Michael Cohen got sweet payback on Todd Blanche, the attorney who defended convicted felon Donald Trump in his Manhattan hush money and election interference trial by branding him with a new nickname that has quickly gone viral on social media.
Speaking with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, Cohen was asked about a term Blanche used in his closing statement, calling Trump’s former fixer the GLOAT or “greatest liar of all time.”
Cohen responded, “It’s a Donald Trump fourth-grade playground bullying type of tactic.”
“I was going to call him a SLOAT, which is the stupidest lawyer of all time,” Cohen added. “You cannot listen to your client when you are trying to create a defense ― a defense that is as important as this one is.”
Michael Cohen responds to Todd Blanche's "G.L.O.A.T." insult with an acronym of his own: S.L.O.A.T. (Stupidest Lawyer Of All Time), for taking too much direction from Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/f6pUluqPYQ
Video of Cohen’s comments has been viewed on Twitter nearly 132,000 times in just a bit over 12 hours since it was first posted, along with plenty of comments of praise for him.
@MichaelCohen212 Great segment on MSNBC this evening. You look relieved that this is over. Wishing you and your family well on the next phase of your life journey. You deserve happiness and peace. All best, sir.
So you’re telling me his lawyer admitted Trump micromanaged his trial but tried to tell a jury he didn’t micromanage the hush money payments? 😂 He really is a SLOAT
Just hours after failed former president Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts by a jury in Manhattan, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) made an absurd comparison between Trump’s conviction and “Castro’s Cuba.”
Rubio’s over-the-top statement got him pilloried on MSNBC this morning, with “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough trashing the Florida Republican.
“Speaking of grotesque, if a guy whose family escaped Castro’s Cuba, communist Cuba, a country that Castro ran with an iron fist, there was no rule of law there. There was just repression. There was tyranny.”
“Marco, like these other people, all because they want to cozy up to Donald Trump and maybe be his vice president, they degrade themselves, and they slander America,” Scarborough continued. “Rubio said in the E. Jean Carroll case, a jury of his peers was a joke because he didn’t like the outcome. now, he is comparing America to Castro’s Cuba, which I will say, yes, it’s meant to kiss up to Donald Trump and shock everybody else. Doesn’t shock me.”
“It hurts me as a patriot to hear people hating on America, but I do know at the end of the day, it’s only going to end up hurting Marco Rubio, Donald Trump, and the Republican party even more, because people don’t buy their propaganda,” he concluded.
MSNBC contributor Katty Kay concurred with Scarborough.
“Yeah. I mean, Marco Rubio of all people knows that this is absurd. The American justice system is not remotely like Cuba’s justice system where there is no system of justice. He knows that, and he is only doing this to suck up to Donald Trump.”
Donald Trump broke the law and is being held accountable for his actions. That’s nothing like Castro’s Cuba or any other repressive regime Trump and his supporters may reference.
A jury of 12 New Yorkers found Donald Trump guilty and proved that no one is above the law in the United States. That’s what makes this country the envy of the world.
Anthony Scaramucci briefly served as White House Communications Director in the Trump administration and has known failed ex-president Donald Trump for many years, and he says he knows his former boss is worried and even terrified of what the outcome will be in the New York business and election fraud case currently being deliberated by a jury.
On Wednesday, Trump said during a court break that “Mother Teresa could not beat these charges,” which led Scaramucci to note:
“If you see that accordion move that he’s doing right there, that’s a nervous tic of his.”
“And so, when he gets upset, he always goes to the accordion move and so that that’s a tell that he’s bummed out.”
Scaramucci added he’s “pretty confident” that Trump has been told by his attorneys that his chances of being acquitted of the charges against him are slim to none, which he suspects has badly rattled the former head of state.
“And so I think he’s preparing his base and he’s preparing himself, mentally, for a potential guilty [verdict]… if he gets off, then he’s better than Mother Teresa.”
Jury deliberations could take days and we may not have a verdict until next week.
Prior to closing arguments Tuesday in former president Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush money and election fraud trial, a photographer managed to capture an image of Donald with his hands partially obscuring two sticky notes on a piece of paper he had on the table where he was sitting.
Though Trump attempted to hide the messages with his hands, it was easy to determine what he’d written, HuffPost reports.
On one was written in thick black marker pen, in what appeared to be the former president’s handwriting: “This case should be dismissed by the judge but it’s totally corrupt.”
The photograph began circulating on Reddit, where it drew a ton of mockery aimed right at Trump, with many wondering why he had to write down what he was going to say during a break in the trial.
Here are some of the comments:
“No, this is neither some AI fakery nor is it photoshopped. This is pure Trump intelligence at work.”
“He had to write that down to remember to say it, after only repeating it 10 million times.”
“How is it possible that out of 340 million Americans, this dude is in contention to be the President…AGAIN?!”
“LOL at needing a handwritten note that says the ‘case should be dismissed by the judge'”.
Jury deliberations will begin today and it remains unclear how long reaching a verdict could take.
Academy Award-winning actor Robert DeNiro held a press conference outside the Manhattan courthouse where former president Donald Trump is on trial for allegedly committing election fraud this morning as closing arguments were taking place inside, and he brilliantly handled a pro-Trump heckler who tried to interrupt his statement.
Accompanied by former Capitol Police officers Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone, who battled rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, DeNiro remarked, “On January 6th, while Republican lawmakers despicably tried to keep the loser Trump, the loser Trump, in the White House, and Trump-inspired insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, brave men and women from law enforcement put their lives on the line to defend this country. These guys are the true heroes. They stood and put their lives on the line for these low lives, for Trump.”
“They lied under oath,” a Trump supporter insisted.
“Who lied under oath?” DeNiro asked. “What are you telling me?”
“Those two traitors behind you,” the Trump supporter said.
“You got to, I don’t know, I don’t even know how to deal with you, my friend,” DeNiro replied. “I don’t even know how to deal with you. They stood there. They didn’t have to.”
“They stood there and fought for us, for you. For you.”
The Trump supporter told DeNiro, “They weren’t fighting for me.”
“No, they fought for you, buddy,” DeNiro fired back. “You’re able to stand right here now. They are the true heroes.”
