Trump And Don Jr. Hire ‘Big Lie’ Lawyer To Defend Them In Swalwell Suit | Talking Points Memo

Former President Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. on Wednesday hired attorney Jesse Binnall to represent each of them in a lawsuit filed by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), according to The Daily BeastThe congressman has filed two complaints aimed at holding the former president and his allies accountable for the deadly Capitol insurrection this year.


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"Trump is a weak man’s idea of a strong man." – George Will

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“Hired” is meaningless if they never get paid.

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Binnall previously signed on to represent the former president in the Thompson lawsuit, making Trump Jr. the second family member to be represented by Binnall.

With many more family members to come, no doubt.

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Sooner or later certain family members are going to have conflicting interests,

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Dear Lord, please arrange for the Orange Asshole, Donny Jr., and Rudi to be in the same pod at the Colorado Supermax.

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Why Oh why are we still getting oceans of headlines about pathetic-donald. What can we do to just make him go away?

We are so conditioned that our mice can’t avoid clicking on stories about trump.
:crazy_face:
Note to self: avoid all news focused on trump.

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OT, but it makes one wonder how much the GQP is paying KJU to pull off these stunts?

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They don’t have to pay him, he had 4 years under trump to do whatever he wanted and 4 years to develop and test missiles. Nothing so far has convinced him things have changed and it’s going to take serious threats.

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We can’t make him go away.
He’s dangerous and he has to be punished so no other president thinks they can get away with that same shit.

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And true to (RNK) form, every newly elected US president gets “tested” early on. So he can make noises if he wants, but the missile performance will likely determine our response. Hell, Biden may do a “Nixon in China” with KJU. Whiile we’re passing out free money, some sent their way may convince Kim to behave himself for a spell.

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Sounds like this crackerjack has had nothing but really big loser loser-ton clients to me.
More more popcorn please.

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Nah, N. Korea has been the panhandler of the world rattling their sabre and taking appeasement for far too long for that to be an option. What Biden should do is repair our relationship with S. Korea after TMFWSNBN destroyed it during his term.

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Nah. Kimmy is just looking for attention again, and I think it’s partly in response to some joint training exercises in SK, so it’s his usual predictable shtick. Mainly, now that there’s a new POTUS, he needs and wants Biden to acknowledge him in order to give the appearance of him being on equal footing and commanding the attention of the big dogs because he’s a big dog too. It’s a tactic his weeny dad abused as well.

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I assume he must be doing this pro bono

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In former VPOTUS news, Pence sucking up to Graham.
https://twitter.com/Franklin_Graham/with_replies

Also interesting to read Graham’s thought’s for taking the vaccine and even more interesting the comments for and against!
https://www.facebook.com/FranklinGraham/posts/276922917136643

Yes. Here is North Korea’s MO:

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“Pro bono” in a manner of speaking. :grin: More like for free. Nice company he keeps, I have to say. The skeeviest ambulance chasers in town look at each other darkly and shake their heads when you mention this guy’s name.

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The other day, I was finishing up Marilynne Robinson’s magnificent novel Gilead. Its narrator is a pastor in a small Iowa farming community who is approaching the end of his life, and towards the end he thinks about his parishioners who have fallen under the sway of radio evangelists (the novel is set just before the Eisenhower administration):

I blame the radio for sowing a good deal of confusion where theology is concerned. And television is worse. You can spend forty years teaching people to be awake to the fact of mystery and then some fellow with no more theological sense than a jackrabbit gets himself a radio ministry and all your work is forgotten. I do wonder where it will end.

This describes for me a whole bunch of the state of what people take to be “Christianity” these days, and Pence’s sucking up to Franklin Graham, of all people, is a symptom of that.

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