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"Trump did not select Castor and Schoen because he expects them to argue well and convince the Senate of his innocence. He selected them because he believes the jury is rigged. He banks on that fact that a GOP jury will acquit him no matter what he does." https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-trumps-47438129
"So Trump gets a lawyer he feels comfortable with. He gets Schoen, a Jeffrey Epstein associate who has represented the Russian mafia, the Israeli mafia, who brags about representing the biggest mobsters in the world. He is from Trump's world of elite criminal impunity."
"Yes, everyone deserves legal representation, but there's a certain type of lawyer who goes out of their way to rep the worst people in the world. Trump's mentor, Roy Cohn, was that kind of lawyer. So is Trump's former legal advisor Alan Dershowitz." https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-trumps-47438129
"Trump's lawyers are frequently members of his criminal circle. This pattern dates back to Roy Cohn, but we also see it with Michael Cohen, Rudy Giuliani, Alan Dershowitz, and others. Trump is not looking for a lawyer. He's looking to flaunt his criminality *through* his lawyer."
"Trump is saying 'Yes, I am everything you think I am, I am from this criminal underworld, and I've brought this world deep into the heart of the US government, and you cannot get me out, because my GOP -- the GOP which I own -- will acquit me.'" https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-trumps-47438129
These are excerpts from the @gaslitnation impeachment special that we recorded Thursday night; to hear the entire episode, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-trumps-47438129
