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Dahleen Glanton: A dog's loyalty is real. Michael Cohen's 'blind loyalty' to the president is not

If you really want to talk about blind loyalty, let's talk about dogs.

For now, I'm going to skip over Michael Cohen's confession in court Wednesday that he committed a host of crimes because of "blind loyalty" to his former boss, Donald Trump.

Most of us would dismiss that excuse as dog poop, the way the federal judge apparently did before sentencing Trump's longtime private attorney to three years in prison for tax fraud, campaign finance violations and other charges.

Anyone who has ever owned a dog knows what real blind loyalty

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