{"id":52467,"date":"2021-02-14T12:26:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T16:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=52467"},"modified":"2021-02-14T12:26:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T16:26:55","slug":"trump-lawyers-home-vandalized-amid-wave-of-death-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=52467","title":{"rendered":"Trump Lawyer&#8217;s Home Vandalized Amid Wave Of Death Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;Never Experienced Such Vitriol&#8221; &#8211; Trump Lawyer&#8217;s Home Vandalized Amid Wave Of Death Threats<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Vandals have stepped up attacks on political officials&#8217; homes this year as the country descends into chaos. Recently, Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi had their homes spray-painted and damaged. Now non-political figures are being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>The suburban Philadelphia home of Michael van der Veen, one of former President Trump&#8217;s defense attorneys, was vandalized on Friday night, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/538778-trump-lawyer-van-der-veen-says-his-house-was-attacked-hes-faced-death-threats\">The Hill.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Van der Veen spoke to the reporters Saturday after the Senate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/mcconnell-says-hell-vote-acquit-trump-democrats-have-votes-call-impeachment-witnesses\">acquitted<\/a>\u00a0Trump of incitement with a final vote of\u00a057-43,\u00a0with seven Republicans breaking ranks to vote with the Democrats. He told a press pool about the damage his home sustained.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;My home was attacked. I&#8217;d rather not go into it because it would encourage other people to do it more, but you know,\u00a0<strong>I&#8217;ve had nearly 100 death threats,<\/strong>&#8221; he told a press pool.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Van der Veen said he&#8217;s far from a\u00a0<em>&#8220;controversial guy<\/em>&#8221; and is not a political figure.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;<strong>My home was attacked last night &#8211; windows broken, spray paint, really bad words spray-painted everywhere.<\/strong>\u00a0And the thing is, you guys don&#8217;t know me, but you know I&#8217;m not a controversial guy. I&#8217;m not politically minded so to speak,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m a trial lawyer and I represent people&#8217;s interests in court. That&#8217;s what I do. I love doing it. And I&#8217;m disappointed that that is the result of just me doing my job,&#8221; v<\/em>an der Veen added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com\/2021\/02\/13\/michael-van-der-veen-traitor-home-vandalized-donald-trump-impeachment\/\">CBS Philly<\/a>\u00a0photographed the end of van der Veen&#8217;s driveway where someone had spray-painted words\u00a0that read &#8220;traitor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-02-14_09-54-44.png?itok=CXBtL_Ut\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-02-14_09-54-44.png?itok=CXBtL_Ut\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-02-14_09-54-44.png?itok=CXBtL_Ut\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"2ddcb730-a9ed-4b11-b58b-b178a83590cd\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_borderTop__2PX5m Advert_placement__1I4yb\"><\/div>\n<p>Detective Scott Pezick of the West Whiteland Township Police Department in Chester County told CBS Philly vandals struck Trump&#8217;s lawyer&#8217;s home around 20:00 ET Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Pezick said no arrests had been made, but &#8220;we&#8217;ve been showing a police presence to deter anything from happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another lawyer on the team, William J. Brennan, told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia\/trump-impeachment-trial-philadelphia-lawyers-backlash-20210213.html\">The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>\u00a0that<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been representing controversial clients for 30 years, and I&#8217;ve never experienced this type of vitriol.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>He said, &#8220;We had no political agenda here. We are not partisan warriors. We are criminal defense lawyers who represented a client.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Later on Saturday,\u00a0President Joe Biden released a statement\u00a0in response to Trump&#8217;s acquittal by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;While the final vote did not lead to a conviction,\u00a0<strong>the substance of the charge is not in dispute<\/strong>,&#8221; Biden said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He also said,\u00a0<em>&#8220;this sad chapter in our history has reminded us that democracy is fragile,&#8221; and that<strong>\u00a0&#8220;violence and extremism&#8221; do not belong in this country.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;And that each of us has a duty and responsibility as Americans, and especially as leaders, to defend the truth and to defeat the lies,&#8221; Biden said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;That is how we end this uncivil war and heal the very soul of our nation,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0he said, adding that we all must unify.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230; again, Biden makes calls for &#8220;<strong>unity<\/strong>&#8221; as a new wave of violence targets political figure homes, and, anyone associated with Trump.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/trump-lawyers-home-targeted-vandals-amid-wave-death-threats\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/trump-lawyers-home-targeted-vandals-amid-wave-death-threats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Never Experienced Such Vitriol&#8221; &#8211; Trump Lawyer&#8217;s Home Vandalized Amid Wave Of Death Threats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}