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Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 06:42 PM Jul 2017

Trump hired the most high powered criminal defense attorneys in the country because of fake news

Trump's crime family hired the most high powered criminal defense attorneys in the country all because of some "fake news" ...

It takes some industrial strength weapons grade stupidity to believe that.

You don't hire an army of criminal defense attorneys unless you have crimes that need defending, even Trump's own lawyers hired criminal defense attorneys. The Gambino Crime family lawyers didn't even do that when John Gotti was taken down.

The Trump Crime Family are in a league of their own

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Trump hired the most high powered criminal defense attorneys in the country because of fake news (Original Post) Snake Plissken Jul 2017 OP
He could hire Donald Duck, unless the DOJ is willing to prosecute, and they wont be Eliot Rosewater Jul 2017 #1
The GOP is in a very difficult situation Snake Plissken Jul 2017 #3
Democrats winning the House next year NewJeffCT Jul 2017 #4
Exactly. You can bet they are paying from some charity too. BSdetect Jul 2017 #2

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. He could hire Donald Duck, unless the DOJ is willing to prosecute, and they wont be
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 06:49 PM
Jul 2017

of course, doesnt matter.

NY state can bring Rico charges, so there is that I guess.

Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
3. The GOP is in a very difficult situation
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 06:59 PM
Jul 2017

If they do nothing the Democrats could take the House and Senate in 2018 and end up with Nancy Pelosi in the White House in 2019

Because I doubt either Pence of Session survive this, in fact they will be the first to go, since they're not protected from indictment and prosecution

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
4. Democrats winning the House next year
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 07:06 PM
Jul 2017

is realistic. However, if Democrats win the Senate, it will mean a spectacular tidal wave of an election. Right now, it's 52 Republicans, 46 Democrats and 2 Indies that caucus with Democrats (King and Sanders)

However, in 2018, Republicans only have to defend 10 seats, while Democrats have to defend somewhere around 25 seats, including 10 in states that Trump won last year - Mary Landrieu, Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Donnelly, Claire McCaskill, Jon Tester, Joe Manchin and Sherrod Brown (always a favorite GOP target) are all vulnerable.

if Democrats hold even in the Senate and win the House, it will be a huge victory for them going into 2020.

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