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The Federalist’s Sean Davis has some thoughts on how Trump might go about doing that: “In 2016, the presidential race was decided based on candidates releasing lists of potential Supreme Court nominees,” he tweeted. “In 2024, I want to see lists of which Democrat officials are going to be put in prison. This is what happens when you cross the Rubicon.”

I guess 2016's LOCK HER UP wasn't enough for this guy. I bet, in 2016, Sean Davis never would have guessed what type of person he really was.

The meltdown among the rightwing commentariat is all total bad faith. All this preening and peacocking, and none of them believe the vituperations coming out of their mouths. You know how I know? Find me one of these people who said what they're now saying when Michael Cohen went to prison over this same scheme. Where was the sanctimony over miscarriages of justice and third world corruption then, when the DOJ under the Trump administration went after Cohen? Who cried or called for retribution over him? Why weren't these people saying Cohen's prosecution was a political scandalization of the justice system? Did they suddenly get religion on this stuff? Or is it because Cohen was a turncoat? If you find me one person who said then about Cohen what they're saying now about Trump, I'll take them seriously. But for everyone who does not match that description, sit the fuck down. You don't believe a word you're saying, and you are cynically destroying our democracy for likes on Twitter.

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And perhaps, a mid-level appointment in the fourth reich

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All well said, Don, especially interrogating yourself and explaining how you know! One sees so little of that in our political discourse.

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I don’t think their absence of rage at the Cohen prosecution was because of his turncoat nature. I think it was that Michael Cohen’s liberty wouldn’t have any effect on whether they held onto the White House to own the libs.

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It was to hilarious that Cohen's status as a convicted felon was a large part of why the defense argued he should not be believed.

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Right? While Individual One was sitting right there in the courtroom.

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