I just re-listened to Michael Van der Veen's nuclear-grade decimation of Lana Zak's attempt to "interview" for the first time in 4 days, and I've got to say:

Though not as formal as Thomas Paine's writing, or stirringly eloquent as Patrick Henry's impassioned address at St. John's Church, Van der Veen's unplanned response to Zak's disingenuous question seems to me as propelled by the same righteous fuel that Paine and Henry accessed in their day. Yes, I know he's a lawyer and good lawyers know how to put on a show when framing their arguments, this man just spent a week watching the wanton abuse and violation of our Constitution, watching the House almost literally changing the goalposts minute by minute. He watched the Law that is supposed to rule over all from the great to the small trotted out and cherry-picked when it suited them and then thrown in the toilet when it didn't. He watched this kangaroo court (with apologies to Kangaroos) deny his client even the sham appearance of due process and citizen's rights.

And STILL Van der Veen still kept his composure, knowing he was dealing with the swamp and their enablers, because he's a professional. It wasn't until Van der Veen himself was caught off-guard at 1:56 by Zak's casual, dismissive relating of "Just a check-mark added", "changing a date from 2020 to 2021" and "the selective editing, as you say, of the tapes... is that the doctored evidence of what you're speaking?"

That was the moment when he stopped being Trump's Lawyer and spit the flames of an American who just had had enough. "Waitwaitwaitwait, Wait, WAIT - That's not enough for you?!" He still hung in there and kept his shit together but from that point on he tore into her, the corrupt swamp, and the entire praetorian media machine with a legitimate righteous outrage that should someday - when this is all over - be counted right up there with Paine's and Henry's declarations of Americans who put Liberty and Freedom above all else, even above their own "lives, fortune and sacred honor." I don't know much about the man in the regular day-to-day... but in that moment he spoke "America" as well as the best of the founders, and like very few ever do these days.