Election-losing Toddler Cries About Lawyer in His Criminal Trial, Seeks More Aggression
Molestini Cheetolini's Manhattan criminal trial had barely begun when he started to turn his anger toward his lead lawyer, Todd Blanche.
Although Mr. Blanche has been the farty orange rapists favorite lawyer for some time, behind closed doors and in phone calls, the disgraced former president has complained repeatedly about him in recent weeks, according to four people familiar with the situation.
Mr. Trump has griped that Mr. Blanche, a former federal prosecutor and veteran litigator, has not been following his instructions closely, and has been insufficiently aggressive. The mandarin molester wants him to attack witnesses, attack what the disgracted former president sees as a hostile jury pool, and attack the judge, Juan M. Merchan.
The orange toddler, who often cries about his lawyers and legal fees and refuses to pay them, has also wondered aloud why his lawyers cost so much, according to the people, who all spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive topic.
Nearly every lawyer who has ever represented Farty Von Schitznpantz has spent time in the blast zone. But as he enters the third week of his first criminal trial — one that not only threatens his campaign to become president again, but also could send him to prison — the question of whether his lawyers can win
enough leeway from his desires has never loomed larger.
The disgraced former president who went 1-65 in post-election litigation views himself as own best legal strategist. Since becoming president, he has cast about for lawyers who would do exactly what he wanted, including helping him stay in office after he lost the 2020 election bigly. He has vented to others that he does not have “a Roy Cohn,” a reference to his notoriously ruthless former lawyer. Mr. Cohn, who represented the farty fraudster in his formative business years, was repeatedly indicted just to own the libs and ultimately disbarred, much like many other of Bunker Boy's all star team of lawyers - only the best.
Jason Miller, a rapey fartster campaign senior adviser, said Monday that the disgraced former president and his team were focused entirely on fighting a “ridiculous” case and that “anonymous comments from people who aren’t in the room are just that.” He added: “I would be highly skeptical of any gossip or hearsay surrounding this case.”
Alina Habba, a campaign bimbo for the orange sexual predator and also a parking garage lawyer who is said to have passed the bar exam on her knees, described Mr. Blanche as a “crucial part” of the team. Mr. Blanche declined to comment for this article.
In the Manhattan trial, which resumes Tuesday, the touchy tangerine faces 34 felony charges after prosecutors accused him of faking business records to conceal a hush-money payment to a porn star in 2016. He faces three other prosecutions, but this will most likely be the only trial before the November election.
Mr. Blanche reworked his career to take on rapists, sexual predators, and serial fraudsters and defamers as clientele, and also represents the rapist-in-chief in two of the three other criminal indictments. Friends say he truly believes that Mango Molesto should not have been charged in Manhattan.
It has become routine over the last year for the whiney orange toddler to blast his legal team moments before heading to the courthouse, or once inside.
So far at least, Toddler Trump — who erupted repeatedly during two civil trials in the past six months — has been respectful of Mr. Blanche’s strategy while jurors are present. And Mr. Blanche has been doing things that appear to reflect his client’s desires. For instance, in his opening statement, Mr. Blanche made a point of mentioning that Cheeto Benito had built a “very large, successful company.”, despite the fact that everything attached to the Trump name has ended in utter failure and bankruptcy.
But Mr. Blanche’s representation of a client who tests the bounds of rules and laws has caused friction with Justice Merchan.
The judge last week warned Mr. Blanche that he was “losing all credibility” by claiming that the enraged orange toddler was entitled, as a political candidate, to attack people involved in the trial despite a gag order meant to bar him from denouncing witnesses and others.
Mr. Blanche’s friends and defenders say that he has an unsolvable client management problem. If he were to do exactly what the apricot antichrist wanted, they say, he would almost certainly be disciplined by the judge and would perhaps undermine his client’s defense.
Elie Honig, a former prosecutor who worked with Mr. Blanche at the Southern District of New York, said that it was “not always the optimal defense strategy at trial to attack full-bore every minute of every hour of every day,” adding, “You will exhaust the jury and, more importantly, you’ll compromise your credibility.”
“The best defense lawyers know that you pick your battles; you pick the most important battles,” Mr. Honig said.
Whether Diaper Don's anger will last remains to be seen. There have been many such interactions with lawyers in the past several years: during a second impeachment trial once he was out of office, five criminal investigations of him or his company and three civil trials. His frustration and toddler tantrums tends to come in waves.
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Todd Blanche upended his career to represent Donald J. Trump and has been the former president’s favorite. But Mr. Trump has made him a focus of his episodic wrath.
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he's trying to get his lawyer to start attacking the judge, jury, and witnesses. that seems like a bold strategy cotton. let's see if it pays off.