You know, if you wanted to hold a pageant to decide the president aes favorite Member Of Congress, i dont think any of us knows who the final winner might be. Might be whether the president insisted on a swimsuit contest or something scarier. Without any argument at all, i think almost all of us who paid any attention to the news in this era, we could all name a couple of the pageant finalists were this contest to happen. One of the finalists would undoubtedly be the Member Of Congress who started off today being taken into custody at the offices of the fbi in lower manhattan. Chris collins a Republican Congressman from new york, hes from buffalo, he was the first Member Of Congress to
endorse Donald Trumps president ial campaign all the way back in february, 2016. We know that is the kind of thing that really matters to this president. Congressman collins has since been among the most Faithful Visible Trump loyalists in washington. But now hes been arrested in an alleged scheme that a
make the jury think gates is as unbelievable as possible, thattize a lying liar who lies. right? i don t get it, they kept going with this today. hammer and tongs. here today, mr. gates, do you have any doubt in your mind if you lied that the special counsel s office would rip up your plea agreement? gates, no doubt at all. why would you have that conversation in front of the jury? why is this a good strategy for the defense? why keep clearly laying out how high the stakes are for gates if he does lie he can go to jail for a century? the manafort defense has simultaneously tried to make gates look at bad as possible for the jury up to and including the jury hearing he had multiple extramarital affairs including that gates has the incentive to definitely not lie in this case because that would be so terrible for him. how does that work? why would you tell the jury you