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hiring Mark McCasey, a former Trump attorney.
And then I discovered that Chauncey Billups, another subject of our investigations, hired McCasey as well because of the NBA gambling and poker stuff.
Only to then see that Terry Rozier, the current NBA player embroiled in those same indictments, hired a gentleman by the name of Jim Trustee, which is, of course, a perfect name for a Trump attorney, which, of course, Jim Trustee also was.
Oh, yeah.
Right.
And then in the media circuit, we hear Donald Trump on 60 Minutes.
And the thing that bothers me is that we're numb as a country to the fact that this is just a practice.
I mean, I remember playing like Thumb War growing up and then you'd get the kid who just like goes, helicopters!
And like comes over the top.
And it's like, that's what the justice system is like.
You can just call for help from up above and the rules don't matter anymore.
But I think the best, or at least my favorite case study as it relates to this trend of corruption has to do with arguably the most prolific gambler, it turns out, in athlete history.
And Phil Mickelson-
is someone who has tweeted at both of us in the last week, by the way, which we will explain here.
But the message he sent, that is the core of why I invited you into this studio, was both private and about privates.
It was a new addition to, yes, a canon of literature that I didn't quite know existed.
Complimentary and also very open-minded and potentially deeply legally problematic.
So just as a matter of what this message is, how it got into my memory, seared there for all time now, to whom was Phil sending this?
And so I want to just visualize for everybody who is not familiar with anything related to finance and certainly not Sable Offshore.
If this group chat was a physical room full of real life people, what would we be looking at?