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The So-Called Capitol Rioters Will be Found Innocent. Here's How.

GrundleStiltzkinGrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,480
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For Capitol defendants’ attorneys, finding mitigating factors will be key in softening potential prison sentences.

Watkins, the “Q Shaman” Jacob Chansley’s attorney, said his client had Asperger’s syndrome and indicated that Chansley’s mental state — and the impact of Trump’s “propaganda” efforts — would play a role in his case.

“A lot of these defendants — and I’m going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they’re all fucking short-bus people,” Watkins told TPM. “These are people with brain damage, they’re fucking retarded, they’re on the goddamn spectrum.”

“But they’re our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors, our coworkers — they’re part of our country. These aren’t bad people, they don’t have prior criminal history. Fuck, they were subjected to four-plus years of goddamn propaganda the likes of which the world has not seen since fucking Hitler.”

One particularly remorseful defendant, Anthony Antonio, was sick with a novel disease, “Foxitis,” when he entered the Capitol through a broken window on Jan. 6, his attorney Joe Hurley argued during an initial appearance earlier this month.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/capitol-rioters-trump-defense-comes-up-again-and-again-will-it-make-a-difference
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  • GrundleStiltzkinGrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,480
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    “A lot of these defendants — and I’m going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they’re all fucking short-bus people,” Watkins told TPM. “These are people with brain damage, they’re fucking retarded, they’re on the goddamn spectrum.”

    New bored motto

    hurtful
  • SledogSledog Member Posts: 30,466
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    If you invite them in you own it.
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,919
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    If they were minorities you might be right. The fact that they are mostly white folks is going to work against them.
  • SledogSledog Member Posts: 30,466
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    SFGbob said:

    If they were minorities you might be right. The fact that they are mostly white folks is going to work against them.

    Well lefties think people of color don't have the intellect to get a drivers license so yeah.
  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 100,685
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    What is Its defense?


  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,919
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    Do you know what a hard-on prosecutors in DC who are constantly being presented with young black males to prosecute are going to have for a bunch of mostly white guys who's politics they already hate come before them in in Court room? There's no down side to throwing the book at these guys. There's no community pressure to show leniency and this is their opportunity to show that the Judicial system isn't systemically racist and that they are racists.
  • WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 13,697
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    For Capitol defendants’ attorneys, finding mitigating factors will be key in softening potential prison sentences.

    Watkins, the “Q Shaman” Jacob Chansley’s attorney, said his client had Asperger’s syndrome and indicated that Chansley’s mental state — and the impact of Trump’s “propaganda” efforts — would play a role in his case.

    “A lot of these defendants — and I’m going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they’re all fucking short-bus people,” Watkins told TPM. “These are people with brain damage, they’re fucking retarded, they’re on the goddamn spectrum.”

    “But they’re our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors, our coworkers — they’re part of our country. These aren’t bad people, they don’t have prior criminal history. Fuck, they were subjected to four-plus years of goddamn propaganda the likes of which the world has not seen since fucking Hitler.”

    One particularly remorseful defendant, Anthony Antonio, was sick with a novel disease, “Foxitis,” when he entered the Capitol through a broken window on Jan. 6, his attorney Joe Hurley argued during an initial appearance earlier this month.

    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/capitol-rioters-trump-defense-comes-up-again-and-again-will-it-make-a-difference
    It's always funny asking what were Trump's horrible propoganda efforts for four years that the world hasn't seen since Hitler. All you will get is lies and evasion - just lots of feelz.
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