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634-5789

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Fri Feb 5, 2021, 06:24 PM Feb 2021

That Awkward Moment When Your Best Criminal Defense Is to Blame Trump

When any criminal conspiracy climaxes badly, the same thing always happens. The Big Cheese, the figure high ranking in the organization who selfishly and strategically wouldn’t, and didn’t, get his fingers dirty, defends himself saying that his underlings were acting on their own: “I had nothing to do with it.”

The underlings typically try to reduce their exposure with the prosecutors. In doing so, they always point their fingers upward: “Yeah, even if I engaged in some minor wrongdoing, I was following directions. He told me to do it!” When a ship begins to sink, all of the rats try to abandon ship. It usually doesn’t so work well for any of them–particularly if there are audio or video recordings that can tell a jury exactly what happened, thereby providing the evidentiary links to prove the respective criminal roles of each player.


https://lawandcrime.com/opinion/that-awkward-moment-when-your-best-criminal-defense-is-to-blame-trump/

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That Awkward Moment When Your Best Criminal Defense Is to Blame Trump (Original Post) 634-5789 Feb 2021 OP
When the right-wing terrorists were attacking the Capitol, they were just following orders... DTomlinson Feb 2021 #1
Just following orders didnt work for those nazis and it shouldnt work for these Fullduplexxx Feb 2021 #2
 

DTomlinson

(411 posts)
1. When the right-wing terrorists were attacking the Capitol, they were just following orders...
Fri Feb 5, 2021, 06:31 PM
Feb 2021

...from their God-Emperor.

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