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Blanche admits his first exhibit to the jury (Original Post) Beachnutt May 14 OP
So their defense is gonna be that Cohen was mean to little cheato? senseandsensibility May 14 #1
"a picture" of it - AWww, so the item was not bought/paid as a legal expense? UTUSN May 14 #2
"Disgruntled former employee" must be the defense - TBF May 14 #3
Yep. Cohen is exactly like TFG. Raven123 May 14 #5
Or cut my bonus by 2/3 after I went above and beyond. Demobrat May 14 #13
Or gruntled mahina May 14 #15
and serve a PRISON TERM Traurigkeit May 14 #18
Amen. TBF May 14 #30
I don't blame him either. Demobrat May 14 #32
Where do I buy one? NoMoreRepugs May 14 #4
I don't really know Beachnutt May 14 #6
Its here.... getagrip_already May 14 #27
It's actually the MeidasTouch store Nittersing May 14 #7
I hope sales sky rocket DoBW May 14 #24
Right here. ShazzieB May 14 #14
A stellar defense. Torchlight May 14 #8
Will Donnie order one to add to his prison wardrobe? Do they come orange? Ping Tung May 14 #9
Orange? Oh, you mean camouflage. Beartracks May 14 #20
On redirect, I sure hope the Prosecution brings up Hela May 14 #10
There you go BoRaGard May 14 #12
I hope it says onethatcares May 14 #11
Isn't that a one way street? czarjak May 14 #21
Beautiful! H2O Man May 14 #16
Todd Blanche will need a new line of income cause Law just isn't in his wheelhouse. Traurigkeit May 14 #17
Supposedly Blanche was considered a top tier litigator. bluesbassman May 14 #23
And he couldn't even buy one to pull out with a flourish and flash in front of everyone. NBachers May 14 #19
How many worms are in his brain? LiberalFighter May 14 #22
Uhmm... wait till Blanche sees the t-shirts sold at trump rallies IcyPeas May 14 #25
As Stormy said when accused of selling money-making merch: "Not unlike Mr Trump (is doing) " .... Hekate May 14 #26
Well sure Cohen wants to see trump go down. And he's no angel, serving tfg for years doing his dirty work. captain queeg May 14 #28
Maybe the jury will start placing t-shirt orders. Irish_Dem May 14 #29
I've been laughing about this all day. EndlessWire May 14 #31

TBF

(32,254 posts)
3. "Disgruntled former employee" must be the defense -
Tue May 14, 2024, 03:27 PM
May 14

of course I would be disgruntled too if my boss talked me into spending $130K of my own money to pay off his *problems*

Raven123

(5,068 posts)
5. Yep. Cohen is exactly like TFG.
Tue May 14, 2024, 03:38 PM
May 14

Can’t shut up. He is pi$$ed because TFG threw him under the bus. Legitimate questions to impugn his motives

Demobrat

(9,140 posts)
13. Or cut my bonus by 2/3 after I went above and beyond.
Tue May 14, 2024, 05:06 PM
May 14

Anyone on the jury who has ever had a job will feel that one.

mahina

(17,907 posts)
15. Or gruntled
Tue May 14, 2024, 05:25 PM
May 14

For a long time. It took a lot for him to become disgruntled.

May all his sycophants follow in Cohen’s footsteps.

TBF

(32,254 posts)
30. Amen.
Tue May 14, 2024, 08:07 PM
May 14

I don't blame Cohen for wanting to tell his side of the story and nail the guy he was working for. Not that it excuses his own wrongdoing, but he definitely was not the only one engaging in criminal acts.

Demobrat

(9,140 posts)
32. I don't blame him either.
Tue May 14, 2024, 09:10 PM
May 14

Yes, he committed crimes. Yes, he was thrown under the bus by Trump. Those are two completely different things.

He went to prison for the first. Now he wants payback for the second. Duh. Who wouldn’t. Most people don’t react well to betrayal.

Torchlight

(3,618 posts)
8. A stellar defense.
Tue May 14, 2024, 03:47 PM
May 14

He's probably staying up late at night reading the collected works of Gen. John Burgoyne and Francisco López to get better insight into achieving someone else's victory.

Hela

(442 posts)
10. On redirect, I sure hope the Prosecution brings up
Tue May 14, 2024, 04:43 PM
May 14

the fact that Cheetoh is selling T-shirts with his mugshot on them and collectible cards with pieces (supposedly) of the suit he was wearing in the photo.

bluesbassman

(19,409 posts)
23. Supposedly Blanche was considered a top tier litigator.
Tue May 14, 2024, 06:22 PM
May 14

This is is just further evidence that everything, and I mean everything Trump touches, dies.

NBachers

(17,292 posts)
19. And he couldn't even buy one to pull out with a flourish and flash in front of everyone.
Tue May 14, 2024, 05:49 PM
May 14

He even cheaped out on that with a printout of a website picture.

IcyPeas

(22,030 posts)
25. Uhmm... wait till Blanche sees the t-shirts sold at trump rallies
Tue May 14, 2024, 06:51 PM
May 14

Trump insults everybody.... but no one can insult trump.

Hekate

(91,524 posts)
26. As Stormy said when accused of selling money-making merch: "Not unlike Mr Trump (is doing) " ....
Tue May 14, 2024, 06:54 PM
May 14

Seriously, this is supposed to make people recoil in horror?

captain queeg

(10,540 posts)
28. Well sure Cohen wants to see trump go down. And he's no angel, serving tfg for years doing his dirty work.
Tue May 14, 2024, 07:01 PM
May 14

But he did plead guilty and serve prison time. I’m willing to believe he’s being honest now and hope he helps bring the orange turd to justice.

EndlessWire

(6,675 posts)
31. I've been laughing about this all day.
Tue May 14, 2024, 09:02 PM
May 14

The Merch is from Meidas Touch. They were delighted with this turn of events. Now their merch is part of the record. The legal experts said that it was a mind boggling failure of the Defense to not know that it was not Cohen's. I have my own theory. And that is, they have no defense whatsoever except to tear Cohen down, and they may have calculated that no one would know, or they could at least create some confusion over it.

It's really funny. This is like a contest of the grown-ups against the high school legal club. I'll bet you that Trump told them to do it. If I were Blanche, I'd go home and throw up, and try to figure a way to become disabled in order to leave the trial. Maybe faint like a hockey player, and go down at the Judge's feet. I hope he got paid up front, because this performance is bad, bad, bad.

I think the shirt design was one of the younger bros. You can't get better publicity for a shirt than this. I hope that the brothers share whether their sales are up sharply. And Cohen was really coool when he answered the Defense's questions about the shirt, the coffee mug, and such. It was all good.

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