The attorney for Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse appears to be a QAnon believer
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Rachel E. Greenspan
Nov 24, 2020, 20:32 IST
Attorney L. Lin Wood (C) arrives to US District Court in Los Angeles, California, on December 3, 2019.Apu Gomes/Getty Images
L. Lin Wood, the attorney representing Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen charged in the Kenosha shooting, appears to be a believer of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Wood's Twitter profile includes several references to QAnon, the baseless far-right conspiracy-theory movement.
The attorney has spread baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election that are linked to QAnon.
He also claimed that the ousting of a lawyer from Trump's legal team was part of a plan.
L. Lin Wood, a trial attorney based in Atlanta who is a part of Rittenhouse's legal team, posted on social media about the QAnon-linked Dominion Voting Systems conspiracy theory as recently as Thursday.
Wood has become a central figure in the news after announcing on Friday that with donations from actor Ricky Schroder and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, he had raised enough money to bail Rittenhouse out of jail on a $2 million cash bond. Rittenhouse, 17, was charged with first-degree homicide in the August shooting that killed two people.
Wood is a supporter of President Donald Trump and has spread QAnon-linked conspiracy theories about voter fraud in the 2020 election. QAnon, a baseless far-right conspiracy theory that alleges President Trump is fighting a "deep state" cabal of pedophiles, has shifted in recent weeks to focus on the popularization of fictitious voter-fraud claims.
Wood explicitly posted about the conspiracy theory, writing in a Thursday post on Parler, the Twitter alternative with minimal moderation that's become hugely popular among the far-right, that people should "remember" the name "Dominion." The post has 691,000 views on Parler, where Wood has 344,000 followers, as of Monday morning. (He has more than 560,000 Twitter followers.)
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has categorically denied all claims that the election was somehow rigged. "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history. Right now, across the country, election officials are reviewing and double checking the entire election process prior to finalizing the result," the CISA said in a November 12 statement.
The statement has not stopped claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election from spreading.
In a tweet on Sunday, quote-tweeting a follower who said they were "scared," Wood said, "There are no coincidences. Everything is planned. Stay strong in your faith. Be patient. Trust the Lord."
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