Rittenhouse Attorney Calls GOP Efforts To Cash In On Client 'Disgusting'

[babylonsister]

Rittenhouse Attorney Calls GOP Efforts To Cash In On Client 'Disgusting'
Mark Richards also slammed Donald Trump Jr. as "an idiot" after he announced a gun organization planned to award Rittenhouse an AR-15.
Mary Papenfuss
11/20/2021 07:29pm EST


A defense attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse blasted Republican lawmakers on Saturday for trying to “profit” from his client’s acquittal in the shooting deaths of two men, calling it “disgusting,” Business Insider reported.

“There’s a lot of people trying to profit on this, and I don’t think people should,” attorney Mark Richards told Insider.

“They’re raising money on it, and you have all these Republican congressmen saying come work for me,” he added. “They want to trade on his celebrity, and I think it’s disgusting.”

Richards also called Donald Trump Jr. “an idiot. I don’t have to expand on that because it speaks for itself,” he added.

Richards was responding to a since-deleted tweet from Trump Jr. Saturday announcing that a gun organization planned to award Rittenhouse an AR-15, and urged his followers to sign an accompanying a card “in support of Kyle.”

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[empedocles]

1. Noblesse oblige, on the attorney. The client ONTOH, - may have other 'considerations'

[Tomconroy]

2. I read somewhere that the lawyer is a Democrat.

I hope so. I like to think that we get all the good ones.

[Lovie777]

3. At this point in time . ..

STFU

[LiberatedUSA]

4. You are mad at him for doing his job?

I mean even the worst offenders are entitled to have counsel; why be mad at the lawyer?

[PCIntern]

7. I agree....

Last I looked everyone is entitled to competent counsel. This guy is obviously really bright.

[obamanut2012]

10. He is being an ethical and proper counsel to his client

It is his ethical and legal duty, and what he said is right.

[myohmy2]

5. I wonder...

...what rittenhouse has to say about his attorney's comments...

...as for the pukes, they'd politicize a dog turd if they could...

...republicans...

[Deminpenn]

6. The rw got their claws into to the Rittenhouses

when a guy named John Pierce offered to represent Kyle and wouldn't need to be paid by them. Not surprising a family with little money would find this a godsend. Then Pierce got Lin Wood involved and they started fundraising for, not to mention grifting off, Rittenhouse's defense. It has snowballed from there.

Richards has been trying to extricate Rittenhouse from being used by the rw since he became Rittenhouse's lawyer.

[Tomconroy]

8. Smartest move Rittenhouse did was to get rid of the right wing

Clowns and hire a competent local lawyer.

[Deminpenn]

9. IIRC, Wisconsin law requires that defendants must have

at least one Wisconsin-based lawyer. I believe that's how he ended up with Richards.