Michael Cohen’s Cigar Party —an Escapade in Photographic Forensics

(…or how to waste a weekend looking too deeply at pictures of how Trump’s personal lawyer spent his Friday afternoon)

Michael David Murphy
8 min readApr 16, 2018

By now, you’ve surely seen photographs of Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen and his friends hanging out and smoking cigars last Friday afternoon.

(credit: Getty/Yana Paskova)

I was alerted to Cohen’s end-of-the-week bro-time (when he should have been at Federal Court) by this tweet by CNN correspondent Elizabeth Landers.

(These time-stamps on screenshotted tweets are 3hrs off.)

As one does, I zoomed into Crook’s photo to see what might be seen in the window’s reflection.

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