Both the timing and the specificity make it crystal clear. There's probably nothing drier than lawyer humor, but I swear, I still find the phrase "witness tampering" sets me off into paroxysms. That's funny. Trust me.

I wouldn't overestimate the time required to do it, either. Lawyers rarely write anything from scratch, relying instead on legal software that assembles boiler-plate into any kind of filing you want, just plug in the names. The labor-intensive part was the narrative about Man O'Fool calling and texting various letters of the alphabet to tamper with their witnessing.

We can already read the early tell-alls, given the way Cheeto Mussolini goes through staff. I've sampled a few, with an eye to someday comparing them to whatever classic history puts it all together. "The Whole Bag of Cheetos"? "All the President's Lies" (volumes 1-10)? "A Fistfull of Dullards"?