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I can’t think of a single presidential cycle in my adult life in which I have not read the obligatory “Dems are panicking” article.

It’s like a rite of passage. https://t.co/iCxqvv5N9q

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 28, 2024

If a few DC Democratic insiders aren't giving quotes to the media about their panic regarding the nominee's presidential campaign, is it really an election cycle?

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 28, 2024

The narrative is how we understand the world; even when the narrative doesn’t describe the world. A closing argument at trial is a narrative:

That would have been a neat trick since Trump doesn't use e-mail. https://t.co/82R72zh6ux

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 28, 2024

But it has to fit the facts. IIRC, there was testimony about Trump’s refusal to use email.

BLANCHE: Guess who else you didn't hear from in this trial? Don and Eric! Is there some sort of suggestion that they are part of this scheme?

— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) May 28, 2024

Yeah! Why didn’t the defense call them? Because Costello was so bad they didn’t want to make things worse?

Blanche: The word "Retainer" doesn't mean anything other than it was generated by the MDS system at Trump Org.

BLANCHE: “There’s nothing sinister or criminal about that word [retainer]”...It was put there not by Trump or AW but by Deb Tarasoff.

— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) May 28, 2024

BLANCHE: You cannot convict President Trump because sometimes without specificity at all that somehow he had full knowledge of what was happening, “that is a stretch and that is reasonable doubt."

— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) May 28, 2024

"If the two checks don’t fit, you must acquit!” Except all Blanche is asking for is a hung jury. Not sure that’s a really compelling narrative.