House Republicans Bizarrely Gloat After Johnny Depp Verdict
The House Judiciary Committee's Republicans tweeted a Depp gif from their official account after a jury ruled in his favor in his trial against Amber Heard.
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After a stomach-churning six-week defamation trial in which actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp lobbed horrifying allegations of domestic and sexual abuse against each other, a jury ruled in favor of Depp, ordering her to pay millions in damages for having defamed him in a 2018 op-ed. Mere minutes after the verdict was announced, Republicans on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee tweeted a gif of Depp from his movie Pirates of the Caribbean from their official account, seemingly in support of the actor.
Yes, elected members of the Judiciary Committee—which oversees the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security and weighs in on some of the most important issues facing the country—took a very clear side in a celebrity trial in which the man who won (regardless of the merits on the defamation issue) admitted to having sent a friend the following texts about Heard: