If they called him to testify before the Grand Jury, you just know they were loaded for bear in advance.
(insert really, really bad southern accent:)
Purdy soon, they be loaded for Barr.
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Damned straight. +1000
NDAs and the threat of punitive lawsuits if they fail to maintain omerta.
NDAs.
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Those were NYTimes’ words, not mine.
However, he apparently lied to the press about Trump University’s chicanery.
He kept a low profile for years even as he rose to become the company’s controller and a senior vice president. But during the 2016 presidential campaign, he appeared in news reports to answer questions about how Mr. Trump’s charitable foundation was raising and spending its money.
Asked in September 2016 to account for why the foundation had donated $25,000 to a campaign group associated with a Florida prosecutor who was reportedly weighing an investigation into Trump University, Mr. McConney told The Washington Post, “That was just a complete mess-up on names. Anything that could go wrong did go wrong.”
But, he has to figure that what he’s being asked about now, the DA already has the answers for, and so…much tougher to lie without getting caught.
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The guy has been working for La Famiglia for 30 years, that bird ain’t singing…
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I am prepared to take seriously recent reporting tying Trump’s coming “August Installation” (as U.S. President, House Speaker, Game Warden of Mar A. Slobbo) to his fear of upcoming charges and indictments.
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Whoever is advising Weisselberg seems to be giving him bad advice.
A lot of this stuff is documentary evidence. So it’s there. All it takes is a person witness on the inside to provide some context about facts which are discernible from the written documentation. Weisselberg could’ve been the first in line to do that, taken down Trump and probably get immunity. Now, he’s setting himself to be a holdout who gets prosecuted and takes the fall or cuts a deal which may include some jail time. I’m not sure the prosecutors even need Weisselberg at this point because Trump literally hollers at and gives orders to everyone because he’s evil and criminal but incapable of operational execution.
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I think the last four awful years provide mountains of proof that, in situations where he can’t use his preferred tactics of bluster, dishonesty, and intimidation, he absolutely sucks at deal-making.
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One the first cases I was assigned as a wet behind me ears associate involved the local rail transit system, their lease agreement with a building owner, and the many leaks cause by the transit company’s lack of maintenance, despite contractual duties.
Our firm won the case, it was appealed, then appealed to the Supreme Court, which sent it back down, unfortunately, losing the court file in the process.
After the file was “re-created” the trial court again ruled in our favor, appeal, and again to the supreme court for a second time, and for the second time, the Court lost the file.
The third time back before the trial court, I was assigned the case. I was relatively new to it, being there only for a year, but by then, the case had celebrated its 17th birthday. Out of embarrassment, the court ordered the case be renumbered. They didn’t want people to know just how old of a case it was. The RR company finally settled.
I suspect that Trump will pull stuff, endless crap arguments and bullshit motions, just to keep running the clock. It might be 10 years before an actual verdict in some of his cases.
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What’s the Yiddish word for “caudillo”?
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The funny thing about that loyalty is that Trump is cheap as hell so it seems unlikely that anyone gets richly rewarded for their lies and allegiance. Maybe he’s good at being just generous enough.
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Don’t overthink it. He’s the toddler in the store, and all the adults around him are promising him a toy if he’ll just stop screaming.
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I agree. It does seem Karma has been bidding her time, leading up to the grand reveal. Watching the GOP and their messiah squirm is worth the wait.
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I suspect that it’s a pretty damn easy job if you’re a great accountant, there were at one time a lot of perks to being in Trump world, and I imagine some of these people have their own grift going. Also, these people didn’t learn these financial games from Donald, they learned them from Fred, and I imagine Donald learned from Fred that above all others, keep the accountants happy.
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I guess the inference is the prosecutors wouldn’t issue a subpoena to someone they expected to charge (because doing so grants them immunity), but I am neither a lawyer nor a New Yorker.
It does raise the question of how NYDAs usually make their case to a grand jury - all documentary evidence? Can they introduce depositions/ police interviews done elsewhere without triggering the immunity clause?
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There’s a type of domestic abuser who is very good at dispensing carefully-measured doses of kindness (or contrition, depending on the circumstances), just enough to keep the victim(s) going.
It’s actually quite disturbing how well the “abuse” analogy fits the former guy’s reign.
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Well, since he’s going to be reinstated as President and Speaker of the House, what’s to worry?
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Why stop there? Add “Chief Justice” and collect 'em all.
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Possibly/probably. But also, from what we have heard about his insane rages, he is extremely nasty and intimidating when he gets angry, so I can well imagine that there is a huge amount of fear of antagonizing or upsetting him in any way (see: GQP).
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Someone will probably suggest it to him.
What I posted was what he has actually said.
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If he’s looking at a long stretch of Federal accomodations, his inner Canary might start to sing.
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