I think this is the wrong interpretation. they’re threatened by the loss of influence to the sid circus & playing shiny-object-run-out-the-clock with trump to maintain influence with him
the game is now “whoever promises trump the best miracle cure wins his friendship in 2021”, and these are all the closing plays
trump thinks rudy & jenna are low energy losers now (I mean, he’s not wrong) and he’s tuned them out, opening the door up to the next tier of batshit insane ideas. mark meadows & the MAGA dorks in congress are suddenly aware they’re in danger of losing their meal ticket
every strategy leads to trump leaving office. *every* strategy. there is no “winning” idea here. there is only convincing trump that *you* did the most, went the furthest, sacrificed your body to the volcano gods, to please him, so you can benefit later. that’s all the game is
oh and rudy? guess what. your pardon? it’s vanishing over the horizon like a sewer-gas propelled plastic santa sleigh, because sid is in your boy’s ear telling him you’re a two-timing low rent lawyer who couldn’t do the big kid stuff she’s doing.
it’s an audition. he’s running the apprentice script. he knows he’s cooked, he just wants to make them perform for him the whole time as a penalty for everyone failing him, and then punish whoever doesn’t tap dance hard enough

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21 Dec
barring an unimaginable sustained and explicit retraction, right wing media is gonna get just absolutely wrecked on this one
probably 999 out of every thousand threatened defamation suits is some combination of performative bluster, bad intent to 1A, or total legal buffoonery. this is that one outlier that isn’t.
oh and the fun part is dominion hasn’t even entered the game yet, so the second shoe to drop here will be an abrams tank lowering the turret on them
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when you are about to get your ass destroyed
lin wood could manage to lose a nonsensical defamation lawsuit, and this is a *very legitimate* one. I hope they turn them upside down and shake them until shit stops falling out of their pockets, then shake them some more just to be sure they got it all
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