Attorneys for disgraced former president Donald Trump are already attempting to portray their client as something he isn’t and never will be: A kind, decent man who loves his family and would never do anything to hurt them.
Such a characterization of the ex-president elicited laughter and mockery during a panel discussion on MSNBC earlier this morning.
Former Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill couldn’t help but laugh at such a portrait of Trump.
“The prosecutors did an opening that was a very strong narrative, a timeline, promising hard evidence, corroboration, phone records, documents, in addition to witnesses,” McCaskill said. “The defense, what did they do? They said Donald Trump is a family man.”
“Seriously?” she added. “I mean, you know, the jury is going, wait a minute, I think he traded out lies like he changed his shirts, he committed adultery all through his life. These are New York juries, they’ve seen the press for decades about the fact that he’s not a family man. Where was Melania? How do you have a criminal trial with sexual conduct as the essence of the case in so many ways and not have your wife there, then stand up and say you’re a family man?”
The defense’s opening statement, McCaskill warned, will come back to haunt Trump and his lawyers, if only because it sounds like it was penned by Donald himself.
“They went on to say that he did nothing wrong, he did nothing wrong — his business was perfect,” she said. “He was a great businessman, he did nothing wrong. A smart defense attorney, you have a normal client, would have stood up and said, ‘Hey, you know, he’s made some mistakes, but this is not a felony.’ That’s what a smart defense attorney would have done if he had a client that would let him do that. Unfortunately, these defense attorneys can’t do that because Trump won’t let them. They have got to say he’s perfect. They’ve got to lie just like Michael Cohen did for him.”
Donald Trump is such a wonderful “family man” that he’s been married three times and cheated on every one of his wives. It has also been reported that he may have one or more illegitimate children from his sexual dalliances over the years.
The very last thing Donald Trump will ever be is a family man. He’s a serial adulterer who only cares about his own satisfaction.
