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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1476585
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Lordy, there are tapes.
IANAL… but, I wonder, is offering public officials a thing of value, say, legal services, problematic, legally, when you’re also asking them to NOT do something that they have a duty to do?
Is bribery really a crime, I mean, if you’re a Republican?
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Sure they got all this “so-called evidence,” but everybody knows that a free press is the enemy of the people! Even George Washington said that, right? It’s in the Federalist Papers!
(If you’re going to fib, you may as well make it a whopper.)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/437610-trump-calls-press-the-enemy-of-the-people/
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Can anyone expound on this for us?
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Never cross the cat nip with the mushrooms. It gets freaky.
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Suprise!
Drugmakers Delay In-Demand Medicines to Evade Biden’s New Pricing Rules (msn.com)
(Bloomberg) – Drugmakers are slow-walking products to market to get around President Joe Biden’s plan to lower medication prices.
Companies from Roche Holding AG to biotech Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. are among those delaying or evaluating therapies in light of the government’s new ability to negotiate for lower prices. Firms that normally try to sell drugs as soon as possible are suspending clinical trials and shifting timelines, while patient groups are demanding change.
Intended to trim costs for Medicare, the US health program for seniors, Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act has sparked both ire and lawsuits from manufacturers claiming it will eat into the vital cash they need to develop new medicines. They’re moving to maximize drugs’ revenue potential, even if it means patients will have to wait longer for new therapies.
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He personally is shielded in his privilege
What exactly is the privilege? It would be nice to see that expanded on.
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Searing as the Trump rage storm has been so far,
watch when the self-soiling Supremes rule.
O Boy.
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Let’s just admit it. Every call the Coup de Twat makes is a perfect call. At this point that’s just science.
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It’s a bit wordy with an ad @ 5 minutes in, but it’s an interesting listen.
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Time will tell, but first there has to be an accurate and legal definition of bribery that is agreed upon by everyone. Getting that may be a real stretch, but if it is in fact defined, then the challenge is to decide whether what’s happened here (and in GA) constitutes bribery by that definition.
And that could take months or years to come to a conclusion, the way things are now.
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Thank you David!
I’ll mostly be around next week, but for those who aren’t, enjoy your time away and see you in the new year!
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A fair bit of commentary overnight about whether that offer of legal counsel amounted to a criminal attempt at bribery. I’m not prepared to assert that quite yet, but there’s no doubt that having a recording of the phone call, as with the famous Trump call the following month to Georgia election officials, changes the texture and impact of what we previously knew about Trump’s intervention in Michigan, where a prosecution of Trump fake electors is already underway.
Here, let me help you with that.
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Does anyone know how the public came to possess this tape?
I’ve seen reporting that the Michigan AG did not turn it over to Jack Smith back when they were originally talking about crimes in Michigan with regard to fake electors.
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What’s Up This Headline?
Isn’t there a missing “With” in there?
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“Catnip with the mushrooms”
Meewow!
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