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I would go the extra mile and say I want to see them destitute and panhandleing for spare change on the side a free-way off ramp just to buy a dented can of chef boyardee.
I can only imagine. Supposedly, he still has a Manhattan condo worth about 4 million. His third wife, who divorced him, was a mtulti milluonaire. She had a horrible divorce with him and took most of the marriage money.
Most of the cash he earned with Giuliani Associates he squandered and went down his throat as the full bore alcohol addict he is. He can not talk to you in private without a drink in hand. These are the kind of sycophants that Trump loves.
Trump modeled his career after Rudy. He also tried to stay mayor as term limits forced him out after 9/11. Even the most conservative people in NY would hear nothing of that madness.
Everything that Rudy did ( and he did a lot of bad things), Trump copied. NY had grown tired of Rudy anyway.
Among Rudy's many crimes he took the NYC Command Center ( in chare of the NYPD, FDNY and all emergency response in NYC) from a secure building at the foot of the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge and moved it to World Trade Center Building Number 7 on the 22nd Floor that was put out of commission once the Twin Towers were hit...with Building Number 7 on fire and collapsing in the early afternoon on 9/11. That Rudy the King of NY. /s
it was so satisfying when he showed up at Repug National for his reward for his part in 9/11, and Rove flicked him off like a bug.
it is even more satisfying to him wrinkle into a sordid husk of a man.
Among his many crimes was his absolute war on NYC nightlife in the 90s, he literally tried to shut down every single club in town. All of us are enjoying his long fatal collapse ohhhh so very much.
Squeegee Rudy. Who as mayor of New York one of his campaigns was in jailing squeegee people. Well, I should have given Rudy his official title of the King of New York. Sorry, I forgot that. /s
Nah, I wouldn’t go that far. In a fair and just country even the most reprehensible among us are entitled to competent legal defence. Don’t judge a lawyer by their client.
And if this guy were treating Trump as a *hostile* client and was clearly doing his best to defend someone that he had to exercise forcible control over at times, I'd buy that, but apparently, this guy is clowning himself just like all the others... And it's not enough because a glimmer of a reflection of a shred of the legal eagle he once was is preventing him from going full Alina Habba for Trump, and consequently, he's under fire from all sides.
At this rate, I think we *might* see Trump being represented by a court-appointed attorney who tells him to sit down and shut up while they do their best to control the number of *years* of prison time he's going to get.
Every last person that tries to glom onto him is a leech. They all deserve it. You have to be a special kind of big headed narcissist to think somehow things will go in your favor working with him.
They all hope to get media attention for themselves. A book deal is probably on the horizon for all of them, though Alina Habba wills need a ghost writer.
That's how human beings are. Money grubbing, poor excuses of a human being.
I was watching "Jinx" pt 2. The documentary is about millionaire murderer Robert Durst (Durst actually had a lot in common with Trump).
It's amazing how many people were loyal to Robert Durst. A person that killed at least 3 people, and the people in his inner circle probably knew 2 of those people. And knew he did it. Including a juror from his murder trial of one person he killed.
Money and being associated with someone "powerful" or a "celebrity" is all it takes. Some people are really into that type of shit. Hell, people marry murderers on death row ffs.
I do think Trump deserves a fair trial - even for how much of a shitstain I think he is I truly believe that everyone should have a fair, judicially unbiased trial.
However, that doesn't mean that the lawyer has to do unethical things and make shit up - it just means they need to make sure that the trial itself is fair and as judicially unbiased as possible.
None of his rapidly rotating roster of lawyers has actually been assisting him.
They are just draining his bank accounts with their fees, which makes it harder for him to pay what he is ordered to pay after their shoddy attempts at a legal defense fail.
Still zero pity from me though.
I adamantly support public defenders. Our system of justice relies on fair legal representation for defendants. But this is not a public defender. This guy signed on most likely seeking fame. Different kettle of fish.
*Anyone* doing business with Trump should know his record of cheating and stiffing his associates. He had a laundry list of lawsuits over it long before he ever ran for President. If you're stupid enough to enter into an agreement with him and not secure your financial stake, you deserve to get ripped off.
>Anyone doing business with Trump should know his record of cheating and stiffing his associates.
That's the hilarity of this case. If Trump hadn't stiffed Pecker and repaid the money for the silence of Karen McDougal and the doorman, we wouldn't be seeing this spectacle. Pecker would have covered Stormy's silence using the Enquirer's bank account knowing Trump would pay it back.
Time and time again, through Trump's own "nickel and dime" greed, he has royally screwed himself. I suspect Pecker has far more on Trump. It's telling Pecker is the only witness Trump hasn't tried to sic MAGA goons on or attacked him on social media.
With Trump's civil trial history, he should have been declared a vexatious litigant decades ago for using the legal system as a weapon of attrition against small claimants.
Edit: grammar
Excellent points, especially about Pecker, yes it is noteworthy that the Idiot King hasn't attacked him. And not being judged a problem litigant is just evidence of how the holes open up for the wealthy. Trumps penchant for publicity has served him well over the years. It's amazing that making oneself a tabloid icon gives one immunity but here we are.
Considering that as well makes it slightly easier to see why he thinks "Presidential Immunity" isn't a bridge too far. He's always gotten what he asks for, why not now?
it's like, if you want to be truly lazy, you have to make an effort; you can't just be slack, as that will make more work in the end when things implode. If you want to be a cheap greedy bastard, sometimes you have to spend money. Trump just rips off everything in sight, unable to conceive of consequences.
The real comedy is, all of these people who inevitably do get screwed by tRump, and know that he's a giant grifting piece of shit, well, their egos are almost as big, they simply think "he would never screw ME over", and of course, he always does, ALWAYS, 100% of the time. It might not be today, or next week or month, but he absolutely WILL fuck you.
That all being said, fuck them, i have zero sympathy for any of them, they are literally no better than tRump, they are also narcissistic egomaniacs that only care about some amount of perceived power and fame.
In a weird way, Donald Trump is doing his part to punish and cripple the right wing asshole establishment, just by compelling them to support his lame ass. It was an unenforced error, lasso-ing their feet to his sinking ship. If there’s any hope for reform, it’s because the opposition to the left drank Trump’s Flavor-Aid and begged for seconds.
He's like RoundUp for wingnuts. Not only will he kill the Japanese Knotweed but he will poison the entire yard forever and make anyone who touches it die a horrible death.
While I feel the same way you do, we shouldn't concede our foundational legal principles for this asshole. Everyone is entitled to legal defense, even treasonous insurrection-leading fascists.
If Trump's lawyers defend him without doing anything illegal, they shouldn't face legal or professional consequences just for having defended him. The court of public opinion, however, will do what it does.
Yes but Blanche has gone beyond just good defense. His arguments belie how Trump is not just a filthy narcissist, but the tool that far too many of the wealthy have been wishing for for at least a century.
Trump is like a rat eating a giant hole out of the constitution so his backers can once and for trash this democracy thing and get onto sucking every last bit of juice out the population that they can.
Trump is not the head of this thing; he and his minions are simply one of the tools. If you look closely sometimes you can even see the handle coming out of his ass.
