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(28,836 posts)hmmm
onenote
(42,602 posts)He's not making that decision on the spot. I doubt the daughter's attendance is a "sympathy card" ploy. She's in her early 20s and probably wanted to be there to support her father.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,309 posts)mobeau69
(11,133 posts)I could see him using his wife, but his daughter?
onenote
(42,602 posts)It wouldn't be the least bit surprising that his wife and daughter are there to show support.
samnsara
(17,606 posts)...last night hubby-who chews up an spits out deplorables-said he was actually feeling sorry for Cohen....at least for the family. Anyone who touches trump withers and dies. I HOPE Cohen will turn his life around and spend the rest of it making this up to his family. Im always willing to give anyone (just NOT everyone) a second chance. Im still on the fence about Flynn.....his son can rot in hell and so can Manafort.
agingdem
(7,805 posts)pretty sure the wife knew what she was getting into...and I want prison time...he committed multiple felonies..he wasn't a backbencher so to speak...he was a deputy finance chairman of the RNC...as was Elliott Broidy and Steve Wynn..all cut from the same slime as Der Leader..
mobeau69
(11,133 posts)wcmagumba
(2,882 posts)to his last court appearance in a wheelchair? What is this shit, some old Mafia gambit
to look pitiful or something? What fake criminal dumb asses....
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Private messages from one his daughters have been hacked and leaked. They think that the family-fortune is "blood-money".
EarlG
(21,935 posts)FYI.
mobeau69
(11,133 posts)She's obviously old enough to stay home alone.
EarlG
(21,935 posts)If she's old enough to decide to stay home, she's old enough to decide to show up
lpbk2713
(42,740 posts)She would be much more comfortable watching the proceedings at home on C-SPAN.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Cohen's wife, son and daughter wanted to be there for his sentencing. He faces years in prison, I don't see anything unusual about his family being with him.
Scoopster
(423 posts)Sounds like she had an accident or something?
agingdem
(7,805 posts)fractured her hip during a soccer game...it happens
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)That appears to be his daughter, his wife was behind them.
Poor kid didn't look happy and is it me or does Cohen just look stupid all the time.
Agreed.
I think he often looks like a dog who got caught eating out of the trash.
krawhitham
(4,641 posts)GWC58
(2,678 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)LexVegas
(6,031 posts)global1
(25,225 posts)irresistable
(989 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Shes his daughter. She likely loves her father and wants to support him on the worst day of his life - even though he brought it on himself.
Also - its not unusual for a defendant to be immediately remanded into custody at sentencing, so its possible he could go straight to jail this morning. If thats were my father, Id be there, even if they had to carry me in on a stretcher.
dameatball
(7,395 posts)Blue Owl
(50,280 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Nothing funny about it.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)How can DU be so cruel to this child?
Taraman
(373 posts)I hope he can redeem himself -- after paying a price.
Baitball Blogger
(46,684 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:03 AM - Edit history (2)
I've seen it before at the HOA level. People who brutalized you in the past start appearing on the street, when it's obvious that something is going on in the community that will uncover their treachery. They know that I witnessed their misbehavior and now, in a ploy for sympathy, they suddenly appear when you're out gardening. I call it the gimp walk because they look dejected, limp, walk with a cane or hold their back in pain. And all I can think about is that this is just another ploy, like all the others.
The same kind of bad judgment they used to get themselves into that mess, is the same bad judgment that they use when they bring their children in to try to control your resolve. For example, we had a couple who was trying to steal the common grounds of our Association and they came to a meeting that was going to hold a vote on the issue. It wasn't just them. There was a large group that had been colluding in the background to make a move at a time when the Association wasn't quite on its feet. They were taking advantage of the ignorance of new neighbors, that had not been apprised of the location of those common grounds, nor that they had easement rights to use them. Of course, it was the older homeowners that kept this information from them.
Anyway, I, and others, managed to prevail in pushing the vote back to inform these people and it looked like it was going to be a nastier meeting than most. So they bring their children to the meeting, as if that was going to soften hearts. But by then, people were beginning to understand the extent of what the collusion between these insiders were going to cost us in the long run and no one was happy. It ended badly with the husband, who was president of the Association, resigning his seat. His wife left taking her pound cake with her.
It's one of those experiences that builds callouses around your sympathetic heart strings.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)mobeau69
(11,133 posts)to generate sympathy. Same deal as him crying about not being informed by the FBI that lying to them was a crime. I thought that was funny too.
If he were my father that stole money from honest, hardworking taxpayers I'd disown the bastard and change my last name.
If anyone wants to have a sympathy party for Dotard's fixer, count me out!
obamanut2012
(26,047 posts)And possibly remanded then and there. She is an adult, and wanted to be with her father. No one has sympathy for anyone, but this is an appalling OP, and most of the comments are, too.
A young woman having surgery isn't funny -- she isn't the one who was convicted.
mobeau69
(11,133 posts)Demsrule86
(68,471 posts)sentence was already decided upon before court...I think this post is terrible.
obamanut2012
(26,047 posts)This thread sounds like FR or JPR.
mobeau69
(11,133 posts)WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)The Trump Organization and Trump himself does little else but leave a wake of victims in its path.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Great choice for someone recovering from hip surgery and using a cane to walk...just sayin'. How we suffer for fashion! One quick turn of the ankle and that hip will be hurting BIGLY.
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