Sad to see this downvoted. Shows just how many have accepted the propaganda fed to them without doing any of their own diligence on the topic. This was an egregious abuse of power by federal law enforcement [1], regardless of the heinousness of the scheme.
Also sad to see a defense attorney's unsubstantiated and self-serving claims presented as Absolute Truth. "Diligence" doesn't mean just cherry-picking whatever source or narrative suits you.
MLive is considered a relatively unbiased production. To call what they've presented as "narrative" reveals your own bias. Perhaps you'd prefer a source closer to your own proclivities [1] which states:
> Last week, the lawyer for one defendant filed a motion that included texts from an FBI agent to a key informant, the Iraq War veteran, directing him to draw specific people into the conspiracy — potential evidence of entrapment that he said the government “inadvertently disclosed.” He is requesting all texts sent and received by that informant, and other attorneys are now considering motions that accuse the government of intentionally withholding evidence of entrapment.
Here's a direct link to the motion [2]. If you'd like to count evidence presented to the court as "unsubstantiated" even with them in black and white (self-serving is moot, as each side of a prosecution is inherently self-serving), well then that's your prerogative - but it speaks to an inability to consider the possibility that your preconceived notions can be challenged.
I'm familiar with MLive, but even good organizations are capable of making mistakes. As for "evidence presented to the court" that is not what this is. It is a motion to compel discovery in hopes of uncovering such evidence. Such motions can be quite legitimate and well founded, but they can also be desperate fishing expeditions. Either way, they are not evidence in and of themselves. For MLive to report these claims without highlighting the lack of support behind them is sloppy at best.
Please stop misrepresenting the facts. The endless parade of ad hominem attacks isn't helpful either. Read the site guidelines before you decide to keep digging that hole.
> The endless parade of ad hominem attacks isn't helpful either. Read the site guidelines before you decide to keep digging that hole.
My mistake was assuming good faith and a reasonable disposition, and not looking into your activity before replying. Your bio and spate of recent replies make it clear that any conversation in good faith is impossible. Citing the site guidelines is a convenient and lazy escape hatch draped in irony as you seem to flaunt them at will. Rest assured, we'll have no further interaction.
I’m not sure extremists are able to actually apply logic and understand that difference though - the kind of mindset that leads people to join paramilitaries that commit terrorism and murder police isn’t especially vulnerable to reason. The lawyers that they follow (Lin Manuel, and the other Kraken lawyer) are currently being sanctioned for this exact same pattern of dishonesty, and know that their followers will accept their words unquestioningly, regardless of reality.
You can see it in their reply to you: they skip over the argument to focus in on the part they think will discredit you. The fact that he thinks he’s successfully categorized you as “antifa” means that they can safely dismiss your idea. Your argument didn’t reference MLive at all, but they needed to fixate in that part as the logic in your answer wasn’t debatable.
You’re not going to reason with them, for the simple fact that reason has nothing to do with this. They’ll just cherry pick one part of your argument and throw in more unsubstantiated allegations and then use the fact you want proof as more evidence that you’re against them.
The disgraced lawyer is Lin Wood. Lin Manuel Miranda is the guy who did Hamilton. The name of the other “Kraken” lawyer you’re thinking of is Sydney Powell.
Are you talking about the plot the FBI cooked up against Whitmer? The one that's in the process of being laughed out of court?
Your bias has completely blinded you to reality.