Harvey Weinsteins lawyers argue the alleged perv is the real victim during erratic closing arguments: Hes the one whos being abused

Disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein is the “poster boy” of cancel culture, his defense attorney ranted during erratic closing arguments, insisting the convicted sex pest is the real victim of the women accusing him of rape. “They’re using their youth, their beauty, their charm, their charisma to get stuff from him,” defense attorney Arthur Aidala said Tuesday of the three women who testified against the once-powerful Hollywood kingpin during his ongoing sex-crimes retrial in Manhattan Superior Court. “I know it’s going to sound crazy, but he’s the one who’s being abused.He’s the one who’s getting used.”During the three-hour speech to jurors, Aidala portrayed the relationships between Weinstein and his three accusers — fromer TV production assistant Miriam “Mimi” Haley, Polish model Kaja Sokola and former actress Jessica Mann — as “transactional” sexual relationships that were consensual.He claimed the victims are women with broken dreams “who wanted to cut the line” to stardom.The attorney’s animated theatrics balanced a tightrope of absurdity — from mockingly impersonating one of the women to entering the witness stand to discus his own sex life, with his wife in attendance — in an effort to dissuade jurors from reconvicting the one-time movie mogul.“They needed to get the poster boy, the original sinner for the MeToo movement,” Aidala said, referring to prosecutor’s decision for a retrial.

“They tried to do it five years ago, and there was a redo, and they’re trying to do it again.”At one point, Aidala took shots at Weinstein’s physical appearance, calling the hulking wheelchair-bound ex-Miramax boss a “fat dude” incapable of “playing naked Twister” – a hyperbole to how witnesses have described the “Pulp Fiction” producer’s sinister demeanor during the alleged attacks.“Some of these descriptions from these women sound like ‘Cirque du Soleil’!” Aidala charged.The former stu...