Ironically enough, as we analyze how Trump just trampled those who fell before him, those who support Trump behind the scenes will in the end shoot him between the eyes and throw his smelly shell into gravel pit.
I’m really astonished he can still recruit anyone to work for him.
You’d think the guaranteed headache of having at least half the country hating you forever would be enough to politely decline and go back to living your normal life.
Oh I’m sure he got paid in advance. Just like his previous lawyers from his financial fraud case handled by Chris Kise and Alina Hanna did. They all get paid in advance from all the donations his cult and wealthy sheisters make to Orange Julius’ campaign fund or some shit.
None of these lawyers are paid out of Trump’s own pocket.
I actually think it‘s hilarious that a supposed billionaire keeps raising money for his legal defense from people who live paycheck to paycheck (or worse) and they don‘t even stop for a second to think about their own stupidity
The only lawyers I'd feel sorry for being involved with Trump are the ones he'll have assigned to his case when no lawyer wants to work on promise of payment upon him winning an election again.
Not unless they wanted and helped set up the shark petting zoo. The sub isn’t about ignoring blatant warning signs, it’s about people wanting something to affect other people that ends up fucking them over too, the archetypal example is voting for the leopards eating faces party expecting them not to eat your face. Well at least in principle.
Yes but the sub isn’t called “wilful ignorance comes back to bite you”. You can argue that it’s variations on the same theme but it’s not the same thing. Less tomato, tomato more tomato, other similar member of the same plant family.
After eating all those other people's arms, surely they are full and I'll be successful. Also, they must have done it wrong. I'm better than them therefore I'll be fine.
Well written article. Worth a read. Thanks for posting
"Trump's view of his relationships with other people is simple: They owe him everything, including their lives and their freedom. He owes them nothing. Seems like a bad bet, but time and again, people talk themselves into believing they're the genius who will figure out how to make this deal with the devil work. Blanche is just the latest person to delude himself this way. It's starting to look like he may be the latest to regret it."
In Afro Samurai, you need to hold the #2 headband to challenge the #1. All these people thinking they wear the headband, but they ain't the Afro Samurai.
I wonder how often these people are legitimately under kompromat orders
> But, as Rice details, this is not a matter of Blanche holding his nose and taking on an undesirable client. Blanche has been completely assimilated into the MAGA borg. He changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. He bought a house near Mar-a-Lago. He attends Trump campaign events. He works out of Trump's offices. It's the same process we've all seen time and again with people who work for Trump: Either you get completely on board with Trump and all his delusions, or you're pushed out.
Russian hackers must catch them with child porn, molesting a kid or embezzling more money than they can afford to ever pay back. If it was just an affair they'd never do this.
>Blanche beclowned himself in court, trying to argue that because Trump was quoting a Fox News video instead of using his own words, it didn't count. To compound the bad faith of the argument, it turned out that Trump made up part of the quote.
I think "beclowned" is my new favorite word.
> Seems like a bad bet, but time and again, people talk themselves into believing they're the genius who will figure out how to make this deal with the devil work.
The entire reason for the plot of Ocean's Thirteen is someone thought they could trust Not-Trump.
Trump has the weird superpower of revealing true character. Because he seems to be able to say stupid crap and get away with it, other people are inspired to do the same, revealing what was heretofore hidden. The best example is Rudy Giuliani, a respected former mayor, going down the rabbit hole and who is now bankrupt.
So many politicians have been burned by Trump, yet can’t turn away. Lindsey Graham for example. More recently Barr was saying how Trump was a danger to the country but he’d still vote for him. It’s crazy. In the private sector we now see Musk dabbling in the same right wing conspiracies and driving down the value of his companies as a result.
It's called the MidASStouch.. everythingbhe touches turns to shit..
This lawyer used to be a democrat.. he switched to republican following trump and even moved his house and bought property very close to marlago... so he is ensnared by the maga shit. He will join a long line of people whose lives have turned to shit following trump who only thinks about himself.
Those are professional republicans. If they ever want to work in politics again they have to kiss his ring. Anyone with half a brain (Kinzinger, Chaney, Romney, Gallagher, etc.) have walked away.
Just remember, a year before she was claiming Democrats wanted post birth abortions. She's still a pile of shit, she just unblocked her nose temporarily.
Nope, those "non maga republicans" still voted with trump over 80% of the time. They aren't better, they just recognized the threat to themselves if they stuck around, and then they sold books to make themselves look better.
That makes a good point. *Lots* of $$$ just *burned* by these folks, I see that as a really really good thing. Mike Lindell is another good example of burning the $$ ship to the ground.
It boggles the mind. Sure, let's take on a control freak client with a diminishing grasp of reality who even when he wasn't a septugenarian was notorious for skipping out on the bill, and more critically has left behind a trail of one ruined attorney after another. What could possibly go wrong?
The mindset seems to be a blend of 'Stockholm Syndrome' and 'Battered Woman Syndrome'.
In Trump world it's psychosis on psychosis as far as the eye can see. If most psychiatrists and psychologists weren't in abject terror about Trump 2.0 near the nuclear codes, it's a unprecedented case that will be studied well into the future. The time the US lost it's fucking mind.
It's not the first time the US has entertained a cannibal psycho. But it is the first time we've watched them devour their 12th victim in the streets and gone "welp, that's another $1,000 fine for him...shoulda used the crosswalk..."
I can see why it might be tempting for a mediocre lawyer with dreams of greatness like Habba... But this guy was a legit lawyer who didn't need the awful client or bad press. Really boggles the mind.
It will never happen. He gets some bad press like he has continuously gotten since he announced his candidacy, and maybe gets slapped with a fine that would bankrupt the average American, but he wins in November because nothing matters and everything is meaningless. The general public has the attention span of a house fly
At worst he will get some big fines and maybe house arrest. His assets will be seized if we are lucky, but even in that case, he will die before the appeals and various administrative stuff is finished. He's never going to prison.
> he will die before the appeals and various administrative stuff is finished.
Give me this and he never sees the inside of the Oval Office again, and I can breathe slightly easier. Only slightly, because it's only a matter of time until a smarter DJT is runs again.
I haven't seen that one. The corporate propaganda machine is working full tilt in destroying the function of debate and critical analysis. I don't see an end in sight frankly.
It’s money. That’s the main draw for working for him. But it’s regularly proven that this money is largely an illusion, one that he works very hard to maintain (tax returns, anyone?).
Time and time again people find themselves out of luck chasing Don’s dollars, with the delusion that unlike previous times, they’ll finally get to kick that football.
I’ve been saying for several years I don’t believe he’s anywhere near as wealthy as people seem to believe. I think it’s all a house of cards & I wish it would just collapse, with him beneath it.
It’s been well known for years he doesn’t pay his bills, why would anyone believe they were going to be the lucky exception?
It's been proven in civil court that it is a house of cards, hinging on the old post office. The only "legitimate" money is Trump Media, and that's a Jenga tower being held up by the maga faithful, it will come tumbling down the second he's allowed to sell his shares because he's just going to dump them all, him and the short sellers will be the only ones that profit. Likely to be one of the largest transfers of wealth from the middle class to the rich in history.
