Dirty Hairy Dawg said:

Cases are dropped all the time for political reasons or due to the usefulness of the accused. The bottom line is our political class is full of junketeers and even though discounted travel and questionable campaign contributions are present in this case, the personal payoff to Adams seems really weak to bring a corruption case. It looks to me like the way Adams was playing politics is pretty standard stuff for pols in his position. Since nobody found gold bars in a safe, hundreds of thousands in bank accounts and exotic cars provided by donors, this looks like a case that called for a modest fine and a return of questionable campaign contributions. This doesn't look like a case that should carry a felony conviction and multiple yrs behind bars based on the severity of the violations when compared to people like O.

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willdup said:

It’s relevant to point out that the Danielle Sassoon clerked with Antonin Scalia and was appointed by Trump only three weeks ago. Her resignation letter is worth a read.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/read-acting-us-attorney-resignation-letter-doj-response/index.html

So in the last week, Trump has had the DOJ dismantle the department focused on investigating and prosecuting foreign bribes of US politicians, pardoned convicted politician Rod Blagojavich and defended his pardons of the J6 felons by claiming they they were the victims of assault by our government and that the first responders were the guilty ones.

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Yesterday, Trump explained that many Russian fought and died for that Ukrainian land, so they deserve to keep it.

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Just wait until committed conspiracy theorist Kash Patel takes over the FBI. What’s happened so far is simply prep for the big show.

Those of you who voted for Trump but are now concerned about the rule of law, what did you think we were going to get from Trump? Trump is doing exactly what he said he was going to do and every important cabinet appointment other than State has been open about the plans.

Oh, and we are going to get hammered with higher prices across the board thanks to the tariff war that Trump promised and is executing, so the systematic destruction of the rule of law isn’t even going to get you cheaper eggs.

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willdup said:

Here is a very tangible accounting of what is only a very small subset of the benefits that Musk is getting out of his current deal. Amazing coincidences, I'm sure.

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