Yea, lots of bad calls. The difference is, we aren't billionaire business mogul geniuses with excellent resources, experience with pols, and general people skills. I would have just had acting AG and kept firing people until I found an honest one.
Also declass never fully happened. Use that as leverage to get turtle to pass your nominee (grenell begat Ratcliffe).
Would probably ignore ANYONE floated by gop or gop pol....knowing what we know now.
Attacking gullible q people is just scape goating, and a means of coping with realistically a huge let down. The uncomfortable truth is...our guy didn't deliver. Excuses abound (including really hard realizations like all your institutions are bullshit, constution doesn't matter, etc.) and people can empathize with his position, but there were serious missteps and shortcomings (limp pardons were cherry on top). It's easier to blame the q folks than to do the hard work to figure out how to win. Dysfunctional coping (although the q have mind was effectively spreading lies so in the end, they helped propaganda, so my sympathy isn't in high supply).
I think despite his entertainingly abrasive style, deep down he wants to be loved/liked. That's probably where a lot of the spurious pardons and odd social programs cropped up. Kind of an empirical rebuttal to the psyop, but we live in a post truth world where feels dominate. So none of that mattered, and they already hated him. Wasted effort in the aggregate (maybe some sliver of folks got on board). The one who comes after Trump and doesn't give a fuck will not make the same mistake. Maybe that's future Trump if he gets another shot (looking less likely after the way he left).
Trump brought them in though. He had final say and responsibility, as with many many things. I think folks are ignoring the elephant in the room, although he was fairly effective despite encumberances (self inflicted or otherwise).
I expect some deal has been cut.
Under normal circumstances, I'd agree. I think they're out to get him regardless. Deals will be null and void the minute he's out. He already got backstabbed etc. Unless he's got some mutually assured destruction for the establishment to prevent them post-office from unleashing the state and corporate hit squads on him, I don't see how anyone rational walks away without crippling their power first.
I want to say the NV case actually entered evidence into the fact record, but the judge punted. I think the state-based WI case did as well (with the ultimate 4-3 ruling). AZ had some court-ordered discovery (e.g. signature verification), which was damning.
Those are the only ones that were allowed to proceed outside of muh standing and muh laches.
Plenty of people have been falsely convicted based on fabrications and insinuations spun from idiots cooperating and "proving their innocence." Proof is for a court of law, or given by your lawyer who's protecting your ass. Everything before that is playing an asymmetric game with your life and liberty. It's beyond idiotic in this day and age given everything that's happened. If you don't go in the water, the shark can't eat you.
I wouldn't have said anything unless they had a warrant, and unless I had a lawyer present. If they ask why, give them a link to the Horowitz report. Engagement encourages this kind of bullshit, where you face the possibility of a federal crime like Flynn did. Make them work through it via the legal channels, e.g. follow the constitution. Exercise your rights.
FYI Neti pot worked wonders for my sinus stuff. I used to get slammed 3-4x a year with bad ones growing up, turned to OTC medicine to try to help, always a really bad time that led to secondary problems. Tried neti pot with warm distilled water + premixed salt/baking soda packets and never looked back.
Who knew that, in the end, Jody would be a Jody.