2 Prosecutors Leading N.Y. Trump Inquiry Resign, Clouding Case's Future

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

The two prosecutors leading the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into former President Donald J. Trump and his business practices abruptly resigned on Wednesday amid a monthlong pause in their presentation of evidence to a grand jury, according to people with knowledge of the matter, throwing the future of the high-stakes inquiry into serious doubt.

The prosecutors, Carey R. Dunne and Mark F. Pomerantz, submitted their resignations after the new Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, indicated to them that he had doubts about moving forward with a case against Mr. Trump, the people said.

Mr. Pomerantz confirmed in a brief interview that he had resigned, but declined to elaborate. Mr. Dunne declined to comment.

Without Mr. Bragg’s commitment to move forward, the prosecutors late last month postponed a plan to question at least one witness before the grand jury, one of the people said. They have not questioned any witnesses in front of the grand jury for more than a month, essentially pausing their investigation into whether Mr. Trump inflated the value of his assets to obtain favorable loan terms from banks.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/nyregion/trump-ny-fraud-investigation.html

[rso]

1. Trump

I wonder if someone got to Alvin Bragg.

[Lonestarblue]

68. My first thought, too. Trump has always been reputed to have Russian mafia friends.

[moniss]

2. Obvious

what is going on here. Alvin wants a payday.

[nitpicker]

12. Maybe guaranteed admissions to nice colleges?

If movie stars can bend the college admissions envelope, why not attorneys also?

[essaynnc]

3. WTF???

Were they threatened? Bribed? It would only take a million or two to buy off a prosecutor or purchase a hit man. This sucks. We need details.

[DENVERPOPS]

65. Agreed

Likely threats against their families, or maybe they just finally threw in the towel, knowing no matter what they accomplished justice will never come to any of these members of the Trump CABAL......

Either way, I can't blame them one bit..........

[MyOwnPeace]

82. My early take is......

THEY are making a statement because the 'new boss' isn't so sure they can make a case.
So, what's holding HIM back?
Maybe a nice place to 'winter' on an island?
Maybe a 'visit' from someone who knows someone who knows someone?

[BlueTsunami2018]

4. He's going to get away with everything.

My faith in the justice system, never very strong to begin with, is completely gone.

These motherfuckers never pay the piper.

[Runningdawg]

5. My thoughts exactly.

[sop]

56. I've thought so all along.

[blueinredohio]

57. That's four of us.

[dixiechiken1]

75. Five

[SergeStorms]

59. He's not getting away from Letitia James.

The AG from New York State. She's going full throttle after the Big Orange Pig, but that's a civil case, not criminal. I hope she ruins him.

[Bev54]

69. Can she also charge criminal charges if Bragg doesn't?

[SergeStorms]

79. No, unfortunately.

The Manhattan DA was in charge of the criminal investigation, and it doesn't look as if that's going forward anymore.

The best we can hope for is for Ms. James to ruin him financially.

At least in this case. There are other criminal investigations taking place that might take the Big Orange Pig's freedom away from him. Let's hope, anyway.

[Calista241]

87. The fact that the Manhattan DA isn't going to pursue a criminal case against him

isn't great for the civil investigation.

[SergeStorms]

92. Not at all.

Like any other investigation where both civil and criminal charges could be made, the civil case is easier to prove. In the criminal case you have to prove intent. Trump never leaves an electronic or paper trail. He doesn't use email, and he flushes any paper. Really.

So the civil case is easier to prove, and I think Letitia James has Trump covered. I hope she ruins him financially.

[Calista241]

99. While you are correct.

What's she's accused Trump of in her filings is clearly financial fraud.

He's manipulated the values of properties based upon what brings him the most benefit. The IRS got a lower value than insurance companies, or banks that provided loans based upon the value of those assets. This brought an unearned benefit of paying lower taxes than what was legally required. i.e Tax fraud.

Trump's lawyers are going to be able to say that he hasn't been charged in a crime. A reasonable, non partisan juror is going to want to know why he hasn't been charged with a crime, when what they're trying to civilly sue him for is clearly against the law.

I hope you're correct, and that I'm wrong, but nothing seems to stick to that jackass.

[uponit7771]

102. +1

[DanieRains]

6. Wouldn't Want Nuthin Bad Ta Happen To Yer Nice Little Family

Now would we....

My guess.