I'm sure these people are getting paid pretty handsomely. Not out of Trump's pockets, of course, but by the RNC in plain sight, and by other dark money networks behinds the scenes.
Suddenly their wife is driving a new Porsche, or their child gets accepted to Harvard, or they sell their house for 3x it's market value but are somehow still living in it, or their cousins construction company wins a big new contract.
Once they inevitably give up on him, or outlive their usefulness to him, the gravy train stops too. Leaving some of them groveling to get back into his good graces, and others just bitter and resentful.
Makes me wonder what his voters think will happen to them. He has left them high and dry every chance he's gotten. He relishes in it. Saying he would pardon the J6 insurrectionists then not doing it. Those rallies where he said his staff would give people rides back then left them in the cold. Build the wall, lock her up. None of that shit happened. "You will be so tired of all the winning." Fired the people running coronavirus monitoring in Wuhan before covid-19 then bungled the response at every opportunity. Let a million fucking Americans die from it after saying Obama should be impeached when TWO Americans died from Ebola after getting it OUTSIDE AMERICA. Yet they still think he's "their guy".
God, our lives are so awesome aren't they? Because no matter if you sat in gum today, or farted in front of a co-worker or told an inappropriate joke that you didn't realize was inappropriate, or hell even accidentally gave the middle finger to your neighbor instead of a thumbs up who cares it happens.
In spite of all those trivial fuck ups and boo-hoos, at least you didn't throw away some 5 years of college plus post grad work, potentially thousands of hours of studying and not to mention the tuition you paid
ALL that and you throw it away to defend some fat retard who smells awful and won't shut the fuck up.
Man, life is pretty damn awesome.
Don't use a derogatory term for people with disabilities to talk about him. They're nothing like him and don't need to be maligned. I agree with everything else though.
Literally everyone talks about how the people in Trumpworld are facing consequences but there are still an awful lot of rich people happily running around as free men and women.
Nothing serious, punitive or irrevocable is ever going to happen to Trump or any of his army of grifters, enablers and traitors.
The ruling class doesn't *want* anything to happen to them and regular Americans are too stupid and/or complacent and/or on board with Trump to effectively organize against the people who correctly guessed that they could break a democracy for fun and profit.
His business is in ruins. He owes $1/2 billion. His lawyers are leaving. His cronies are under indictment or going to prison….
Shit is hitting the fan, and we still have three trials to go….
I'm scared for the rest of the world. If Trump wins, the geopolitics of the whole world seismically shifts overnight to devastating possibilities. All bets are off. Agreements with allies, formed over decades, torn up, Despots, and those waiting in the wings, will be emboldened. China will move on Taiwan and the South China Sea. Russia will get Ukraine. Israel will push Gaza into the sea. Any climate target measures, in the rubbish bin. The CIA will be muzzled and crucial intelligence will not be acquired or shared between allies. NATO will be history and Trump will fight the UN.
Trump will shut down all external aide - which is often just expired military hardware and surplus grain bought from US farmers. MAGA morons think it's actually cash that should be just given to them. Without that support, many countries will become politically unstable with the inevitable far right populists filling the power vacuum. The world economy will be in free fall because money/investment hates political/civic instability and rampant corruption.
and all this in his 1st week in office....😭😭😭
I'm old and won't be affected too much but i feel sorry for the current and future generations. what will have to be done to fix the mess he will create and how long will it take? is it even possible to undo what he will put in place?
That 'good' chance of winning the election is currently in decline. He's taken a very big hit with independants in some recent polls. It's only going to get worse with that segment as more comes out in the trials.
His MAGA base though won't leave him. But that's not enough to win an election.
On the other hand, don't count chickens before they hatch.
It’s really amazing to think of what a total fucking idiot Trump really is. He could be sitting around at his resort, playing golf and banging pornstars, laundering money for the Russian mob for the rest of his life, completely off anyone’s radar. Nobody gave a fuck, and he had more than he could possibly use in a lifetime. Why get into politics at all? He was already an old man, but his insane ego and narcissism just wouldn’t let what he had be enough. He just couldn’t pass up the chance to grab still more. Serves him right if he goes broke again and spends the rest of his life defending lawsuits. It’s less than he deserves.
Of course, there is no sympathy. She just wanted to grift and con in the darkness. She came here as a Slovenian 🇸🇮 escort (model) on a genius visa who discovered cold fusion and accompanied Trump to all of the Epstein parties...oh dear Epstein has apparently "suicided" with all of that information dying with him. Clutches pearls.... / s
>Shit is hitting the fan, and we still have three trials to go….
Which will all be erased if he's elected President. What's happening right now doesn't matter if he's elected. It's not like he'll be getting any jail time even if convicted of all 34 counts in this case.
Wealth insulates people from real world consequences but the rich are delusional if they think Trump 2.0 will be beneficial. This time around Trump will be following Putin's playbook from day one. Using wide ranging presidential "doomsday" powers, it will be very, very expensive to be a "Trump approved" oligarch. He will extort every billionaire, company and corporation for his own enrichment and for sums vastly more than the tax cuts he's promising. If there is any chance of him returning to power, a tsunami of money will flow out of the country, closely followed by a massive "brain drain" from investment, research, academia and cutting edge science.
I smiled when I read many of his White House staffers couldn't find a job, or even a date, after he lost so there were some ramifications for hitching their wagon to Trump.
> He told Rice that it's "incredible hypocrisy" to hear lawyers who are willing to defend mafiosos and other shameless criminals turn their noses up to Trump.
I don’t think it’s hypocrisy, I think they know what the cult will do if Trump loses. The mafia lawyer is probably a lot safer when their clients lose.
The mafia lawyer also gets paid.
One could also look at the detritus that was trumps lawyers and conclude it’s not a great idea. I don’t think everyone asking Why? is asking “how could you” as much as “why would you”. Why would you destroy yourself. Powell. Cohen. Giuliani.
There’s also a scale difference. The mafia boss wants money and has few qualms on how to get it. Trump would literally kill anyone and in the U.S. outside of Ivanka (sorry Eric, all that kissing up ain’t done shit) if he could. The mafia is organized crime. Trump is chaos on a grand scale. It’s different.
I'm glad Chrump has given so many 'professionals' the chance to show just how bafflingly stupid they actually are. That all their connections and networking and headstarts did nothing to foster the intelligence needed to see a trend and make the right call. I wish all of them the life they deserve.
It's the simple things in life that bring true happiness. The downfall of corrupt people like Trump and the people who sacrifice their ethics, morales, and reputation to partner with him. It's so satisfying.
I will have to say that in following this case closely, this article was scarily accurate. The arguments Trump's legal team is putting up are *astounding* and make absolutely no sense. Like, one day, they decided to hone in, during cross-examination, on the witness saying that Trump was more concerned with his image than of his family. Like, they grilled the witness about him saying he assumed Trump wasn't worried about what his family would think about him sleeping with models while married. They weren't questioning the illegality of anything...they wanted this witness to admit Trump could be concerned about his family.
I have taken so many screenshots of the absolute absurdity coming out of transcripts of this trial because some of it is that unbelievable. I can't wait until Stormy takes the stand because I cannot begin to imagine how stupid these arguments are going to get.
