Michael Cohen Gets Back at Trump Lawyer Over Courtroom ‘Liar’ Jab

Michael Cohen, in his first live television interview since Donald Trump was convicted Thursday on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, criticized the strategy of the former president’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, whom he dubbed a “SLOAT: Stupidest Lawyer of All Time.”

Cohen’s remark on MSNBC was in response to the way Blanche, in his closing argument Tuesday, described Cohen as the “GLOAT: Greatest Liar of All Time.”

When asked by Rachel Maddow what he thought about the defense seeming to make the trial a referendum on him, Cohen, who came across modestly rather than boastful about the outcome, dismissed Blanche’s approach.

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