When we watch television at my house, we watch a lot of crime and mystery programming. I call them murder shows. Some are more intense than others, darker, but Hollywood, movies, and television – the entertainment industry – always make it a priority to frame lawyering up as a bad thing. As if trying to play the interrogation game without someone on your side who understands it is evidence that you are trying to hide something.
But you should never talk to law enforcement without a lawyer present. Period. So when these shows set scenes with wealthy or important people sitting by themselves across the table from some steely-eyed detective, it’s hard not to laugh out loud. They’d never just show up to talk; if they did, they were idiots. Especially when they can afford legal representation, the dramatic hook is always when some evidence – usually circumstantial – implicates them in wrongdoing, and they say, “I’d like my lawyer now.”
Did you get anything? No, and he’s lawyered up.
In the past three weeks, at least a few folks have lawyered up. Some to bring suits to prevent the president from executing control over funding this or that. It’s mostly a delay tactic and it looks like the Trump team set traps for that very eventuality that could inevitably result in the Supreme Court affirming his authority. While we wait and watch the laundry turning over and over as DOGE releases lists of disbursements to Democrat NGOs and questionable foreign aid priorities, the Department of Government Efficiency has made an announcement.
At the President’s direction, it will investigate public servants whose salaries do not explain the vast wealth they have accumulated while in office. Following the money is another common TV detective theme […]
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