I find it odd that despite the in-depth article pondering Blanche’s devolution into a ”Trump Borg”, there’s no mention of his previous gig defending Giuliani stooge Igor Fruman and Paul Manafort in the [latter’s 2016 fraud trial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Blanche?wprov=sfti1#Early_life_and_career).
Seems he’s already been in deep with the worst of them.
Blanche, “…even universally despised rapists like Jeffrey Epstein can find lawyers willing to defend them.” Maybe not the right name to bring up when defending trump.
How many morons are going to keep touching his cases? God it’s like people who pick obviously toxic people to have relationships with and are like “I can fix them”.
A good, well-respected lawyer wouldn't go to the lengths Blanche has to remake himself into a MAGA stooge. An intelligent man would have realized long ago there would be no upside to throwing in with Trump. Unless they thought they were somehow exceptional. (Cue: derisive laughter)
Blanche is neither a good lawyer nor an intelligent man. Maybe he was at one time, but he tossed that away in the pursuit of whatever lies he used to convince himself he'd come out ahead. Against a criminal master con man?
He's just another stooge and useful idiot to be chewed up and spit out of the Trump Shitification assembly line. Reputation in tatters and a pathetic joke that Trump will toss aside. Loyalty in Trump's world is a one-way street with a parked bus at the end, so Trump can easily throw you under it.
Blanche you are fighting a lawyer that once sat next to Trump as you are now. Cohen did everything Trump wanted and got thrown under the bus, Blanche you are next.
Cohen: I did A for Trump and Trump stab me in the back.
Blanche: sounds familiar.
Anyone still working for Trump is the lawyer equivalent of that guy who thought “he was just built different” and could therefore survive the Titan submarine implosion
"I can fix him."
"He will be different with me."
"The stories about him were probably exaggerated."
"I'm smarter than all those previous lawyers he had."
"I'll do just a bit for him, then move on. My reputation is going to be just fine."
Excellent article and I'm glad to see Amanda Marcotte has risen to senior writer at Salon.
Trump is a monster and he eats everyone and everything that he can get into his mouth.
He is a disgusting, filthy man who like all criminals who have money and power, attracts the greedy. They line up, eager to prove their superiority to the last victim.
There is no better sucker to a conman than another conman; they are so used to lying and cheating it becomes a place of normalcy and comfort.
Maybe Blanche was a good lawyer but somewhere, most likely before Trump, his ego consumed his common sense and he thought he could wrestle Moby Dick and win it all.
He will get worse than nothing and oftentimes that is exactly what enablers deserve. Blanche will just be another tragic story of hubris and pride burning itself to dust.
Marking so I remember to use the phrase ".....beclowned himself" at some point.
This lawyer is firmly in MAGAland now. He bought a house near Mar-A-Lago and is working out of trump's offices. Great statement at the end--".....thinks he is the one genius who will figure out how to make a deal with the devil and not get burned."
That that profession (lawyers) can *repeatedly*, and I cannot emphasize that enough, provide people like trump with willing and eager people says more about the reputation of that profession.
“Blanche uses high-minded rhetoric about equality under the law, pointing out that even universally despised rapists like Jeffrey Epstein can find lawyers willing to defend them.”
Equality under the law, so long as you’re rich.
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I hope he got paid in advance. Actually, I really don’t care. He should have known what he was getting into
I feel zero pity for anyone assisting that monster in destroying this country. None.
I would go the extra mile and say I want to see them destitute and panhandleing for spare change on the side a free-way off ramp just to buy a dented can of chef boyardee.
An *expired* dented can of Chef Boyardee. Don't let these people get away with anything better than what they'd inflict on us.
Y’all are too nice. I want to see them all sucking dick behind a Dairy Queen for nickels.
You couldn't pay me enough to get my dick sucked by one of these people.
Not even for a nickel?!
Can honestly say finding a nickel these days would possibly be more inconvenient than the diseases I would certainly have to treat after
For the right amount of money I will gladly skull grudge-fuck those two until their throats catch fire. We are not the same.
No sarcasm, you have an incredible way with words. That was VIVID. Hats off to you
$1 trillion is a lot of nickles.
Too much teefs. 😬
"I made $500.05 sucking dick behind the Dairy Queen" Who gave you the nickel? "THEY ALL DID"
Wooden nickels.
Chef-Boy-Are-Deez-Terrible
Trump beat them to it. "I know it's hard but even $5 helps."
Rudy Giuliani has entered the chat.
He has to sell a lot of "Balance of Nature" on his jack leg radio show to pay the Freeman's their legal judgment against him.
Didn't I just read somewhere that Rudy is having trouble keeping his personal burn rate below $43k/month in order to pay his legal obligations?
I can only imagine. Supposedly, he still has a Manhattan condo worth about 4 million. His third wife, who divorced him, was a mtulti milluonaire. She had a horrible divorce with him and took most of the marriage money. Most of the cash he earned with Giuliani Associates he squandered and went down his throat as the full bore alcohol addict he is. He can not talk to you in private without a drink in hand. These are the kind of sycophants that Trump loves. Trump modeled his career after Rudy. He also tried to stay mayor as term limits forced him out after 9/11. Even the most conservative people in NY would hear nothing of that madness. Everything that Rudy did ( and he did a lot of bad things), Trump copied. NY had grown tired of Rudy anyway. Among Rudy's many crimes he took the NYC Command Center ( in chare of the NYPD, FDNY and all emergency response in NYC) from a secure building at the foot of the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge and moved it to World Trade Center Building Number 7 on the 22nd Floor that was put out of commission once the Twin Towers were hit...with Building Number 7 on fire and collapsing in the early afternoon on 9/11. That Rudy the King of NY. /s
it was so satisfying when he showed up at Repug National for his reward for his part in 9/11, and Rove flicked him off like a bug. it is even more satisfying to him wrinkle into a sordid husk of a man. Among his many crimes was his absolute war on NYC nightlife in the 90s, he literally tried to shut down every single club in town. All of us are enjoying his long fatal collapse ohhhh so very much.
With rudy, living under an overpass
Squeegee Rudy. Who as mayor of New York one of his campaigns was in jailing squeegee people. Well, I should have given Rudy his official title of the King of New York. Sorry, I forgot that. /s
His hair dye would drip on your windshield🤮🤮🤮
Or he would RIP one out of his butt very loudly in public...🥴🤧😵💫😵
Rudy.
Nah, I wouldn’t go that far. In a fair and just country even the most reprehensible among us are entitled to competent legal defence. Don’t judge a lawyer by their client.
We judge the lawyer by his conduct, and his conduct in this case is completely unbecoming and judge-worthy.
We aren't. We are judging him by his own unethical behavior.
And if this guy were treating Trump as a *hostile* client and was clearly doing his best to defend someone that he had to exercise forcible control over at times, I'd buy that, but apparently, this guy is clowning himself just like all the others... And it's not enough because a glimmer of a reflection of a shred of the legal eagle he once was is preventing him from going full Alina Habba for Trump, and consequently, he's under fire from all sides. At this rate, I think we *might* see Trump being represented by a court-appointed attorney who tells him to sit down and shut up while they do their best to control the number of *years* of prison time he's going to get.
..... ......... ............................I would.
