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No doubt he has a huge axe to grind against Democrats but I'm finding it intriguing because I can't quite see how making such story up could help him this time. If he lies, this will piss off the US government, Democrats, Trump fans and Hilary fans at the same time, which basically means no love for him anywhere in the US. And he has the Megaupload case to fight.

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If he requests immunity in exchange for his testimony, the Trump administration might be willing to grant it to bury the Russia story.

And if he doesn't have particularly valuable testimony? Well, he'll already have immunity.

That's certainly possible, but at this point we are talking shit just about as bad as what the craziest nuts are accusing Hilary of. Shit people would keep digging in forever.

And fwiw, Dotcom's statements says he is willing to provide testimony under the condition of a safe passage back and forth. I sincerely hope that if he now backtracks from that and demands more his reputation will be done for. Though I guess we can now change it to "he lies and then they decide to grant him immunity".

Normally when immunity is exchanged there is a proffer so that the attorneys know what they're getting in exchange. They'd pull it if it was b.s.

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