Michael Cohen's third client...

WhatFor ↓

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 12:10 pm

Was just revealed to be Sean Hannity.

Talk amongst yourselves.

(About this topic only in this thread, please!)

mommywife

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:06 pm

What's the significance of this?

anon for this ↓

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:18 pm

Michael Cohen seems to specialize in a particular type of service. I wonder how Sean Hannity came to hire him?

simcha2

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:24 pm

Am I the only one who wishes his last name wasn't Cohen?

Amarante

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:25 pm

Beyond that he was railing against the Michael Cohen investigation without disclosing that he had a personal stake.

And yes - Cohen has three clients - Trump - the Republican big wig who paid $1 million to the Playboy bunny he impregnated who had an abortion and Hannity - for what? Cohen is a "fixer" and not known for having legal expertise or any other clients.

↑ WhatFor ↓

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:26 pm

simcha2 wrote:

Am I the only one who wishes his last name wasn't Cohen?

You're definitely not Sad

SixOfWands ↓

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:27 pm

mommywife wrote:

What's the significance of this?

Fox News has been attacking the subpoena of Cohen's files without revealing that one of their lead anchors is a client.

Rubber Ducky

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:32 pm

SixOfWands wrote:

Fox News has been attacking the subpoena of Cohen's files without revealing that one of their lead anchors is a client.

Fox News may not have known, unless Mr. Cohen handles Mr. Hannity's employment contracts.

↑ SixOfWands ↓

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:33 pm

Rubber Ducky wrote:

Fox News may not have known, unless Mr. Cohen handles Mr. Hannity's employment contracts.

I doubt Fox New knew. Hannity should have informed them to avoid the appearance of conflict.

↑ WhatFor ↓

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:33 pm

Rubber Ducky wrote:

Fox News may not have known, unless Mr. Cohen handles Mr. Hannity's employment contracts.

But they know now. And he still has a show. Am I naive for thinking there's a chance they might pull him off the air for this?

↑ SixOfWands ↓

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:40 pm

WhatFor wrote:

But they know now. And he still has a show. Am I naive for thinking there's a chance they might pull him off the air for this?

I'm clearly not a fan of his, but no, not a chance.

And what for? For hiring the wrong attorney? There's no evidence of wrongdoing by Hannity. Just a real bad taste for journalistic standards. Then again, IMNSHO, that's nothing new for him.

Cmon be nice

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:40 pm

Who's his 2nd client?

↑ WhatFor ↓

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:43 pm

sleepwalking wrote:

Asking As a non-US citizen is it a problem? (I'm genuinely asking I have no clue about legal and politics I'm just curious because my Twitter account literally blow up a few minutes ago)

The larger issue for Fox news would be that they had a prominent reporter going off about how the warrants into Michael Cohen were wrong, etc, without disclosing the fact that Michael Cohen was also his attorney. It could be they didn't know, but at the very least, Sean Hannity loses significant credibility as a reporter (to the extent that he had any).

That's aside from the entire legal case that's been happening right and Hannity can be implicated in other stuff.

But that case aside, IMO, the bigger reason ppl are freaking out right now is a) because this evidence serves people who already thought Hannity was disingenuous and spewing propaganda, and b) because POTUS has been tweeting and endorsing Hannity's show as recently as a few days ago, and now it's just looking more and more like they have some sort of conspiracy circle going.

↑ SixOfWands ↓

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:44 pm

Cmon be nice wrote:

Who's his 2nd client?

Elliott Broidy, a (now former) deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee with ties to Trump. Cohen arranged a payment of $1.6 million to a Playboy Playmate whom Broidy impregnated, and who terminated the pregnancy. In return for her silence, of course.

↑ WhatFor ↓

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:46 pm

Cmon be nice wrote:

Who's his 2nd client?

GOP fundraiser named Broidy. Knocked up a Playboy Playmate. Cohen paid a large sum for hush money and abortion. Broidy stepped down since this was revealed.

Ha- cross posted with SOW who gave more detail.

↑ WhatFor ↓

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:50 pm

SixOfWands wrote:

I honestly don't think this is the end of what we're going to find out re Hannity and Cohen's relationship. Don't forget Cohen's attorneys just argued that there was a significant reason his identity shouldn't be revealed and that there were documents from him affected by this warrant. They're clearly trying to cover something up, and not just the fact that Hannity exchanged a few pleasantries with him.

I guess it's up to Fox news to decide if they still want to be his employer when we find out what he hired Michael Cohen for.

sleepwalking

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:52 pm

WhatFor wrote:

Thank you for explaining it so eloquently. (I actually deleted my post because I was scared I wrote something controversial and I try to avoid doing that)

↑ SixOfWands ↓

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 1:53 pm

WhatFor wrote:

I think that its likely that there's something there. But for now, I can't see Fox firing him. How long did it take them to get rid of O'Reilly? And honestly, does their base viewership care?

Fox ↓

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 2:26 pm

SixOfWands wrote:

Lol! You're presuming that any of these people engage in actual journalism! Imagine if Imamother consisted of the most opinionated amongst us gathering every day to yell at each other in grating voices and "interviewing" whatever other Imamothers we could drag into our quarrels. That would be the equivalent of FoxNews, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, etc. No. I take that back. It would be far more informative and worthwhile than what cable news provides.

While I'm prepared to let Alan Dershowitz and other legal minds fret over the issue of attorney-client privilege, I wish we could the more annoying ranks of the 4th estate every few years.

Forget journalistic ethics. Can't Sean Hannity be fired for yelling at me every time I visit my parents? Bill O'Reilly used to have that job, but now Hannity seems to have taken it over. Why yell at me? I'm pretty conservative already. Of course, it doesn't help that my parents keep the TV volume high enough to make your ears bleed. Still, Tucker Carlson never yells at me.

Send Laura Ingraham off, too, along with all the other blond lawyers in short skirts with nasal voices. Put Shepard Smith on permanent animal-interest stories; his journalistic genius reached its apex on that runaway llama story a few years ago. Hit the road, Shep! We want kittens, puppies, emus . . . whatever you can find. Jeanine Pirro can come back after she corrects her annoying Long Island accent.

I don't mean to pick on Fox. The others need a good cleanup, too. Everyone's tired of Rachel Maddow's "sad" face. Time to go bale hay or whatever she does on her farm in Massachusetts. Anderson Cooper needs to retire to Dallas and hang out at the country club with the other doctors' wives. Joy Reid can doubtless find work helping Louis Farrakhan spin conspiracy theories. Put Jake Tapper in charge of fundraising for Jewish day schools. Don Lemon can continue to serve as a punchline of inappropriate jokes.

But I suppose you're going to tell me that we can't just line all these people up and say, "You are hereby found guilty of annoying the American people and those foreigners with satellite TV. Go away." There's no real legal mechanism for that. But firing them one by one on the basis of some alleged wrongdoing takes forever.

↑ Fox ↓

Mon, Apr 16 2018, 2:29 pm

SixOfWands wrote:

And honestly, does their base viewership care?

Fox's average viewer age is 70. And that's the average! A huge chunk of Fox's audience has nodded off in their recliners by the time he comes on.