These last two paragraphs are just..... wow

Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

this happened! this is a thing that happened!

@nytimes.com couldn't spare even one line to note that political prosecutions are a crime. And referring to "appointees unwilling or unable to fight for the historic independence of their institutions" about minions eager to shit all over the law for Trump. It's NYT softsoaping Nazism all over again

It's in the story, too. Can it be that no one at NYT knows what diorama means? Was "puppet show" struck as too rude, if accurate? Or has the staff intuited from Joe Kahn that it doesn't matter what words they use as long as they make Trump's lawlessness sound contained and cozy & even kind of cute