Wrong Guy Subpoenaed Tells Trump “I’m Keeping the Fifteen Dollars”

You have to admire a regular person willing to blatantly troll Donald Trump. And that’s what New York City’s Jeremy Rosenberg has done. In a city the size of NYC there’s bound to be more than one Jeremy Rosenberg and one of them used to work as an investigator for the Manhattan DA’s office. Alas, that’s not the guy Trump attorney Todd Blanche delivered a subpoena to. You’d think even a Trump lawyer would check to make sure they had the right guy but… Nope. Worse for them the guy who did get the fishing expedition subpoena has a biting sense of humor. And it seems is fearless.

In this article by The Independent you can find all the fun details of this bumbling Team Trump fiasco.  And yes, when you look at the chain of events it is an actually funny comedy of errors. Especially since before (so it appears) learning of his mistake Todd Blanche complained to the court:

Mr Blanche had complained earlier this week that the man that he believed the former investigator Mr Rosenberg had displayed a “flippant and dismissive approach” to his subpoena “despite ample experience with the criminal justice system that should have instilled in him respect for this process and a criminal defendant’s rights”.

But in fact, Mr Trump’s lawyers had simply served court papers on the wrong man, prosecutor Matthew Colangelo wrote.

Colangelo noted in his filing “The people believe the defendant has served the incorrect person.”  Luckily for him he could deal with this in writing. I have a feeling he’d have had to fight to hold back laughing if he’d had to deal with this in open court. His filing went on to add:

“The people spoke with Mr. Rosenberg’s counsel, who informed the People that Mr. Rosenberg was not, in fact, served with the subpoena, that Mr. Rosenberg had not corresponded with defense counsel, and that Mr. Rosenberg does not have any connection to the Brooklyn address where the subpoena purportedly was served,” he added.

The Independent’s article notes that Team Trump made an “embarrassing” mistake. Well, that’s putting it politely. Oh, it’s embarrassing to be sure but also indicative of the half-assed lawyering Trump has at his disposal. Maybe I should be nicer. They do after all have a client who DEMANDS they waste time filing frivolous motions that get shot down. And then RE-filing them. Perhaps they simply don’t have the time to do their jobs properly. Or hire staff to get details such as among the various Jeremy Rosenbergs in NYC we want to subpoena which one is the one we are actually looking for? And where can we find him?

Well, they got it wrong so let’s talk about the guy they DID issue the subpoena to. Obviously, since he was the wrong guy and had never had anything to do with legal and legal investigative stuff much less anything to do with Trump he had no files to provide. As such how was he supposed to use the whole fifteen bucks Blanche “helpfully” provided to copy the subpoenaed files?  Now, most people would simply say “Sorry but I’m not the Jeremy Rosenberg you seem to be looking for” and hope it all goes away.

However THIS guy decides to do some trolling. And I wouldn’t want to be Blanche or any of the other lawyers when Trump finds out (if he hasn’t already) about this. THIS guy’s response was dry and epic at the same time:

Following the blunder, Mr Rosenberg decided to have a bit of fun with Mr Trump’s attorneys – and told them he’d be keeping the money they sent him.

“I don’t have any files for you,” the apparently bemused Brooklynite wrote back, according to a filing from the former president’s legal team.

He added: “PS – The phone number you provided was disconnected.

“PPS – I’m keeping the fifteen dollars,” he added, referencing the money Mr Trump’s lawyers had sent him to help pay for sending the documents

The “PS” about the disconnected phone number is funny in and of itself as it tells you something (not good) about that state of things with Team Trump. But it’s the “PPS” about keeping the fifteen dollars that makes this awesome. That I think will piss Trump off more than anything else about this gaffe. Some regular dude in a city he spend most of his life trying to get to embrace him and instead rejected him (because he’s a P.O.S.) NOT giving  back the money!  And pointedly saying he was keeping it.  Yep, that’s easily the kind of thing that will in his current state set off a Trump explosion.

Being Trump it’s not a stretch to imagine him sending a note to Rosenberg saying: Give me back my fifteen dollars. Or else.  Trump is that petty and cheap. He might actually do it rather than have some common New Yorker out there having made a fool of him.  I really hope Trump tries, because I’m pretty sure Rosenberg’s response would be “Sue me.” and posting the exchange complete with Trump’s note on social media!

Anyway, this was a fun thing to learn about and I hope it has brought the same kind of smile to your face as it has to mine. Jeremy Rosenberg of Brooklyn deserves a hearty “Three Cheers” from us all.