Trump Still Has the Lawyers He Deserves

Todd Blanche, the lead attorney of DJT's defense team for the hush money trial, completed his closing arguments today.

For about 3.5 hours, Mr. Blanche presented two points, over and over.

Donald Trump did nothing wrong, or at least nothing illegal.

In any case, it was all Michael Cohen's fault.

Trump Has the Lawyers He Deserves

On Monday, May 20, Donald Trump's defense team in his New York election interference case decided, at the last minute, to call a surprise witness. It turned out that the surprise was mostly on them.

Robert Costello, an associate of Rudy Giuliani and someone Michael Cohen rejected as a possible legal advisor, was uncooperative and even contemptuous while on the witness stand. Costello, himself an attorney, foolishly insisted not only on openly disagreeing with the judge in the case, Juan ?Marchan, but even on challenging some of the judge's rulings.

Albeit without the jury present, Judge Marchan robustly chided Team Trump, which doesn't bode well for said team's chances of success in clearing their client.

So What Else Is New?

CNN called 45's recent interview with Time magazine a bombardment of lies. Here's the breakdown.

Our personal favorite? Trump's apparent inability to distinguish between an executive order and a law ...