This is pretty standard defense strategy: Here’s my best argument. If you didn’t like my best argument, here’s my second-best argument. If you don’t like either of those, here’s my third-best argument. The lawyer iterates until reaching the page/time limit or running out of arguments, whichever comes first. Logical consistency doesn’t enter into it.
We will probably see something similar in the prosecution’s summations. As I understand it, there are three or four ways Der Drumpenführer could have used the false business records to commit a felony. I expect the prosecution to go through all of them, and point out that any one is sufficient to make him guilty. The prosecution will also tell the jury that they do not have to agree on which of the prosecution theories of the case is true.
The NYTimes has story now, at least on my viewing, but of course it’s about both Trump (who is quoted many times) and Biden (who of course, is not). You can literally see the reporter straining to make it a both-sides piece, hitting Biden as much as Trump, which is a little difficult when one party is using terms like “human scum” and the other is somberly honoring the war dead and the ideals they were fighting for. So the reporter makes do with “not being held to the norms of behavior”, which I guess is true, and then veering into a long aside implicating Biden as hypocrite.
I am as well. I wish him all the best in his future. And in the meantime, I hope he gets great care for his trauma and post trauma as well. Peace to him and to your entire family.
