As to 'releasing' or keeping private the spa tapes with Robert Kraft, I have this question. What avenue is the implied release supposed to take place in? Will it open an "Access Hollywood" segment? Will 60 Mintues start next Sunday with Robert getting his dick sucked? Will this be broadcast at dinner time for the family to see? I mean, what the fuck. This is nothing less than coercion via the public arena.
Or, do they mean that a jury would see the video as part of a criminal proceeding? If so, can't they ensure nobody is allowed to bring a cell-phone into the courtroom while it's being shown?
What, exactly, is going on here? To me this smacks of the same shit as the vague comments in the 'press' that Trump's children might be indicted.
They swat Roger Stone and drag his wife outside, barefoot in her blouse but smollett got to turn himself in, just like lori laughton and the other players in the college admissions scandal. If, however, like Manafort, you have any relationship to President Trump, it's an entirely different set of rules and procedures. Shit makes me fucking sick.