Nothing like a Nazi pissing contest to brighten up my day (Charlottseville trial)

[yellowcanine]

https://www.rawstory.com/charlottesville-trial-defendants/

Jason Kessler, the primary organizer of the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally, took the witness stand in a Charlottesville federal courtroom on Monday, where he was crossed-examined by none other than fellow white nationalist leader Richard Spencer.

Kessler landed the first blow during direct examination when lawyer Karen Dunn brought up an angry diatribe laced with racist and anti-Semitic slurs when Spencer learned about the death of Heather Heyer after he and other organizers fled Charlottesville in the aftermath of the car attack.

Dunn asked Kessler if he remembered Spencer saying, "Little f*cking k*kes. They get ruled by people like me. Little f*cking octoroons. I f*cking… my ancestors f*cking enslaved those little pieces of f*cking shit." "Yeah, he's a sociopath," Kessler testified. (In 2019, while tweeting out the audio of Spencer's rant, Kessler had described him as a "sociopath and narcissist.&quot

"That's the real Richard Spencer?" Dunn prodded.

"Yeah, I think so," Kessler obliged.

During his cross-examination, Spencer wanted to dig into the matter further.
"When did you determine that I was a sociopathic narcissist?" Spencer asked.

"It was over a long period of time," Kessler replied. "The first time I met you, you made my skin crawl."

Spencer then goes on to get Kessler to admit that he used Spencer's reputation as a rabble rouser to "rile people up."
Spencer also implied that Kessler was the one with mental health issues but an objection from a lawyer didn't allow him to pursue that angle. Glorious stuff.

[bbernardini]

1. After that testimony, Spencer tweeted out a picture of the guy who leaked the audio...

I won't post the link as I don't want to give him the clicks, but it shows the leaker at Charlottesville standing next to Elliot Kline, aka Eli Mosely (who is also on trial), in front of the Vanguard America neo-Nazi group. In that group, you can see James Fields, the guy who killed Heather Heyer.