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Implications of Mark Meadows Getting Immunity

Oct 27, 202330 min
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Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the Special Counsel giving Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former Chief of Staff, immunity in the January 6th case. Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses the testimony of Sam Bankman-Fried. June Grasso hosts.     

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This is Bloomberg Law with June Brusso from Bloomberg Radio. We had begun our jury selection process this morning, but I've been informed that there is a change of plea, and then there was another change of plea and another as the dominoes started falling in the Georgia racketeering case accusing Donald Trump and eighteen others of scheming to keep Trump in power after he lost the twenty twenty election. How do you plead to count fifteen conspiracy to commit filing false documents in indictment number two three SC one eight, eight, nine, four seven guilty. Four have now pleaded guilty, including three lawyers. Sidney Powell pleaded guilty to six misdemeanors last Thursday. Kenneth Chesborough pleaded to one felony the next day, and on Tuesday, Jenna Ellis pleaded to one felony. Tearfully, I believe in and I value election integrity. If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post selection challenges. I look back on this whole experience with deep remorse. Here to discuss how all this flipping affects the case against Trump is Michael Moore of Moore Hall, the former US Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. So Michael, four down, fifteen to go. How significant are these please? I think it's significant anytime that you have a co defendive flip, and the lawyers flipping are a little bit of a different bird baby than we normally see. When I listened to miss Ellis and the charges against her, you heard a lot about the Trump campaign, You heard about her direction from others. She called the more senior, more experienced lawyers, and that seems to me probably where the biggest jeopardy lies, and that is with those lawyers who have instructed her to do something. So it sounded like that would be potentially mister Eastmann and mister Giuliani. And of course if they have pressure on them and they were then to cooperate, then they may get to the next level, which would be closer I think to the former president. These are all sweetheart deals, aren't they? The lawyer's deals they are. They are unusually liked. I mean, remember that this case had been tagged as essentially the largest election fraud case in history or something like that, and it's will be a massive reco case, and people are basically walking away with a slap on the wrist. They up with probation, no jail time, and a first offender plea, which means that at the end of a certain period of their probation and the completion of those requirements, the charges are since the dismissed, so that with no record, they can vote, they can have a gun, they can do all those things once they have completed the requirements that the court set out. So they're unusually light, and they are especially like when you compare them with the sentences received by people who were involved at the Capitol on January the sixth, many of whom had jail sentences, some of them very significant. So it's maybe a little bit like the architects of the building are not going to jail, the construction workers who worked on the building are. That's sort of how I see it. So I can see why Willis gave the deals at this point to Powell and Chesbro so that she wouldn't have to go to trial against them early and reveal evidence to Trump. But why give a deal such a good deal to Jenna Ellis? I think probably she has made some statements that the ba will find useful against other people in the indictment. I don't know necessarily that that's Trump, but I think she probably gave them enough information to at least move forward. And also too, I mean, she was essentially a mouthpiece for other folks involved with the campaign, and her culpability I think was probably less than other people who may have been more of a puppet master than she was. CNN I believe is reporting that Willis is talking to six more defendants who will be left to go to trial once it comes time for trial. I mean, does she have a number in mind besides Trump? I think maybe a half dozen people or a few left that will be left standing. And those may be Trump and Juliani, that may be one Eastman, maybe another, people who think they have different constitutional arguments to make. They may be stronger arguments. It will be interesting to see how Metas is involved. I mean, we've heard that he was offered some of me into your cut a deal with Jack Smith. That's very interesting to me given the statements that he has made in the Georgia case, especially during his motion to remove the case to federal court. And you know, essentially he came to Atlanta in federal court and said everything I was doing was lawful. This is part of my job and it's protected activity, and it should entitle me as a federal official to move my case to federal court. And it sounds like to the contrary. When he got to Washington, d C. He decided that he wanted to cut a deal with the special counsel and tell him that, well, I don't know that I was doing the right thing, and I tried to tell the former presence that he was telling lies or whatever. I'm not quoting again, but something to that effect. I don't think those are necessarily consistent positions, and it'll be interesting to see how that plays out. So I don't know if mss Willis at this point, given the objections that he made to have his case tried in Fulton County, will look a favorably on a potential plya offer from him. So he may be one of the few that remain. That's really interesting because he has a very experienced attorney representing him. Do you let your client testify in a federal case to something that's going to cause you jeopardy in a state case? Yeah, I don't think you do. And I think that's the problem. And I do think he has a very good lawyer. I just think some of the statements that he may have made in the federal court here in Atlanta may not be exactly consistent with positions that he has taken to the special counsel. And I don't know how you claim that what you were doing was part of your actual lawful role as a chief of staff then suggest somehow that what you were doing, you know you had objections to because you thought your boss was not tell the truth in this kind of thing. So those will be maybe inconsistencies, and what we have to see actually the substance of each statement side by side. We haven't seen those yet. But any inconsistencies certainly give room to attack credibility with a witness, and may give fodder to a defense attorney to raise objections, and certainly may give some interest at least to a prosecutor to the side when or not you know that witness needs to be put on, is a cooperating witness, or with that witness independent needs to simply move forward toward trial. So this scenario is what they think about when they say the dominoes are falling, Well, it is. You know, if you think about a line of dominoes, a circle of dominoes or whatever, you know, you can pick a domino in the middle of the line and push it to the right or the left, and only the ones in the direction that's falling are going to continue to fall. And so that's why prosecutors try to work from the bottom up. They want to push some that has information at the bottom to try to get to the top. And some people argue you should work your way down. That's not necessarily tear to those people who are much less culpable, but you push generally from the bottom of the top. Cut deals with the people who are less colpable to try to get people who are really the masterminds or the more guilty of the organization. Here, I think there has been some middle of the line pushing, if you will, and the dominoes have fallen, maybe in one direction, which is why I think you saw ultimately deal cut with Jenna Ellis. Now whether or not she then also can have information toward the top, I don't know. But when we saw Ms Powell, mister chesbro Ls, you know, in Er Please, I think that was a section maybe of this arrangement of dominoes and arrangement of dependence, and that sort of has now concluded itself. But for the other lawyers who remain in the case, the key will be in the bridge the prosecutor will have to make will be getting from those folks in fact, to the people at the top of the line, And the question is what information do they have that will get in there. I don't know if miss Powell has information about that or not. She was president of meeting. She may have information about who said what. At the same time, I don't think that she's gonna be able to put the former president's things with prints on Coffee County as we get there, I do think, and I thought this was sort of telling of the things to come. When Miss Ellis made the comment that she was simply doing what she had been advised to do, I think you're hearing a preview of the defense we're going to hear from the former president. That is, in fact, I was simply doing what my lawyers told me I should do, or what I had a right to do. I was simply following legal advice at the time. And then