It was simply way, way too much, way too early, and would have completely overwhelmed his entire agenda for DANY.
All Trump, all the time.
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I think it was simply unrealistic to consider that new leadership would ever say yes, so early.
For Cyrus Vance, Jr. @bakermckenzie, whom I respect, his declining to seek re-election as the investigation went into high gear basically sealed its fate; that’s on him.
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As we are seeing this week, any DANY or @TheJusticeDept prosecution of 45 will dominate media coverage even when nothing’s happening; 45 has brilliantly manipulated media for decades.
Seriously, the Times should not be giving Mr. Barnes a platform without doing its homework and insisting on clear responses to reasonable questions about ordinary contemporaneous documentation of international travel.
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