Scott Free?
On Monday morning, Mr. Trump issued a series of tweets complaining about the plea deal made by his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and the request from Mr. Cohen’s legal team that he serve no prison time.
In a sentence spanning two tweets, Mr. Trump said, “He makes up stories to get a GREAT & ALREADY reduced deal for himself, and get..... his wife and father-in-law (who has the money?) off Scott Free.”
Trump's unorthodox spelling of “scot-free”—with an extra “t” and without a hyphen, in a tweet with his now familiar effusive capitalization—spurred a cavalcade of jokey Twitter speculation about who this “Scott Free” fellow might be. As Meagan Flynn reported in the Washington Post Tuesday, some surmised that Scott Free was “a new figure in the Russia investigation,” while others pointed out that the name was used in the DC Comics universe for a character who takes on the superhero identity of Mister Miracle.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/scot-free-means-no-jail-timebut-once-it-meant-paying-no-taxes-1544194800 (paid subscription)
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