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NanceGreggs

(27,815 posts)
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 01:33 AM Jan 2020

How Low Will They Go - and Why?

Watching Rudy Giuliani, the once well-respected SDNY prosecutor and NYC mayor, behaving like a mad buffoon on TV promoting Russian-concocted conspiracy theories …

Watching Alan Dershowitz, the once well-respected lawyer and legal scholar, claiming that a president can do whatever he wants to be re-elected if he thinks his re-election is in the best interests of the country …

… is absolutely mind-boggling.

I can’t even imagine what kind of kompramat would be so explosive if exposed, it would lead people like Giuliani and Dershowitz to un-do their previously-earned legacies and end their careers as laughing-stocks.

And when it comes to people once held in high regard who have made fools of themselves in order to protect, defend, and enable this IMPOTUS, Giuliani and Dershowitz are not alone.

It reminds me of the title of Rick Wilson’s book, ”Everything Trump Touches Dies”.

At the time the book was released, I thought it an odd title. I now appreciate just how succinct and to-the-point it is.

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How Low Will They Go - and Why? (Original Post) NanceGreggs Jan 2020 OP
Absolute power is their intention C_U_L8R Jan 2020 #1
+1000 UniteFightBack Jan 2020 #3
Their goal is to turn this country into a shithole mafia state. dalton99a Jan 2020 #2
It is critical we route them in November. CRITICAL. Please remember that as we vote in the UniteFightBack Jan 2020 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author Kablooie Jan 2020 #5
It really does seem like people are in the grip of some sort of madness.... Jade Fox Jan 2020 #6
Kick Jade Fox Jan 2020 #7

C_U_L8R

(45,004 posts)
1. Absolute power is their intention
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 01:36 AM
Jan 2020

Elections are the last bit of democracy in their way. If they haven't already been compromised.

Response to NanceGreggs (Original post)

Jade Fox

(10,030 posts)
6. It really does seem like people are in the grip of some sort of madness....
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 07:18 AM
Jan 2020

What can Dershowitz and Giuliani possibly hope to gain by their current behavior? Maybe it's some sort of desperate late in life 'last hurrah' on the part of two men addicted to attention. Whatever it is, these two men are certainly losing friends and comrades as well as their reputations.

Trump was always a jerk. He has only power to lose. But as you point out, Giuliani and Dershowitz are destroying their extraordinary legacies in exchange for?



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