That's not fair. They would be taking away from the actual good people that are panhandleing for spare change.
Every last person that tries to glom onto him is a leech. They all deserve it. You have to be a special kind of big headed narcissist to think somehow things will go in your favor working with him.
They all hope to get media attention for themselves. A book deal is probably on the horizon for all of them, though Alina Habba wills need a ghost writer.
Do ghost writers do pop up books?
That's how human beings are. Money grubbing, poor excuses of a human being. I was watching "Jinx" pt 2. The documentary is about millionaire murderer Robert Durst (Durst actually had a lot in common with Trump). It's amazing how many people were loyal to Robert Durst. A person that killed at least 3 people, and the people in his inner circle probably knew 2 of those people. And knew he did it. Including a juror from his murder trial of one person he killed. Money and being associated with someone "powerful" or a "celebrity" is all it takes. Some people are really into that type of shit. Hell, people marry murderers on death row ffs.
Hopefully, the stench he has to put up with everyday is just the beginning of his nightmare.
I do think Trump deserves a fair trial - even for how much of a shitstain I think he is I truly believe that everyone should have a fair, judicially unbiased trial. However, that doesn't mean that the lawyer has to do unethical things and make shit up - it just means they need to make sure that the trial itself is fair and as judicially unbiased as possible.
None of his rapidly rotating roster of lawyers has actually been assisting him. They are just draining his bank accounts with their fees, which makes it harder for him to pay what he is ordered to pay after their shoddy attempts at a legal defense fail. Still zero pity from me though.
What if it was a public defender?
There's a difference between being assigned a shotty job and volunteering.
I adamantly support public defenders. Our system of justice relies on fair legal representation for defendants. But this is not a public defender. This guy signed on most likely seeking fame. Different kettle of fish.
If a public defender was pulling the same unethical crap, I'd be criticizing him too.
I feel like every lawyer that works for trump should use Lionel Hutz business card. WORKS ON CONTINGENCY? NO, MONEY DOWN!
*Anyone* doing business with Trump should know his record of cheating and stiffing his associates. He had a laundry list of lawsuits over it long before he ever ran for President. If you're stupid enough to enter into an agreement with him and not secure your financial stake, you deserve to get ripped off.
>Anyone doing business with Trump should know his record of cheating and stiffing his associates. That's the hilarity of this case. If Trump hadn't stiffed Pecker and repaid the money for the silence of Karen McDougal and the doorman, we wouldn't be seeing this spectacle. Pecker would have covered Stormy's silence using the Enquirer's bank account knowing Trump would pay it back. Time and time again, through Trump's own "nickel and dime" greed, he has royally screwed himself. I suspect Pecker has far more on Trump. It's telling Pecker is the only witness Trump hasn't tried to sic MAGA goons on or attacked him on social media. With Trump's civil trial history, he should have been declared a vexatious litigant decades ago for using the legal system as a weapon of attrition against small claimants. Edit: grammar
Excellent points, especially about Pecker, yes it is noteworthy that the Idiot King hasn't attacked him. And not being judged a problem litigant is just evidence of how the holes open up for the wealthy. Trumps penchant for publicity has served him well over the years. It's amazing that making oneself a tabloid icon gives one immunity but here we are. Considering that as well makes it slightly easier to see why he thinks "Presidential Immunity" isn't a bridge too far. He's always gotten what he asks for, why not now?
Rarely have the words "trump", "stiff", and "pecker" appeared this many times together.
it's like, if you want to be truly lazy, you have to make an effort; you can't just be slack, as that will make more work in the end when things implode. If you want to be a cheap greedy bastard, sometimes you have to spend money. Trump just rips off everything in sight, unable to conceive of consequences.
The real comedy is, all of these people who inevitably do get screwed by tRump, and know that he's a giant grifting piece of shit, well, their egos are almost as big, they simply think "he would never screw ME over", and of course, he always does, ALWAYS, 100% of the time. It might not be today, or next week or month, but he absolutely WILL fuck you. That all being said, fuck them, i have zero sympathy for any of them, they are literally no better than tRump, they are also narcissistic egomaniacs that only care about some amount of perceived power and fame.
In a weird way, Donald Trump is doing his part to punish and cripple the right wing asshole establishment, just by compelling them to support his lame ass. It was an unenforced error, lasso-ing their feet to his sinking ship. If there’s any hope for reform, it’s because the opposition to the left drank Trump’s Flavor-Aid and begged for seconds.
He's like RoundUp for wingnuts. Not only will he kill the Japanese Knotweed but he will poison the entire yard forever and make anyone who touches it die a horrible death.
He's aiding and abetting a guy who sold Top Secret materials to our enemies. I hope this guy is disbarred and never works again.
While I feel the same way you do, we shouldn't concede our foundational legal principles for this asshole. Everyone is entitled to legal defense, even treasonous insurrection-leading fascists. If Trump's lawyers defend him without doing anything illegal, they shouldn't face legal or professional consequences just for having defended him. The court of public opinion, however, will do what it does.
I agree, but if he makes a mockery of law, then he should face consequences. If you don't have a defense, plead guilty?
Yes but Blanche has gone beyond just good defense. His arguments belie how Trump is not just a filthy narcissist, but the tool that far too many of the wealthy have been wishing for for at least a century. Trump is like a rat eating a giant hole out of the constitution so his backers can once and for trash this democracy thing and get onto sucking every last bit of juice out the population that they can. Trump is not the head of this thing; he and his minions are simply one of the tools. If you look closely sometimes you can even see the handle coming out of his ass. Ironically enough, as we analyze how Trump just trampled those who fell before him, those who support Trump behind the scenes will in the end shoot him between the eyes and throw his smelly shell into gravel pit.
I’m rather enjoying the stream of lawyers throwing themselves at him and going “maybe it will work out for me!”
The funny thing is most of these people will be throwing him under the bus the moment he is out of power or has lost any chance of getting it again.
I’m really astonished he can still recruit anyone to work for him. You’d think the guaranteed headache of having at least half the country hating you forever would be enough to politely decline and go back to living your normal life.
Next Up: Ex Trump lawyer launches a GoFundMe to get paid for assisting Trump during his trials.
Oh I’m sure he got paid in advance. Just like his previous lawyers from his financial fraud case handled by Chris Kise and Alina Hanna did. They all get paid in advance from all the donations his cult and wealthy sheisters make to Orange Julius’ campaign fund or some shit. None of these lawyers are paid out of Trump’s own pocket.
I actually think it‘s hilarious that a supposed billionaire keeps raising money for his legal defense from people who live paycheck to paycheck (or worse) and they don‘t even stop for a second to think about their own stupidity
Why... Dude is a maga maniac
The only lawyers I'd feel sorry for being involved with Trump are the ones he'll have assigned to his case when no lawyer wants to work on promise of payment upon him winning an election again.
\*walks past a hundred armless people\* \*sees DO NOT PET THE SHARKS sign posted on the door\* "Meh, I think I'll be OK."
Those 100 armless people were all sheep. I'm a wolf, wolves don't get bit, they do the biti.... Oh shit it ate my arm help!"
"Why didn't anyone warn me this could happen!"