[brooklynite]

7. Wow, 6 conspiracy theories in 6 responses. I think that's a new record.

[winstars]

8. So then whats the actual reason/not conspiracy theory then??? You're plugged in...

Thanks!

[brooklynite]

19. I'm plugged in to a municipal criminal justice office?

[tenderfoot]

32. Notice that he couldn't be bothered to answer your question.

[Martin68]

73. Notice that he isn't stupid enough to speculate about something he knows nothing about - unlike

the conspiracy theorists who preceded him.

[tenderfoot]

76. Here's something I saw floating about:

"This story about the Manhattan DA supposedly having doubts about the Trump case, sounds like it was planted by Trump’s people. Yes, two members of the DA’s team have resigned, but three can be a lot of reasons for that. This NY Times reporting just doesn’t hold water."

[FBaggins]

114. Proving the source IS "stupid enough to speculate about something he knows nothing about"

And... since it's the Palmer Report... that isn't a surprise.

Basically his site's raison d'etre

[Ninga]

9. Depressed, discouraged, disheartened, that's why.

Supposedly one of them is as a mob whisper

[KPN]

48. I don't know that anyone stated a conspiracy theory. It seems

quite reasonable that folks might wonder aloud what is behind this and speculate on that question. As I’m sure you would know and agree, there is a lot of pent up desire to see some measure of accountability for what most Democrats at least would agree is a long history of apparently if not transparent fraud, corruption and crime by TFG and the trump organization — especially given TFGs overall “presidential” record and impact.

Frankly, your post seems off-base and uncalled for as well as a bit high-horse-ish.

[former9thward]

50. Calling people "bought off" without a particle of evidence is a CT.

If not a CT then it is pure slander.

[brooklynite]

54. You're saying its reasonable to accuse the Manhattan DA of corruption?

[Mysterian]

64. Heaven forbid anyone thinking a district attorney could be corrupt!

They are all saints appointed by Jesus himself.

[brooklynite]

86. So the. It'll be easy to provide evidence...

We lived through six years of baseless conspiracy theories. Not a big fan.

[KPN]

101. One poster said anything that might be construed as an

accusation. You said all 6 of the first posts before yours spouted conspiracy theories. …. That aside, you miss my point.

[brooklynite]

111. "I wonder if someone got to Alvin Bragg."

"Alvin wants a payday."

"Were they threatened? Bribed? It would only take a million or two to buy off a prosecutor or purchase a hit man."

"Wouldn't Want Nuthin Bad Ta Happen To Yer Nice Little Family"

[IronLionZion]

60. That proves Q is involved here

[SergeStorms]

81. Oh definitely.

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Trump is sworn in as president any day now, attended by JFK Jr., Roy Cohn, and Chef Boyardee. 😉

[Ameri Canadian]

10. Who couldn't see this coming?

I no longer click on stories or videos with titles suggesting the fucking traitor is "on the verge" of any serious consequences.

[dem4decades]

35. But Garland is conducting a double-secret investigation that will bring Trump to his knees.

Just kidding.

[sop]

58. I no longer click on stories claiming Matt Gaetz is about to be indicted.

[LiberalLovinLug]

91. "on the verge" posts are just naive.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Rove etc etc etc...they were all on the verge of going down at one time or other. Sure was fun passing out those gifs of KKKarl Rove in handcuffs.

I think many Americans want to believe, like the poster from the X-Files, that there truly can be justice for those who are at the top of, or connected to, the political chain of power.

The only way a case against Trump is ever concluded, and any kind of true justice handed out to him, will be because of some dumb smoking gun he left out on the coffee table. After he actually went out and shot someone on 5th Avenue with multiple witnesses. Even then, I'm not convinced he'd get anything more than a slap on the wrist.

Liberals have to move on. We won't get justice at high levels like this. We need to use what is out there. Social media etc. We need to work at grass roots levels more to educate the voting public.

I really think, and this may be controversial here, that the Democratic party should not be so resistant to younger, more social media savvy, energetic, progressive voices to take charge of the party. Give it a facelift. Be the first party to embrace the new generation.

[PoliticAverse]

11. Bragg on the Trump prosecution...

From New York Magazine, July 5, 2021:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/next-manhattan-d-a-alvin-bragg-on-prosecuting-trump.html

And so the Trump investigation. Unless it stops abruptly, your office is going to still be handling this. What are your ideas in terms of continuity with this investigation?

