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For background read:

“Donald Trump’s Ex-Lawyer Michael Cohen Taunts Him For Not Having the ‘Guts to Appear’ at Fraud Trial.”

I really don’t have anything to say about this story. I just wanted to say that Trump has only the barest idea of what a Perry Mason moment is (see Wikipedia here.) Of course the fictional Mason was a defense lawyer representing innocent people who were acused of crimes which, obviously, someone else committed.

Trump is likely to face tough prosecutors. They are much smarter than Hamilton Burger who Wiki describes this way: “Burger is one of literature’s least successful district attorneys, and critics have suggested that he must have been the most incompetent lawyer in history, although his record against defense attorneys other than Mason is unknown.”)

The proecutors against Trump will make the case that he committed the crimes he’s being accused of and because of his arrogance and refusal to heed his own lawyers advice will have his own Perry Mason moment (or moments).

In writing this I wanted to find a photo of a Raymond Burr “Perry Mason Moment” and superimpose Trump’s face on the hapless and often recklessly self-assured witness about to implicate himself.

It took considerable image searching (click to enlarge above) to find a good Perry Mason Moment where I could superimpose Trump’s face onto the guilty as hell witness.

I had to decide which manipulated image to use for the top of this blog. I made a few using the photo manipulation software Be Funky. Here are a few.

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