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I’m sure you’re right, for now.

That’s possible, but I’m skeptical. It’s probably more likely that these things are known to happen, but difficult to prosecute. He’s being prosecuted in this case because everyone involved said that’s what they were doing. He could have just been a fan of her work and invested in a business of hers...

Wait, they had to pass a law during the pandemic to allow masks in the first place, and now they had to reverse that?

It just takes a few bad apples, every time.

It’s all pretty lame. You just aren’t going to sell the majority of Americans on the importance of charging a US president for paying to keep someone he slept with quiet during an election. Where does that even fall on the spectrum of corruption for these guys? I know, I know, that’s not the point. ...

They don’t even have Trump signs here, and I’m in Trump county. One idea we’ve kicked around is that they took them down shortly after the 6th, and have been laying low and peeping through the blinds since.

—jeez, you’d think a bare minimum of effort would make it impossible to prove a consulting business was a sham…