Who goes under the bus?
While social media is shouting Do Something Now and Lock Him Up each time Trump does something unhinged, special counsel’s office has a different idea.
Evidently someone at Rolling Stone has contacts inside Trump’s orbits because they keep coming out with interesting stuff.
Where there are multiple potential defendants, and they start getting worried, they may employ the "Please don't put me in jail; put the other guy in jail" strategy.
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I've called this the moment defendants start pointing the finger at each other.
The DOJ strategy seems to be this: Indict Trump alone to get to trial quickly.
This will pressure on the co-conspirators who haven’t yet been charged and might like to avoid it. (They’re like, “OMG they really indicted Trump!)
Suddenly these unindicted co-conspirators feel very vulnerable.
As we all learned from the Godfather, the way to get the mob boss is for a highly-placed insider turns on the boss.
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