As you’re probably aware, we’re not Raw Story, and we do our best not to milk an upstream report for extra clicks – meaning we don’t take a single major article from CNN or the New York Times and split it into three or four articles, secondary and tertiary reactions, subsequent developments, etc excepted. However every once in a while our aggregation fails to fully encompass all the pieces of a sprawling story such as in our previous article about the Washington Post’s story on how Matt Gaetz informed Rogers Stone in 2019 not to worry about being convicted for the crimes he was charged with in connection with the Mueller investigation as Trump would take care of him.

As such, the Post’s description of how the talk between Gaetz and Stone “shifted largely to small talk such as a shared dislike of Washington. Gaetz quipped that to escape the capital, he might ask DeSantis to make him head of Florida’s juvenile justice agency, before reflecting that Trump would not permit him to leave. ‘He had heard a rumor that I was maybe not gonna run for reelection, and at the Christmas party, he berated me in front of my date. Like, straight berated me,’ Gaetz said,” is more than good enough to give its own article. Plus it’s not really germane to the whole “Trump rigging the justice system” thing and would just have been an extraneous and possibly distracting detail to put in the previous article. We can sleep well tonight over this one.