I think we open up the can of executive privilege whether or not he's allowed to rely out information from lawyers and advisors. We know that the president is not covered by the Hatch Act any president, and so this whole issue, well, was it a campaign or were you the president? That may not be a hurdle as we go forward, and so I do think you're going to hear a lot about Look, I was doing what my lawyers and advisers told me to do. I had taken advice from a number of different councils, some of them had different opinions. I had to make a choice. I felt like we had legitimate move forward on the alternate electric scheme as told to me by mister Chesbro. He cited to me the issue in the circumstances in the Hawaii case from the nineteen sixties or whatever it was. And so this is what you're going to hear and ultimate fly. I think many of the decisions and the ultimate outcome of this case is going to rest not on allegations made in a trial court, but ultimately what an appellate court and like the United States Supreme Court besides, is appropriate evidence and an appropriate charge. When we're talking about former president of the United States being charged in for conduct occurring while in fact he was president of the United States. And so whether or not the appellate courts look at that and say, well, he does have some privilege or some immunity, I think that that's still an open question. Yeah, a question that may be answered first in the DC federal case. Thanks so much, Michael. That's Michael Moore, the former US attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Welcome back to real estate investing. Made simple grant cardone here in the Cardones On every Monday, I said, Steve, would I pay you last month? Steve was paid thirty one twenty dollars last month because he invested at Cardoncapital dot Com, Cardoncapital dot Com, Cardoncapital dot Com. The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving a lawsuit against real estate management company Cardone Capital and its CEO for making misleading statements in YouTube and Instagram videos. The lawsuit was dismissed on other grounds, but the core issue remains. Does hyping investment projects or touting crypto tookens on social media make someone a seller who can be sued under federal law by investors who are defrauded or who bought an unregistered security. To put it another way, what happens when a ninety year old securities law meets social media. Joining me is Ann a business law professor at tu Lane University. So, and let's start with the basics. The very basics tell us about the securities laws and where this definition of seller becomes important. Okay, So Section twelve is from the nineteen thirty three Securities Act and it basically has two separate provisions. The first is that a purchaser of a security that was sold unregistered when it should have been registered has a right to sue the seller. Basically, it's a right of recision. They can give the security back and ask for their money back minus any income they've earned on it. So they can sue whoever sold it to them if it was sold in violation of the registration provisions. And then secondly, they can sue anyone who sold it to them or who solicited the purchase if the prospectus or sales documents contained false statements. Now, sometimes there's a bit of a debate about what counts as a perspectus, but what it comes down to is that this is sometimes a more attractive option than say, more traditional ways of suing for false statements like Section ten B, which is the anti fraud statute, because if you sue for false statements in connection with essentially these unregistered security sales under section twelve, you don't have to show that you relied on the false statement, and you don't have to show that there was any intent to make a false statement. And so how did the Supreme Court define a seller in nineteen eighty eight, So in the case of Pitter versus Doll, there was a question of who counts as a statutory seller. In other words, Section twelve speaks of people who sell securities. So the question was, do you have to be actually the person who transfer the title me to you or could it be other people who are somewhat involved with the sale? And the court first said it has to be either a direct transfer of title or it has to be someone who solicited the purchase. But they drew a distinction between someone who is somehow involved and had something to do with the buyer actively going out and purchasing the security, and instead they said they have to who have actually solicited and had some kind of relationship with the buyer. They rejected a test that would be somehow like people who are just substantially participate in the sale. So that was interpreted by courts to mean that you could only be liable under section twelve if you literally transferred title it was your security and you sold it to someone else, or if you had some kind of direct contact with a relationship with the buyer so that you induced the purchase that way. So in our world of social media, where venture capital firms and others are hyping investment projects online, are courts having a difficult time determining whether they're sellers or not. Yeah. So the issue here is that after pinter versus Doll, there were a bunch of cases involving what were basically registered offerings. They were registered offerings, they were IPOs, where people sued for false statements in the IPO documents. Now there's a cause of action specifically for that false statements in a register statement under section eleven, and they would also sue under section twelve because Section twelve has liability both for unregistered offerings, which these weren't, or for false statements and a perspective, and courts rejected the Section twelve liability looking at pinter in a lot of cases where there was no direct contact with the buyer. So for example, issuing companies, it was their security, but they sold in a firm commitment underwriting, meaning the underwriters bought the securities from the issuer. The underwriters then sold to the public. The purchaser would try to sue the issuers inter Section twelve because the issuer's name is all over the perspectives, it's like their company, it's their securities being sold, and the courts would say the issuer did not have enough direct involvement with this particular sale to this buyer to justify imposing Section twelve viability. Now, you could still have other forms of liability because these were registered offerings, but you couldn't have liability under section twelve. So the court reading Pinder vicious now very narrowly to mean you have to have had some kind of contact with a relationship with the buyer. So now we fast forward to crypto, and the problem is there isn't an alternative scheme because crypto, assuming it's a security, which is a whole everything. But let's assume it is a security. If crypto is a security, it's not registered. So the liability regime that was available in those IPO cases for registered offerings is not available to these shareholders. So for these shareholders, Section twelve is sort of the main potential avenue of liability other than the anti fraud laws, which are much harder. So they're suing under section twelve because that's it, and what we've seen now is too appellate. Court said direct contact. We never said that what are you talking about, known as it's talent is a solicitation. As long as you make these public statements in advertising urging people to buy, that's a solicitation, even if there's no personal relationship. Meanwhile, there are at least a couple of other decisions that say, no, we're sticking to the old interpretations of pinter that there have to be this kind of direct relationship. And then you have courts that are sort of like saying in a case against Coinbase that Coinbase with air drops and materials about particular securities, that wasn't a solicitation. But it's not exactly clear why, you know, the court just says that's not enough. So we don't know exactly what's enough or what exactly the regime is going to be the Supreme Court decided not to take a case involving cardone Capital. Well, that was the case that was Actually it wasn't a registered offering. I believe it was under Regulation A. So Regulation A is an exemption from a full on registered offerings, but it does require some degree of filing and disclosure with the SEC. So it wasn't an unregistered offering. But because it's not registered offerings, the standard protections available in registered offerings are not available to purchasers. Instead, the only liability available would be, you know, just straight up fraud, which is again very hard to prove, or Section twelve liability. That's what's available. And so this real estate company, they use social media to advertise the officering that was filed with the SEC, they had documents with the SEC and so forth, and shareholders claimed that these advertisements were solicitations. In the Ninth Circuit agreed and repudiated. I mean, you know, some of the case law that had held there must be direct contact hadn't come out of the Ninth Circuit, So at very least it was disagreeing with the other courts that had imposed something like a direct contact requirement. But the Supreme Court denied sort. I mean, there are any number of reasons why they could have denied CIRT. But one possibility is