I think that’s an important question. My strong default on long-term, complex investigations is to keep the continuity, keep teams intact that have been working on complex long-term investigations. Some of that speaks upon knowing some of the people on the team by reputation. A lot of it’s based upon my prior experience of joining complex matters … so I’ve got a lot of experience kind of getting up to speed on complex investigations, particularly white-collar investigations.

And then also overseeing — becoming a manager in the middle. Particularly in complex matters, there’s a history and understanding of the evidence that you want to retain, as a general matter, so I don’t see any reason why that would be different here. Frankly, given the length of this investigation, the nature of it, my default is even stronger, but you want to keep this team intact.

When you take office, you don’t plan any major shake-ups of the team?

No. My default is to keep the team intact. Some of the best advice I got as a very junior lawyer was, “Whenever you get a new matter, don’t learn it piecemeal — learn it.” So obviously, there’ll be a lot of matters I need to get up to speed on and will be doing that. We’re talking about this specific charged case. We don’t know what exactly the posture of this overall investigation will be in January. It could be multiple cases by that time; on the other extreme, this case could be resolved. I don’t think this case will be resolved by January, so we’ll kind of see where we are.

[Hoyt]

13. Not surprising. Will be costly to try trump and little chance of a jury

convicting him.

[brooklynite]

20. Please tell me you have a reason for "little chance of a jury convicting him" better than...

..."we know there'll be a Trump supporter on the Jury".

[Hoyt]

22. Fact. And I think the DA knows it.

[brooklynite]

25. Like there was a Trumper on the Derek Chauvin trial? Or the Travis McMichael trial?

This is the MANHATTAN DA. The pool of jurors supporting Trump would be vanishingly small.

[Hoyt]

28. So why do you think it looks like they are giving up?

[brooklynite]

33. I'm willing to say "I don't know" about a story that broke an hour ago...

...rather than jump to "the DEMOCRATIC District Attorney is corrupt" or "the DA is a coward being threatened".

[BumRushDaShow]

85. The NYT article has quite a bit in it that suggests the reasons - basically you have this-

(and you have to really go scrolling down to get to it)

2 Prosecutors Leading N.Y. Trump Inquiry Resign, Clouding Case’s Future

By William K. Rashbaum, Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Kate Christobek and Nate Schweber
Feb. 23, 2022Updated 2:50 p.m. ET

(snip)

The pause coincides with an escalation in the activity of a parallel civil inquiry by the New York state attorney general, Letitia James, whose office is examining some of the same conduct by Mr. Trump. Ms. James, who last week received approval from a judge to question Mr. Trump and two of his adult children under oath, has filed court documents describing a number of ways in which the Trump Organization appeared to have misrepresented the value of its properties.

She concluded that the company had engaged in “fraudulent or misleading” practices, and although she lacks the authority to criminally charge Mr. Trump, she could sue him. Mr. Bragg’s office must meet a higher bar to bring a criminal case and has encountered a number of challenges in pursuing Mr. Trump, including its inability thus far to persuade any Trump Organization executives to cooperate.

Mr. Trump has disputed the notion that he inflated his property values or defrauded his lenders, and has accused Mr. Bragg and Ms. James, both Democrats who are Black, of being politically motivated and “racists.” As Mr. Bragg’s grand jury presentation has come to a halt, another serious criminal inquiry into the former president has been gaining steam. In recent weeks, a district attorney in Atlanta asked a judge to convene a grand jury for an investigation into Mr. Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.

Another criminal investigation, in New York’s Westchester County, is examining Mr. Trump’s financial dealings at one of his company’s golf courses. The Manhattan investigation, which proceeded in fits and starts for years, was the most developed of the three criminal inquiries into Mr. Trump. It resulted in the indictments last summer of The Trump Organization and its long-serving chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg, on separate tax-related charges.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/nyregion/trump-ny-fraud-investigation.html

So you have a pile of overlapping cases and the potential to step on toes and I think the credos of prosecutors also applies - to go with what is the strongest case (and probably the easiest). The borough's case has a higher standard and requires witnesses who are willing to testify (which they have been unable to get) and the state is limited on what can be done as they are doing it as a civil case (which probably has a lower standard and thus a bit easier as a low-hanging fruit type thing).

