Hmm...I really wonder what kind of precedent this sort of verdict is going to outline.
*somewhere in a near future near you*
Judge: you stand here accused of stealing 500 dollars. The penalty for that is 5 years in prison. How do you plead?
Suspect: I plead guilty. But I'd like to add that I stole 5 billion more than that!
Judge: ah, I see. That changes the situation a bit...
Suspect: indeed. More so: I told some foreigners how to do shit!
Judge: all right. Because these charges are added to your initial crime, you are now facing...erm...2 years in prison?
Suspect: that's right! Our beloved country rewards those with large ambition, amirite?
*attempts to high five judge*
Judge:
In other news today, Michael Cohen is suing the Trump Organization for nearly $2 million in unpaid legal fees:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47488268
This is a bit of a weird lawsuit. If not to say 'counterintuitive. I mean...look at this:
Cohen (last week): hereby, I expose this check, signed by mr. Trump himself, to be made over for mrs. Clifford.
Choeh (this week): I am suing the Trump organisation for not having paid me.
You'd think that anyone with half a brain can come up with a decent defense on the republican/Trump side of this based on this sort of stuff.
Sure...the fact that the republicans went with a "liar, liar, pants on fire" and "I have never heard of you before today" defense rather than an ACTUAL defense can be submitted as proof that the republican party combined doesn't possess half of a brain. But surely at some point someone will be able to connect a few dots here.