Maybe I’ve just been too conditioned by seeing bad people get away with things all the time, but I’m still on team “nothing of consequence is going to happen to Matt Gaetz”.
Yeah Majority Report had a good piece on this. The producer Matt who’s pretty dope had all the details. Lazzaro was also Omars opponents campaign manager. Also people who met him talk about how insanely creepy and obvious it was that he was suspect as fuck.
What a fucking con job these Lawbros ran forever. Just have a bunch of needlessly complicated rules and blabber on about it being the foundation of a healthy legal system, obscuring that it’s all just a massive scam to protect rich white people from any kind of accountability. Ever.
Iirc, each spouse holds the privilege, though. So even though a spouse can’t be compelled to testify against his/her spouse, they are free to testify on their own, if they want. So seems like she would have him by the balls for at least as long as the SoL exists.
They’re going to need quite a run of luck. Also facing $2.75M fine in NY, and criminal charges in Ohio and Michigan. Their appeals in Michigan have so far been denied. They say they’re making another appeal to the state supreme court.
Only posting because “half-Trumpers.” The full spectrum now goes Trumpers, half-Trumpers, Trump-taints, Never Trumpers.
“Our thinking is we’re kind of the advance team for Trump if any of these, you know, Chris Christie, Nikki Haley kind of like half-Trumpers or Never Trumpers try to run,” Gaetz told Vanity Fair. “I’ve talked to the president about it. Marjorie has talked to the president about it. And he likes the idea of having the energetic characters in our party out there in the early-primary states keeping the band in tune, if you will.”