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"Joe Biden or anyone from his Justice Department has absolutely zero to do with the Manhattan District Attorney office, they have no jurisdiction over him, they have no contact with him, they have no control certainly over him. So to say that Joe Biden brought this case is one of the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard. We know that’s not the case and even Trump’s lawyers know that’s not the case.”
— Former Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina, quoted by NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/former-trump-lawyer-says-ridiculous-biden-involved-hush-money-rcna155272
You are repeating a story designed for the rubes.
Trying to shame conservatives like this doesn't work. They're actively proud of being gullible, stupid, victims to their celebrities. It's their entire identity. They see this and think "hell yeah, you don't want me repeating the story?? I better do it harder anyway!" - it doesn't matter that you are actually saying "btw this makes you look very dumb and gullible", all they heard was "i don't like this", and since you're The Enemy™, they love what you don't and hate what you do, and they double down on whatever it was, to Win Harder™.
This is why they'll often seem to take self-defeating or self-contradictory positions, and if you point that out, they take it as winning against you twice (instead of proving themselves wrong) and go straight to calling you a loser and patting themselves on the back.
That's why you hit them where it hurts. Into their little fragile egos, don't even take them serious. Laugh at their face, show them they're just clowns, dumber than monkeys
That's how I "argue" with people that don't act in good faith anyway. It works because "winning" is sooo important to them but those idiots aren't even close to would be competition anyway
It's like when that one uncle does something stupidly embarrassing in public, but you're less embarrassed at what he's doing/saying and more at how absolutely stupid it's making HIM look and by extension you for being with him in this public setting. Then he doubles down and decides to keep doing it over and over because he's "just messing with you" and by the end everyone in the room, thinks he's a moron, and you've lost all respect for him.
That's MAGA idiots.
We'll see if they turn over the communications between the Whitehouse and the DA's, which I doubt they will do. And you'd have to be pretty naive to think that the number 3 guy in the justice department just decided right before the Trump trial to demote himself to work for the local DA in New York that just happened to be the same office that persecuted Trump. Why would anyone ever do something like that?