[gab13by13]

29. Mark Pomerantz is a sharp financial prosecutor,

I want to hear it from him and not from Bragg that he doesn't have a case.

[krkaufman]

63. Opinion

Literal opinion, not fact.

[Hoyt]

70. Not if you don't know either. It may well be fact, DA knows he can't convict.

[turbinetree]

14. Where is the state of NY on this matter, this does not sound right at all....

and Alvin Bragg, has doubts about the case going forward....

The Times, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that Alvin Bragg, the new Manhattan district attorney, has indicated having doubts about continuing to build a case against Trump.


https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/23/two-top-prosecutors-in-probe-of-trump-org-resign-from-manhattan-das-office.html

[SergeStorms]

74. The New York State investigation....

is still going strong. Letitia James, the NY Attorney General, still has the Trump crime family firmly in her sights. She's bringing the civil case against Trump, which is easier to prove than the criminal case. Proving Trump's intent to defraud is much harder, considering no one will testify against him, and he never leaves an electronic or paper trail.

Gee, it almost as if he's a professional criminal taking steps to reduce the amount of evidence that can be used against him. 🤔 Ya' think?

Hopefully Ms. James will ruin the Big Orange Pig financially. That's the best we can hope for regarding his New York crimes.

[turbinetree]

80. Thank you................

[SergeStorms]

89. No problem.

We have to look for victories wherever we find them. We still have the Georgia and January 6 investigations, and probably a few more out there I've forgotten about. THERE'S JUST SO MANY!

[Wuddles440]

15. The party...

has probably already started in Mar-a-Lago, and the reich wing media machine will be gleefully running in overdrive with this news nugget (i.e. turd).

[dem4decades]

16. The good news for Federal Prosecutors, they won't have to resign, there never was a Trump

investigation at DOJ. Mueller, Manhattan DA, Russian money laundering, DOJ, just add in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and you have the whole picture.

[ZonkerHarris]

17. Bragg is a coward.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. So many moving parts across many decades

I always doubted they could separate the good guys from the bad guys.

[JohnSJ]

23. Not good enough. It is the public's right to know why they resigned, and what is going on

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. Was this "monthlong pause" already public knowledge, or only revealed by these resignations?

Looking at older new items, I can't find it.

It looks like Bragg started on Jan 1st, took a look at the Trump case, and suspended it, without saying anything publicly. And now two of his assistants have resigned in protest.

[JohnSJ]

27. Did they resign in protest? Even that isn't clear.

[gab13by13]

34. It sounds like that to me,

I know that Mark Pomerantz is one sharp financial prosecutor. I want to hear it from him that there isn't a case.

Losing Pomerantz ends the case, unless the Kraken is available.

[JohnSJ]

41. Yes, that is why the public has a right to know

[hamsterjill]

26. The next time anyone chastises me for worrying that Trump won't be charged...

Well, there shouldn’t be a next time.

Trump? Putin? Threatened the families?

If that’s a conspiracy theory, then what’s the explanation for the resignations?

[Runningdawg]

115. THIS 100%

We were led to believe, the only thing the NY DA was waiting on was Trump to leave office. The paperwork was finished, it just had to be filed. Don't forget, NYC has a long history of dealing with the Trump family it didn't start in 2016 and they have done NOTHING.

[Mr. Ected]

30. Is this the criminal side of the same investigation that Letitia James is pursuing

On the civil side?

It seemed the evidence was beginning to pile up; now there's not enough to warrant a grand jury investigation?

WTH?

[gab13by13]

36. Yes, and they had a grand jury.

[blm]

31. Is Alvin Bragg being extorted? Only a crook lets big crooks go free.

[JohnSJ]

46. I don't know, but he has an interesting philosophy

Bragg has said he would not prosecute lessor crimes, and his office announced they

would seek lesser charges for burglaries and store robberies where the offender "displays a dangerous instrument but does not create a genuine risk of physical harm."

While this isn’t the same type of crime, it does demonstrate an attitude about choosing what he personally feels he should prosecute, regardless what the law says

[gab13by13]

37. The Mazar accountant even flipped, WTF.

[Thomas Hurt]

38. Hmm, so if this was just a dud case and had little chance of success why did the prosecutors resign?

DAs make decisions every day that a case is not going to be worth going to trial. If that was the only reason they bailed DAs offices would be turnstiles for attys. WTF.

