'A Death Spiral Of Stupid': The Perfect Description Of The President's Legal Defense

This really sums things up quite nicely.

onDecember 17, 2018 at 2:41 PMDecember 17, 2018 at 2:26 PM

Rudy Giuliani (Photo by Rob Kim/Getty)

We have a representative of the president of the United States basically admitting to paying women money to not disclose the fact that they have been in some kind of untoward [relationship] with the president. And his response and his defense is that if it had been more money, it would have been more serious. We are living in strange times. I mean, we are in a death spiral of stupid. This is insanity.

— Professor Melissa Murray of NYU Law, ripping on Rudy Giuliani’s absurd defense of Donald Trump, when he called the premise of a campaign finance case against the president “weak” because it involved small amounts of money.

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