Trump’s exotic attorney and the presidential "impoundment" business

Appointed somewhat dubiously as U.S. district attorney for New Jersey

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Her parents are reportedly "Chaldean" Catholics who fled Iraq. I'd give them the benefit of the doubt if that's the church they attend, but the term "Chaldean" is a biblical ​reference to an ancient Pagan or gentile people — and hopelessly archaic and meaningless or anachronistic today.

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There are bizarre courthouse motions galore. And the husband. The second and current husband.

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Greg Reuben has a Masters from the Harvard Business School and he runs his parking management company in New York called the Centerpark.

Do you need a tow somewhere around D.C., New York or New Jersey? Trump’s talking about "impoundment" while his attorney's husband runs the city parking garages.

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People who own motor vehicles don't really like to hear presidential speeches about "impoundment." Did you remember to put a quarter in the parking meter with all those lawyers running loose in that red-light district?

Obviously certain checks and balances are appropriate along with some presidential control over U.S. Treasury disbursements — and that's the Impoundment Control Act — but is there really a parking lot mana​ger's wife in federal court serving formal trespasses and using the word "impoundment" with something other than its usual meaning of parking tickets and fines, with clamps or metal boots on car wheels or barnacle suction cup devices on windshields?