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Feb 17 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Trump’s lawyers are complaining in court today that New York is using its civil probe of the Trump Organization to nail down its related criminal case against Trump and put him in prison. New York prosecutors aren’t denying the strategy, they’re just explaining why it’s legal.
Yet with some notable exceptions, the media and pundits are still mostly covering the civil probe as if it exists in a vacuum and Trump is only facing financial penalties. Why? Once the media admits Trump is on a clear path to prison, it can’t milk “Trump 2024” for ratings.
“Trump 2024” was never going to be a narrative in 2024. But the media really wants to spend the next year chasing ratings by pretending Trump 2024 is going to be a thing. Hard to get people to stay tuned in for that narrative though if they figure out Trump will be in prison.
Now that the defense and prosecution are both acknowledging in court that New York is on a clear path to criminally indict Trump, will the media finally acknowledge that prison is THE narrative when it comes to Trump going forward?
Or will we have to listen to the talking heads on Twitter and MSNBC continue to prattle on about how Trump is somehow magically about to make a comeback? We’re facing far too many actual threats, to waste time hiding under the bed in fear of Trump’s ghost.

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Feb 19
Many of you are finally figuring out that Trump's future consists of bankruptcy and prison, not some comeback. If you look back, you see he's been on this path for a year now. Yet the media fed you fictional "Trump 2024" hype the entire time. You should be outraged at the media.
Every major media outlet and pundit – left, right, or center – knew this was where things were heading with Trump. It’s been clear since well BEFORE HE LOST, that if he did lose, New York would do this to him. There was no other path Trump could end up on.
Yet because the media knew that it might take some time to get to this point, and that you’d grow impatient hearing every day about how we were gradually moving to this point, the media instead made up a more ratings-friendly fictional version of the story in the meantime.
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Feb 16
Even if Rudy Giuliani is just using the threat of cooperation with the 1/6 committee to get Trump to pay his legal bills, it's still a minor victory for the committee, bad news for Trump, and probably self defeating for Rudy.
Just to get the committee to say that Rudy is cooperating, he must have had to give them key evidence against Trump already. So now they get to use that evidence, whether Rudy flakes from here or not.
This would help the committee, and damage Trump, for obvious reasons.

It would also ensure Rudy is fairly quickly indicted for contempt, which would only make his legal bills even worse.
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Feb 16
It doesn’t matter what Rudy Giuliani says he’s going to do, or whether he can be “trusted.” If Rudy now understands he’s going to prison, he’ll give up Trump. If Rudy still delusionally thinks he’ll get away with it all, he won’t give up Trump. Simple as that, no other factors.
"But Rudy went on TV and said..."

Irrelevant.

"But Rudy will never [blank] no matter what..."

Not how anything works.
"But Rudy is just playing games!"

Sure, if he still delusionally thinks playing games will magically keep him out of prison.

If Rudy now understands he's going to prison, he knows full well that he has to flip, and that if he plays games it won't work out for him.
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Feb 15
Now that Rudy Giuliani is fully cooperating with the 1/6 committee, we’ll hear the usual talk about whether he can be “trusted” to do the right thing. But that’s irrelevant. Giuliani CAN be trusted to do the selfish thing, which is what this comes down to.
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When you look at the recent court ruling in the DOJ’s ongoing criminal case against Giuliani, it’s clear he’s going to prison for taking dirty foreign money, whether or not he goes down for 1/6 and election crimes.

The question is whether Rudy understands he’s going to prison.
If Rudy understands that that he’s already a lock for federal prison, then yes, he can be trusted to do the selfish thing of saving himself by selling Trump out to the 1/6 committee and the DOJ. It’s not about him doing the right or wrong thing. He’ll do the selfish thing.
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Feb 15
Donald Trump’s longtime accounting firm says his last decade of financial statements can’t be relied upon, drops Trump Org as a client. This gives banks a perfect excuse to call in Trump’s loans, take his assets before New York state does. It’s all coming crashing down now.
Notable: Mazars sent this letter to Trump a fees days ago, and the New York AG already has it. Suggests Mazars cc’d it to her, which in turn suggests Mazars is already fully cooperating with the NY probe into Trump.
Also notable: the New York AG almost immediately filed this letter with the courts, making it public right away instead of strategically waiting for anything. It ensures Trump’s lenders and creditors know about it.
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Feb 13
Seeing a lot of the usual talk about whether Rudy Giuliani will “grow a conscience” by testifying to the 1/6 committee and whether this will make him “good” or “bad” and whether he can be “trusted.” But this is gibberish. It’s about Rudy selfishly saving himself, nothing more.
The ONLY factor here is whether Rudy has concluded he has to sell out Trump world in order to stay out of prison. If yes, then he can be trusted to selfishly give up crucial evidence and truthful testimony. Not because he’s now “good” but because he’s as selfish as ever.
On the other hand, if Rudy still thinks he can skate without having to give up Trump, then he’ll try to bullshit the committee.
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