I love Hannity protesting he never paid Cohen legal fees -- ok, he maybe paid him $10!
First, who the hell pays a lawyer $10? You either pay legal fees or you don't, or, if you're fake retaining your friend to be able to claim privilege or whatever, you give them $1.
Second, Cohen says he had three whole clients, and an office in Manhattan. One of those clients is Trump, who doesn't like to pay people. That'd leave one client and Hannity, who says he paid a grand total of $10.
That doesn't seem likely!
I get they're all fucking dumbasses but the daily demonstrations of how correct Dunning and Kruger were is amazing.
So the russians get the leverage on trump via Cohens slush pile?
I don't think Hannity's relationship with Cohen is about covering up any extramarital affairs. Instead, I think he is the one feeding Hannity his big stories: Seth Rich, Uranium One, etc.
I love Hannity protesting he never paid Cohen legal fees -- ok, he maybe paid him $10!
First, who the hell pays a lawyer $10? You either pay legal fees or you don't, or, if you're fake retaining your friend to be able to claim privilege or whatever, you give them $1.
Second, Cohen says he had three whole clients, and an office in Manhattan. One of those clients is Trump, who doesn't like to pay people. That'd leave one client and Hannity, who says he paid a grand total of $10.
That doesn't seem likely!
I get they're all fucking dumbasses but the daily demonstrations of how correct Dunning and Kruger were is amazing.
So does this mean that because Hannity is "involved" Fox will remove him from broadcasting any news items regarding this investigation because of a conflict of interest?
1. With his records having been seized, Cohen has no reason to lie, and every reason NOT to lie.
2. If Hannity is lying, why? What exactly could he be worried about?
It also says a lot about this Administration that the President's personal attorney has to hire attorneys.
“Mr. Cohen might have a legal degree, but this investigation is largely focused on his private business dealings and personal financial dealings,” assistant U.S. attorney Thomas McKay explained to Judge Kimba Wood of Federal District Court, addressing the president’s loud complaints that the raid of his lawyer’s office violated attorney-client privilege. “He has more attorneys of his own than he has clients.”
It makes sense if you think of it as him saying "I do not wish to be held accountable for my actions."The way Hannity tells it he wants to invoke his attorney-client privilege despite not being a client of this attorney. How does that work exactly?
It does seem likely. Cohen is a negative-income lawyer. There is a reason he moonlighted as a taxi-driver. He went to Cooley Law School, perhaps the worst law school in the United States (and it is heading further south) so he likely graduated without getting a job and barely met the bar standard. His moon-lighting as a taxi driver got him jobs with the Russian mob and that is perhaps how he ended up being the personal attorney of Trump and still put a suit on his frame.
I don't think Hannity's relationship with Cohen is about covering up any extramarital affairs. Instead, I think he is the one feeding Hannity his big stories: Seth Rich, Uranium One, etc.
This feels like a tv show, not real life.
This feels like a tv show, not real life.
This feels like a tv show, not real life.
They would IF Fux News was a reputable, professional practitioner of journalism that respects and abides the code of ethics the way reputable, professional practitioners of journalism do.
The Guardian said:In a statement Fox News said: “While Fox News was unaware of Sean Hannity’s informal relationship with Michael Cohen and was surprised by the announcement in court yesterday, we have reviewed the matter and spoken to Sean and he continues to have our full support.”
Apparently the incumbent and his people read this as meaning the 'perjury and obstruction of justice' were part of the qualifications for public office. In which case they are overachievers.“Committing crimes of moral turpitude such as perjury and obstruction of justice go to the heart of qualification for public office.” — Orrin Hatch, 1999
Apparently the incumbent and his people read this as meaning the 'perjury and obstruction of justice' were part of the qualifications for public office. In which case they are overachievers.
Fox's investigative journalism. Lower case (i) and (j).In a statement Fox News said: “While Fox News was unaware of Sean Hannity’s informal relationship with Michael Cohen and was surprised by the announcement in court yesterday, we have reviewed the matter and spoken to Sean and he continues to have our full support.”
I don't like this channel, but my remote doesn't seem to be allowing me to click away from it. Wassup wit' dat?
It's not worth a separate thread, but the NY Times devoted its entire editorial page to warn the Republican Congressional majority how they will have to respond when Trump fires Mueller and Rosenstein and they don't pussyfoot around either as they throw back in their faces the very words Republican senators used against Bill Clinton in 1999.
"In a country based on the system of laws, which is really the great gift given to us under the terms of our Constitution, there needs to be a consistency of application. The idea that all people are equal under the law is not a relative term.” — Judd Gregg, 1999
“I have asked myself how men from an era when honor was valued above all other traits, men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison, might have viewed a President who committed perjury and obstruction of justice for personal and political gain.” — Phil Gramm, 1999
“What standard of conduct should we insist our President live up to? ... Do not underestimate, my friends, the corrupting and cynical signal we will send if we fail to enforce the highest standards of conduct on the most powerful man in the nation.” — Pete Domenici, 1999
“Committing crimes of moral turpitude such as perjury and obstruction of justice go to the heart of qualification for public office.” — Orrin Hatch, 1999
He has an office in 30 Rock, was sitting in a hotel room in midtown, had a home someplace with a HELOC he was able to pull $130k off -- that's serious money. The office alone...
You can be all that and still make your living with negative income. Leverage, leverage, leverage. Oh where, oh where does he find that leverage. . .
Republicans won't even dignify that with a look. They can't. At this point, any admission that mistakes were made would likely mean the end of the Republican party, and too many of them have no skills other than being shills and living off a government salary to take that risk.
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By all accounts, Hannity is struggling mightily to "explain" this mess. And, if you want to google a bit, you can come up with a brilliant portrait by Jim Carrey of Hannity as a manatee.
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