You Are Bloodthirsty For Ratingsâ: Trump Attorney Tears Into Media, Rips Off His Mic
By Hank Berrien
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Feb 14, 2021 DailyWire.com
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Speaking with CBS Newsâ Lana Zak Saturday following the acquittal of former President Trump in the impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, Trumpâs attorney Michael van der Veen blasted the media, saying, âYou are bloodthirsty for ratings.â At the end of the interview, van der Veen simply tore off his microphone and dropped it.
Zak began the exchange accusing, âThroughout the trial, you denied that Mr. Trump had a role in inciting the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. First of all, you argued that there was no insurrection, but during your closing arguments you seemingly admitted that there was, in fact, an insurrection, using that word, saying that that was not up for debate. What role did the former president play ââ
Van der Veen interrupted, âNo. You didnât understand the case. I used the word insurrectionââ
Zak: Iâll give you the opportunity to clarify, sir.
Van der Veen:
Sure, I used the word insurrection in my closing argument when closing the charging documents. What happened at the Capitol on January 6 is absolutely horrific. But what happened at the Capitol during this trial was not too far away from that. The prosecutors in this case doctored evidence. They did not investigate this case and when they had to come to the court of the Senate to put their case on, they hadnât done any investigation. They doctored evidence. It was absolutely shocking I think when we discovered it and we were able to expose it and put it out; I think it turned a lot of senators. The American people should not be putting up with this, they need to look at who these House managers were and look to see whether these were the folks they want representing them. It was shocking to me, wouldnât have believed it.
Zak: Letâs follow up with a point that youâre making about the House managers, as you say, doctoring evidence. And the argument â
Van der Veen: They didnât deny it. They didnât deny it. I put in front of them three times â
Zak: To be clear for our viewers, what youâre talking about is a checkmark thatâs a verification on Twitter that did not exist on that particular tweet, a 2020 that should have actually read 2021, and the selective editing, you say, of the tapes. Is that the doctored evidence of what youâre speaking?
Van der Veen: Wait, wait, wait, wait , wait, wait, wait. Thatâs not enough for you? Thatâs not enough for you?
Zak, smirking: Sir, Iâm not a juror in this trial, I just want to be clear for our viewers, is what youâre referring to, because not everybody has been following â
Van der Veen: Wait, wait, wait, wait. No, listen. Itâs not okay to doctor a little bit of evidence.
Zak: Respectfullyâ
Van der Veen: Respectfullyâ
Zak: I have not said it is. I want to be clear for our viewers. I want to be clear for our viewers about what exactly youâre saying when you say doctored evidence.
Van der Veen :
Maâam, your question is turned. What has to happen, the media has to start telling the right story in this country. The media is trying to divide the country. You are bloodthirsty for ratings, and as such, youâre asking questions now that are already set up with a fact pattern. I canât believe you would ask me a question indicating that itâs all right just to doctor a little bit of evidence. Thereâs more stuff that we uncovered that they doctored, to be frank with you, and perhaps that will come out one day. âŚ
What should happen is someone should look at the conduct of these House managers. Itâs unconscionable, aside from all of the due process violations that my client had. And the media should be looking at that in a square, straight way. A straight way. When I watch the news, I watch one station and itâs raining. I watch another station at the same time and itâs sunny. Your coverage is so slanted, itâs gotta stop. You guys have to stop and start reporting more like PBS does rather than a TV news show that doesnât have any journalistic integrity at all.
What Iâm telling you is that they doctored evidence, and I believe your question says, âWell, itâs only a Twitter check and changing a year of date here.â They switched the date of a Twitter a year to try to connect it to this case. Thatâs not a small thing. maâam. The other thing they did is they put a check mark on something to make it look like it was a validated account when it wasnât. And when they were caught, they didnât say anything about it. They didnât even try to come up with an excuse about it. And thatâs not the way our prosecutors or our government officials should be conducting themselves.
And the media shouldnât be letting them get away with it, either. Iâm tired of the biased media on both sides, Left and Right. What this country wants, what this country needs, is this country to come together; to take the Left and the Right and find a middle ground and start responsibly being our public officials, our elected officials. And one of the reasons why they do it is because of the media. Because the media want to tell their narrative, rather than just telling it is. And frankly, Iâm tired of it. Iâm not in front of your cameras all the time, but what Iâve been subjected to this last week â
Zak: I will remind you that what I said was that for our viewers who have not been following all of the hours of this trial, to be clear about what you are speaking about.
Van der Veen: Iâm speaking about the House managersâ failure to prove their case. Thatâs what Iâm telling you; they werenât able to prove their case.
Zak stated, âYou have won the acquittal of your client.â
Van der Veen: Yes. I did.
Zak: And if you want to continue to talk about this conversation we can have that discussion.
Van der Veen: I donât need to.
Zak: But for me to ask a question, for me to ask a question, to clarify for our viewers â
Van der Veen: A slanted question. A slanted question that was set up to say âItâs okay for them to cheat.â That was your question. âIsnât it okay for them to cheat? Itâs just a little bit.â
Zak: I didnât say that.
Van Der Veen: You said, âTo be fair,â it was only a check on the Twitter. Thatâs what you said. You gotta live by your words.â Thatâs the problem. The media has got to start living by the truth and not try to create a narrative.â
Zak: Michael van der Veen.
Van der Veen: Citizen.
Then van der Veen dropped the mic on the ground.
âThe suburban Philadelphia home of one of the attorneys defending former President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial has been vandalized with graffiti. Detective Scott Pezick of the West Whiteland Township Police Department in Chester County said the graffiti were reported around 8 p.m. Friday at the home of attorney Michael van der Veen.
The Philadelphia Inquirer posted a photo showing the word âTraitorâ in red paint at the entrance of the driveway and an arrow pointing to the home,â
NBC Philadelphia reported.
Speaking with CBS Newsâ Lana Zak Saturday following the acquittal of former President Trump in the impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, Trumpâs attorney Michael van der Veen blasted the media, saying, âYou are bloodthirsty for ratings.â At the end of the interview, van der Veen simply tore off...
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