You’ve gotta love John Pierce. No, seriously. The man’s committed. As a lawyer for dozens of the domestic terrorists who attacked Congress during the Republican-led assault on January 6th, he’s got to sell the innocence of his clients, including Ken Thomas, who was found guilty of a dozen counts including four counts of assaulting or impeding police officers. Pierce, however, goes down the “both sides” path regarding violence during the attack on the Capitol: the police AND the terrorist were both responsible for the attack, Pierce claims before going on to say calling the attack “violent” misrepresents the dozens of people who were there peacefully.
Kudos to CNN’s Abby Phillip who is having none of it, detailing how Pierce is falsely equating the violence perpetrated by his clients (allegedly) and others. Phillip spends nearly a full minute dressing down Pierce for his lies, but Pierce continues insisting that the indictments of his clients were void because others weren’t violent, and therefore given the non-existent transitive property of peacefulness in law, their non-criminal activity rubs off on his criminal clients, and therefore Pierce’s clients should be found not guilty.