Remember Nick's early mask-off moment where he excoriated Vic for being too nice?
Yeah, that was part and parcel of Nick's desire to get Vic on his show as much as possible. Nick would have kept all the money, naturally. Just like he later ended up doing during the trial streams with LawTube. It was a self-serving complaint, prompted by a self-serving and avaricious interest. It's
never not self-serving with Nick.
I'm sure Vic being on a show where Nick rants about "fat Jamie," and "Ron in the cuck chair" would have really helped Vic's wholesome image. I'm sure the defense wouldn't have tried to leverage any of it against him too.
Stupid. And doubly so from a supposed lawyer. The only idea Nick had that was perhaps more deranged was when he claimed, years later, he should have run Rittenhouse's social media.
Relevant:
With respect to the two main topics in this thread, as of late, I will say this:
Whatever anybody wants to say about Vic, as far as litigants go, Vic was
light-years smarter than Aaron is. He did the correct thing in staying mostly away from Nick (outside of meetups and photo ops at conventions), and (more importantly) shutting the fuck about his legal situation.
This is another reason why, six years on, I still have an
enormous amount of sympathy and respect for Vic, whereas it's getting increasingly difficult to have any for Aaron. Vic pretty much did everything he was supposed to do. It was his legal team that let him down. Meanwhile, Aaron can't stop stepping on rakes.
I think this alone was a red flag. A conflict of interest, or as we call it, a "coi". Maybe it's because I've worked in the public sector before (academia and health care) where this shit really matters and people would get fired or even sued over pulling such obvious nepotism hires.
Iirc people didn't see the Ty/Nick connection as a conflict of interest because Nick pretended not to know Ty at first. Think he even went so far as to pull up and read the law firms website.
I can confirm he was initially
very cagey about any direct connection between himself and Ty Beard. I myself only found out some time
after the infamous "we will be in touch" tweet, as part of a conversation I had with him in Twitter DMs.