A lawyer’s profanity-laden statement to TPM about alleged Capitol attack defendants being “short-bus people” has irredeemably biased the case against a co-defendant of the attorney’s clients, that co-defendant’s attorney told a judge this week.
Tonight on Tucker, “Cancel culture comes to the courtroom.”
Congrats to @MattShuman!
The most of them are "brain damage, they’re fucking retarded, they’re on the goddamn spectrum” defense is always a good one.
Right up there with the twinkie defense.
I see the PC-ness run amok. Calling the QAnon Shaman a short-bus riding retard is not an insult, it’s a fair description.
The lawyers is trying to make a case for innocence of the defendant not being responsible for his acts due to extreme stupidity, which is frankly is obvious to anyone.
“Most does not mean all.”
Nothing to add.
My daughter is on the autism spectrum and rides the “short bus” to school.
This discussion sure makes me feel hopeful for how people will treat her as she goes out into the world (not).
Little snowflake will fall.
Actually it may be an over-statement
Defense attorneys in disarray!
ThAnkS to tpm, a ShOrt bus retaRd won’t get a faiR triaL.
Not fair!
OK then it’s going to be the Donnie defense.
“These are people with brain damage, they’re fucking retarded, they’re on the goddamn spectrum,” Watkins said of the Jan. 6 defendants.
In an email to TPM Friday, Watkins said of his earlier comments, “Most does not mean all.”
I’m sure that if he offended any of them who are not brain damaged, fucking retarded, or on the goddamn spectrum he’ll gladly apologize to them. 
Well, it’s not going to be easy, but if the attitudes of my daughters compared with those of the kids when I went to school are any guide, the treatment will be much more respectful and compassionate.
So, the George Floyd video, posted on every outlet for over a year, didn’t unfairly taint the Chauvin trial, but a comment to TPM, with (all due respect, of course) an audience in D.C, maybe a thousandth as large, has unfairly tainted the ability for a fair trial?
I don’t want to get too legally in the weeds here, but gimme an f’ing break.
Did this guy’s client believe the opinions of one brain-damaged lawyer apply to him?
Can’t wait to see whether Mr. Giuliani’s defense strategy, or perhaps Mr. Trump’s, includes an insanity plea. Both have already invoked self-degradation, but they thought it was self-aggrandizement.
The “he’s a fucking moron” defense is the best he’s got, but, because he’s a fucking moron, he wants a new lawyer.
Lawyer’s ‘Derogatory ’ Comments To TPM…
They should see some of my comments to TPM.
I think that the problem is with the qualifier “fucking,” which is clearly false, as most of the insurgents are incels.