Trump attorney Todd Blanche did several thing he wasn’t supposed to on Monday – and he probably did it on purpose.
On the first day of actual arguments in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the former president’s defense counsel tried to plant some objectionable seeds in the minds of jurors. In his opening statement, Blanche portrayed adult film star Stormy Daniels as a liar who sought to “extort” his client and Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, as a dishonest rogue who took it upon himself to commit crimes that just so happened to benefit the Republican candidate.
