leaving aside

This proceeding is not about proving crimes beyond a reasonable doubt in a court; it’s about whether, leaving aside his absolute absence of the experience necessary to run the Justice Department, Gaetz is fit to do so.

And even leaving aside his alleged sexual misconduct, his character deficiencies are legion.

Leaving aside the fact that the details of this method would have made it so egregiously complicated that it would have been rejected by the writers of “Ocean’s Eleven,” the Cyber Ninjas announced that they could hunt for these fake ballots by looking for paper containing bamboo fibers — because if paper was printed in China, it must, of course, be made of bamboo.

Leaving aside this rather inflated and anachronistic description of X — its status as a “global town square” hasn’t survived Musk’s acquisition of the platform in 2022 — the idea that you can sue corporations for deciding not to advertise with you is beyond absurd.

Leaving aside the differences between Biden and Harris—he is the president and effectively in charge of American foreign policy, and she is not; he was apparently holding smaller events to avoid protesters, which she is obviously not—it is true that there is no single message or combination of words that will “mollify” protesters, at least as long as the war goes on.