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by
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After
launching
himself
into
wingnut
legal
threats
like
the
MyPillow
fluffer’s
pledge
to
sue
critics
of
COVID
misinformation
and
Carter
Page’s
defamation
suit
against
Yahoo,
and
then
leaning
hard
into
Mike
Pence
execution
fantasies, Lin
Wood
cast
his
lot
with
Sidney
Powell’s
universe
of
Kraken
lawsuits
imagining
a
world
where
Donald
Trump
hadn’t
lost
to
Joe
Biden.
It
was
a
poor
choice.
And
a
choice
that
ended
in
some
serious
sanctions
despite
some
mendacious
efforts
to
avoid
responsibility
for
putting
his
name
on
the
suit.
Add
in
his
dispute
with
former
partners
—
which
allegedly
elevated
to
violent
threats
—
and
a disbarment
inquiry
he
answered
by
doxxing
the
disciplinary
committee
to
his
“army
of
patriots,”
and
the
Eleventh
Circuit
started
wondering
if
Wood
might
need
some
more
serious
intervention.
Yesterday,
Wood
took
the
uncharacteristically
graceful
path:
If
granted
leave
to
retire,
this
would
end
the
career
of
a
once-respected
attorney
whose
decision
to
embrace
MAGA
craziness
dragged
him
into
an
ethical
quagmire
that
he
had
little
hope
of
ever
escaping.
Rudy
Giuliani’s
fall
from
crusading
U.S.
Attorney
to
getting
his
law
license
yanked
and
making
ends
meet
on
Cameo
is
rightfully
the
most
dramatic
instance
of
a
lawyer
throwing
away
everything
for
Trump’s
adoration,
but
Wood’s
not
far
off.
Don’t
cry
because
it’s
over,
cry
because
it
happened
in
the
first
place.
Earlier:
Someone
Take
Lin
Wood’s
Keyboard
Before
He
Gets
In
More
Trouble
11th
Circuit
Sees
No
Reason
Lawyer
Lin
Wood
Should
Not
Have
His
Head
Examined
Lin
Wood’s
Former
Partner
Says
She
Was
Threatened
With
‘Gang
Rape’
Because
Of
His
Rhetoric
My
Pillow
Guy
Hires
Lin
Wood
To
Sue
Anderson
Cooper
For
Defamation
Over
Poison
Plant
COVID
Drug
Lin
Wood
Canceled
By
His
Peers
Over
The
Whole
‘Execute
The
Veep’
Thing
Citing
Lin
Wood’s
‘Toxic
Stew
Of
Mendacity,’
Delaware
Judge
Tosses
Him
Off
Carter
Page
Suit
Trump
Lawyers
Say
They
Can’t
Be
Sanctioned
Because
They
Didn’t
Sign
Anything
(P.S.
They
Totally
Signed
Things)
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