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"“[t]he defendant is not above the law," and that"[h]e is subject to the federal criminal laws like more than 330 million other Americans, including Members of Congress, federal judges, and everyday citizens." INCLUDING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS 😡

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So much here to dissemble, yet you make it so clear. I still feel that we are two years behind and this creates one of the most critical but complex years of American History. I hear the distant chants from the the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, “the whole world is watching...the whole world is watching..”

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I don't think any immediate member of the Trump family will risk potential prison time for any other member. This should be very interesting.

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It's possible that Jack Smith has future business with more than several members

of Congress, considering he

included 'Members of Congress' in his rebuttal to

Trump. I've only seen "no one

is above the law" stated before. From his lips to God's

ear.

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Oct 23, 2023·edited Oct 23, 2023

I don't think Ivanka Trump will risk her comfortable life with her husband and children to save "daddy," nor do I think she will need to sit down and think about it. She is accustomed to a particular lifestyle, and she won't give it up for anyone, including TFG.

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Nauta may be an idiot, but he is probably just broke and can't afford his own attorney. You know darned well that trump told him it is this attorney for free or his own attorney on his own nickel. Easy decision, unless it lands him in prison, which I am in hopes it will to send a message to others who are willing to break laws for people like trump. At least there is nothing else to capture our attention like Gym Jordan's slip and fall in his attempt to become the next Speaker of the House. Seems none of the people he and his pals attempted to scare into voting for him were willing to have him at any price. Oh, I saw the stats on Gym Jordan's 14 yrs in Congress: 0 bills with his name on them & $2.5 million salary. Looks like Ohioans aren't getting their monies worth out of Gym. carry on

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I like that you sign your posts with "We're in this together." Ordinarily, it gives me an urge to pause and consider myself as part of a readership, an audience, and, more generally, as a citizen. This time, we get the stark contrast [edit: with] your description of Trump's alleged co-conspirators and even his daughter, Ivanka, as being in an "everyone for themselves" situation. We're in this together indeed. I can only hope.

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In the GA RICO case, who is the next Defendant to flip before the Wagons start rolling west? Possibly, JENNA, whose attorney fees are not being paid & her world is collapsing.

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Here is my prediction: “his” tactics will first include delay, delay and delay. If the trials do eventually take place, and a judgment goes against him, he will appeal. The appeals will get caught up in the legal system for years, and will not all be resolved before “his” demise. That will lead to no justice during “his” (or my) lifetime. “His” guilt or innocence will be left to be read in history books.

We the people will never see justice served.

*I sincerely hope I’m wrong

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Not sure what everybody else’s opinions are.

For me all this Trump legal circus year after year and especially now shows just how fragile our freedom is. Do we really have freedom? And what if we get caught up in the legal system and can’t compete with the rich who get caught up?

The rich and powerful using elite educated (and corrupt) lawyers to craft society to operate in their favor - this is what I am seeing from the Oval to the SC to the economy to basic civil rights. Maybe this is why Trump and the GOP have so much disdain for society because they know our view of it has all been wrong - fake/manipulated. Trump, Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow et al twisting society and laughing all the way to their private clubs.

Pretty unsettling to see the curtain pulled back and view just how society really works. That Disney view for all this time has really just been a puppet show - a show that truly could be over 11/24.

Vote Blue

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Karma to Ivanka. She is the poster child for nepotism.

Prayers and peace for the rest of the world.

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Tfg is really busy dancing the judicial four or five step. Lord knows when all his legal trials and tribulations will be over and done with. As for daddy’s little girl, i really hope she has to testify. Somehow it would serve both of them right.

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Whew! Will it ever end ? Joyce, do you see anyway DJT will ever pay for all the harm he has done to our country? I know that he is innocent until proven guilty, but, I am getting very tired of the havoc he continues to cause. He is a loser, a grifter, a liar, bully, a facist,an autocrat --- Now I can go to sleep. Thank you for listening! 😀

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Money (and lots of it), power, white skin and political connections. This all adds up to “sorry society, no accountability for me, but for you —— like yesterday”

Oh sorry, I forgot to add in lawyers with the moral and ethical standards of the Mafia.

It’s appalling to me how the legal system works for the rich vs the rest of us.

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Karma ~ ”Ivanka Trump may well have to choose between Daddy and perjury,”

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I keep wondering if trumps calls to shut the government down with the intent to shut down the court cases against him couldn't be seen as obstruction of justice?

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