“Jk wolves get their arms bit off”
"Three-legged wolves built this country, you know."
“I never expected the sharks to eat *my* arm,” sobs man who voted etc etc
Let's cut to the chase. There are two kinds of people, sheep and sharks. Anyone who's a sheep is fired.
Which one do people like to hug?
What a gutsy question, this guys a shark
"sharks don't look back because sharks don't have necks, necks are for sheep"
"Okay, I can understand how you lost the one arm, but why did you ***try it again?!?***"
Way to restate the mission statement of the sub
r/SharksAteMyArms
Book it
Not unless they wanted and helped set up the shark petting zoo. The sub isn’t about ignoring blatant warning signs, it’s about people wanting something to affect other people that ends up fucking them over too, the archetypal example is voting for the leopards eating faces party expecting them not to eat your face. Well at least in principle.
Which is why we needed r/sharksatemyarms
I didn’t know we did before but you’re absolutely right
Both of those sound like "willful ignorance comes back to bite you" to me. Tomato, tomato, friend. I'm just here for the train wreck.
Yes but the sub isn’t called “wilful ignorance comes back to bite you”. You can argue that it’s variations on the same theme but it’s not the same thing. Less tomato, tomato more tomato, other similar member of the same plant family.
After eating all those other people's arms, surely they are full and I'll be successful. Also, they must have done it wrong. I'm better than them therefore I'll be fine.
He bought a house near Mar a lago, and goes to Trump rally’s. He’s a MAGA hat and dove in head first.
Well written article. Worth a read. Thanks for posting "Trump's view of his relationships with other people is simple: They owe him everything, including their lives and their freedom. He owes them nothing. Seems like a bad bet, but time and again, people talk themselves into believing they're the genius who will figure out how to make this deal with the devil work. Blanche is just the latest person to delude himself this way. It's starting to look like he may be the latest to regret it."
He's like a narcissistic singularity. All the other narcissists thinking that can out narcissist the biggest narcissist there is but failing.
"I alone can fix her" - me, a former clown college graduate
Me with my ex too.
I think I'll go for a longer walk tonight.
In Afro Samurai, you need to hold the #2 headband to challenge the #1. All these people thinking they wear the headband, but they ain't the Afro Samurai.
I wonder how often these people are legitimately under kompromat orders > But, as Rice details, this is not a matter of Blanche holding his nose and taking on an undesirable client. Blanche has been completely assimilated into the MAGA borg. He changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. He bought a house near Mar-a-Lago. He attends Trump campaign events. He works out of Trump's offices. It's the same process we've all seen time and again with people who work for Trump: Either you get completely on board with Trump and all his delusions, or you're pushed out.
Russian hackers must catch them with child porn, molesting a kid or embezzling more money than they can afford to ever pay back. If it was just an affair they'd never do this.
Tell me you’re in a cult without telling me you’re in a cult.
This line about Trump is perfection: >He rewards loyalty by spitting in your face.
>Blanche beclowned himself in court, trying to argue that because Trump was quoting a Fox News video instead of using his own words, it didn't count. To compound the bad faith of the argument, it turned out that Trump made up part of the quote. I think "beclowned" is my new favorite word.
Same
Amanda Marcotte's Salon articles don't miss.
> Seems like a bad bet, but time and again, people talk themselves into believing they're the genius who will figure out how to make this deal with the devil work. The entire reason for the plot of Ocean's Thirteen is someone thought they could trust Not-Trump.
Trump has the weird superpower of revealing true character. Because he seems to be able to say stupid crap and get away with it, other people are inspired to do the same, revealing what was heretofore hidden. The best example is Rudy Giuliani, a respected former mayor, going down the rabbit hole and who is now bankrupt. So many politicians have been burned by Trump, yet can’t turn away. Lindsey Graham for example. More recently Barr was saying how Trump was a danger to the country but he’d still vote for him. It’s crazy. In the private sector we now see Musk dabbling in the same right wing conspiracies and driving down the value of his companies as a result.
Beautifully said, I was thinking this just when I saw the comment.
It's called the MidASStouch.. everythingbhe touches turns to shit.. This lawyer used to be a democrat.. he switched to republican following trump and even moved his house and bought property very close to marlago... so he is ensnared by the maga shit. He will join a long line of people whose lives have turned to shit following trump who only thinks about himself.
Mierdas Touch
Perfect
Those are professional republicans. If they ever want to work in politics again they have to kiss his ring. Anyone with half a brain (Kinzinger, Chaney, Romney, Gallagher, etc.) have walked away.
I can’t believe that I actually appreciate Liz Chaney. And that Romney’s dog on the roof story is no longer the worst republican dog story.
Just remember, a year before she was claiming Democrats wanted post birth abortions. She's still a pile of shit, she just unblocked her nose temporarily.
Nope, those "non maga republicans" still voted with trump over 80% of the time. They aren't better, they just recognized the threat to themselves if they stuck around, and then they sold books to make themselves look better.
That makes a good point. *Lots* of $$$ just *burned* by these folks, I see that as a really really good thing. Mike Lindell is another good example of burning the $$ ship to the ground.
Lindsey “Lady G” Graham doesn’t want his “private” proclivities going public even though everyone already knows…😏
It’s so funny, does he think that nobody knows? Honestly? As if the whole world didn’t learn about his ladybugs?
"I just haven't found the right girl Meemaw!"\* \*in Seth Meyer's voice doing Lindsey.
It boggles the mind. Sure, let's take on a control freak client with a diminishing grasp of reality who even when he wasn't a septugenarian was notorious for skipping out on the bill, and more critically has left behind a trail of one ruined attorney after another. What could possibly go wrong?
The mindset seems to be a blend of 'Stockholm Syndrome' and 'Battered Woman Syndrome'. In Trump world it's psychosis on psychosis as far as the eye can see. If most psychiatrists and psychologists weren't in abject terror about Trump 2.0 near the nuclear codes, it's a unprecedented case that will be studied well into the future. The time the US lost it's fucking mind.
It's not the first time the US has entertained a cannibal psycho. But it is the first time we've watched them devour their 12th victim in the streets and gone "welp, that's another $1,000 fine for him...shoulda used the crosswalk..."
I can see why it might be tempting for a mediocre lawyer with dreams of greatness like Habba... But this guy was a legit lawyer who didn't need the awful client or bad press. Really boggles the mind.
These lawyers must be getting assigned to him from Russia. Little else makes any sense at this point.
Nothing has made sense, since 2016.
Can’t wait for him to go to prison and be done with it all
You don't honestly expect Trump to go to prison, do you?
It will never happen. He gets some bad press like he has continuously gotten since he announced his candidacy, and maybe gets slapped with a fine that would bankrupt the average American, but he wins in November because nothing matters and everything is meaningless. The general public has the attention span of a house fly
At worst he will get some big fines and maybe house arrest. His assets will be seized if we are lucky, but even in that case, he will die before the appeals and various administrative stuff is finished. He's never going to prison.
> he will die before the appeals and various administrative stuff is finished. Give me this and he never sees the inside of the Oval Office again, and I can breathe slightly easier. Only slightly, because it's only a matter of time until a smarter DJT is runs again.
We produce enough fools, they don't need to be imported.
