This is grift in full sight
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Peter Sterne
Wow. The NYT reports that Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove coached Mayor Eric Adams' attorneys on what to argue in order to get the charges dismissed (namely, that the charges were interfering with the mayor's ability to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown): www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
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The law both prohibits companies from making TikTok available AND requires the AG to enforce ("...shall pursue enforcement...") against violators, not actively solicit violations.
https://bsky.app/profile/darthfos.bsky.social/post/3lhv55lhjdk26
It’s all semblance of law disintegrating.
I am going to speculate that there’s more to it than that.
Until we all collectively develop a peanut allergy, they’ll spread their butter on everything, shmear it on every wall like toddlers, and squeeze it in every gear until the machine dies.
in trouble. Among other things, he was charged with accepting foreign bribes (from Turkey) since 2016. He was facing years in prison. This is the sort of corruption the Trump administration is just fine with. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly3gz35dgro