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MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Defends Michael Cohen Stealing From Trump as "trying to rebalance the bonus he thought he deserved"
PJ Media ^ | 05/20/2024 | GRAYSON BAKICH

Posted on 05/20/2024 8:54:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

I admittedly have not followed much of the ongoing show trial of former President Donald Trump in New York City for supposedly paying hush money to former adult film performer Stormy Daniels precisely because it's a show trial. If I want to see a serious analysis of fiction, I just read TV Tropes.

Still, it does make me happy knowing the "star witness" Michael Cohen, Trump's former "fixer," just keeps digging the prosecution's grave further and further down till they hit bedrock and probably resurface in China.

As our indispensable Matt Margolis wrote earlier today, Cohen's latest entry of his foot into his mouth was admitting to all but stealing from the Trump Organization, paying a tech company called Red Finch $20,000 out of an expected $50,000 and pocketing the rest for himself.

Apparently, he was shorted out $100,000 of his normal holiday compensation of $150,000, so this was just his way of trying to "rebalance the bonus he thought he deserved," as Lawrence O'Donnell of MSNBC justified it.

Yes, really.

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk posted the clip to X, which he called "unbelievable."

Unbelievable! MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell apparently has such a severe case of TDS that he defends Michael Cohen stealing from the Trump Org:

“Cohen was trying to rebalance the bonus he thought he deserved.” pic.twitter.com/akH9e3fq76— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 20, 2024


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: graysonbakich; lawrenceodonnell; michaelcohen; msnbc; stopthehammering; theft
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1 posted on 05/20/2024 8:54:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Lawlessness is what these people crave!


2 posted on 05/20/2024 8:57:48 PM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Oh, we can do that! Cool!

Bernie Madoff was only trying to rebalance the world, from how he was treated growing up. (If you read about him, it's true.)

3 posted on 05/20/2024 8:58:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SeekAndFind

He is a thief and liar. It is NOT okay that he committed crimes against Trump. Cohen’s choices should be held against him.


4 posted on 05/20/2024 8:59:20 PM PDT by madison10
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To: nickcarraway

I’m going to steal O’Donnell’s car to rebalance the news I think I deserved.


5 posted on 05/20/2024 9:02:20 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: SeekAndFind

O’Donnell has a terminal case of TDS.


6 posted on 05/20/2024 9:03:06 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: madison10

RE: He is a thief and liar.

Ahhh, but will the jury rationalize and say, his theft and his testimony are two different matters? This is Manhattan ( 90% Democrat ).


7 posted on 05/20/2024 9:03:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It must be okay then to withhold money from the government because you are only trying to rebalance the taxes you thought you deserved./s


8 posted on 05/20/2024 9:05:25 PM PDT by teacherwoes (Our Lady of China, pray for us)
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RE: It must be okay then to withhold money from the government because you are only trying to rebalance the taxes you thought you deserved./s


9 posted on 05/20/2024 9:08:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Apparently, he was shorted out $100,000 of his normal holiday compensation of $150,000,

Good thing he didn't get Jelly of the Month Club. The half year version because the whole year is too yuge for him.

10 posted on 05/20/2024 9:10:53 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: Brandonmark
"Lawlessness is what these people crave!"

I'd like to see Lawrence O'Donnell embezzle from NBC because he "deserves it". He'd be slapped in cuffs so fast your head would swim. He'd spend the next few years as the cell block bitch with the pretty mouth.

11 posted on 05/20/2024 9:19:17 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like a criminal’s rationalization tactic.
For example, shoplifters sometimes say they steal because they are ‘balancing’ the corporate greed/low wages of the companies making and selling clothing.


12 posted on 05/20/2024 9:50:22 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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Like Reparations!

Except for white scumbag shyster lawyers!


13 posted on 05/20/2024 10:07:48 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: SeekAndFind

Cool so does this mean anyone who feels their employer isn’t paying them enough can just steal the money


14 posted on 05/20/2024 10:29:38 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Agree. MSNBC is full of lefty whacko’s. I recall taking a journalism class at Nebraska. That class had a number of well-known journalist’s sons and daughters in it.


15 posted on 05/20/2024 11:02:14 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: SeekAndFind

Larry is more unhinged than Mourning Joe


16 posted on 05/20/2024 11:11:47 PM PDT by digger48
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To: KarlInOhio

150k for a small fish like Cohen? Multiply that through the Trump organization. Trump is a generous boss. What a nice guy.


17 posted on 05/20/2024 11:25:00 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: SeekAndFind

This type of lawlessness is what today’s Leftnick Marxist pay homage to. We should be minful that socialism is not the benevolent utopia that Democrats and academics claim it is. Democratic socialism is a system where godlessness, heartlessness and evil reigns supreme. As history has repeatedly shown, tyranny, oppression, death and destruction are the end products of democratic socialism, regardless of whether it’s called democratic socialism or communism by its promoters. In reality, they are one and the same and Lawrence O’Donnell is the useful Marxist demon he prides himself to be.


18 posted on 05/20/2024 11:47:47 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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I have problems with my keyboard not printing out letters and other irritating stuff. My post #18 has such problems.


19 posted on 05/20/2024 11:54:11 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

NBC should immediately investigate this dude.


20 posted on 05/21/2024 12:11:26 AM PDT by antceecee ( )
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