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    I look at it this way: The Republican has lost the popular vote in 7 out of the last 8 presidential elections. He's likely to lose it again in 2024.
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    A lot of Trump's defense centers on the logic "the whole damn justice system is corrupt". You see it intellectualized in the claim that Trump can't get a fair trial in NYC. If you know someone who has ever went to prison, you know that every defendant thinks the whole system is corrupt. Prosecutors don't bring criminal cases simply out of spite. Grand juries don't indict without evidence. If they try, the case will be thrown out. If Trump wants to make the case to a judge that he is an innocent victim of a witch hunt, he should try it. But judges have heard it argued before.
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    Fact check: has the statute of limitations run out on the alleged crimes that New York can charge Trump with? New York has broad statute of limitations on most crimes. A misdemeanor is 2 years and a felony is 5 years, with the exception of violent crimes. Another exception is if a potential defendant has been out of state and thusly making it difficult for New York law enforcement to pursue him. Beginning in 2017, Trump spent most of his time in Washington DC and in 2019, changed his official residence to Florida. Meaning beginning in 2017 or 2019 (a court will decide), the statute of limitations is paused. Trump can try that argument, and see how much of a defense it is.
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    Criticizing your judge. This is the part where your right to remain silent really becomes important.
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    Also, don't be surprised if an annoyed judge slaps a gag order on Trump to keep him from talking about the case, basically nipping this stuff in the bud.
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    Possible (just my prediction): Cowardly Trump may accept a plea agreement with D.A. Alvin Bragg. Don't be surprised if it happens. Trump may even start doing things like showing up in court with a walker to look frail, in a Harvey Weinstein kind of way.
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    Trump and Michael Cohen are recorded on tape discussing the payment of hush money in 2016. Cohen's federal trial established as factual the two men were co-conspirators in the scheme. The Trump-Cohen tape: https://youtu.be/-G8XO7jONt8
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    https://youtu.be/0B4OC3MsqCE
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    Trump of the 1970s.
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    If I remember the story correctly, the FBI was investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election in late 2016-early 2017, and suspicion fell on Michael Flynn, Trump campaign advisor and then National Security Adviser. About a month after Trump was inaugurated, Trump called Comey to the Oval Office and told him to stop investigating Flynn. 1) Trump was in office JUST A MONTH before he committed a crime. 2) The President of the United States is not supposed to interact with the FBI Director. 3) The President is not supposed to even comment on pending criminal investigations, much less order law enforcement to do things. Me after hearing this: "Yeah, Trump definitely just committed a crime." And then I tried to explain that to others, and I sounded like a crazy person to them.
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    I said back in 2017 that Donald Trump was going to get indicted for SOMETHING. This was right after I realized he is more than just a racist, neo-fascist asshole (which I knew he was since I heard him announce he was running for president). He's an actual criminal, and that can be proven in a court of law. This was after I heard the story of him, as president, pressuring FBI Director James Comey to stop some investigations. I remember after saying "Trump's going to be indicted and go to prison" I got pushback from Trump supporters but also progressives who thought it wouldn't happen.
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    Holy mackerel, that's a lot of crime.
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    Since Musk took over he has set about dismantling everything that made Twitter valuable — making it his mission to drive out expertise, scare away celebrities, bully reporters and — on the flip side — reward the bad actors, spammers and sycophants … https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/twitter-is-dying/
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    I also feel "I'm probably not getting indicted this month; hooray" is a pretty low standard. "Take THAT libs; I'm just being hounded by prosecutors everyday of my life and I'm 76 years old; I win."
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    2WTvjNpxTIDI_Oyr.mp4
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    Raising property values over decades so that poor people can't afford to live and local residents get pushed out sounds like the bad thing, and THAT in the article sounds like the solution. Plus, workers finally getting treated with some due deference and power. I don't see the negative here.
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    It's hard to overstate how much Russia has self-destructed out of hubris. Before 2022, the United States was exasperated by Russia, which had success in waging information warfare and interfering in the internal politics of other nations. Plus, the Russian military had a reputation as a growing threat. There were numerous news reports about how they were advancing militarily. Now, nations have sanctioned and isolated Russia to a degree I never imagined possible and its military has been revealed as a paper tiger and irreversibly damaged.
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    Some innovators create the operating systems that make computers useful. Musk turns Twitter into 8chan.
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    Another thing about GA-14, when you look at change in partisan vote percentages from the 2020 presidential election to the 2022 midterms, the counties of GA-14 were some of the few in the state that got more Democratic. In a way, Greene's infamy and the attention it gets makes the local Democratic party stronger than they wouldn't be if she was just an average Republican. Not strong enough to oust her, yet. But growing.
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    I wouldn't be surprised if he came up with the "For You list is only going to be blue checked accounts" idea on a whim because he was desperate for money. Make the experience so miserable for non-verified accounts that they each pay him $8.
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    Despite Greene, GA-14 is doing better than it has in a long time. I credit Stacy Abrams, the state and local Dem Parties, and the 2018 election for that. There's now a thriving progressive minority here that formed in 2018. In my county, we're like all friends and organize and are active in the community. The local party now fields candidates for every race on the ballot when we didn't use to do that.
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