that the social media cases are new. They're you know, looking to this old precedent that was generated under IPO situations, and you know, it may take some time to work through the court. You know, if you ask an average person, it doesn't seem like the difficult question. They're online, they're soliciting, Yeah, they're selling. What makes more difficult, Well, because the interesting thing is that the word solicit it doesn't actually appear in the statute. Nothing in the statute says imposing liability for solicitation, but the statute says is imposing liability for selling. The Supreme Court's interpretation of selling in Printer versus Doll, this case from nineteen eighty eight is the one that imposed this concept of solicitation with this very specific kind of definition. And to be honest, Printer doesn't seem to really understand how security sales works. There are parts of it display a kind of lack of understanding. For instance, there's a line in it that says you can't have liability for a seller's seller. That if you sell to somebody and that person sells to someone else, the original seller isn't going to be liable. But that's a firm commitment underwriting, and courts have been struggling with that. The sec has been struggling with that ever since Pinter versus all held it. So, you know, this concept of solicitation and exactly how we're defining it is not in the statute. It comes from the Supreme Court case launch. So now we're all trying to figure out what the Supreme Court met and how you translate a case in nineteen eighty eight to today the Ninth and the Eleventh Circuits? Are they in sync their rulings, Yeah, they seem to be following the same path that you know, at the very least, these sort of widespread social media campaigns are sufficient. But what's really unclear is like what would be like, I mean, once you take away the requirement of direct contact, which is how courts seem to be reading it before, then there's the question of well, how much urging is enough? And that was exactly what happened with coinbase, where you know, Coinbase technically it did have direct contact. It was talking to its customers and it you know, it does whatever it does to say, you know, here's an airdrop of a new security or whatever, and a court said, well, that's just not enough. So now we have all kinds of questions, like if social media is permissible, if you don't have the restriction of direct contact, then how much urging is enough to qualify solicitation? Given that in Pinter, the Supreme Court's concern was, we don't want just substantial participation to be enough. And the reason we don't was because we want people to have certainty as to when they are potentially liable or not. It's important that we have certainty direct contact. At least that's a rule. It may not be the best rule, it may not be the most functional rule, but we know what it means. We know when we see in. Now we're in this space where it's not clear what's going to be enough. Why don't these quotes sellers want to register just to be safe. So first of all, the crypto people, I'll say that these aren't securities anyway, But the whole point is that if you register them, there's a terrific amount of disclosure you have to make, and there's very strict liability if those disclosures are false That's why courts could get away for so long saying well, we won't have Section twelve liability for these IPO situations because there were alternatives. There's some very strict liability for false statements. If you register, you have to do a terrific amount of disclosure. It's very expensive and you're risking this liability. And a lot of crypto people say that the registration requirements, like the disclosure requirements that attach, are simply not suitable for crypto, Like they ask for things that don't make sense in the crypto context, like principles of an organization when it's a decentralized autonomous organization, or addresses when there is no address. So the crypto people will say that, not only is disclosure expensive and opens us up to all this liability, but the SEC hasn't updated the registration requirements to really makes sense in a crypto world. So then will it be up to the Supreme Court to clarify this so that there is clearer guidance? Very possibly. I mean, you know, there's a lot that could happen in between now and then. I mean, first of all, if all the circuits come to settle on something I mean, the Supreme Court doesn't have the kind of passion for securities cases that say I do. So if the circuits coalesce around a principle that's coherent, then the Supreme Court may not step in at all. And you know, we can all argue about it. But you know, I'm not convinced that crypto is, you know, the wave of the future. So at some point, if crypto has becomes less popular, then we may just see less of these cases. I mean, Regulation A was how this came up in the Ninth Circuit, and that will still exist because that's sort of a formal disclosure space for securities that you don't want to do full registration for. But reggae isn't really that popular to begin with, So I mean, if crypto becomes less of a thing, it may simply be that the disdute kind of settles down by itself. Well, it's been great to talk to you, Anne. I love your enthusiasm about securities law. That's Anne Lipton, a business law professor at Tulane University. This is not about Donald Trump versus Michael Cohen or Michael Cohen versus Donald Trump. This is about accountability, plain and simple, but it did seem a lot like Michael Cohen versus Donald Trump, as Trump's former lawyer and fixer took the stand against him this week in New York State's two hundred and fifty million dollars civil front case against the former president, And it also seemed like Trump saw it that way. He's a lie trying to get a better deal himself, having word and what played out during Cohen's testimony at times seemed more like a TV legal drama than a real trial. Joining me, as someone who was there for I'm going to save the show, Pat Patricia hurtadd O, Bloomberg Legal reporter, Pat, this was the first time in five years that Trump and Cohen have come face to face. What was it like in the courtroom where there were just about twenty feet from each other? They had a stair doown match. When it came time for Cohen to take the stand, Trump his whole body was pivoted with his seat turned to look at the witness box. Did the prosecution start by having Coen testify about his past crimes? He described what he played guilty to. Of course, he's backtracked from what his actual crimes were, and you know, sort of said that he didn't commit some of the frauds that they assert that he committed. But the State Attorney General's office was asking him basically to describe what he was supposed to do for Donald Trump, and he said between twenty twelve until twenty fifteen, each year, Trump would ask him to come into his office along with Allen Weisseelbergen, you know, basically asked him to quote unquote re engineered the finances and ask him, you know, how much do you think I'm worth? And then Trump would say I'm actually not worth three point seven billion, it should be eight billion, And he and Weiseelberg would have to go back and go through the numbers and reevaluate all the properties and assets to come up with a figure that Donald Trump had decided was his networth. So Donald Trump was just getting this figure, you know, out of thin air. Yees. Basically, Donald Trump wanted something, and so they would go back and he and Weislberg would put their heads together and try to value assets, be it golf courses or whatever, so that they would achieve the number that Trump named. And Alan Weiselberg, who was the former Trump Organization CFO, has already testified at the trial. Did he confirm these meetings. This is the first time we've had an insider's book about what these meetings were about. Weiselberg was very cagy when he testified. Weiselberg is a descendant. He, along with Donald Trump, was sued by the State ag so he wasn't very forthcoming and helpful. And so this is the first time we're getting descriptions of the eating happening with Trump calling them in. He said, basically, his boss called him in and told him what he wanted. Were there any surprises in the documents that Coen testified about. Well, I mean, it's just kind of shocking to see these things because then we were shown the actual statements of financial condition and the statements about Trump's net worth, and they would say, like Trump is worth eight billion dollars or something like that, and they would say, oh, by the way, we're adding the thirty percent premium to the fact that this is a golf course that has been constructed in good condition. And so basically, you know, Trump is giving credit for the brand because the building's complete and the constructions is finished. You know, that's like saying my house is worth thirty percent more because I keep the upkeep nicely outside and I have a nice little window box outside, you know. He said, I was tasked by mister Trump chewing increased the total assets based upon a number he arbitrarily selected, and my responsibility, along with Alan Weisserberg, predominantly was to reverse engineer the various different asset classes and increase those assets in order to achieve the number mister Trump had tasked us to do. That's the heart of this case. I