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Everyone is waiting with baited breath for the Rittenhouse verdict. So many comments/commentaries on what is going to happen. If he is aquitted, the Anti-fa/BLM/Leftists will riot, claiming that their soldiers were unfairly gunned down/wounded and justice was not served. If he is found guilty, they are still going to riot. The reason is that they are going to claim that their guys were justified in trying to beat up/kill Rittenhouse and they will see that they have advocacy/protection from the government for rioting, looting, destruction of property, and assault/killing of conservatives. It will be open season on conservatives and...

Sadly, as both the first Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Public Affairs and then in a reorganization as being in charge of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Veterans Administration, I did experience many scammers and real criminal types that actually did not go to prison but walked away without being charged after running truly horrific veteran charity scams. The lesson I learned in trying to bring many veteran charity scams to justice was, sadly, that a legal strategy adopted by defendants often worked. Two FBI Special Agents who were investigating a $ 6 million scam out of the $...