Indeed that’s why I found it so funny that he made a pointed jab at “how much emotion has been injected into this trial” in his remarks on the Senate floor. That’s also what makes his impassioned right-wing paint-by-numbers anti-media rant during the interview so patently ridiculous. And of course, there’s the classic “all politicians are the same” canard, which is really just gravy. He’s desperate to downplay the fact that the GOP’s most powerful congressperson, Mitch McConnell, a man whose Republican/conservative bona fides are irrefutable, has publicly expressed a belief that Donald Trump is in fact guilty and can/should face legal consequences.
Is nobody gonna talk about the fact that van der Veen flat out lied about the context of his use of the word “insurrection”? He said during the interview (4:21 in the video) that he was merely “quoting the charging documents”, but at 2:30 he very unambiguously says “the question before us is not whether there was a violent insurrection of the Capitol; on that point everyone agrees.”
Of course he’s Trump’s lawyer. He has the sole prerequisite: being colossally full of shit.
