Laffy

"He was just following orders..." "Trump did it"... "I was just doing what Trump told me to do"⬇️ 🚌 1/...

Via Kyle Cheney:

PATTIS more squarely blames #Trump for driving the violence on #Jan6 and wonders why #Rehl and not Trump, is the one charged with seditious conspiracy.

Many Jan. 6 defendants are "guilty of believing the president who told them the country was being stolen from them." #legal

Aug 31, 2023 at 7:46pmWeb
Show threadLaffyAug 31, 2023

2/ Shade...

Via Scott MacFarlane:

Defense offers a bit of a challenge to Trump

“Let’s see if he testifies at any of his trials”

Show threadLaffyAug 31, 2023

3/ 🤨 Pattis says that granting prosecutors' request to impose a 30-year sentence on Rehl would be like "burning down Waco."

More:

PATTIS says if Kelly sentences Rehl within the guidelines (36 years to life) "it will create a martyrdom syndrome that will resonate just as Waco did among conspiracy theorists in this country."

Show threadSouprMattAug 31, 2023
@GottaLaff You can’t sentence my client to a long prison term because it would start a civil war? Yeah, I’m sure the judge will like being threatened with violence as a reason to be lenient. Sounds like an even better reason to keep such a person in jail for life.
Show threadRoy #EatTheRich Pardee 🇺🇸Aug 31, 2023
@GottaLaff Yeah, well that may just be a butt-kicking we have to take. We should not act out of fear of terrorist reprisals.
Show threadNihl L'AmasAug 31, 2023
@GottaLaff Let my client go or his friends will get violent! does not seem like a good way to sway a judge.
Show threadsharpstickAug 31, 2023
@GottaLaff “Please consider judge how much your sentencing will displease me and my friends.”
Show threadBernie Luckily Does ItAug 31, 2023
@GottaLaff Is blackmailing the country really seen as a factor in favor of the defendant?
Show threadLaffyAug 31, 2023
@BernieDoesIt When it comes to defending Trump and his thugs, yes.
Show threadLeisureguyAug 31, 2023
@GottaLaff Interesting point. That did not occur to me, but now that it's been pointed out, I think it has merit.
Show threadQuincy PeckAug 31, 2023
@GottaLaff he absolutely will not. If only people had known Trump’s track record of throwing everyone else under the bus to save his own skin. < heaviest possible sarcasm available >
Show threadLaffyAug 31, 2023
@quincypeck Clearly he will not. That's why it was just shade, not a challenge.
Show threadQuincy PeckAug 31, 2023
@GottaLaff I’d love to see more challenges like this. His most devoted followers turning once burned.
Show threadLaffyAug 31, 2023
@quincypeck Same!
Show threadMidwest BobAug 31, 2023
@GottaLaff Sounds more and more like many defenses at the Nuremberg trials post WW II. “I was just following orders.”
Show threadLaffyAug 31, 2023
@BobMazatlan I said the very same thing. https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/110985948040179549