• menthol@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    It’s not clear why Tacopina decided to withdraw,

    80% chance he hasn’t been paid for most of his work and he’s tried of excuses, or

    20% chance he’s afraid of catching charges himself because the trump team keeps asking to do illegal stuff, or both.

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    6 months ago

    He didn’t “win” shit, this was always going to be a make-believe contest

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      6 months ago

      Yeah, 50,000 of the most zealous R’s in Iowa voted for him And about the same amount wished for pretty much anyone else. Hardly a ringing endorsement.

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    6 months ago

    I’m actually surprised he was able to find lawyers in the first place.

    I’ve legitimately lost track of how many of his lawyers have been disbarred, fined stupid amounts of money, or pled guilty to felonies. I kept track for a while, but there are just too many.

    Any lawyer accepting his cases at this point must be assumed to be dumber than potted light bulbs or under duress.

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      6 months ago

      Or they’re in on the grift, somehow. Crooked lawyers, while likely rare, do still exist, as evidenced by the common names that have helped the likes of Alex Jones, Trump, etc. The rest are the greenhorns too naive to know that their career is effectively over, because they’re not getting paid and they’ll have lost the most important cases for their demigod.

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    6 months ago

    https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/new-republic/

    These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports, and omit information that may damage liberal causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy

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      6 months ago

      You forgot this part of what you linked: We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing of information and a clean fact check record.

      I don’t rate New Republic very high personally because of their obvious bias.