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Renato Mariotti: I think "grift disguised as an audit" is a good way to describe what's going on in AZ. If we could give truth serum to Republicans, I'm sure many of them would agree. Bamboo in the ballots shows they're from China? So racist & ignorant.
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Renato Mariotti: It's a conclusion in search of evidence. They want to find evidence that the election was stolen, but Arizona wasn't even one of the determining states. While it's horrible for our nation, it's good the Repubs are divided.
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Renato Mariotti: It's good Repubs are at the level of deciding if landing on the moon really happened, because when they get serious, they focus on suppressing voting rights, for ex.
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Renato Mariotti: I know a lot of people were disappointed in courts during the Trump years, but one thing good about courts is they're good at getting to the bottom of issues. Attorneys don't make things up to tell the judge or the evidence wouldn't bear out.
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Renato Mariotti: Mr. Greenberg's crimes were very serious. He's committed so many crimes. You know how some people like to visit every state? He seems to have wanted to commit every crime.
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Renato Mariotti: There's nothing funny or bizarre about these crimes b/c they've changed the lives of young girls.
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Renato Mariotti: Prosecutors are careful about who they give cooperation deals to. If they're giving Greenberg a deal, the prosecutors are very convinced he's going to be giving them a very big case on someone else.
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Renato Mariotti: Prosecutors are reluctant to give deals for implicating people down the chain--they want to go up the chain, or possibly sideways, if they're giving cooperation deals.
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Renato Mariotti: Gaetz has essentially admitted to behavior that, while not criminal, is absolutely reprehensible. He'd better hope he's not charged w/ anything b/c a jury won't like him if he's taking campaign funds & spending it on prostitution.
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Renato Mariotti: Gaetz is like Marjorie Taylor Greene... not serious people in any way.
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Renato Mariotti: The press release the other day was largely about the NY Atty Gen'l taking credit & saying they're part of it, too. It must be a pretty good case if she's saying that. [Manhattan's case against Trump]
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Renato Mariotti: What matters in the end is what the evidence looks like.
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Rick: Thoughts on the atty representing the QAnon Shaman?
Renato Mariotti: You don't want to demean your client; no matter what your client's done, you want to humanize your client. I wouldn't have involved any of the other participants.
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Renato Mariotti: I don't know of any atty who would speak about his client like that atty did.
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