I’ve been paying dutiful attention to the political world for years now – directly since 2014, indirectly since probably 2000, and somewhat since 1984 – but having any clue as to what’s going on in GOP land these days is getting beyond me. Consider this Daily Beast article on Trumpist lawyer Lin Wood:
Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood ramped up the crazy on Wednesday night by suggesting Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was somehow involved in Justice Antonin Scalia’s death and part of a child-sex cult.
Wood, alongside on-again-off-again Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, has been at the forefront of President Donald Trump’s hopeless attempt to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s decisive victory in the Nov. 3 election. Besides filing a slew of conspiratorial lawsuits alleging election fraud that have been laughed out of court, Wood has urged Georgian Republicans not to vote in next week’s pivotal Senate runoffs because of his belief that the election will be “rigged” and has filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court to halt the Jan. 5 election.
The QAnon-peddling attorney took things to a whole new level on Wednesday night, however, when he decided to take to Twitter and toss out a series of dangerously unhinged accusations.
Here’s one of the tweets:
A couple of more questions for Chief Justice John Roberts:
(1) You are recorded discussing Justice Scalia’s successor before date of his sudden death. How did you know Scalia was going to die?
(2) Are you a member of any club or cabal requiring minor children as initiation fee? pic.twitter.com/jGxfgLCk4D
— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) December 31, 2020
Maybe Wood’s account was hacked?
Wood has certainly encouraged the belief that the Georgia Presidential vote was corrupted, despite three different verifications conducted by Republican state officials, and that therefore Republicans shouldn’t vote in the runoff for the two Senate Georgia seats. Which is all a bit nonsensical.
But far-right commentator Erick Erickson remarked back on December 3rd that Wood is hardly trustworthy, in his opinion:
The man who donated to Barack Obama and Michelle Nunn and now wants Republican voters to let the Democrats take the Senate is also subject to a lawsuit filed by the lawyers who worked with him.
Lin Wood seems to have some issues, based on this lawsuit by his legal partners.
From the lawsuit:
During the 3.5-hour teleconference, Defendant Wood referred to himself as Almighty; offered to fight the individual Plaintiffs to the death; demanded the Plaintiffs’ undying loyalty; threatened to “hurt” the Plaintiffs; offered to have the Plaintiffs stay in the firm; and called Plaintiff Grunberg a “Chilean Jew” and demanded that he admit he does not look like the other lawyers in the firm.
Well. Is Wood (1) a Trumpian lawyer with a sordid past, (2) a lefty plant, or (3) an escapee from a dementia ward?
I’ll vote for (3).
But if he’s not, then the swirl of filth in the GOP cauldron is really getting to be an incoherent, indecipherable mess. Even trying to characterize it as religious mania is a stretch. The best I can do is suggest that multiple national adversaries are quietly stirring the broth, fighting over the spatula, and taking advantage of the credulous to a spectacular degree.
Perhaps democracy is a doomed mess. That, or the Web.
But, if we do survive the madness, there’s gonna be a whole lot of Ph.D.s awarded for those who study this mass psychosis.