[dem4decades]

39. I guess Trump is just another businessman doing business in New York, there are no crimes.

Just business.

[Scrivener7]

104. "Legitimate financial discourse" is the new phrase we should use when we mean "blatant fraud."

[stopdiggin]

40. OR - it just might be

that this investigation is covering a lot of the same ground that the state's case is? And in a format (criminal), in which observers argue might be more difficult to obtain a conviction?

- NYTimes - snip - The pause coincides with an escalation in the activity of a parallel civil inquiry by the New York state attorney general, Letitia James, whose office is examining some of the same conduct by Mr. Trump.

Ms. James, who last week received approval from a judge to question Mr. Trump and two of his adult children under oath, has filed court documents describing a number of ways in which the Trump Organization appeared to have misrepresented the value of its properties.

She concluded that the company had engaged in “fraudulent or misleading” practices, and although she lacks the authority to criminally charge Mr. Trump, she could sue him.

Mr. Bragg’s office must meet a higher bar to bring a criminal case and has encountered a number of challenges in pursuing Mr. Trump, including its inability thus far to persuade any Trump Organization executives to cooperate.

Mr. Trump has disputed the notion that he inflated his property values or defrauded his lenders, and has accused Mr. Bragg and Ms. James, both Democrats who are Black, of being politically motivated and “racists.”

[gab13by13]

43. The Mazar accountant flipped.

[stopdiggin]

53. no. they really didn't

that's completely overstating the case. And by many accounts their 'reports' would have very little impact on any sort of legal claims in any event.

Mazars said it had not, “as a whole,” found material discrepancies between the information the Trump Organization provided and the true value of Mr. Trump’s assets.

But given what it called “the totality of circumstances” — including its internal investigation and Ms. James’s court papers — Mazars instructed the company to notify anyone who had received the statements that they “should not be relied upon.”

Even with Mazar’s retraction, a criminal case would likely be difficult to prove. The documents, known as statements of financial condition, contain a number of disclaimers, including acknowledgments that Mr. Trump’s accountants had neither audited nor authenticated his claims.

[gab13by13]

42. I am going to turn on Nicolle to see if she had time to do a segment on this.

I want to hear from Pomerantz.

[dem4decades]

45. or Ari, he seems to concentrate on the legal things. The DOJ does nothing, Jan 6th Committee has

been silent, that poor woman in Georgia has called for protection, Trump is the true Teflon Don, time to turn the TV off and enjoy life.

[Bev54]

72. I hope Rachel is back tonight, she is the only one I trust to do a deep dive.

[yaesu]

44. Teflon Don is trending on twitter. nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

47. Just the most recent example of why my extreme skepticism

that Trump will face any kind of punishment is totally justified.

There are often posts here shouting that THIS IS IT!! TRUMP IS GOING DOWN!! and often when I offer some doubt, I'll get smacked down by others who think I just need to have a bit more faith in the system.

[JohnSJ]

49. Here are more insights from the Washington Post

“ The Bragg spokeswoman, Danielle Filson, confirmed the attorneys had left but declined to say why. She said the investigation into Trump and his business practices "is ongoing.”
The lawyers’ resignations were first reported by the New York Times.
A person briefed on the criminal probe, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal information, said Bragg has signaled to others he is less interested in the case than was his predecessor, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., whose term ended at the end of 2021.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has an active, parallel civil probe into Trump’s business practices, may proceed alone with a civil lawsuit, the person added.
But James’s office also has partnered with Bragg in the criminal investigation. On Wednesday, her spokeswoman, Delaney Kempner, said the criminal inquiry “is ongoing and there is a robust team in place that is working on it."
The person briefed on the case said James’s office had hoped Bragg and his team would be more aggressive than Vance and has been disappointed with his lack of interest.
Pomerantz, a former federal prosecutor, was working on the case against the former president without taking a salary. Dunne, who could not immediately be reached for comment, served as Vance’s general counsel.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/23/prosecutors-resign-trump-criminal-investigation/

[Scrivener7]

90. So Bragg is less interested than Vance. And all Vance ever did was kick the can down the road.

So that's pretty monstrously disinterested.

[RevBrotherThomas]

51. Unsurprised

Anyone who thinks Donald Trump will spend even a day in jail is fooling themselves. His ocean of lawyers will continue their delaying and racketeering tactics until that blessed day he dies.

