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"This lightweight case against the Trump Organization does more to let Trump off the hook than any pardon ever could. It robs the justice system of any authority and gravitas, if, for example, Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis gets an indictment against Trump for election interference, the New York case will be brought up framing this as just another 'witch hunt.' After five years, you’d think they’d get the witch by now. Instead, they are just matting the dog hair."

Trump and his posse will be shouting "witch hunt" regardless, so avoiding that outcome should not be anyone's concern. As for Weisselberg, I'm very skeptical that this is the final word on the People vs. Donald Trump, and I'd wager that the DA put together a smaller airtight case against the CFO to flip him to go after bigger fish. The man is 73 years old, so you don't need to convict him of a big felony for him to see that he will die in prison. Aside from the question of what the DA has saved for their next act, is to what extent Weisselberg believes that Trump will do everything in his power to assist him, or whether he's as disposable as Cohen, Guiliani, etc. Even if Papa Trump isn't smart enough to know to go to bat for Weisselberg, I'm fairly confident that his kids are.

As for who's rooting for this to take down Trump and his clan, it's not just Democrats - there's a whole bunch of Republicans who would like to see the man out of the way and out of the business of wielding his capriciousness over their political futures.

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Jul 2, 2021Liked by Chris J. Karr

"The right thing from the wrong thing." Wow, really? I know you love to ignore my comments which is basically why i seldom waste my time responding to you or anyone else on The Racket anymore Steve. You've truly crossed the line of sanity with this one.

I don't give two shits about politics anymore Mr. Berman; there is no such thing as right or wrong any longer...there's just what can i get away with. So what if trump et al defrauded the government of taxes owed (by the way it's far from over). So what if Bill Cosby is a serial rapist who has no remorse and the idiot prosecutor was brain dead (and ended up representing trump and proved his craziness). So what that SCOTUS just made it so red states can discriminate against voters who they don't want to cast ballots. It's all good brother.

I used to believe that people had some sense of fairness. This article simply proves that is utter and complete nonsense. Happy 4th of July. By the way, feel free to ignore me again. I really don't give two shots about that either.

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Jul 2, 2021Liked by Chris J. Karr

They charged the Trump Org with 1st degree falsifying records. Trump and his kids are in for a nasty awakening when the banks start demanding all his tax records. They may have just defaulted on every loan they have out.

Also the real lesson here is that if you are a crooked business man maybe don't make an enemy of the people who have the power to look into your financial records. Dude deserves everything he gets. I know you Trumpers like to pretend he didn't threaten to go after every democrat on the planet and that "lock her up" isn't still the mantra of every red neck fool who ever got conned into voting for him.

There is a reason Hollywood has a popular trope of the bully getting his comeuppance. It's not our fault you find more in common with the bully.

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Wow. Never-Trumps hate people who, at some point, weren't never-Trumps but only skeptics.

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