If Donald Trump cared about his impact on the people he attacks, he would have stopped after seeing the 275 pages of single-spaced threats just one staffer in the New York court received. Speaking to MSNBC about the matter on Sunday, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, who co-hosts the "Sisters …

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    7 months ago

    I think I could be forgiven for assuming that a state prosecutor works at the state level, not the federal level. US legal structures are far from intuitive.

    If you have a separation between state law and federal law, one would imagine that there is a difference between state prosecutors and federal prosecutors. A district attorney for a state sounds like someone who works at the local state level, not the nationwide federal level. But yeah, apparently a state district attorney can prosecute federal charges, TIL.

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        What chest pounding have I been doing? Nowhere have I criticised her qualifications or even disagreed with what she said. All I came here to say was that there was nothing newsworthy in the article. It’s just pointless commentary from a podcaster.

        Maybe you want that kind of validation for the obvious conclusions we’ve both already drawn, but I’d like some actual news.

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            I’ve been replying to people replying to me.

            You’re getting offended that I “have a lack of respect for podcasts” lmao, what a petty thing to start an argument over. All I said was she’s said nothing new.