They were actually trying to allow Republican senators to collect $500,000 each if they could prove that Jack Smith got their phone records.

But it is a conspiracy, and it's really kind of a conspiracy against the United States when it comes down to it, to take our tax, pay our dollars and give them out to people who demonstrably committed crimes and don't deserve to pay down.

Hello, and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1259. I'm Thomas Smith. That over there is real life attorney Matt Cameron. How are you doing, Matt?

Hey, Thomas. Just trying to figure out how much I should be suing the government for. Have you considered your big number? Yeah, yeah. I think you have to be part of Trump's inner circle or Trump himself to make the scheme work. But I see, I like where your head's at. I feel like I've been wronged quite a lot just in the past few months. plenty plenty of emotional distress, a war I didn't want, and all kinds of corrupt stuff happening I didn't ask for. Yeah. And then you figure they'll settle with you for, you know, a couple billion, something like that. That's the pattern. That seems to be how it's supposed to work, if I'm looking at these cases correctly. We'll talk about them. Yeah, if they can get a few billion, we could, I mean, could we get hundreds of thousands? Yeah, it's got to be something, right?

Give me some scraps here. if I'm looking at these cases correctly, we'll talk about them. Yeah, if they can get a few billion, we could, I mean, could we get hundreds of thousands?

Yeah, it got to be something, right?

Give me some scraps here.

Out here every day.

Oh, boy.

It's a not great environment overall. there was, of course, the horrific Supreme Court decision that we're not going to be talking about today because we have our own, you know, voting rights expert in Janessa, who's going to be coming on Monday's show. So that's when we're going to do a big breakdown on that. It's even worse. It's in the consequence. Even worse than you're probably thinking. And I know what you're thinking right now. You're thinking, no, no, I already know it's bad. And I'm saying no, even one more worse than that. Yeah, the day it came down and she explained

to me how far this could really go, and as I'm sure she'll be talking to you about, I've been thinking about it a lot. But she's the expert, and it's a good one for her, so I'll leave it to her. All right. Well, what are we going to be talking about today? Well, otherwise, we've got a couple other miscellaneous things here. We've got to wrap up the ticket master litigation.

It came out in an interesting way after that settlement that we talked about with the feds.

We have the official end of We've got to wrap up the ticket master litigation. Came out in an interesting way after that settlement that we talked about with the feds.

We have the official end of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the makers of AxyContin.

Interesting kind of wrap up here after some long litigation history.

We've got the James Comey indictment.

We should talk about real fast because, well, you just got to talk about it.

I've never seen anything quite like this one. She sells she seashells by the seashore. I think you mean he sells death threats by the seashore. Yeah. We're looking for there. We do the bad local news. Or he sells seashells by the death threat? Yeah, I don't know. Good times. Yeah, that seems solid. That guy's dead man walking right there. Yeah, they're nailed. I should skip the trial. Go straight to the execution. And then we got a really fun footnote I think you're going to enjoy. I was... You should walk the plank for that one. Might as well do a nautical themed one, too. Yeah, but what do you call? Maroon him somewhere.

You can have all the seashells he wants.

That's right.

Yeah.

We've got a really fun foot, I think you're going to love. I was going through some... Well, good, Matt, because we need it. We do. It's a little dark, but I was going through some officer misconduct reports from Massachusetts, And, you know, you just start looking at officer misconduct reports in the middle of the night.

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