acting as his own lawyer. here is how he wrote it up. quote, defendant representing himself, christopher cantwell, asks fellow defendant matthew heimbach, what s your favorite holocaust joke. uh, my favorite, heimbach applies with a laugh? question is withdrawn. cantwell now asking detailed questions about adolf hitler s political views. he asks heimbach if he s read mein kampf. yes, he said. asked whether he believed hitler murdered 6 million jews, heimbach says no. that was cantwell s final
he s been convicted for his actions. buzz feed reports that cantwell who is defending himself because no one can tolerate his antics. he watched fox news tucker carlson with white supremacists in prison. that s an interesting choice. within the first minute of his opening statement in court he quoted adolph hitler s mein kampf. one of the reporters is liz lent, a contributor to huff post. liz s coverage whom i was following all day is on now. great to have you on, liz. before we get to what happened today, you wrote about the theory of the case. i wonder if you could sketch out, this is a civil lawsuit
rally. he is already been convicted criminally a battery and assault for his actions in charlottesville. buzzfeed reported that camp while who is defending himself in the civil trial, because no lawyer has been able to tolerate his antics. prepared for trump by watching tucker carlson, fox news host, with white supremacists in prison and getting legal advice from any nazi. that is an interesting choice. within the first minute of his opening statement in court today, cantwell quoted adolf hill lawyers my call, he then later do use the n-word according to reporters listening. one of those reporters found the trial, in charlottesville, is liz wentz, a con distributor in the post when she wrote about now could bring down a new generation of extremist, and liz coverage who i was covering all day today, joins me. now it is great to have you on this. before we get to what happened today. you wrote about the theory of the case, i wonder if you could
the decision. the unite the right rally marched through the campus of the university of virginia. they carried lit particular can i torches. the next morning things got even worse. the city descended into violence as far right groups and counter protestors clashed into the streets. the governor declared a state of emergency and the rally was canceled. then tragedy struck that afternoon when an avowed white nationalist plowed his car into a group of counter protestors killing 32-year-old heather heir. today the trial began against the organizers of that rally. it s not a criminal trial, it s a civil one. one of the defendants is christopher cantwell. he became known as the crying nazi after posting a video of himself weeping after a warrant for his arrest was.
so we saw a lot of defendants kind of throwing each other under the bus. there was cantwell who decided to use his opening statements to make a lot of inflammatory and racist remarks, which were which were just physically hard to hear. it was really uncomfortable, but what was even more uncomfortable was listening to other lawyers justify racism and justify chanting phrases like, you know, jews go home and even worse which i m not going to repeat on air under the guise of respectability. it was a tough opening day. when you say cantwell i don t want you to repeat him, citing the n word and citing