mean, Leticia James, the New York Attorney General, asserts that Trump has inflated his assets. Where the argument was and the Trump people as law. You know, there's all these disavowals and declarations that warn the reader of these documents to say, you know, we don't really stand by these documents. They're just the number, right. And we saw this document from twenty fourteen where Trump was trying to fly that Buffalo Bill's football team and he claimed to be worth eight billion dollars, and that was a big discussion. Trump's lawyers were saying that it's no fair, you can't bring this in. No evidence, this claim of trying to buy the Buffalo Bills was ever made to anybody, and he didn't buy the Buffalo bills, So what's the harm? No foul, right, And the judge allowed it finally into evidence because the AG's office says, well, you know what, he claimed that this was his network, and these are the documents that went to Morgan Stanley, which was accepting bids. So Trump claimed he wanted to put in a billion dollar bid to buy the Buffalo Bills in twenty fourteen, and he claimed to be worth eight billion dollars and he had Deutsche Bank bankers back him with, you know, in a testing letter from Deutsche Bank saying that he was valuable and they had seen his net worth. When Michael Cohen is saying, hey, it's all the house of cards built on nothing. And was it Michael Cohen's testimony that got the AG started investigating Trump. Cohen's claims have basically triggered all sorts of investigations. He testified about seven different congressional investigation. It prompted an investigation of the hush money case. It prompted all kinds of investigation of Trump and his assets. Now we stand here, and I'm not saying that he's the only whistleblower, but he was the insider that said this is what Trump was doing, and it started everybody looking at him. And certainly this case originated from Michael Cohen's complaint. And I understand that the cross examination got nasty pretty quick. Yeah, I mean, you know, Cohen's a lawyer, and he got very offended when Alena Haba, who is Trump's lawyer, started asking him questions about that he lied to a federal judge, just like he lied to his wife on his tax return. And Cowen got very angry, and there was a lot of back and forth, you know, asked an answer. It was like a movie watching people arguing and bickering on the stand. Was like, Cohen is a lawyer, and he objected, he goes objection, so he is a witness objected through Alena's question. You don't see that other day, No you don't. And you know, at one point Alena shot back, do not on me, Copa, You're not on your podcast, you're not on CNN. Answer my question. So you can see there's a little bit of drama planes on both sides. This is Cohen, I'm objecting to your question. And at one point, probably we've all heard, you know, when the judge will say that question was asked and answered, and that's an objection, and Cohen said, asked an answered because she kept repeating about four times, did you lie to Judge Pauli, who was the federal judge he pled guilty too, And then subsequently Cohen claimed that he was forced to play guilty by his lawyers and he hadn't really committed some of the crimes that he pled guilty to originally, and this is in front of a judge. So all of this is yeah, so this is like right, this is exactly right. There's almost like two divergent trials going on at the same time. There's the trial that's being held if you had a jury, and the lawyers are being very dramatic and even the witness to you know, oh a check. And you're watching some kind of like reality TV show someone playing a lawyer, and that's being played too, as if there were a jury, and that might be more effective if there were a jury, but there isn't a jury. And obviously it seems like some of the lawyers know they have a very important client in his name is Donald Trump, so they're asking questions to please him. And then again you have the one person who is the jury of one who is judge and Gaurance who's deciding this. So that's what I said. It's like a parallel universe. There's two parallel trials, the one that's being played out Bible parties in the well as well as the one that's actually going on before the judge. And he has to keep reminding the lawyers you know, actually there's no jury here. I'm the trier of fact. So did Trump react during Cohen's testimony that you could say, Oh, he had his arms crossed and he was really he muttered something under his breast. I could not hear someone else claiming they had heard him say something about Cohen's credibility. But he was obviously very annoyed, and like I said that, he literally turned his entire chair around so that his arms crossed to glare at Cohen. And more drama to come, as Ivanka Trump has been ordered to testify. That may be as soon as next week. Thanks so much, Pat. That's Bloomberg Legal reporter Patricia Hurtado. So today we're announcing a federal lawsuit against Meta met of course, is the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, for knowingly harming the mental health of young social media users. In short, Meta intentionally designed its social media platform to be more addictive to kids and young people. Forty one states are suing Meta platforms, claiming it exploits young people for profit by building an addictive features that basically hook kids on Instagram and Facebook, harming their mental health. At a press conference by the Attorney General of Washington State, two teenagers describe their struggles trying to cope with social media side like Instagram. The worst part was these pictures and videos were never ending. The addictive algorithm and the constant flood of new content kept me glued to my phone, and before I knew it, I began to hate myself and the way I looked. This all happened before I turned thirteen. So I would go on my phone and tending to do other things, and then instinctively start opening up Instagram, opening up different social media platforms without even meaning to, and then getting stuck in the cycle of scrolling seeing other people's lives and interactions. Joining me is Matthew Shettenhelm, Bloomberg intelligence analyst so Met. The federal lawsuit says Meta did not disclose that its algorithms were designed to capitalize on young users, dopamine responses, and create an addictive cycle of engagement. So the allegation is that Meta specifically designed an algorithm to teenagers. That's exactly right. So the lawsuit takes aim at a number of features that are sort of fundamental to how Meta designed its social media platforms. Using data about the teens to send them content that keeps them scrolling and keeps them reading, sending them notifications that keep them coming back to the service as soon as they look away from it. Using the like system that entices them and draws them in and pushes them to put more content out there. And the allegation is that Meta knew that its social media service was harmful to teens, but it withheld that knowledge and misled users and proceeded to deliver its product to teens. Anyway, there's a separate lawsuit actually in this same federal court that goes to the design of the product itself and whether that violates product liability law or whether face Book was negligent in designing it. This suit's a little bit different. It's not about the design itself. It's about did Meta lie, did it mislead users? And a lot of this is based on the whistleblower who released internal documents in twenty twenty one. Yeah, I think that's the real start of this, when Francis Hoggin came out with her release of the internal documents suggesting that Facebook knew more about the risk to children than it was letting on. So this has really been playing out ever since that moment. Now Facebook disputes her allegations and says that they're overblown, and that's the sort of allegation that would be tested in this case if it gets past a motion to dismiss. Meta said, we share the Attorney General's commitment to providing teens with safe, positive experiences online and have already introduced over thirty tools to support teens and their families. Do you know what kind of tools they're talking about. I think these are features like there are settings that teens can put on the product to turn off after so many minutes on the product. I think there are a handful of features like that that they have added. If you go into the settings, you can turn off the data that is used about you for ads. I think as a practical matter, these features may not be used all that frequently. I know my teenager doesn't jump to find those features, and I suspect that's true of many other teams as well. So I think the negotiation here before this lawsuit was filed with the States likely trying to push Meta to find more features and more effective features. And I think eventually, if you saw this lawsuit settle, you might see a push for even more in that direction. Thanks Matt. That's Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Matthew Shettenhelm, and that's it for this edition of The Bloomberg Law Show. Remember you can always get the latest legal news on our Bloomberg Law podcast. You can find them on Apple Podcasts and at www dot Bloomberg dot com, slash podcast slash Law, and remember to tune into The Bloomberg Law Show every weeknight at ten pm Wall Street Time. I'm June Grosso, and you're listening to Bloomberg

