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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere's no reason Lanny Davis would--I mean wouldn't--tell the truth
about the source of the leaks from the Michael Cohen tapes. I watched Rachel last night work herself into a swivet trying to figure out how the leaks would help Trump and why his side would be leaking. I think the answer is simple: because leaking is what Trump's underlings do. I don't think the leaks have any strategic purpose; I think it's yet another case of people working in the Trump administration having had it with the Jerkoff-in-Chief and leaking because they hate him so.
marble falls
(56,353 posts)bury it or defend it so they toss it out first like its inconsequential.
The prosecution has the opposite objective: they need to give it impact and get the jury to react to it by dumping it at its most dramatic point.
The two sides have a battle order in their cases and they try to diminish or blunt the other points. Those leaks are part of the dance.
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)but I don't think this is the case, mostly because "getting ahead" of a story that might put Don Jr. in jail for lying to Congress doesn't seem to me to give any advantage to Trump. As the experts told Rachel, leaking this story doesn't diminish Cohen's value as a witness. Seems to me it's exactly the sort of story Trump *wouldn't* want made public so close to the mid-terms. I truly believe it's malicious staff.
marble falls
(56,353 posts)have ignored subpoenas to testify before Congressional committees in the last year and have faced no sanctions at all.
They want to shake all the shock value and gut reactions out before the jury hears it in court. They want it to turn from criminal to banal in a jury's mind.