During closing arguments in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York City on Tuesday, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche ended his statement by calling Michael Cohen “the GLOAT.”
“The Greatest Liar of All Time.”
“You cannot convict someone based on the words of Michael Cohen,” he added.
Blanche also called Cohen the “MVP of liars.”
Blanche got into some trouble with Judge Juan Merchan when he said “You cannot send someone to prison based on the words of Michael Cohen.”
From The New York Post:
Prosecutors objected and the judge sustained it, striking the comment from the record, but jurors still heard it.
After jurors were sent out for lunch, prosecutors claimed the statement “was a blatant and wholly inappropriate effort to call sympathy for their client.”
A furious Merchan told Blanche that, as a longtime attorney and former prosecutor, he should have known better than to make the “outrageous” and “highly inappropriate” comment — as jurors are not allowed to take punishment into consideration when deliberating.
“That statement was outrageous,” the judge said.
“You know that making a comment like that is highly inappropriate. It’s hard for me to imagine that that was accidental.”
This story is developing…
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