"Where's Melania?": Missing wife is why Trump's lawyers can't pull off the "family man" defense

In his opening statement in the People v. Donald Trump, defense attorney Todd Blanche told the Manhattan jury to gaze upon the criminal defendant and see a devoted family man. "He’s a man. He’s a husband. He’s a father," Blanche said of the former president accused of election interference. "He’s a person just like you and just like me." Hamfisted as it may be, it was a play by Blanche to distance his cranky, often sleepy client from what promised to […]
"Where's Melania?": Missing wife is why Trump's lawyers can't pull off the "family man" defense