It’s important to admire MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. He is even higher at defending Michael Cohen’s prison habits than Michael Cohen.
Cohen, you see, admitted twice in court docket that he stole from the Trump Group. , took cash that wasn’t legally his.
O’Donnell does not see it that approach, although. Michael Cohen was such a loyal soldier for Trump that he was taking what was owed to him. It was not likely theft, however reasonably a correction of injustice.
of MSNBC @Lawrence O’Donnell defends Michael Cohen stealing from Trump Group: “Cohen [was trying] He deserved what he thought he deserved to rebalance the bonus, and it nonetheless got here out as lower than the bonus he deserved and the bonus he acquired a yr in the past” pic.twitter.com/UsdEfQUetR
— Tom Elliot (@TomElliot) May 20, 2024
Should you ever embezzle, keep in mind this excuse and name Lawrence O’Donnell as a witness to clarify how unfair it’s that you just could not steal more cash for the fantasy wage you suppose you deserve.
JUST IN: ‘Star Witness’ Michael Cohen Admits He Stole $30,000 From Trump Group Throughout Questioning From Trump’s Lawyer
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Cohen mentioned he requested $50k for IT providers when the providers had been solely $20k
Lawyer: “You stole from the Trump Group, … pic.twitter.com/wT0bHbeY67
— Colin Ragg (@colinragg) May 20, 2024
Admittedly, Michael Cohen is famously trustworthy, so if he says he deserves a bonus he did not get, he should have. And when you suppose you deserve a fee, so be it.
Cohen flat-out admitted on the stand at Trump’s hush cash trial that he stole from the Trump Group, describing billing the corporate for $50,000 in bills, however that he paid $20,000 of the particular invoice in a bag full of money. pic.twitter.com/fXIQykojb5
— I̾T̾’̾S̾🫦A̾S̾H̾ (@LegitAshQ) May 20, 2024
Ed, I deserve an additional $50 grand this month. Please pay the value. I’ve no approach of stealing it, so you need to cough it up.
Different MSNBC analysts at the very least have the decency to confess that stealing cash did not make Cohen look good, and CNN was positively trashing the man earlier than this new revelation.
‘I am nonetheless reeling!’: CNN anchors shocked by revelation that Cohen stole cash from Trump Group
Jack Tapper on Monday responded to the information that Manhattan DA’s “star witness” Michael Cohen stole $30,000 from the Trump Group.
Tapper: “Yeah. No, it is – it is . . .” pic.twitter.com/6AEDBk90Vk
— Kyle Baker (@kylenabaker) May 20, 2024
If I did not know higher, I might suppose that Alvin Bragg and Choose Marchan are Trump shills, working as exhausting as they’ll to derail the legislation in opposition to Donald Trump. However the fact is that they actually believed that holding up this trial and dragging it out so long as humanly doable would assist President Biden and damage Donald Trump.
They need to hold him off the marketing campaign path, however additionally they believed that creating the narrative that Trump had been charged with 1001 crimes would persuade folks that he was a prison and may by no means have been president.
As a substitute, the lesson individuals are taking from that is that Democrats are corrupt, and plenty of see them as a risk to democracy. In the event that they’re prepared to arrange Donald Trump, they certain are prepared to arrange you and me.
Many within the information media have shied away from the trial—not in protection, because it attracts good scores—however in public criticism of the numerous failures of the prosecution and the trumped-up nature of the fees. Their authorized analysts are panning the prosecution, brazenly shocked by how flimsy the proof is and the way dismissive the witnesses are.
It takes a galaxy of brains like O’Donnell’s to defend this travesty. Luckily, we get to see it. It is nearly as fascinating as a prepare wreck.
