Oh My God, John Lauro, Stop Helping, Man!
By: Charles P. Pierce (Esquire)
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Trump's lawyer did the Sunday shows and hoo boy.
By Charles P. Pierce
John Lauro, El Caudillo Del Mar-a-Lago's latest hapless mouthpiece, hit what we like to call the Ginsburg Slam on the Sunday Showz this week. He did five of them, none of them particularly well. But it was on Meet The Press where he made me wonder whether or not his heart is really in this case. It also convinced me that, were if I ever up on a capital charge, I'd rather have Daffy Duck as my lawyer. From The New York Times:
"What President Trump didn't do is direct Vice President Pence to do anything," Mr. Lauro said on CNN's "State of the Union." "He asked him in an aspirational way."
Mr. Lauro used the same defense on NBC's "Meet the Press," when asked about Mr. Trump's now-infamous call to Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger. During that call, President Trump pressured Mr. Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have," to win the state and suggested that Mr. Raffensperger could face criminal repercussions if he did not. "That was an aspirational ask," Mr. Lauro said.
For the love of god, man, stop helping!
Too late.
"A technical violation of the Constitution is not a violation of criminal law," Lauro contended, saying it was "just plain wrong" to suggest that Trump had pressed Pence to break the law.
Leaving aside the fact that Lauro is wrong on the law, there's no such thing as a "technical violation" of the Constitution if you are the dude who took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend it. Lauro went on, again, to argue that the former president*'s trial should take place in, say, West Virginia, rather than the District of Columbia, because the juries in that 92 percent white state are more "diverse." Meanwhile, his client was all over social media in his usual way.
"IF YOU COME FOR ME, I'M COMING AFTER YOU."
(All caps in original.)
"Deranged Jack Smith is going before his number one draft pick, the Judge of his 'dreams' (WHO MUST BE RECUSED!), in an attempt to take away my FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS — This, despite the fact that he, the DOJ, and his many Thug prosecutors, are illegally leaking, everything and anything, to the Fake News Media!!!"
"THERE IS NO WAY I CAN GET A FAIR TRIAL WITH THE JUDGE 'ASSIGNED' TO THE RIDICULOUS FREEDOM OF SPEECH/FAIR ELECTIONS CASE. EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS, AND SO DOES SHE! WE WILL BE IMMEDIATELY ASKING FOR RECUSAL OF THIS JUDGE ON VERY POWERFUL GROUNDS, AND LIKEWISE FOR VENUE CHANGE, OUT [OF] D.C.
(All caps in original.)
Not just grounds, but powerful grounds. The very best grounds. The most powerful grounds in the history of grounds. Big guys came up to him with tears in their eyes and said, "Sir, those are the most powerful grounds in the history of grounds." He also took the time to tweet a nyah-nyah-nyah to the U.S. Women's National Team over its crushing loss to Sweden at the World Cup.
The 'shocking and totally unexpected' loss by the U.S. Women's Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden. Many of our players were openly hostile to America—No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close. WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!! MAGA.
He's not nervous about his legal peril. Oh, no. Not him.
"I purposely didn't comment on Nancy Pelosi's very weird story concerning her husband, but now I can because she said something about me, with glee, that was really quite vicious," the former president's post read. "'I saw a scared puppy,' she said, as she watched me on television, like millions of others, that didn't see that. I wasn't 'scared.' Nevertheless, how mean a thing to say! She is a Wicked Witch whose husbands journey from hell starts and finishes with her. She is a sick & demented psycho who will someday live in HELL!"
As you can see, the defendant has his eyes squarely on the prize. Of course, the eyeballs a spinning counter-clockwise.
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I saw a few of these appearances. Lauro wanted to argue with all the hosts. I wish a couple of them would have obliged him.
"Aspirational"...is that what the kids are calling bullying and coercion these days?
I think it is just a word he feels comfortable using since his boss (Trump) would have no clue what it means.
It takes a meanie to know mean
Trump only hires the best people. Lauro’s turbo spin is unmatched!
Usually the tv host interrupts the guest. Lauro was interrupting the tv hosts on every show he was on. He is blazing a path towards being one of the most disliked people in America.
Trump's posts are getting weirder and sounding more desperate every day. Same with his attorney.
Jingoism is bad. Crapping on a national team is worse.
I watched the match. Amazingly, Sweden’s players looked like woman.
Swedish cosmetics are amazing! /S
That aside, the athletic talents of female football players has been undergoing momentous elevations of skill level over the past several years. Hell, Canada's team that won gold in the last Olympics did not get out of the opening round.
Morning...sorry about that...we flogged ya..4 - 0..
We just beat Denmark 2 - 0 last night...Go Aussies..🦘🦘
I am also barracking for Jamaica and Morrocco and it's always good to see the "power houses" get the boot..
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Enjoy, shona, the Matildas look like a great team and you’ve got Kerr back. A fabulous World Cup in Oz.