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Speaker 1

This is Bloomberg Law with June Brusso from Bloomberg Radio. Mark Meadows, listen, I did this for seven years. As you guys know, you do not give.

Speaker 2

Immunity complete immunity.

Speaker 1

It's a former White House chief of staff unless he's got.

Speaker 3

Information that is devastating and that you couldn't get any other way.

Speaker 1

Donald Trump is a huge trouble. Chris Christy, the former US Attorney for New Jersey and a current presidential candidate, was blunt about the news that Mark Meadows, the final chief of staff to Donald Trump, was given immunity from prosecution by the Special Council in the election interference case against the former president. According to Bloomberg sources, Meadows testified before the DC Grand Jury that he repeatedly told Trump in the weeks following the conclusion of the twenty twenty

election that claims of election fraud were baseless. Trump denies that because I've spoken to Mark Medos many many times over the years, and he strongly believed the election was rigged.

Speaker 2

Now, of course, you know, deranged Jack Smith and the prosecutors and go after somebody for years and they say, look, here's the story. We'll give you nothing will erect a statute to you, or you're going to go to jail for ten years but having done nothing wrong. So you know, a lot of people have to make that decision. Some people would never make that decision, other people would.

Speaker 1

Joining me is former federal prosecutor Robert Mentz, a partner McCarter and English Bob. There are different kinds of immunity. What kind does Meadows reportedly have?

Speaker 4

Based upon report? Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump's final chief of staff, has spoken with Special Counsel Jack Smith's team at least three times and reportedly has testified before the federal grand jury. That only came after Meadows was granted immunity to testify under oath. In this case, there's

two types of immunity. There's use community and transactional immunity. Reportedly, mister Meadows was given use community, which protects him from any statements he makes to the grand jury or information derived from those statements. So what that means effectively is that prosecutors can't use those statements and can't use information derived from those statements in a prosecution against them in

the future. As a practical matter, it is very difficult for prosecutors to pursue a criminal case against somebody, even if they've only been given this use community, because they would have to show that they brought these charges based not upon the statements and not derived from those statements in order to make a successful case. So they would have to show that there's some kind of independent source

for the evidence that they use to charge somebody. As a practical matter, what that means is, once somebody's given use community, it effectively means that prosecutors have decided not to charge them with a criminal offense related to that testimony.

Speaker 1

Former New Jersey US Attorney Christie has said that as a prosecutor, you don't give immunity to someone like Mark Meadows, the former chief of staff, unless he has some devastating evidence against Trump. Do you agree with that in this case.

Speaker 4

Well, there's a couple of reasons you'd want to give somebody immunity. One of them is because that you do believe they have valuable evidence and you're willing to essentially immunize them from prosecution in exchange for the testimony they're about to give. But there are also some other reasons why you would give immunity, And one of them is to

lock in that testimony of that witness. So what would have happened if they had not given immunity to Mark Meadows is he would have gone before the grand jury and he would have asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination and refuse to answer questions that would leave prosecutors not knowing what he might stay at a trial

down the road. By giving him immunity, they essentially forced him to testify because he could no longer rely on that Fifth Amendment right, and it forced him to go on the record under oath with his statements about everything the prosecutor asked him about related to January sixth, the events around the January sixth and efforts to overturn the twenty twenty election.

Speaker 1

I mean, it does seem like Meadows has a lot to talk about. He was in this really unique position by Trump's side, seemingly a central player in efforts to overturn the election. So all those meetings we heard about inside the White House in the run up to January sixth, he was privy to.

