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Though it’s shocking that a former president doesn’t appear to understand courtroom rules that anyone who has ever seen “Law & Order” could explain, there is a certain poetic justice.

It would have been poetic justice if he had won on Sunday, not just playing in a home World Cup but also leading his side - that wasn't meant to be.

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I must admit, I’m amused by the poetic justice of it all.

So, in some ways, giving Black people the land where the prison once operated as reparations could be seen as poetic justice.

There’s a poetic justice to Trump’s own vile words coming back to haunt him.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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