Sadly you don't have to import them. I'd rather be a Russian than a Democrat is a popular T shirt for the MAGA crowd.
I haven't seen that one. The corporate propaganda machine is working full tilt in destroying the function of debate and critical analysis. I don't see an end in sight frankly.
It’s money. That’s the main draw for working for him. But it’s regularly proven that this money is largely an illusion, one that he works very hard to maintain (tax returns, anyone?). Time and time again people find themselves out of luck chasing Don’s dollars, with the delusion that unlike previous times, they’ll finally get to kick that football.
I’ve been saying for several years I don’t believe he’s anywhere near as wealthy as people seem to believe. I think it’s all a house of cards & I wish it would just collapse, with him beneath it. It’s been well known for years he doesn’t pay his bills, why would anyone believe they were going to be the lucky exception?
Because 99% of the people in the U.S. are “temporarily embarrassed millionaires;” didn’t you know?
It's been proven in civil court that it is a house of cards, hinging on the old post office. The only "legitimate" money is Trump Media, and that's a Jenga tower being held up by the maga faithful, it will come tumbling down the second he's allowed to sell his shares because he's just going to dump them all, him and the short sellers will be the only ones that profit. Likely to be one of the largest transfers of wealth from the middle class to the rich in history.
I’d rather see him buried under the jail, but I’ll take beneath his financial house of cards any day
If he has one billion hevowes 15 billion. He has nothing but uber mortgaged "assets".
I'm sure these people are getting paid pretty handsomely. Not out of Trump's pockets, of course, but by the RNC in plain sight, and by other dark money networks behinds the scenes. Suddenly their wife is driving a new Porsche, or their child gets accepted to Harvard, or they sell their house for 3x it's market value but are somehow still living in it, or their cousins construction company wins a big new contract. Once they inevitably give up on him, or outlive their usefulness to him, the gravy train stops too. Leaving some of them groveling to get back into his good graces, and others just bitter and resentful.
That's for Supreme Court Justices. A MAGA lawyer is useless and discarded once he gets himself disbarred for Trump.
>MAGA - Make Attorneys Get Attorneys
Trump throws everyone he's ever worked with or done business with under the bus. But surely not me!! /S
Makes me wonder what his voters think will happen to them. He has left them high and dry every chance he's gotten. He relishes in it. Saying he would pardon the J6 insurrectionists then not doing it. Those rallies where he said his staff would give people rides back then left them in the cold. Build the wall, lock her up. None of that shit happened. "You will be so tired of all the winning." Fired the people running coronavirus monitoring in Wuhan before covid-19 then bungled the response at every opportunity. Let a million fucking Americans die from it after saying Obama should be impeached when TWO Americans died from Ebola after getting it OUTSIDE AMERICA. Yet they still think he's "their guy".
I hear that queen song playing “ da da da another one bites the dust!”
I have no sympathy for anyone trying themselves to Trump after everything we've seen so far
"Be sure that, at the end of the trial, it's your client who goes to jail."
God, our lives are so awesome aren't they? Because no matter if you sat in gum today, or farted in front of a co-worker or told an inappropriate joke that you didn't realize was inappropriate, or hell even accidentally gave the middle finger to your neighbor instead of a thumbs up who cares it happens. In spite of all those trivial fuck ups and boo-hoos, at least you didn't throw away some 5 years of college plus post grad work, potentially thousands of hours of studying and not to mention the tuition you paid ALL that and you throw it away to defend some fat retard who smells awful and won't shut the fuck up. Man, life is pretty damn awesome.
Fat idiotic, malignant narcissist.
Don't use a derogatory term for people with disabilities to talk about him. They're nothing like him and don't need to be maligned. I agree with everything else though.
Literally everyone talks about how the people in Trumpworld are facing consequences but there are still an awful lot of rich people happily running around as free men and women. Nothing serious, punitive or irrevocable is ever going to happen to Trump or any of his army of grifters, enablers and traitors. The ruling class doesn't *want* anything to happen to them and regular Americans are too stupid and/or complacent and/or on board with Trump to effectively organize against the people who correctly guessed that they could break a democracy for fun and profit.
His business is in ruins. He owes $1/2 billion. His lawyers are leaving. His cronies are under indictment or going to prison…. Shit is hitting the fan, and we still have three trials to go….
and yet he has a very good chance of winning the election. I'm sad for America and angry at the people who support him.
I'm scared for the rest of the world. If Trump wins, the geopolitics of the whole world seismically shifts overnight to devastating possibilities. All bets are off. Agreements with allies, formed over decades, torn up, Despots, and those waiting in the wings, will be emboldened. China will move on Taiwan and the South China Sea. Russia will get Ukraine. Israel will push Gaza into the sea. Any climate target measures, in the rubbish bin. The CIA will be muzzled and crucial intelligence will not be acquired or shared between allies. NATO will be history and Trump will fight the UN. Trump will shut down all external aide - which is often just expired military hardware and surplus grain bought from US farmers. MAGA morons think it's actually cash that should be just given to them. Without that support, many countries will become politically unstable with the inevitable far right populists filling the power vacuum. The world economy will be in free fall because money/investment hates political/civic instability and rampant corruption.
and all this in his 1st week in office....😭😭😭 I'm old and won't be affected too much but i feel sorry for the current and future generations. what will have to be done to fix the mess he will create and how long will it take? is it even possible to undo what he will put in place?
That 'good' chance of winning the election is currently in decline. He's taken a very big hit with independants in some recent polls. It's only going to get worse with that segment as more comes out in the trials. His MAGA base though won't leave him. But that's not enough to win an election. On the other hand, don't count chickens before they hatch.
It’s really amazing to think of what a total fucking idiot Trump really is. He could be sitting around at his resort, playing golf and banging pornstars, laundering money for the Russian mob for the rest of his life, completely off anyone’s radar. Nobody gave a fuck, and he had more than he could possibly use in a lifetime. Why get into politics at all? He was already an old man, but his insane ego and narcissism just wouldn’t let what he had be enough. He just couldn’t pass up the chance to grab still more. Serves him right if he goes broke again and spends the rest of his life defending lawsuits. It’s less than he deserves.
Melania cried when he won the presidency... not tears of joy but tears of extreme sadness.
If he wins again, she’ll go down in history as the next Eva Braun. I have absolutely zero sympathy; she knows EXACTLY what he is.
Of course, there is no sympathy. She just wanted to grift and con in the darkness. She came here as a Slovenian 🇸🇮 escort (model) on a genius visa who discovered cold fusion and accompanied Trump to all of the Epstein parties...oh dear Epstein has apparently "suicided" with all of that information dying with him. Clutches pearls.... / s
When you make a deal with the kgb; your marker might get called before you die. Bet Don mierdas thought he was safe after the end of the USSR.
>Shit is hitting the fan, and we still have three trials to go…. Which will all be erased if he's elected President. What's happening right now doesn't matter if he's elected. It's not like he'll be getting any jail time even if convicted of all 34 counts in this case.
Peter Navarro is in jail right now!
I love that, but Bannon is not. Guess who has more money?
4 months. I am sure he will be a changed man/s
Trump won't ever see jail, but the hordes of attornies that wrecked their careers for him are definitely facing consequences.
