
And every time you speak her name
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Just consider if we ran everything like trials by jury.
If we want to build a bridge, have two engineers argue about the correct tensile strength of the material then let a jury of lay people pick whichever one sounded more convincing and go with that. Who among us would be confident driving over that bridge?
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Or better yet, letâs have two charlatans, both paid off by special interests run against each other for legislative seats. And then letâs let them decide everything for us.
Oh wait.
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