Trump Lawyer Lost Weight By Passing Up His Client's Fast-Food Extravaganza During Trial Lunch Breaks
Donald Trump's lawyer lost more than the case -- he lost weight too, even though he was surrounded by a 'plethora' of junk food.
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President Trump’s team takes care of everybody. Like, everybody gets food. You know, there’s a lot of food. It’s not always McDonald’s. There’s a lot of… variety. There’s pizza, and there’s other non-healthy alternatives to McDonald’s.
Look, I loved it, because, you know, you come in from lunch, and as you know when you’re on trial, you’re trying to figure out what the heck you’re gonna stuff in your belly with the hour that you have. And we would walk in, and there would just be this, just, plethora of just food everywhere.
— Todd Blanche, lead lawyer to former president Donald Trump, describing the lunchtime spread in the “war room” during Trump’s New York hush money case, during an appearance on the For The Defense podcast, hosted by attorney David Oscar Markus. For his part, Blanche claimed that he never partook of the fast-food fare, saying, “I didn’t have lunch one day. I ate in the morning and at night.” Blanche later went on to tell Markus about his trial diets, saying, “I always take trials as an opportunity to lose a few pounds. It’s my own little way to lose weight. I think I lost—well I haven’t weighed myself since the verdict, but—seven or eight pounds during the trial.”
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