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 wouldnt, and didnt, 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 doesnt so work well for any of themparticularly 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.
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