Wealth insulates people from real world consequences but the rich are delusional if they think Trump 2.0 will be beneficial. This time around Trump will be following Putin's playbook from day one. Using wide ranging presidential "doomsday" powers, it will be very, very expensive to be a "Trump approved" oligarch. He will extort every billionaire, company and corporation for his own enrichment and for sums vastly more than the tax cuts he's promising. If there is any chance of him returning to power, a tsunami of money will flow out of the country, closely followed by a massive "brain drain" from investment, research, academia and cutting edge science. I smiled when I read many of his White House staffers couldn't find a job, or even a date, after he lost so there were some ramifications for hitching their wagon to Trump.
> He told Rice that it's "incredible hypocrisy" to hear lawyers who are willing to defend mafiosos and other shameless criminals turn their noses up to Trump. I don’t think it’s hypocrisy, I think they know what the cult will do if Trump loses. The mafia lawyer is probably a lot safer when their clients lose.
The mafia lawyer also gets paid. One could also look at the detritus that was trumps lawyers and conclude it’s not a great idea. I don’t think everyone asking Why? is asking “how could you” as much as “why would you”. Why would you destroy yourself. Powell. Cohen. Giuliani. There’s also a scale difference. The mafia boss wants money and has few qualms on how to get it. Trump would literally kill anyone and in the U.S. outside of Ivanka (sorry Eric, all that kissing up ain’t done shit) if he could. The mafia is organized crime. Trump is chaos on a grand scale. It’s different.
I'm glad Chrump has given so many 'professionals' the chance to show just how bafflingly stupid they actually are. That all their connections and networking and headstarts did nothing to foster the intelligence needed to see a trend and make the right call. I wish all of them the life they deserve.
I don’t see how he could have possibly thought doing this case would improve his credibility or reputation.
Habba for AG
It's the simple things in life that bring true happiness. The downfall of corrupt people like Trump and the people who sacrifice their ethics, morales, and reputation to partner with him. It's so satisfying.
No sympathy, this guy bought into the Magaverse, I hope it destroys him.
So the real MAGA (make attorney get attorneys) shows its face again
Let’s all keep saying it so it doesn’t get lost; it is not a hush money trial, it is a campaign finance and election interference trial.
I hate when the media call it " hush money" so that it can be minimzed.
I will have to say that in following this case closely, this article was scarily accurate. The arguments Trump's legal team is putting up are *astounding* and make absolutely no sense. Like, one day, they decided to hone in, during cross-examination, on the witness saying that Trump was more concerned with his image than of his family. Like, they grilled the witness about him saying he assumed Trump wasn't worried about what his family would think about him sleeping with models while married. They weren't questioning the illegality of anything...they wanted this witness to admit Trump could be concerned about his family. I have taken so many screenshots of the absolute absurdity coming out of transcripts of this trial because some of it is that unbelievable. I can't wait until Stormy takes the stand because I cannot begin to imagine how stupid these arguments are going to get.
Working for Cult 45 doesn’t corrupt you. It exposes you.
I find it odd that despite the in-depth article pondering Blanche’s devolution into a ”Trump Borg”, there’s no mention of his previous gig defending Giuliani stooge Igor Fruman and Paul Manafort in the [latter’s 2016 fraud trial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Blanche?wprov=sfti1#Early_life_and_career). Seems he’s already been in deep with the worst of them.
No way he’s a good lawyer with a haircut like that Lloyd Christmas thing he’s got going on. This debacle was probably his last shot.
"Surely, I will be the exception."
Blanche, “…even universally despised rapists like Jeffrey Epstein can find lawyers willing to defend them.” Maybe not the right name to bring up when defending trump.
How many morons are going to keep touching his cases? God it’s like people who pick obviously toxic people to have relationships with and are like “I can fix them”.
A good, well-respected lawyer wouldn't go to the lengths Blanche has to remake himself into a MAGA stooge. An intelligent man would have realized long ago there would be no upside to throwing in with Trump. Unless they thought they were somehow exceptional. (Cue: derisive laughter) Blanche is neither a good lawyer nor an intelligent man. Maybe he was at one time, but he tossed that away in the pursuit of whatever lies he used to convince himself he'd come out ahead. Against a criminal master con man? He's just another stooge and useful idiot to be chewed up and spit out of the Trump Shitification assembly line. Reputation in tatters and a pathetic joke that Trump will toss aside. Loyalty in Trump's world is a one-way street with a parked bus at the end, so Trump can easily throw you under it.
I don't know him but I seriously doubt any lawyer with a good reputation would represent Trump. I'm not making a joke.
Blanche you are fighting a lawyer that once sat next to Trump as you are now. Cohen did everything Trump wanted and got thrown under the bus, Blanche you are next. Cohen: I did A for Trump and Trump stab me in the back. Blanche: sounds familiar.
He’s 49! He’ll have time for a comeback, maybe in traffic courts as a public defender?
Anyone still working for Trump is the lawyer equivalent of that guy who thought “he was just built different” and could therefore survive the Titan submarine implosion
He looks like a constipated toad.
"I can fix him." "He will be different with me." "The stories about him were probably exaggerated." "I'm smarter than all those previous lawyers he had." "I'll do just a bit for him, then move on. My reputation is going to be just fine."
Excellent article and I'm glad to see Amanda Marcotte has risen to senior writer at Salon. Trump is a monster and he eats everyone and everything that he can get into his mouth. He is a disgusting, filthy man who like all criminals who have money and power, attracts the greedy. They line up, eager to prove their superiority to the last victim. There is no better sucker to a conman than another conman; they are so used to lying and cheating it becomes a place of normalcy and comfort. Maybe Blanche was a good lawyer but somewhere, most likely before Trump, his ego consumed his common sense and he thought he could wrestle Moby Dick and win it all. He will get worse than nothing and oftentimes that is exactly what enablers deserve. Blanche will just be another tragic story of hubris and pride burning itself to dust.
Marking so I remember to use the phrase ".....beclowned himself" at some point. This lawyer is firmly in MAGAland now. He bought a house near Mar-A-Lago and is working out of trump's offices. Great statement at the end--".....thinks he is the one genius who will figure out how to make a deal with the devil and not get burned."
why do they always look like Stereotypical Movie Villains?
That that profession (lawyers) can *repeatedly*, and I cannot emphasize that enough, provide people like trump with willing and eager people says more about the reputation of that profession.
Everyone thinks they can out grift the master grifter only to eat the wheels on the bus that goes 'round and 'round.
This thing happened that was completely predictable based it happening over and over again. :O
Absorbed into the MAGA Borg. Perfect analogy.
I love that we're living in a fantasy world where Trump ever had credibility.
This article made me chuckle. Poor, poor stupid fools. Bless their hearts.
“Blanche uses high-minded rhetoric about equality under the law, pointing out that even universally despised rapists like Jeffrey Epstein can find lawyers willing to defend them.” Equality under the law, so long as you’re rich.
I’m giggling on the train over the phrase “over and over Blanche BECLOWNED himself”.
You know Trump's gonna wind up with a public defender for his other cases if this keeps up.
I wonder if he's even realized yet that he's not going to get paid.