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Trump’s Philly lawyers won the impeachment trial. But they’re facing a backlash at home
Philadelphia Inquirer via MSN ^ | 02/13/2021 | Jeremy Roebuck

Posted on 02/14/2021 1:01:40 PM PST by Kid Shelleen

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Michael van der Veen hired 24-hour private security for his family after vandals smashed windows and spray-painted “TRAITOR” on the driveway of his suburban Philadelphia home Friday night. He told reporters Saturday he received more than 100 death threats.

And they acknowledged being caught off guard by the level of rancor from Trump’s critics and supporters alike — even given the country’s fiercely divided politics and how other lawyers in his orbit have fared.

“I’ve been representing controversial clients for 30 years, and I’ve never experienced this type of vitriol,” said William J. Brennan, another local member of the team whose past clients include priests accused of sexual abuse and judges facing corruption charges

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; censured; fakenews; mostlypeaceful; obamas; patriots; persecution; trumpacquittal; vendetta
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To: Hambone 1934

From “slouching towards Gomorrah” and “the closing of the American mind” the Left has been on track to imbecility since way back. Like cancer it didn’t seem so bad to them as they began but the exact same cancer that kills is separated from the meh stage cancer by nothing more than time.


41 posted on 02/14/2021 1:29:50 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Sadly, the vandalism is not a surprise at all.


42 posted on 02/14/2021 1:31:06 PM PST by Theodore R. ( )
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To: Kid Shelleen

The Left are deranged. Can’t let people live freely.


43 posted on 02/14/2021 1:31:26 PM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: Kid Shelleen

So are the Inquirer and MSN condemning the death threats, or suggesting that they are somehow well-deserved?


44 posted on 02/14/2021 1:31:36 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Kid Shelleen
And they acknowledged being caught off guard by the level of rancor from Trump’s critics and supporters alike

I am flabbergasted he did not realize this.

45 posted on 02/14/2021 1:33:21 PM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: Kid Shelleen
The good people have been careful to not be violent and to not be intimidating and to not raise hell.

The bad people are winning.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ― Edmund Burke

Perhaps it's time for the good men (and women) to start doing something. The bad people are counting on us to be peaceful and tolerant and quiet.
46 posted on 02/14/2021 1:36:06 PM PST by adorno
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To: Kid Shelleen

Doesn’t threatening a lawyer for defending a client strike at the heart of our constitutional system, of “democracy,” as the left likes to put it? Is the FBI looking into this?


47 posted on 02/14/2021 1:36:49 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Kid Shelleen

We all know exactly how the FBI as an organization will respond to these Interstate terrorist threats.

The comparison between their response to this and their response to a garage door pull rope tied in a loop tells us everything we need to know about the Deep State.


48 posted on 02/14/2021 1:37:15 PM PST by Pollster1 (America is no longer in Claire Wolfe's "awkward stage")
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To: Kid Shelleen

“”I’ve never experienced this type of vitriol””

Well, join the crowd. We’re experiencing it for the first time in our lives also and we don’t like it either. It’s not the country we were born into...but appears to be the country that our children and grandchildren/great grandchildren will have!!! One full of traitors and backstabbers. No one but those who do not understand history can feel good about this.


49 posted on 02/14/2021 1:39:51 PM PST by Thank You Rush ( )
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To: Lazamataz
Maybe you are not interested in politics, but make no mistake: Politics is interested in YOU

Always ceases to amaze me how the "I can't get involved" types don't seem to realize that the taxes they pay will be involved, whether they have a job or not will be involved, the value of their house will be involved, the curriculum taught their children will be involved, the health care they can get or not get will be involved, ...

That sounds like a lot of "involvement" to me.

50 posted on 02/14/2021 1:40:29 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: Hostage

Trump had the power of the people which he did not use. And his team should have informed the people that the states were violating the constitution before the election and not after. And he should have pounded home on the fact that the unconstitutional changes that were not being made by the state legislatures were for one purpose only. Massive vote fraud.

You now live in a banana republic that is fast becoming a communist nation. And the best solutions, and only likely solutions are now behind us. Taking reality into account then I would say it is too late. The only remaining solution is rather unlikely. You best learn Chinese.

The democrats at least understand that being proactive is the best way to get what they want. Trump and the conservatives have always been brain dead in that regard. Thinking just as you do. And therefore they always come out the losers in the end.

When Trump first got in then the republicans controlled the entire legislature. Absolutely nothing was done about vote fraud. Conservatives are simply fools about how to win and how to protect the nation. They may know the way it should be. But they are incapable of achieving there goals. And they not capable of learning from their mistakes. And here we go around the circle again dreaming and hoping of next time. Playing the game the exact same way which ensures defeat. Only this time it is too late. You lose. We all lose.


51 posted on 02/14/2021 1:41:40 PM PST by Revel
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To: Lod881019

Not with the soros Das in Montco, Philly and Delaware counties. Need a stand your ground law in PA. person on your property doing damage, attacking you can be shot. That will stop it.


52 posted on 02/14/2021 1:41:46 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: Kid Shelleen

Yep! Precisely and well put!


53 posted on 02/14/2021 1:41:53 PM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: BenLurkin

Bingo!


54 posted on 02/14/2021 1:42:20 PM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: deport


I reported myself.

Done.


55 posted on 02/14/2021 1:42:44 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: Kid Shelleen

The Left does not tolerate dissent. We must not tolerate The Left.


56 posted on 02/14/2021 1:44:09 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

If democrats burn down cities, loot at will, threaten lawyers it doesn’t matter because fools writing for newspapers and brownshits at ‘Homeland & FBI’ - only care about ‘intentions’.

Yes, ask the New York Times boys and girls..

And they know ‘the intentions’ of antifa and blm are good - and if those groups killed dozens of people the last 12 months and did two billion dollars worth of damage - - it doesn’t matter ... it’s NOT domestic terrorism BECAUSE THEIR ‘INTENTIONS’ were good.

Same here.

If white liberal elites and their thugs rough up a few lawyers who are probably democrats anyhow, it won’t matter. That’s how it works in commie hellholes... Some people are more equal (by far) than other people. It’s the exact opposite of ‘rule of law’... it rule by hellhole ‘elites’...


57 posted on 02/14/2021 1:44:18 PM PST by GOPJ (Biden voters: billionaires and idiots. Check your bank account to see which one you are.PookieToons)
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To: Kid Shelleen

How do you ‘win’ something you had zero chance of losing to begin with.


58 posted on 02/14/2021 1:44:40 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Kid Shelleen

Don’t be to concerned over a cowardly SOB who sprays insults on your wall!!!


59 posted on 02/14/2021 1:46:03 PM PST by ontap
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To: adorno
"Perhaps it's time for the good men (and women) to start doing something. The bad people are counting on us to be peaceful and tolerant and quiet."

It seems we aren't allowed to defend ourselves. Just ask the McCloskey's and Kyle Rittenhouse. BLM and Antifa riot with virtual impunity: either no charges are filed, charges are quietly dropped, or some minimal penalty is imposed for the few who actually go to trial and are convicted. But they throw the book at anyone who pushes back.
60 posted on 02/14/2021 1:46:23 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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