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‘Trump received excellent legal advice from everyone around him, including his own veep and AG and Republican governors, who repeatedly, insistently, with mounds of evidence, told him that he lost and should concede. He simply chose to find, in Pence’s words, “crackpot lawyers” who would tell him what he wanted to hear. Those lawyers were also often out of their minds, especially Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. (John Eastman is not crazy — just a partisan, treasonous fanatic, who should be tried as such.)’

Andrew Sullivan’s final, parenthetical, mention of John Eastman is the most interesting part of this paragraph. (No link.)

Giuliani’s nothing. A sloppy drunk. Powell is something, but only one thing: The reincarnated Jean Harris, described by Diana Trilling at her murder trial as having the fixed expression “of the classic belle indifference of morbid hysteria, the corners of the mouth turned up in the fixed beginning of a smile.” 

Sullivan’s right that of the weird sisters only Eastman deserves a treason trial – one, because he is neither insane nor strung out; and, two, because he and he alone both conceived and plotted the treachery.

Margaret Soltan, August 4, 2023 4:31PM
Posted in: democracy

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