Did Will say something about Nick?
I haven't been tracking Wil that closely. How did Wil actively insert himself in the drama?
It was covered more in the Rekieta thread and may have been skipped here, but Aaron started acting pissed at Wil for seemingly starting to take Nick's side around the time of Wil's February 24th appearance on an alog show nobody's ever heard of (clipped and summarized
here), and any retaliation by contacting Wil's employer would have occurred before Wil started talking about that contact in a second appearance on that same show on March 3rd that burned bridges with Aaron in no uncertain terms (only partially clipped
here). That's about all that's known publicly but from Aaron's and Wil's comments in that timeframe it sounded like they were barking threats much more in private.
Since there are no messages on Wil's Twitter about being told to knock off anything by his boss, but multiple messages implying Aaron contacted Wil's boss to complain, it appears that Aaron in fact did call Wil's employer to complain and views Wil's bitter references to it as having "all but confirmed" (Aaron's words) that this call got results.
But the employer contacting is a serious bitch move, and substantially lowers my opinion of him.
Kind of a bitch made move by Aaron to contact people's employers.
FWIW in some unclipped parts of Wil's second BYB appearance he did go into somewhat more detail about the employer contact than his tweets did, such as at
timestamp 34:42 about a message to his boss snitching on him for photos on social media suggesting that he was driving a company vehicle under the influence, and at
timestamp 35:56 hinting at how it'd be "weird if" Aaron was the one contacting his boss. So far he has yet to publicly state whether he believes Aaron did it directly, which leaves open the possibility that some fan did it at Aaron's urging or that some fan did it independently without Aaron's knowledge in the mistaken belief that it would help him.
Either way, given Aaron's multiple comments on the air about how Wil's IRL career was too important to risk by self-inserting into gay internet drama, the juxtaposition of that with
someone actually following through on making that risk a reality is not a good look. Even
if he didn't do it personally, with a burner account or otherwise, he'll still end up stuck with the blame for ostensibly encouraging whoever did do it. Was that hit worth it for what little he gained?
He's still going on about pressing- how?
Correlating that with other recent comments lamenting how his side has compiled so much that they were ready to present and that he would
still like to present even though the plea offer would appear to have made it all moot, it's pretty obvious that his comments today were alluding to whatever police and/or his attorney's investigator had found regarding the alleged google breach, and some decision he still has to make about what to do with that between now and Thursday.
What's mystifying is why on earth he seems to think that would have anything to do with the plea negotiations at this point. A few possibilities come to mind:
1. If his lawyer were already done or nearly done preparing all necessary filings by today's deadline three days before the "motion hearing" that was originally scheduled to Thursday and is oddly not yet changed to a "plea hearing" on MCRO, then he
could just direct his attorney to file it all regardless of whether he's planning to take the plea deal anyway. Then on Thursday he could just up and do the plea and the motion could be withdrawn as moot, but in the meantime at least everything they filed would be out in public with a valid excuse for having made it public, after which the prosecutors would have some egg on their face if they don't later go after Rekieta for a plainly prosecutable case publicly dropped into their lap. It would only "press" them to that extent of slight embarrassment and of course wouldn't guarantee that they actually ever file charges, which remains 100% their call, but maybe there's no harm in trying.
2. Insofar as Aaron would likely be a witness supporting such a new prosecution, his attorney may be trying to bake into the plea deal some perks expressly conditional on his continued cooperation in that regard, but it's difficult to imagine what perks the state could have left to offer when they've already caved down to 1 KNU. Post-conviction expungement or even deferred dismissal maybe?
3. Aaron possibly thinks that he can make it part of his plea deal that he'll only do it if the state promises to charge Nick, or to at least devote best efforts in good faith to investigating and then prosecuting if there's any there there. If so he'd be retarded to think that any such assurances would be enforceable.
4. The state's offer was so overly cushy that Aaron's lawyer smells desperation and they really are still on the fence about maybe fighting for dismissal after all, or are at least bluffing that they will to try to eke out another concession or two.
5. Aaron doesn't have the foggiest idea what the hell he's talking about.
I'd just as soon put these all up on a dartboard and throw at them with eyes closed, because none of it makes any sense. Why not just pay the fucking $50 and call it a day?