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OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
Thu Apr 13, 2023, 08:33 PM Apr 2023

WTH Ari & MSNBC 😡

For years MSNBC greatest Legal Guests have and still are asked to advise Trump’s legal defense teams.

Again today! It’s getting too serious to be helping!

A man and minions lied about the 2020 election. Then plotted an attack on democracy & the US Capitol

Ari, a lawyer, asked Andrew Weissman and Defense Lawyer Danny Greenberg for Individual 1’s best defense strategy.

Andrew warned of the “false statements” trap. Perjury is a crime.

Then Ari asked Danny Greenberg

“What are a lawyers best defenses for someone in this position to offer?”

Danny. “So first I’d advise defense team to get another client”

Then “Brief the client”. And on and on with defense strategies 😡

I’ve seen this same scenario play out so many times on MSNBC

And MSNBC repeatedly aDMs its Legal Geniuses to advise the legal defense teams.

WTH MSNBC! Knock it off!
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Ocelot II

(115,862 posts)
1. Do you seriously think TFG's defense team looks for legal advice
Thu Apr 13, 2023, 08:39 PM
Apr 2023

from cable tv lawyers, or actually takes it? If you'd ever read any of their pleadings you'd know they weren't getting any legal defenses from anywhere but TFG's colon. He doesn't hire the best people; he hires lawyers who are either true believers (in which case they are especially stupid), or who think they are smart enough to use their representation of TFG to become famous. This is also stupid, because if they do what their client wants they risk making huge fools of themselves and losing their licenses. Don't worry that they are getting ideas from defense strategies being discussed on TV. Even assuming they're watching, they obviously have never taken any of that advice.

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Ocelot II

(115,862 posts)
4. They are not helping! If they were actually helping, TFG's lawyers
Thu Apr 13, 2023, 08:49 PM
Apr 2023

might have won a few cases, but they always lose! Why do you suppose that is? It's because as lawyers they suck hard enough to bend light and they are not taking advice from anyone who actually knows what they are doing. What the lawyers on TV are doing is educating the public about how the law works - which, based on a lot of what I read here - is desperately needed. But they sure as hell aren't helping TFG's idiots. You said "WE are the party of education," but you seem to be rejecting the education about the law that is being offered. Trump's lawyers aren't getting their legal research from watching TV, but we can benefit from it.

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
5. I believe someone on MSNBC recommended the Special Master idea for the phony Doxuments aloeal
Thu Apr 13, 2023, 08:57 PM
Apr 2023

And then the defense team liked that idea

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Beastly Boy

(9,441 posts)
7. There is only so much entertainment in discussing one side of the issue.
Thu Apr 13, 2023, 09:06 PM
Apr 2023

When you bring a contrarian viewpoint into the conversation, you potentially double the entertainment value of your show.

Ratings, baby!

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
11. No. It was a stocky older than Andrew guy.
Thu Apr 13, 2023, 10:00 PM
Apr 2023
https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/-legal-hell-criminal-defendant-trump-goes-back-under-oath-in-another-case-170227781712

I think this is a link to the segment

Lazy old former citizen journalist lol

Here’s his name
Defense Lawyer Danny Greenberg on “The Beat.”

I don’t remember seeing him before
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