The best we can hope for is one of his idiot spawn getting locked up. Someday.

[gab13by13]

52. Nicolle is going to talk about the resignations.

[Mr. Ected]

55. I want Trump behind bars because he besmirched his oath of office and committed crimes

As the President of the United States of America. That to me is the be all, end all.

His crimes as a businessman do not affect me and are indicative of corruption in business that runs rampant in this country and most others. Sure, he deserves to be punished for those transgressions too, but bring me the head of Donald J. Trump as a result of election frauds in 2016 and 2020 and his role in J6 and I will consider it the most satisfying end to the most egregious mistake ever made.

[Scrivener7]

88. They won't even go after him when the crimes are as evident as the nose on your face.

Valuations that differ wildly on the same property. This is not a complicated thing. You would be either fined or jailed for such a fraud in the blink of an eye.

So when his crimes are this cut and dried and they walk away from prosecution, do you really seriously think they are going to go after him for election fraud?

I really hope you are not holding your breath.

Personally, I don't give a shit what they get him for. I just want SOMEONE to get him for SOMETHING. Take your pick. There are thousands of crimes to choose from!

[Mr.Bill]

61. Has the Grand Jury been dissolved?

If they are still sitting, then it's not over.

[gab13by13]

95. I think it is empaneled until April.

[gab13by13]

62. There you have it,

Dan Goldman said there is only one explanation for the 2 prosecutors to resign, they wanted to pursue the case and Alvin Bragg didn't.

Goldman said if they all agreed there was no case there would be no resignations.

The fucking prosecutors wasted their time, and Pomerantz even came on board to go over all of the financial documents and worked without being paid.

Go get him letitia, fuck you Alvin Bragg.

[MyOwnPeace]

96. I know - it's early in the 'game'..............

but that's MY read too!

[monkeyman1]

66. might be got everything put in place & service's not required now !

they was hired specifically for trump case ? when your done - you resign & draw your last pay check !

[krkaufman]

67. First Vance, now Bragg

Cyrus Vance, Jr., dropped charges against the children and now the subsequent DA likely to do the same. Really kills trust in the system.

[atreides1]

106. Yep

Vance did the same thing...didn't support his own people...and they had more then enough evidence to lock them both up!

Now it seems that Bragg is doing the Cyrus Vance dance...

[Scrivener7]

71. Jesus H. Christ. This is too much. And think it's a conspiracy theory all you like but this stinks

to high heaven.

[gab13by13]

78. I had a taste of being threatened when I was on my small town borough council.

A friend of mine actually got death threats. They wanted to strip coal on our pristine watershed and build a coal cleaning plant in a flood plain. To be honest, I spent many sleepless nights, but I didn't back down and did what was right. The pressure at the federal level must be pretty extreme. I mean, Alvin is the new guy on the scene and he has 2 fantastic prosecutors wanting to go forward, what other explanation can there be? He was threatened.

[Scrivener7]

83. Or his palm was greased. I don't know. All I know is that this is what ALWAYS happens

with this disgusting man. He has NEVER done anything honestly or ethically, and he has NEVER faced ANY consequences.

AND he's dumber than a mud fence! HOW does this happen??

I am so tired of this.

[gab13by13]

97. There are a lot of people more knowledgeable than us,

questioning what went on. Maybe ole Alvin has skeletons in his closet?

[orangecrush]

77. BULLSHIT

[tenderfoot]

84. Here's a few thoughts to talk people down

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[gab13by13]

100. The facts are 2 prosecutors abruptly resigned,

and Dan Goldman said there can only be one explanation. The prosecutors wanted to prosecute but the DA didn't. There can be no other explanation.

[dem4decades]

108. Yep.

[dchill]

112. That's what he said. No other explanation.

[uponit7771]

105. +1

[Hoyt]

107. Wrote the Palmer Report off long ago.

[Scrivener7]

110. When has the Palmer Report been right?

[MichMan]

113. I can't believe people use them as a credible source of anything

[housecat]

93. so we just roll over again? just let Putin threaten families?

Where is their protection?

[SayItLoud]

94. TFG is still Individual1 . Seems easy to indict and convict him for that. NT

[gab13by13]

98. Nope, the statute of limitations ran out for that, sorry.

[atreides1]

103. New DA same as the old DA

Bragg got a payday...

[Celerity]

109. kick