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Jack Smith Has Set a Trap for Trump
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I was in civil court before and almost fucked up by submitting previous emails from a former lawyer of mine. Glad my attorney caught it and mentioned the shitstorm it would start.
What I don’t understand is how someone who has been dealing with lawsuits his whole life could be so stupid?
Look who you're talking about. The man is highly capable of manipulating idiots and racists, but he's no mastermind
It is actually easier to manipulate people if you're ignorant and over-confident. It is much easier because you don't have to lie and adapt your speech, you just do you.
He can only manipulate people who want to be manipulated.
He has $40 million worth of legal advice, it's not being stupid or uninformed. They're giving the best possible defense, and it's a very bad one.
Eh, he's not exactly hiring the best lawyers. In any other situation the best law firms would be jumping at the chance to defend a former president, but due to past behaviour (not paying, not following advice, committing additional crimes, asking lawyers to commit crimes for him), he's only hiring rubes and crazies.
he hasn’t been dealing with lawsuits.
His lawyers have been dealing with lawsuits his whole life.
It’s the same with his businesses- the ones that are successful are successful in spite of him, because somehow he got someone competent to work under him.
But he really is an idiot, and totally incompetent at everything he touches. Except maybe reality tv, because people just eat up shitty assholes there
There's one thing he's good at: making assholes feel good about being assholes. That's the one thing he's built his entire political career on.
Absolute truth here. From the moment he got into office, it seems like "loudest asshole in the room" has become a persona every Republican has embraced.
That closing phrase, though... 🤢😅
Even then, he was surrounded by highly competent entertainment types who knew what they were doing. All Drump had to do was turn up and say his lines.