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Then there’s the possible cumulative effect of yet another lawsuit against Trump; and one that might remind voters of the former president’s two defamation losses against E. Jean Carroll—juries didn’t buy Trump’s statements that he didn’t know her, much less his protestation that he did not sexually assault her.

Then there is Letby’s own continued protestation of innocence.

“I don’t deserve to be here at all” is a protestation you would expect to hear from someone in prison.

“How to Have Sex” is a story of loss, but not loss of virginity, nor even the loss of a sisterhood that seems more fractured with every new protestation of BFF-ship.

By titling his book “Crooked,” Masters not only evokes the archaic language of the 1920s but President Richard M. Nixon’s famous protestation: “I am not a crook.”