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Meet the Lawyer Behind the Georgia Election Lawsuit That Trump Is Obsessed With

"Trump attorney Lin Wood: Republicans should withhold votes in Georgia"

Obviously bonkers too.

Lin Wood has also represented QAnon-supporting Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, the McCloskey couple, and Kyle Rittenhouse.

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As the president continues to complain, it’s worth taking a closer look at the attorney who filed the lawsuit that Trump is now so invested in. Wood, who previously met Trump in the Oval Office, has also represented Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia QAnon supporter who was elected to Congress; the McCloskey couple who pointed guns at protesters in St. Louis; and Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teen accused of killing two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Wood also helped launch the #FightBack Foundation, which has been raising funds to defend the 17-year-old.

Meanwhile, Wood is fighting a personal legal battle of his own, as I reported in a profile of the attorney in October. In August, Woods’ former colleagues Nicole Wade, Jonathan Grunberg, and Taylor Wilson made some eye-popping accusations in a lawsuit against Wood. (In a lengthy affidavit, Wood responded to the allegations of the complaint and called the suit “frivolous” and “littered with false statements.”) Here’s a sampling of what his former colleagues claimed in the complaint:

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Wood repeatedly emailed them at odd hours and reiterated that he was behaving according to God’s will and would not pay them. “God has given me permission to be profane in this email,” he wrote early one morning around 3:45 a.m. “You damn dumb motherfuckers…God Almighty told me to get you back to where you belong. Broke and essentially homeless.”

He continued: “You all better get on your knees and pray to Almighty God that He now asks me to show you mercy. If he does, I will show it, if he does not, I will deliver a fiery judgment against you on earth. Who the fuck did you think you were dealing with? You were screwing around me with [sic], but I was someone else in disguise. You in fact have been screwing around with God Almighty. I am not God. You lied when you told others that I thought I was…I am L. Lin Wood—the sole member of L. Lin Wood, P.C. The architect of the most masterful and powerful Valentine’s Day massacre known in American history. The last one killed seven. Mine will ruin many more before it is over. Deservedly so.”

In another message to them, he continued with a similar religious theme. The “Best outcome for you in eternity Is Hell for repeatedly interfering with God’s commandment to children to honor their father,” he wrote. But days later, Wood changed his tune and sent another email recanting his prior, threatening messages. He said he’d made “accusatory statements with incomplete information and out of anger, coupled with a tried [sic] brain and body,” according to the lawsuit. He allegedly added that people he loved were worried about his mental health, but he assured the attorneys that while “I am a little crazy…I’m also mainly sane.”
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The next month, in March, Wood met with Trump in the Oval Office. He says he was trying to urge Trump to posthumously award a Presidential Medal of Freedom to his former client Richard Jewell.

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Wood has denounced the lawsuit his colleagues filed against him. “[T]hese young lawyers have chosen to willingly engage in a disgraceful and unprofessional effort to publicly attack me by including irrelevant, out-of-context private messages I sent to them in the midst of a difficult time in my personal life arising primarily from my family’s reaction to my faith in Jesus Christ,” he said in a statement on Twitter, describing the litigation as a “shakedown effort” to coerce him to pay them in a way he believes is unethical. “I am ashamed of them.” (The three attorneys included the Twitter statement in court documents and described it as defamatory.)

https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/11/meet-the-lawyer-behind-the-georgia-election-lawsuit-that-trump-is-obsessed-with/