A defense attorney in one of the January 6 cases raged against the "double standard" being given to former President Donald Trump as his supporters take the fall for what he incited them to do at the U.S. Capitol, reported CBS News' Scott MacFarlane on Friday.
This complaint, he noted, came down just minutes before Judge Tanya Chutkan suspended Trump's criminal trial date in the D.C. case, due to the ongoing delay in the Court of Appeals ruling on whether Trump has immunity from prosecution.
"I'm not sure if this is your experience too, but I find it very noticeable how frustrated people can get, all of us can get, when they think they're the victim of a double standard, and somebody gets better or disparate treatment for the same thing," said MacFarlane in a video posted to X. "It is human nature to be frustrated by double standards."
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This raises the question, he continued: "How do you think some of the January 6 defendants feel watching Donald Trump's election conspiracy trial date get erased off the calendar? Postponed indefinitely, potentially toward, if not beyond, the November 2024 election. Well we got a little sample of the feelings of that double standard today in court in one very low-level January 6 case. The case of Ralph Kahler, who was arrested along with his wife within weeks of Trump being charged in the election subversion case. Misdemeanor case, really low level, unlawful picketing and parading."
The Kahlers, who according to MacFarlane spent less than three minutes in the Capitol, didn't touch anything, didn't plan on being violent, showed remorse at sentencing, and got a years' probation and a short, low-level house arrest. This earned an indignant defense from their attorney. "She said her client, Ralph Kahler, was humiliated by the arrest last July, that in her words, 30 agents came to the neighborhood, shackled Kahler in front of his neighborhood, and that it was deeply embarrassing."
By contrast, she noted, the "person responsible" got to be escorted in a motorcade invisibly to the courthouse.
