Attorney Richard Wood is a longtime headline hogger with an instinct for signing marquee clients. These days, he's representing Kyle Rittenhouse, the Boy Who Would Be Rambo.
As a practitioner of alternative truths, Wood hits it out of the ballpark on this one. Who ever would have thought that a wacko teen with a gun bigger than his brain would be called a patriot for killing peaceful protesters in cold blood?
With 717,000 followers on Twitter, Wood has been pushing a new message in Georgia, where the balance of power in the U.S. Senate lies in two run-off elections in January.
Wood says, boycott the vote! His reasoning is that the election is going to be crooked anyway, so they should all take a principled stance against the entire process.
Even Newt Gingrich, former House speaker, who weaponized House Republicans a few decades back, said "It's one of the nuttier things I've seen in a long time in politics."
Donald Trump even called Wood to tell him to knock it off, with no effect.
It seems that Wood really has gone off his rocker, according to three lawyers who work with him. Last year, they say, he began making “abusive, incoherent phone calls, voicemails, texts, and emails ... All of these erratic communications have a few things in common: most of these emails profess that God or the Almighty was commanding his actions; many were stating his refusal to pay the Plaintiffs ‘one thin dime;’ and virtually all were abusive.” (This according to the Politico article linked below.)
Wood's behavior worsened until he got physically violent with two of the three lawyers. They say, "Wood later acknowledged and apologized for this violence."
The upshot is that Republicans across the country want Wood to shut up. Democrats, however -- well, a few may just be enjoying the spectacle.
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