But the defence says the former president committed no crimes and calls star witness an admitted liar.
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“He is cloaked in innocence,” he added.
The Emperor’s New Innocence.
“There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election,” Mr Blanche said. “It’s called democracy.”
“It’s called democracy.”
Only in banana republics.
Would this be an orange republic? Cheeto republic?
I actually need to look up the origin of the term banana republic now.
For others curious, it comes from Banana companies installing dictatorships
A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, whereby the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class.
There is always money in the banana stand.
Thanks! So, I get why the term was used but it doesn’t seem to fit really with this context.
The context is that in a banana republic this kind of behavior would almost be assumed, if a president candidate encounters a similar situation.
Oh look, the defense is equating two things that have the same outcome while ignoring the context.
Capaigning and spin are certainly things that have an impact on an election and could be called influencing if the term wasn’t already used to describe malicious behavior like Russia trying to influence the election.
It is like someone calling conjecture about bigfoot a theory in a scientific setting. No, that isn’t what the word means in this context.
The public disclosure “would have been devastating to his campaign, so at Trump’s direction Cohen negotiated a deal”, Mr Colangelo told the jurors.
Are you supposed to use “Mr” instead of “Mr.” now, or is that just a style thing that BBC does?
It’s a British thing.
Grammatical spice
Did sleepy Don stay awake for that bit?
