This is such a bad road for George and Simona to go down. @GeorgePapa19 must accept that his loose lips created the Mueller probe and that he therefore has no future in GOP politics. His goal now should be to avoid any additional charges, tell the truth, and get on with his life.
2/ George knows better than anyone that Trump's National Security Advisory Committee was—like Nixon's Committee to Reelect the President—a criminal enterprise. And one that doesn't have Halper or Downer to blame for what it did—its guilty members have only *themselves* to blame.
3/ George thinks—like Trump, Stone, Manafort, Cohen, Jr. and all Trump's henchmen—that the criminal justice system can be navigated like politics is. Dershowitz has it backward—it's not about criminalizing politics, it's about these guys *politicizing crime*. But it *won't work*.
4/ When I say I have empathy for @GeorgePapa19 it's not me being some creepy double-talking troll—I really do have empathy for him. I represented many young stupid criminals who dug themselves deeper holes than they needed to out of bravado, not malice. George needs to stop this.
