{"id":39370,"date":"2023-10-20T16:53:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T21:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39370"},"modified":"2023-10-20T16:53:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T21:53:04","slug":"going-after-the-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/10\/20\/going-after-the-mob\/","title":{"rendered":"Going After The Mob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who&#8217;ve kept up on their political scandals reading are well aware that former President Trump has been compared, on more than one occasion, to a Mob boss, albeit an exceedingly clumsy and, I think, irrational Mob boss. <em><strong>MSNBC&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> Lisa Rubin, herself a former litigator and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/cheseboro-plea-deal-fani-willis-trump-rcna121442?icid=nextpost_bot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writing<\/a> on <em><strong>Maddowblog<\/strong><\/em>, implicitly suggests Fulton County (GA) District Attorney Fani Willis would agree, based on tactics, as the boss is always the most important target in criminal trials involving the Mob:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Judge] McAfee received news that not only changed his day but his next few months: Attorney Kenneth Chesebro, the alleged mastermind of the so-called fake elector scheme, had agreed to plead guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit the filing of false documents. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>More significantly, [if Chesebro had gone to trial,] it would have given [his] co-defendants \u2014 including Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Mark Meadows \u2014 a preview of the DA\u2019s overall racketeering case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but wonder if Willis seemingly drastic reduction in charges, from seven to one I read somewhere, to which Chesebro pled reflects the urgency of not tipping Trump, Guiliani, et al, to her attack strategy.<\/p>\n<p>For those unfamiliar with the Mob, they&#8217;ve been some of the most dangerous criminals in American history. Grouping Trump and his cronies with them isn&#8217;t a compliment, but as assessment of their methods and the potential for danger they were bringing. Indeed, while they were themselves a pack of incompetent boobs with little concept of honor and truth, that for which they strove was extraordinarily dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>And thus I have little sympathy for their supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who&#8217;ve kept up on their political scandals reading are well aware that former President Trump has been compared, on more than one occasion, to a Mob boss, albeit an exceedingly clumsy and, I think, irrational Mob boss. MSNBC&#8217;s Lisa Rubin, herself a former litigator and writing on Maddowblog, implicitly \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/10\/20\/going-after-the-mob\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39371,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39370\/revisions\/39371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}