As time went on they denigrated people focusing on how the land was originally seized by the government and why.
They insisted that the local ranchers were just squatters. Not people whose land had been seized without proper compensation in order to arm the communists, but modern day squatters. It got fairly contentious.
The evidence on the uranium deal was credible at the beginning. This didn't just materialize now.
And the judge, the prosecution, the law enforcement personnel, the Bureau of Land Management workers etcetera had credible information presented to them by Bundy’s supporters if nowhere else enough that there is no one anywhere in this mess who just “made a mistake” or who “just didn't know. “
Thanks much, I had forgotten this was NOT a cow issue, but a land grab. Same was true in Oregon iirc.