Speaker 4

He certainly was a central figure. As you say, The January sixth Committee report placed him in the thick of a series of key meetings and actions inside the White House during the run up to the US capital attack. He was also on that infamous call with the Georgia Secretary of State where Trump said, find me eleven thou

seven hundred and eighty votes. So he is on the inside of many of the most controversial and critical aspects of the case that prosecutors are pursuing in federal court in Washington.

Speaker 1

Now, one thing may cut against the importance of his testimony. ABC News reported that investigators specifically asked Meadows if Trump ever acknowledged to him that he lost the election, and Medows told investigators that he never heard Trump say that. Does that missing element make his testimony a little less valuable to prosecutors?

Speaker 3

Well, that's a.

Speaker 4

Great question, is and we really don't know how valuable Mark Metow's testimony might be. It's hard to stay because

we don't know exactly what he said. But we can surmise from his prior statements and from the information that we are getting from news sources, that he is contradicting President Trump's statements immediately after the election, and he is interestingly contradicting his own statements in a book that he wrote shortly after the election, in which he's supported the allegation that there were improprieties and irregularities connected to the

twenty twenty election. According to reports, now he has backtracked and reversed his position on that and acknowledged that there was no credible evidence that there was any tampering or illegality associated with the twenty twenty election that would have overturned the election results, and that he said as much

to former President Trump. That goes to the heart of the Trump defense, which is the president's state of mind when he decided to pursue these attacks on the twenty twenty election results.

Speaker 1

Meadows took public stances that the election was stolen. As you said in his book, he said the election was stolen and rigged. So how much credibility will he have before a jury when now he's saying, no, I lied, or words to that effect.

Speaker 4

Well, that's the problem the prosecutors frequently faced with people who cooperate with him. It's not unusual for a witness who have testified and who have made statements saying one thing, and then when it comes to trial, they now reverse their position, and ultimately the credibility of the witness depends upon how they can explain the change in their position. In this case, the statements that were made in the

book were obviously not under oath. When he was finally placed under oath, or perhaps forced to be placed under oaths because of the immunity deal, he told the truth. That's what prosecutors are going to argue.

Speaker 1

It seems a little different, though, because he memorialized these lies in a published book, and I'm sure the defense is going to read from pertinent parts of that book if he takes the stand.

Speaker 4

Yeah, I mean, that makes him a flawed witness for sure. And he has gone on records having said that he believes much of what Trump has said regarding the election. Now he's changing course here and saying he didn't believe it at all. That's something the prosecutors will have to address if they decide to use him as a key witness in the federal trial.

Speaker 1

And Bob, will you explain the importance to the prosecution of the reporting that Meadows said he repeatedly told Trump in the weeks following the twenty twenty election that claims of election fraud were baseless.

Speaker 4

If that's true, that could bolster the prostitution's case that Trump pushed to reverse his defeat knowing that that was not true. At the end of the day, the case turns on what's called the men's rea, or the corrupt intent of former President Trump. Prosecutors have to prove that he knew when he pushed these fake electors and these allegations of tampering with the election, that he knew that

it was not true at the time. And if it's true that Mark Meadows repeatedly told him that it was not true, that helps get to this question of state of mind. The real question is is it reasonable? Is it believable that former President Trump did not believe that he lost that election. That requires the jury to get into the mind of the defendant to try to understand

what he was thinking. And the only way to do that is to show circumstantially by witness testimony what he was told at the time and what he may have said in response to others telling him that the election was lost.

Speaker 1

Meadows was not among the six unindicted co conspirators described in the August indictment returned against Trump. Does that indicate that prosecutors at that point knew that he was going to cooperate or targeted him as a cooperator.

Speaker 4

There's long been speculation about whether Mark Meadows was actually cooperating with federal prosecutors, because, if you remember, the Department of Justice declined to prosecute him for refusing to comply with his subpoenas to turnover documents to the Congressional committee investigating the January sixth, twenty twenty one attack on the US Capitol. Others were prosecuted for their failure to cooperate, he was not, and so there has long been questions

about whether mister Meadows was cooperating with federal prosecutors. And now that he has struck this immunity deal allegedly, that only adds further fear fuel to that speculation.

Speaker 1

Coming up next, we'll take a look at the barrage of arguments Trump is making to try to get the DC judge to dismiss the election interference case against him. I'm June Grosso, and you're listening to Bloomberg. This is

Bloomberg Law with June Grosso from Bloomberg Radio. Stunny News this week that Mark Meadows, the final chief of staff to Donald Trump, has been given immunity from prosecution in the election interference case against the former president, and has testified before a DC grand jury hearing evidence in the case. According to Bloomberg's sources, in his testimony before the grand jury, Meadows said he repeatedly told Trump that claims of election

fraud in the twenty twenty presidential election were baseless. Trump has denied that on truth Social saying, quote, Mark Meadows never told me that allegations of significant fraud about the rigged election we're baseless. The former president also addressed that during a break in the Manhattan trial where his business empire is at stake.

Speaker 2

But Mark Medo has always felt it was radio. His whole thing was rigged, and it was still element.

Speaker 1

I've been talking to former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz of McCarter and English. So, as you say, as part of the immunity deal, the evidence Meadows gives can't be used against him in a federal prosecution, But what about in the Georgia prosecution where he's a co defendant.

Speaker 4

That's an excellent point, because the immunity deal that he has from the federal prosecutors only protects him from federal prosecutors using those statement in a federal prosecution does not protect them from the state prosecution that is ongoing in Georgia, where he has charged as the defendant in a rico conspiracy to overturn the election. So it suggests to me that at some point he may also strike a deal to plead guilty in the case in Georgia, although that has not yet happened.

Speaker 1

If you were his lawyer, would you allow him to give evidence in a federal case, you know, when he has jeopardy in a state case.

Speaker 4

Meadows was not indicted in the federal case in Washington that's set to go to trial in March, but he was charged alongside former President Trump and other top allies in the Fulton County District Attorney case being Georgia. There he was charged on rico conspiracy charges for trying to overturn the twenty twenty election results. And the interesting development here is by striking this immunity deal and being forced to give testimony in the federal case, will those statements

ultimately used against them in the case in Georgia. Under the law, there's nothing that ties the DA's handing Georgia to not use that information. Federal prosecutors can be willing to give up prosecution of mister Meadows in a federal case and agree not to use his statements in any federal prosecution, but they cannot bar the DA in Georgia from using those statements.

Speaker 1

Are you surprised that so many people are flipping on Donald Trump? We have Mark Meadows, we have four people in Georgia, including three attorneys, and CNN is reporting that the Georgia DA is talking to six other defendants.

Speaker 4

Well, again, just to be clear, we don't know whether Mark Meadows has actually become a cooperator with federal prosecutors. Maybe that he did, but we can't necessarily make that conclusion based upon the information we have. We just know that he's been given immunity and he's given testimony. We'll have to see where that case goes. But we do know that other individuals in the Georgia case have pled guilty and have agreed to cooperate, and that's always a

bad sign for the defense. You always want a united front as a defendant. In this case, it was particularly useful for the Trump team to have a case go to trial before former President Trump went to trial in Georgia. That would have given him a preview of the state's case. It would have allowed them to hear the testimony from the state's witnesses, had to use that testimony later on in a case against former President Trump when all these defendants decide to plead guilty rather than go to trial.

It's the prive defense of that advantage.

Speaker 1

Turning away from Mark Meadows, on Monday, Trump rolled out a new multi pronged attack in the federal election obstruction case, making arguments based on claims of presidential immunity, selective prosecution, the First Amendment, do process, and more. Judge Tanya Chutkin to throw out the case against him, which is schedule to begin on March fourth. Do any of the arguments seem like winners to you.

Speaker 4

We've seen former President Trump lawyers unleasha barrage of defenses in the federal case that's set to go to trial in March. They have argued a number of defenses. I don't think any of them are likely to succeed before this judge. One of them is presidential immunity. We've seen that argument made time and again. Essentially, what the Trump team is claiming is that former President Trump has immunity against charges for conduct that falls within what's called the

outer perimeter of his presidential duties. The US Supreme Court adopted that standard a long time ago to protect current and former presidents against civil lawsuits, but it's an open question about how that is affected by criminal prosecutions. The Trump lawyers argue that a strong shield is necessary to empower presidents to make decisions in office without worrying about

threats of future charges from political rivals. Prosecutors argue there's no support of position in the Constitution or in any Supreme Court president, and they say it should be harder, not easier, for current and former office holders to claim criminal immunity because those prosecutions are meant to protect the

interests of the public, not private parties. So we're in uncharted ordered once again with this argument, because we've never had a circumstance where a president was attempting to claim immunity from a criminal prosecution.

Speaker 1

You know, Selective prosecution is another one of the arguments they're making, and he's used that before, for example in the New York Attorney General civil case against him. And listen to what he said outside the courtroom. This is a.

Speaker 5

Railroad, and it's all coming out of the Department of Justice. It's all set up by Biden and his thubs that he's surrounded with to try and stick out an election victory that he's not entitled to win because he's been the worst president in the history of our country.

Speaker 4

Well, I think we're seeing the selective prosecution argument coming out again and again because it serves two purposes. One, it is a legal argument that they can make, albeit one that's very difficult to prove. But I also think it plays to the larger attempt by the Trump defense team to sell this case and to sell the defense

to the public at lawrence. The selective prosecution argument is essentially the argument that former President Trump is being treated unfairly, that he's being singled out by an allegedly corrupt Department of Justice, and that President Biden is behind all of these prosecutions in order to try to eliminate his chief rival in the upcoming election. But the reality is that these selective prosecutions from a legal standpoint, are exceedingly difficult

to win. People make these arguments all the time. For example, if you're driving down the highway and you're in a group of ten cars that are all speeding. You get pulled over, you could turn around and say, why am I being pulled over when the nine other people were doing exactly what I was doing and none of them are being prosecuted for speeding. The reality is that in order for that defense have any merits, you have to show not only that you're singled out, but that you

were singled out for some discriminatory or unconstitutional reason. Here that's going to be very difficult to prove. Essentially, the defense would have to prove that there's a political motive for all of these prosecutions, and that President Biden is somehow behind these prosecutions. That's an argument we've heard over and over again, but not one that is likely to be well received by this judge.

Speaker 1

Well, Special Counsel Jacksmith's office already filed its opposition to Trump's presidential immunity claim, and they're going to have two weeks to respond to this latest round of challenges. Thanks so much, Bob. That's former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner Maccarter and English Sam Bankman. Freed came to court today prepared to take the stand and defend his actions in the lead up to the collapse of his digital

asset Empire. To the jury, it's always risky for a defend and to take the stand, but it may have been Bankman Freed's only play after taking a beating from former colleagues who described him as the mastermind of a

year's long scheme to defraud FTX customers and investors. But instead of testifying to the jury, Bankman Freed spent three hours testifying to Judge Lewis Kaplan, trying to convince the judge to allow him to testify to the jury about the role FTX lawyer's play in the lead up to the collapse of the crypto exchange and the alleged mismanagement of customer funds. Joining me is Bloomberg Legal reporter Bob van Vores, who was in the courtroom today to see

this testimony before the testimony. So, Bob, did Bankmin Freed give any testimony before the jury today?

Speaker 3

Not in front of the jury. That's the thing. He spent the entire afternoon on the stand, but he was previewing testimony that he wants to give relating to advice that he got from lawyers. So Judge Kaplan is listened to the testimony, he's going to rule in the morning. What the jury gets to hear they got sent home after lunch.

Speaker 1

This is something advice of counsel that the judge nixt stopped the defense from using at the beginning of the trial in the opening statements.

Speaker 3

Well, yeah, that's the thing. The judge said that they couldn't bring it up in the opening statement, but that you know, when it came to the trial, when it came to actual questions, he'd rule on a case by case basis. So he told the parties that, you know, rather than rule on objections after objections when they come up, he would listen to banquin free testimony and let them know what was okay and what was not okay, not basically what was addressed rehearsal for his testimony, So tell us what.

Speaker 1

He testified to some of the areas he testified to.

Speaker 3

So he got up and was asked on direct basically about particular transactions that were problematic that were part of the charges of the case. And you know, did lawyers advise him on that these included There was testimony early in the trial about how he told people to put their communications on auditorily so that communications would delete after a week. His side was trying to show that that wasn't sinister at all, but that it was part of a document retention policy and that he was advised by

lawyers and that lawyers were aware of them. Basically, the point that defense is trying to get across is that he did things in the plain sight of lawyers, and so therefore he didn't have any intent to defraud people.

