In misc.news.internet.discuss, JAB <
[email protected]d> wrote:
"Because Donald Trump is one of the very stupidest people to be
charged with business fraud, and because his demonstrably ineffectual
lawyers obviously do not have the skills to prepare their client for
even the simplest and most obvious questions, Donald Trump
incriminated himself and his children with the only one-word answer
that he gave all day," O'Donell said on Monday night.
Alternate explanation from "lawyers obviously do not have the skills":
https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/111366293828026791
So I was watching one of Trump's lawyers outside the courtroom in
NYC today, where they said something like "in 33 years of practicing
law that's the best testimony a client has ever given". And I'm
thinking to myself this isn't a stupid person saying this, but it
sure reminds me of something ... something ... and ...
I realized what it is.
In the original "The Twilight Zone" episode "It's a Good Life"
(1963), Billy Mumy plays a little boy who is described by Serling as
a monster, who can kill anybody, create horrors of all kinds, simply
with his mind.
And the adults all live in abject fear of being turned into
something horrible and being killed and being "buried in the
cornfield."
"It's good that you killed that, Anthony!"
"That's a really fine two-headed gopher you made there Anthony!"
They all said wonderful things about him, for fear of his
retribution if they didn't.
One of the most famous of all Twilight Zone episodes. And there it
was, in front of a NYC courtroom today. No closing narration by Rod
Serling required.
Elijah
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