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RockRaven

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3. The only parameters of such a deal would be his full cooperation in exchange for

Reply to NightWatcher (Original post)

Fri Aug 24, 2018, 04:45 PM

Aug 2018

not getting a needle in the arm. Treason is a capital crime, after all.

And honestly, he's so unreliable that his testimony is worth jack squat when it comes to generating useful new info the prosecutors would not already have.

Another problem: any plea deal involves the defendant's allocution. Trump is utterly incapable in engaging in a genuine allocution to a degree any self-respecting judge would find acceptable.

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