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It is Friday, May 22, 2020. It is 4 o'clock p.m. in Washington, D.C.

And we got breaking news, folks.

The first vindictive prosecution motion to dismiss of the second Trump

administration and probably the first one in a long time in any administration has issued

from the Middle District of Tennessee in the case of Kilmar Abrago-Garcia.

And that means that Abrago-Garcia has beaten both Letitia James and James Comey.

He takes the gold medal in the race to the first vindictive prosecution dismissal in these Olympics.

A lot of people thought Comey had the inside track.

But then, you know, he got sidetracked, as did James, by winning on the prosecutor was illegally appointed motion.

And that actually set him off, them both of them, off in the wrong direction.

The re-indictment of Comey, the re-indictment of James just kind of kept failing.

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