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Tanuki

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4. He's belatedly trying to put lipstick on a pig,

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Fri Mar 10, 2017, 10:54 AM

Mar 2017

or more accurately on a paid mole of a hostile foreign government.
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Depending on what he was covertly relaying back to his foreign handlers, I would think that there may be espionage charges in his future. What he is doing now sounds like a pre-emptive plea bargain.

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He's belatedly trying to put lipstick on a pig, Tanuki Mar 2017 #4

That sounds about right. kentuck Mar 2017 #6

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