Invites a guy who he knows is planning an illegal donation
Has a long conversation with the guy confirming that he will take the illegal donation
Has Champagne and oysters to celebrate this donation.
“I didn’t know what was happening. I wasn’t listening. It wasn’t me.”
For anyone who still hasn’t seen the video:
And believe you me–they’ll take anything
“Believe you me” is so funny to read as a English phrase
Absolutely it sounds nonsense.
It’s perfectly grammatical, but it’s one of the few commands where the subject isn’t elided. The others that occur to me are “hear ye, hear ye,” and “look on my works, ye mighty, and despair,”from Ozymandias, both of which are definitely very old fashioned sounding.