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George II

(67,782 posts)
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:12 PM Jan 2020

Harvey Weinstein limps into Manhattan courtroom ahead of long-anticipated sex assault trial

Source: NY Daily News

A frail Harvey Weinstein arrived at Manhattan Criminal Court Monday leaning on a walker and needing help getting up stairs. The perv producer was pale and flanked by his legal team as roughly 20 protesters holding signs reading “Believe Survivors” and “Justice for Survivors" watched him shuffle into the courthouse.

“Thank god your mother is not here to see this,” one protester hollered at Weinstein, who was forced to use the walker after undergoing back surgery recently, according to his lawyers.

The disgraced film producer ignored questions from dozens of reporters as he shuffled toward Justice James Burke’s 13th-floor courtroom for last-minute legal arguments ahead of Tuesday’s kickoff to a trial expected to last as long as eight weeks and bring in journalists and film stars from all over the world.

His attorney asked the judge to sequester the jury for the entire trial ― a request Judge Burke immediately denied.

Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-harvey-weinstein-eve-criminal-trial-20200106-fvo5kzydgbg3fifs2m23u5qqse-story.html



GMAFB! Using a walker all of a sudden?



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Harvey Weinstein limps into Manhattan courtroom ahead of long-anticipated sex assault trial (Original Post) George II Jan 2020 OP
Trying to pull a Bill Cosby sympathy card OnlinePoker Jan 2020 #1
Yep. The tennis balls on the walker were a nice touch! George II Jan 2020 #2
Being charged with a variety of felonies will take the spring out of anyone's step jberryhill Jan 2020 #3
That is a common thing... MicaelS Jan 2020 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author mucifer Jan 2020 #36
My first thought was GemDigger Jan 2020 #7
Exactly my thought when I first saw this. nt KPN Jan 2020 #12
First thought: I'm surprised he doesn't have a fancier walker Lulu KC Jan 2020 #4
maybe it's a leftover prop from one of his movies diva77 Jan 2020 #13
My first thought, too. sarge43 Jan 2020 #32
We are not alone! Lulu KC Jan 2020 #39
Good summation of D list male bovine fecal material. n/t sarge43 Jan 2020 #40
odd how the sexual assaulters suddenly become mercuryblues Jan 2020 #5
Maybe raping is bad for your health. jmbar2 Jan 2020 #9
Getting caught can be even tougher. marble falls Jan 2020 #24
A walker or wheelchair is the oldest trick in The Defense Lawyer's Handbook. BKDem Jan 2020 #6
Paul Manafort showed up for his last court appearance in a wheelchair. George II Jan 2020 #18
Surprised they didn't slap a neck brace on him. Too obvious, I suppose. n/t sarge43 Jan 2020 #33
Reminds me of Junior Soprano faking illness in court jmbar2 Jan 2020 #8
Love this post. Thanks. zentrum Jan 2020 #29
Good Gosh!!! LeftInTX Jan 2020 #10
For $100 at walgreens you can get a rolator with a seat and brakes. mucifer Jan 2020 #37
a colossal bullshit artist to the end. nt Javaman Jan 2020 #11
Give me a break! llmart Jan 2020 #14
After his last appearance (also featuring the walker) didn't a tabloid publish pics of him RockRaven Jan 2020 #15
He doesn't look that frail. LiberalFighter Jan 2020 #16
You're more generous than I am. marble falls Jan 2020 #23
Ana Navarro weighs in: George II Jan 2020 #17
I was going to post LittleGirl Jan 2020 #35
He got out of the vehicle easily... FarPoint Jan 2020 #19
Geeez. Use a wheelchair or a gurney dalton99a Jan 2020 #20
Come on, Harvey. Go Mubarak or go home. Tommy_Carcetti Jan 2020 #21
Frail looking? "Special effects" sez I. marble falls Jan 2020 #22
"Frail"? I don't care. I don't care if they bring him to court ... JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2020 #25
He should have borrowed Manafart's wheelchair. Hassler Jan 2020 #26
He's missing the neck brace. Sugar Smack Jan 2020 #27
Shades of The Chin zentrum Jan 2020 #28
A distraction is a distraction, no matter who does it. Paladin Jan 2020 #30
Ha! He needs an oxygen mask w/tank. Did he not watch any movies between those sexual assaults? Scum. captain jack Jan 2020 #34
Boohoohooh poor wittle baby!!! Yeehah Jan 2020 #38

