Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "Real Lawyer Reacts to Game of Thrones: Trial of Tyrion Lannister" video.
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It's been pointed out by others but Tyrion wasn't going to get a fair trial, no matter what. His father hated him for being a dwarf, basically, and being "embarrassing" to him his entire life, as well as being the one during whose childbirth his beloved wife Joanna (Tyrion's mother) died. His sister hated him I think for similar reasons, but there's something else psychologically going on there as well, but I think it started with the death of her mother then yeah it just boiled down to embarrassment on their family name, or perceived embarrassment, but also Cersei Lannister (his sister) I think more than anything else resented being born a woman in what's clearly a man's world, using satellite men in her life to run things (poorly and emotionally) behind the scenes, like her son Joffrey and even Jaime. But no, Tyrion was the scapegoat. I do not think for a second that Tywin believed Joffrey was killed by Tyrion. Cersei may have believed it, but that's because she's a temperamental, unreasonable person, by character.
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