OA421: Trump Evades Justice on Emoluments in 1st Term
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🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
There's no sugar coating it: the wheel of justice was so f***ing slow it couldn't do anything to Trump in 4 damn years. Come on in and hear the breakdown of the breakdown of justice.
In our second segment we discuss even more crimes that Trump was shown to be guilty of in the Mueller Report. Yes, the Mueller Report. It was NOT total exoneration, or really any kind of exoneration, as it turns out.
Links: Tatel, weakest emoluments case; covered in OA361: DC Sides with Trump in Emoluments Case?; and OA391: Republicans Are Still Trying To Break the Government, Part Eleven Billion; DOJ opposition to cert; DC & Md v Trump discussed on OA386: The Opening Arguments Amicus Brief!; interlocutory appeal 28 US Code § 1292 - Interlocutory decisions; CREW v. Donald J. Trump; lost initially Case 1:17-cv-00458-GBD Document 103 Filed 12/21/17; won after 1.5 years CERTIFIED COPY ISSUED ON 09/13/2019; Leopold/Buzzfeed FOIA Lawsuit denied; Less Redacted Mueller Report; part 2; OA324: Trump's 9 Crimes and Misdemeanors
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| 0:00.0 | My guys are still under a Judicial Distrainsman order! That blue thing I got from her! |
| 0:19.7 | I've got the best lawyer, soft-talkers, Gambeye! |
| 0:27.7 | Objection! |
| 0:28.5 | On what grounds? |
| 0:29.5 | How about Sillinger's honor? |
| 0:35.5 | I think legal terms are magic words that can force people to do what I want! |
| 0:45.5 | My client has instructed me to remind the court how rich an important is, that he is not like other men. |
| 0:52.5 | Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs a comedian with a real-life lawyer. |
| 0:59.5 | This podcast is sponsored by the Law Offices of P. Andrew Torres LLC for entertainment purposes, |
| 1:04.5 | is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship. |
| 1:08.5 | Don't take legal advice from a podcast. |
| 1:12.5 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments! This is episode 421! |
| 1:21.5 | Nice! |
| 1:25.5 | Every single episode in the 420 range, but no. How's it going? I'm Thomas, that's Andrew. How are you doing Andrew? |
| 1:32.5 | I'm doing fantastic Thomas, how are you? |
| 1:35.5 | Doing well, can't wait to hear about, as was promised, late last episode. |
| 1:41.5 | Every single crime Donald Trump has ever committed here in this episode, here we go. |
| 1:46.5 | However many minutes, is that what you promised? |
| 1:48.5 | No, it's not at all. Not at all what I promised, but that's okay. |
| 1:52.5 | Well, that'll have to wait. We've got emoluments, updates, and Mueller report updates. |
| 1:57.5 | It's the gift that keeps on kind of giving. |
| 2:01.5 | Kind of. |
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