This week’s quote comes to us from Hagan Scotten, the lead attorney in the prosecution of New York Mayor Eric Adams. In his resignation letter he wrote:
“Any federal prosecutor would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials. If no lawyer within earshot of the president is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
- Scotten had been ordered by the Trump Justice Department to drop charges against Adams. In exchange for what?
A) One million dollars in unmarked bills left in a suitcase when Adams finished his visit with Trump at Mar a Lago.
B) A property tax exemption on all Trump properties in New York.
C) Forgiveness of all of Trump’s old parking tickets, now totaling, with interest and late fees, some two million dollars.
D) Cooperation with Trump’s mass deportations of those in the country illegally.
2. After law school, Scotten clerked for which Supreme Court Justice?
A) John Roberts.
B) Sonia Sotomayor.
C) Antonin Scalia.
D) Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
3. As of this writing, how many other career prosecutors in the New York office of the DOJ have resigned over this?
A) Two.
B) Four.
C) Six.
D) Only Scotten.
4. Who ordered Scotten to drop the charges?
A) Elliot Richardson.
B) William Ruckelshaus.
C) Robert Bork.
D) Emil Bove III.
5. This drama brings to mind the “Saturday Night Massacre” in which Richard Nixon attempted to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973. What’s different in this case?
A) Richard Nixon was a better human being than Donald Trump.
B) Congressional Republicans cared about the Constitution.
C) Watergate really was a two-bit burglary compared to what Adams was charged with.
D) The Justice Department under Nixon was filled with people of principle.
6. With the motion to dismiss the charges now formally filed by Bove himself, what must the judge in the case do?
A) Dismiss the charges.
B) Seek a second opinion.
C) Have to decide to dismiss the charges or pay Trump one million dollars.
D) He’s not required to do anything. He can deny the motion.
7. How many of the lawyers, advisors and cabinet members surrounding Trump are both fools and cowards?
A) About 50%.
B) About 75%.
C) About 90%.
D) 100%.
Answers
1: Technically D, but don’t rule out any of the other possibilities.
2: A
3: C
4: D
5: All answers are true.
6: D
7: D
Yellow Stripes & Dead Armadillos 
maybe Trump and his team have a master plan to turn the Democrats against each other ” make him an offer, he can’t refuse”.
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