“A lawyer for the QAnon Shaman who claims his client was following President Trump’s invitation when he stormed the US Capitol says a lot of the MAGA rioters are ‘f***ing retarded’ and on the ‘goddamn spectrum’,” the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail reported on Tuesday, May 18, 2021.
“In an expletive-laden interview …, Chansley’s attorney Albert Watkins suggested that his 33-year-old client’s mental state and Trump’s so-called ‘propaganda’ would play a role in his case,” i.e., in his defense, the Daily Mail said.
It’s not a good sign when your own lawyer plans to argue to a judge and jury that you’re a gullible retard as his strategy to keep you out of prison. But when you dress up in animal skins and make wolf howls, there’s not much to work with, and the lawyer has to make do with what there is.
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The ‘Trump made me do it’ is not going to fly with any court. His client is not that nuts, at least not the kind of drooling eyes glazed rocking back and forth that may get a Federal judge’s notice. Though I think the judge should go with time served, a $500 dollar fine, a one way Greyhound ticket out of town. This way the judge and us get to enjoy the guy’s antics in whatever cable show scores him. We should not be denied our entertainment, which will not happen if this dude is in Federal Prison. The lawyer needs to go with some kind of the dude abides defense.
He’s charged with 6 felonies and faces up to 25 years in federal prison. I very much doubt he’ll get off with a $500 fine and a bus ticket. The judge wouldn’t even let him out on bail.