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People will still see this as some sort of controversy or cover up, but this is the system working as intended and is a good thing. Small tiny conflicts like this, if not disclosed and dealt with, appear much larger and consequential when discovered down the road.

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Everything about this case has been the system working as intended, and faster than normal.

If the conspiracy theorists had just sat back and relaxed, they would have seen the guy get arrested, extradited, and charged for a crime, which is exactly what was supposed to happen.

> they would have seen the guy get arrested, extradited, and charged for a crime, which is exactly what was supposed to happen.

Funnily enough the conspiracy theorists, who know exactly how it all works, said it would never happen.

If we are literally talking about a conspiracy though then there are many in the shadows that might get away with it.

Definitely don’t want to Judge Ito one of the biggest financial crime cases of the decade.

Though, I couldn’t help googling the judge and she’s had some interesting cases lately involving various Trump related things. She had to recuse herself there as well because her husband was in talks with the Mueller investigation. I guess this is more common than I’d think for prominent DC connected families.

Unless you’re a SCOTUS Justice. Then you do what you want with impunity.

Not only that, in the future I'm more likely to assume this judge is acting in good faith in the middle of other "controversies". Recusing oneself as a judge is the ethical thing to do.

Yea but imagine the optics if the judge didn’t do it. It would be much worse either guilty or innocent .

You’re saying the same thing that the parent comment said.

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