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Apparently, the media has discovered Trump's mob-like practice of paying lawyers to represent his co-conspirators only to have the lawyers tell them to lie to investigators to obstruct the investigation. This is, in fact, how he got off the hook in Mueller's investigation. He used his cronies to obstruct the investigation long enough to find someone like Bill Barr who would come in shut down Mueller's investigation and write up a bogus OLC opionion saying obstruction couldn't be charged as a crime if there weren't also any underlying crimes being charged. That basically made obstruction of justice illegal ONLY WHEN IT DOESN'T WORK. Just in case you were wondering where those Mueller obstruction counts disappeared to. Barr killed them. Anyway, it worked for Trump the first time so you can't blame him for trying it again, right? There are couple of problems though. For one, ALL of your co-conspirators have to stick together and stay with your mob lawyers or else, they're likely to flip in hopes of getting a light sentence by cooperating. We'll get back to that in a bit. Second, it's a great strategy *if you can afford it*. Legal fees get to be extraordinarily expensive in a complex criminal case. It becomes multiples of that number once you're adding your own co-conspirators. Trump's PAC has over $100M in the bank at the beginning of 2022. After spending $56M+ on legal fees the last 18 months combined with other expenses, his PAC currently has: $3.5M on hand. His PAC is broke. So if you're wondering why he's not paying the legal fees for Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and others who helped commit his crimes, that's why. Of course, he's supposedly a billionaire, so you'd think he could pay with his own money. Why he won't (or can't) is a discussion for another day. He has 18 indicted co-conspirators in Georgia, with 30 or more unindicted co-conspirators there and a number of them in D.C. as well. So what happens when these people aren't represented by Trump paid lawyers? Well, let's take Cassidy Hutchinson, for example. She told the J6 committee she had 0 recollection of anything. Once she dropped her Trump lawyer, she told them everything. The fake electors in GA? Once they dropped their Trump lawyer, they took an immunity agreement and cooperated with Fani Willis. Yuscil Taveras, the Mar-a-Lago IT guy? He agreed to cooperate the second he got a new lawyer and reversed his grand jury testimony, instead telling Jack Smith's team all about Trump's plot to obstruct the classified documents investigation. Sensing a pattern? The question now becomes what happens to the rest of the co-conspirators and witnesses with independent lawyers? What happens when Trump and his co-conspirators get indicted in other states where he can't afford to defend them and can't offer them a pardon even if he somehow manages to win in 2024? What will it do to his campaign if guilty pleas start lining up.