Speaker 1

So it's not really an advice of counsel defense so much as it's a sort.

Speaker 3

Of a take on that, Yeah, that's exactly right. They're not putting a formal advice of counsel defense where he would say, look, I ran this by my lawyer. My lawyer told me to do this. Did it. Therefore, even if it, you know, was against the law, you can't prosecute you for that. It's less formal than that. It's just that, you know, he's saying that I didn't have criminal intent here because you know, obviously I was doing

this in fronal lawyers. I thought it was okay, and that shows that I thought it was okay.

Speaker 1

So Judge Caplan has it seems like with every major motion question that's come up, Judge Caplan has ruled against bank and freed. Today. He asked his lawyer about a hypothetical situation where someone comes across a large sum of money, uses a lawyer to buy an apartment on billionaire's row, and is later charged with money laundering. How is that different from what you're trying to do in principle? It sounds like he doubts this as well.

Speaker 3

It does sound like he's skeptical, and we're going to find out tomorrow morning. You know, how much of if any of this he's going to allow in. The prosecution is trying to argue that, you know, this is basically evidence that's going to confuse the jury, and that's not going to basically elucidate the points that the defense is trying to make, or at least legitimate point, and they want the judge to keep it out.

Speaker 1

The judge also said at the beginning that this was going to confuse the jury. They think the jury can handle all these different financial transactions, but they can handle adviceive counsel. It seems to me the confusion argument is just so thin.

Speaker 3

That's a really good point, you know, I think you're right about that. Has been a lot of testimony about crypto wallets and money moving around virtually and accounting and all that sort of stuff. Yeah, I think you're right that they can make sense of that kind of testimony. But we'll see, we'll see what the judge has to say about that.

Speaker 1

What was his demeanor like on the stand?

Speaker 3

He was very even on direct he was very concise, to the point in giving his testimony under question from his own lawyer. On cross examination by Danielle Festinini, his distiguous attorney, he was very might even call him a vasis. He was polite, but quibbling with the questions, did a lot of digressions, sort of dodging occasionally, even apologized in advance if he was not going to be answering the

question she asked. It was not a very good performance on cross and if his cross examination in front of the jury is the thing he's going to have some difficulty.

Speaker 1

This is sort of like a trial run for him, then they can try to correct.

Speaker 3

That's why in the press room we're calling it the dress rehearsal testimony, because the jury, you know, they're all homes and in front of the judge. But you know, sometimes if the dress rehearsal doesn't go well. The premiere is a smash ht so we'll we'll have to see. But if it's a repeat performance tomorrow, I don't think it's doing very good for Sampaker Freed.

Speaker 1

What other witnesses is the defense intending to call?

Speaker 3

The defense is done with everybody except for sampakm and Free. They had a couple of brief witnesses this morning. They had an expert witness to talk about sort of forensic witness to talk about the transfers between Alameda and FTX. Very brief defense case other than to put on dam Beck and Freed. Who's likely to go all day tomorrow, maybe into Monday.

Speaker 1

Let's go back and look at the reason why he may be testifying is because the evidence that the prosecution presented against him in these weeks has been pretty compelling. Describe some of the main witnesses testimony.

Speaker 3

Well, Houston faced with testimony from a number of people that he was once close to, that he formerly worked with, including three insiders, three people very close to them in the Inner circle who have pled guilty and are testifying cooperating with the government. These include Caroline Ellison, his former girlfriend who he installed as the CEO about me to Research, which is the affiliated hedge fund with the SDX crypto extreme.

She gave very effective testimony. Also Gary Wong, his FTX co founder, and Nishad Singh, who is the head of engineering for FTX. All three of them gave very clear testimony. In addition, put on Ken's son, the former general counsel, the top in house lawyer at FTC, who testified that Backmin Freed did not let him know about the huge amount of borrowing from al Amida that al Amita took from customer funds at FTX.

Speaker 1

Did Bankmin Freed come off as unlikable through the testimony about his lifestyle and how he wanted to project this image and hanging around with celebrities.

Speaker 3

There was certainly a decent amount of that sort of testimony about him, you know, sort of dominating other people, presenting an image to the public that he wasn't actually you know, manifesting in his personal life that you know, he was calculating. There was that sort of testimony during the trial, and you would think that's part of the reason that he wants to testify his counter some of that, so you know, we'll have to see how effective he is at that.

Speaker 1

Yeah, his whole defense is writing on him. And they say that when a defendant takes the stand, it becomes all about his credibility for the jury. So we'll see what happens tomorrow. I understand this was like a hot ticket today. There were people waiting in line to get into the courtroom.

Speaker 3

That's right. There were dozens of people. When I came in this morning a little bit before nine, dozens of people lined up for just twenty one press steachs in the courtroom today. I talked to one of the reporters who was number two in line. He had showed up at two forty in the morning to line up for that seat.

Speaker 1

And there were three overflow rooms for those who couldn't get into the courtroom. Have there been a lot of crypto enthusiasts at the trial?

Speaker 3

There absolutely has been a lot of crypto press, a lot of just people who follow currency. This is a very very interesting trial for people in that world. It's obviously an event that was a huge watershed in the crypto world, and people want to see these personalities who they came to know. They want to see them in person telling their stories.

Speaker 1

And has the jury been attentive through these weeks of testimony.

Speaker 3

The jury has been in tentive. There's certainly with SBF on the stand, you can expect them to be glued to every word. They were very attentive for Carolyne Ellison's testimony and things and lungs as well. A little less so with some of the more technical testimony. But yeah, they're going to be riveted tomorrow if.

Speaker 1

The judge doesn't allow this advice of council defense or you know, this version of an advisive council defense. What does that leave the defense to argue?

Speaker 3

We'll have to see what they're going to question him on, because whatever they question him on, he can get hostile questioning on across examination. So you know, the last thing the defense wants to do is prove the government's case for that. So they're going to have to think very strategically about what they want Sambaquins Creed to testify on. And you know, where he's vulnerable and where he's vulnerable.

Speaker 1

We'll find out tomorrow morning what he's allowed to testify to. It will be an exciting day tomorrow in the court, I think, Bob, thanks so much that's Bloomberg Legal reporter Bob van Vories, and that's it for this edition of The Bloomberg Law Show. Remember you can always get the

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