is not something that i think we expected to be happening right now. is that anything you had heard rumblings about from trump world, that they were working on potentially? i know you re saying no, nothing there. i think the bottom lean is line is, a case that start next week when they re on indictment watch for the former president on this other case, may have just been the kind of thing that a million dollars to a billionaire client is probably not the biggest thing in the world to get this cleared off the schedule and simply have one less thing to worry about. which leads me to the question, barbara, and it s highly speculative, and i know you deal constantly in facts, which is why you re such a good lawyer. you do wonder with all these different cases and so many things roiling about, and the time, the attention, all of that takes, in addition, obviously to a little thing like running for president, if there will be considerations in some cases to settle things that he migh
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