Did the father know about the hidden money (more than $135K, that's just what can be proven to have been hidden) and the hidden valid passport? Or was he lied to by his own son and daughter-in-law, who let him pony up $10 grand for bond while they had ten times that and more?
Does the father BELIEVE his son's self defense story or did he help frame it? There are so many deliberately exculpatory details inserted it the PROXY versions we have heard that his tale is top heavy with them.
My favorite is that GZ was "returning to(wards) his vehicle," which of course may be true in a geographical sense but if a rat gets to a dead end in a maze and turns back, is it no longer looking for the cheese? It seems obvious that GZ walked to RVC and determined that TM had not gone that way, so he he went back to where he had last looked (when his flashlight was not working, and he was stil on the phone with the operator) and low an behold, he finds TM. Of course why would he wish to return to his vehicle anyway? He had not described it's make, model color or address to the operator and instead had instructed the cops to call him when they arrived.
Then there is the idea that TM sucker punched him to the ground - despite the consensus of witnesses describing a fight that migrated from near the T to "John's" back yard, GZ's father claims TM struck him to the ground where they met and climbed on top of him. Another surrogate, Frank Taaffe points directly to the (wrong) spot on a TV broadcast and claims that GZ was struck to the ground at the same spot where GZ's keychain flashlight, still lit - was found. Too bad it's about 40 feet from the shell casing and body location.
Here is the father on the route and locations GZ took:
Robert Zimmerman:
From where George's vehicle was, uh, there's a sidewalk that goes to the next street over.
Hannity: Okay
RZ: Off of that sidewalk there's another sidewalk that goes between two rows of town homes. It my understanding that Trayvon went between the two rows of townhomes and George was walking down to main sidewalk to see if he could see where Trayvon was going. He continued walking down that side walk to the next street. He wanted an address. All he could see was the back of the townhouse
and he could not see an address so he asked the dispatcher to have the responding unit call him and he could tell them an address. So he walked down to the end of the street, I'm sorry, the end of the sidewalk to get an address. He did not know where Trayvon Martin had gone. As he was walking back to his vehicle there was a sidewalk that goes to his left, and Trayvon came from that area where the sidewalks meet. He asked my son if he had a problem and George said, "no I don't have a problem." Trayvon said, "Well, you do now." He punched him in the face, broke his nose, knocked him to the sidewalk and got on him and started beating him.
source: RZ interview with Sean Hannity of Faux news
Then we have the wonderful verbal death threat given to GZ allegedly. The father again describes something that doesnt pass the smell test, that TM became aware of the gun at some point, and then issued a verbal death threat BEFORE making any attempt to get the gun. Then, after the threat, does he go for the gun? No, he continues to use his hands to attack GZ's head. Does that even make sense? Not to me, but that's how the father describes it. The NYT story by the pulitzer prize winning author with inside sources says the investigators didn't think that sounded right to them, either.
But put yourself for a moment in dad's shoes. This is a man who was a magistrate in Virginia and whose wife worked in the courts as well. He pledged $10k against his house to the bondsman which he has now forfeited. He was PRESENT at the videotaped walk thru with police the next day, and should know what his son said about how it happened and where his son said the altercation took place. Yet he describes a situation that doesn't match the physical evidence and witness statements. He's either in for a penny or in for a pound. Did his own son lie to him about the money and the passport? or did he know, and think it was wise somehow? Did his own son lie to him about how the altercation started, or did he tell him the whole truth and daddy helped shape the false narrative given what they THINK witnesses could have seen or not seen? The father has said he doesn't believe Dee Dee was on the phone at all with TM. One wonders how deeply he is in denial about all of the truth, whatever it is.
The trail of scattered debris strongly suggests the fight migrated on foot over a significant distance, and that means either one followed the other or one CARRIED the other from A to B. And if a jury is to believe somehow that TM moved GZ 40 feet, GZ better have included that story in his statements to police, because the other option is that GZ tried to detain TM somehow, and that is a crime and negates a self-defense story.
So in order to excuse GZ, one has to believe that he lied to his father and told a different, true story to the cops about how TM chased him down from his path back to his truck into john's back yard. And that seems insanely unlikely to me.
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