Karen Dunn, attorney for the plaintiffs in Charlottesville civil trial, warns the jury that the Nazi defendants will try to make this case about politics, and that it's not about that. It's about proving they engaged in an illegal conspiracy.
This goes to the heart of what everyone expects the defense to be--antifa caused the violence, blah blah blah--and how it probably won't work because this case isn't about antifa, it's about whether the defendants engaged in an illegal conspiracy that began well before the rally
I'm probably going to be tweeting less about this than Hannah so this is a good thread to follow
https://twitter.com/hannahgais/status/1453732420595765255
also @socialistdogmom has been livetweeting the entire case heroically, follow along here
https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1453720670941089795
the plaintiffs have really emphasized how central the Charlottesville 2.0 Discord server, which the defendants believed was a clandestine channel to organize the conspiracy (it was not), will be to the case
plaintiffs pointed to an email from michael hill of league of the south which basically screams "WE ARE ENGAGED IN A CONSPIRACY"
https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1453736153752891398
plaintiffs point to communications from Matthew Heimbach (former Traditionalist Workers Party head who you may remember from an infamous domestic abuse case in 2018) basically explicitly outlines the org chart of the conspiracy gizmodo.com/white-supremac…
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