Miss President wants to talk to you

Fortunately, none of these things happened.

Eleanor dared to provoke the judge in court, clearly indicating that he was courting death.

I'd better finish this interrogation quickly and let the jury deliver their verdict.

"Ms. Grant, may I ask how you came to know Hopkins?"

"what?"

Sula paused for a moment, then hesitated, clearly unsure of what to say.

Then something occurred to her, and she asked, "Am I not allowed to lie?"

"Yes."

Bell said, "You just took a solemn oath that you cannot lie!"

"Okay, alright!"

Sura lowered her head and said, "If that's the case, to be honest, I don't know Mr. Hopkins."

"Or rather, I just know him, but I've never met him."

Bell: "???"

No, what are you doing?!

Aren't you one of those actors hired by the Southern faction? Of course I know you haven't met Hopkins.

But you can't really say that!

"Cough cough!"

Bell quickly tried to smooth things over, "Ms. Grant, are you too nervous and said something wrong?"

"No!"

Sula looked completely innocent. "I really haven't met Mr. Hopkins. I've only written to him through the channels of the 'Ask the Government Federation'."

what?

Bell was so dizzy that he almost fell over in the courtroom.

Who is it...?

Who found this actor?!

The courtroom was thrown into complete chaos.

People whispered among themselves, clearly unable to understand what had happened.

"She's never met Hopkins?"

"But didn't she claim that her child was Hopkins'?"

"Could she be from some uncivilized region?"

Some quick-thinking individuals have already begun to envision a scenario.

A rural woman who knows nothing about the world longs for a child, but her wish remains unfulfilled.

Suddenly, she heard Eleanor on the radio saying that she could solve people's problems, so she asked someone to write a letter, hoping that Eleanor could help her have a child.

Eleanor herself would certainly not respond to such a request.

But coincidentally, this woman became pregnant during that very period.

So she assumed that her child was given to her by Eleanor.

It must be said that this explanation itself is somewhat convincing.

However, the person who came up with this idea soon dismissed it.

wrong.

The timing doesn't match.

The baby in Sula's arms looked to be at least six months old, which, combined with the ten months of pregnancy, would be more than a year.

More than a year.

Back then, Hopkins was probably still out there doing manual labor somewhere!

The concept of a "Federal Government" is simply out of the question!

Therefore, this argument is clearly untenable.

Immediately, everyone strained their ears and became alert, listening intently to what Sula would say next.

I just want to hear what explanation this woman has to give!

"Ms. Grant!"

Bell's expression was already very serious. "I'm warning you, this is a courtroom. You're not allowed to lie, and you can't talk nonsense!"

"You were just saying that your child is Hopkins'."

"And now you're saying you've never seen him? Then where did this child come from?"

"Let me remind you, the power to conceive and give birth is a power that only God has!"

"Hopkins is not God, and you are not the Virgin Mary!"

Bell was at his wit's end. In his opinion, this woman was so stupid she could be put in a museum.

However, Surah completely failed to grasp his implication.

"I didn't lie, and I didn't talk nonsense!"

She loudly defended herself, "Of course I would not compare myself to the Virgin Mary. This child is the fruit of my love with my husband. He carried me for ten months and gave birth to this child. How could I make a mistake!"

“My husband is here today too, he can vouch for me!”

Sula finished speaking.

A blond man in the audience stood up, smiling and waving to those around him.

Clearly, he was Mr. Grant.

wow

The scene was stunned. What... what is going on?

It was obvious that the blond baby in Sula's arms was the blond man's child.

They look exactly alike.

Then what are you saying here that the child is Hopkins'?

At this moment, a member of the Southern faction suddenly clutched his chest.

"I can't take it anymore, I can't take it anymore!"

He angrily shouted, "Who brought this stupid woman here? False accusations are one thing, but how could she bring her husband to the scene!"

Her husband was also very broad-minded; he could even laugh.

Boom boom boom!

The judge struck the gavel again!

"Ms. Grant!"

The judge said sternly, "What are you doing in court? Are you trying to fool me like I'm an idiot?"

"No!"

Sura protested, "I saw everyone else coming to sue Mr. Hopkins, and I thought we had all agreed beforehand, so I came along."

"I actually think this is a good thing!"

"We thought everyone wanted to know about Mr. Hopkins's righteous act."

A righteous act?

What righteous act?

The judge, true to his word, suddenly realized that something seemed amiss.

He disregarded his own status and directly asked:

“Ms. Grant, tell me the whole story in detail. No lying, no nonsense!”

"Oh!"

Sula nodded, thinking that the judge was really crazy.

What I really wanted to say was that it was you who kept interrupting me.

"This child was indeed born to my husband and me, but at the same time, he is also Mr. Hopkins' child."

"It was about two months ago. At that time, we had completely run out of food, but the government wasn't providing any relief..."

Upon hearing this, the audience members in the gallery couldn't help but nod in agreement.

If I'm not mistaken, what Sula is referring to is the Emergency Relief and Construction Act, signed by the previous president, Hoffer.

The previous president himself was completely unwilling to oversee the relief efforts.

They are only willing to bail out the market, not to save people.

The relief grains we received before were all funded by the local governments themselves.

But if the federal government doesn't provide funding, how long can local governments provide relief?

Therefore, there have been strong calls for the president to provide relief funds.

Hoffer reluctantly approved the Emergency Relief and Construction Act just before he left office.

It allows loans to states as relief funds to be used for relief work.

However, he both imposed strict standards and demanded that local governments provide matching funds.

As a result, by the time she left office, almost none of the money had reached the people.