She also found it rather perplexing. Given the millions he was claiming as compensation for defamation, she thought, he shouldn't have to worry where his next legal paycheque was coming from.
But then again... Perhaps he, like the rest of the country, knew that the claim was a huge joke which would achieve little beyond jamming the internet with another round of uMalume jokes. Perhaps his joking was merely to show us, after the trauma of the rape trial, that he was a good guy at heart, with an intact sense of humour?
But then again... These lawyers were the same lawyers he was begging money to retain. If he had such little faith in their ability to deliver on the defamation claims, how could he believe they'd spring him on the corruption charges?
It was making less and less sense. Perhaps, she thought, if she took a shower....?