Response to MicaelS (Reply #31)

Lulu KC

(2,567 posts)
4. First thought: I'm surprised he doesn't have a fancier walker
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:24 PM
Jan 2020

This looks like the standard hospital-issue one.
Trivia.
Nicely distracting from the world being on fire and nuclear holocaust at our door.

sarge43

(28,941 posts)
32. My first thought, too.
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 09:24 PM
Jan 2020

Far more efficient ones available - ones with wheels and hand brakes, attached baskets, legs that can be sized to the person's height, etc. If I can afford one, he sure can.

My crap detector whispers stage prop.

Lulu KC

(2,567 posts)
39. We are not alone!
Wed Jan 8, 2020, 11:43 AM
Jan 2020

From the Washington Post, Monica Hesse:

"You can easily picture Weinstein, a man of exorbitant financial resources, employing hair and makeup artists to give him the appearance of good health. He might wear a discreet back brace underneath his formal wear. He might be leaning on a custom, elegant cane — he might require a chic black walker. This Harvey Weinstein would be in an identical medical situation. But in that parallel universe, he presumably would want to tell a different story about himself, one in which he could still swan through a room, glad-handing Reese Witherspoon and Martin Scorsese — a mogul of a certain age, but still a mogul, still powerful. Can you for one second imagine him showing up with neon tennis balls?"

(There's more and it's pretty interesting. Still, I have to note that I'm really paying too much attention to this when the rest of the news is so much more significant this week!)

mercuryblues

(14,532 posts)
5. odd how the sexual assaulters suddenly become
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 01:27 PM
Jan 2020

frail and feeble on their way onto court. If I was a suspicious person, I'd think they are trying to play a pity me card. I'd think they were trying to visually influence the jurors to think an old feeble man couldn't possibly do the things he is on trial for.

LeftInTX

(25,383 posts)
10. Good Gosh!!!
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 02:35 PM
Jan 2020

Nothing like a billionaire going to court with a Walgreens/WalMart walker with tennis balls.

I got mine at Walgreens. I bought it almost 20 years ago, I use it now an then, mainly as a balance bar for exercise. Kinda like crutches. If you have them you keep them because they come in handy now and then.

llmart

(15,540 posts)
14. Give me a break!
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 02:53 PM
Jan 2020

Isn't this scumbag about 67 years old? I'm older than that.

Could he be any more transparent?

Hope he rots in a prison cell.

RockRaven

(14,974 posts)
15. After his last appearance (also featuring the walker) didn't a tabloid publish pics of him
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 02:58 PM
Jan 2020

walking around a grocery store with upright posture taken that same week? I seem to remember something like that happening.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,350 posts)
25. "Frail"? I don't care. I don't care if they bring him to court ...
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 04:14 PM
Jan 2020

... bungie-corded to a refrigerator dolly. (Quid pro quo, Clarice)

Try him, lock him in a cell, leave him to rot.

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
28. Shades of The Chin
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 06:10 PM
Jan 2020

Mob Boss Gigante who was too sick and "crazy" to be tried. Used to walk around NYC streets in a bathrobe as his trial drew near.

Paladin

(28,265 posts)
30. A distraction is a distraction, no matter who does it.
Mon Jan 6, 2020, 06:40 PM
Jan 2020

Weinstein's walker and trump's assassination of the Iranian military bigshot have the same corrupt purpose. No one should be fooled.

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