Okay the above is video of Hannity essentially freaking out after the FBI raided Michael Cohen's office and homes.Fox News star Sean Hannity was just revealed to be a secret client of Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen. Here are basically all the times Hannity has defended Cohen on his show since the FBI raid last week. https://t.co/XFdnAQ965T pic.twitter.com/tWuMagPtqv— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) April 17, 2018
At the time it seemed a little weird, but now it sort of makes a certain kind of sense.
Here is how CNN's Brian Stelter addressed this issue:
Something isn't adding up in the case of Michael Cohen and Sean Hannity.
For now Hannity's employer, Fox News, isn't commenting on the issue, but even some fellow Fox hosts are raising questions.
There were audible gasps in court on Monday when it was revealed that Hannity was the mystery third client that Cohen was trying to keep secret. Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti, who was in the room, said it was like "a bomb went off."
Hannity scrambled to respond -- first on his radio show, then with tweets, then on his TV show. On Monday evening, Hannity downplayed the legal relationship, saying, "Cohen never represented me in any legal matter."
He said the two men chatted occasionally, and his questions "focused almost exclusively" on real estate.
Hannity said "I never retained his services, I never received an invoice. I never paid Michael Cohen for legal fees."
But if that's true, why did Cohen's lawyer identify Hannity as a client in federal court?
On his radio show Hannity downplayed the crap out of this, suggesting that he might have handed Cohen ten bucks for shits and giggles, but that he was never an actual client.
But here's the thing, Cohen's attorney identified Hannity as a client while in a courtroom standing before a judge. where lying is a punishable offense.
Hannity denied the whole thing on this radio show and on Fox News, where lying is a way of life.
And if Hannity used the services of Michael Cohen, "The Fixer," what did he need them for?
This might be a clue:
Sean Hannity is the latest Fox News personality facing allegations of inappropriate behavior after he was accused of propositioning a guest on his show.
This article came out almost exactly a year ago during the same time that Bill O'Reilly was facing scrutiny for paying off women who accused him of sexual misconduct.
In Hannity's case the allegations seemed to simply fade away.
And making THAT happen is Michael Cohen's specialty.
Right now there is no evidence that this is the reason that Hannity was named as a Cohen client, but there was certainly SOME reason that they both did not want his name identified in court.
Here was the Daily Show's take yesterday:
So much truth in comedy.Sneak peek of 'Hannity' tonight... pic.twitter.com/qud8et2cba— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) April 16, 2018
Old ugly criminal trump did not place more sanctions on his pal in Russia. So today the internet and our infrastructure is dangerously hacked. File complaints
ReplyDeleteWill the anchor be tied to an anchor until this all gets sorted out?
ReplyDeleteWhat's funny about the right is that they can bullshit up to their necks and they still defend themselves as truthtellers. They've been bullshitting for so long they forgot truth.
ReplyDeleteThen truth hits them in the face like the exposure of Sean Hannity who was scampering like the rat he is to hide his identity from his own hypocrisy. Wow. Just wow!
And here all this time I thought Hannity's defense of Melania when Kimmell made fun of her reading to a bunch of kids was patriotic. Patriotic my ass. Patriotic towards a Russian sparrow more like.
ReplyDeleteHannity, like Trump is somehow tied into the whole Russian scandal thing. Don't know how, and don't know if it will ever come to light. I feel like the whole Faux news is a Russian tool.
God alive! We have been so swamped with Russian coverts thanks to Trump and his complicit soul. Now, the Russians are like bed bugs and lice, and we will have a damned hard time getting rid of their asses.
They have BEEN here, making the fabric of your lives.
DeleteYou must live with that.:()
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/views-meghan-mccain-faceplants-falsely-claiming-stormy-daniels-no-business-court-michael-cohen/
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/stormy-daniels-releases-facial-composite-man-allegedly-threatened/
Yesterday>
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/views-ex-prosecutor-sunny-hostin-calls-bs-meghan-mccain-smearing-james-comey-leaker/
Lol now why in the world would these attorneys come up with Hannity's names if it wasn't true?
ReplyDeleteThe hens are coming home to roost with these liars.
When is Fox going to interest?conflict of interest
"which dealt alMO$T exclusively about real estate, not be made a part of this proceeding." I have found my true soulmate. And even though Esmerelda is a goat, I know we’ll be very happy together. How can I purchase a conservation easement upstate where we can frolic together in the long tall grass? {Barnyard full of Pig$?}
ReplyDeleteRead more at https://wonkette.com/632705/a-unified-theory-of-what-the-fuck-michael-cohen-and-sean-hannity-it-might-even-be-right#rkwEwFTIEGUK0Z4P.99
There’s no was Fixed News will let Sean go. He’s a ratings getter. He’s on for life, unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteWasn't the same said of Bill O'Reilly?
DeleteAnd Glenn Beck?
Where are they now?
Hannity isn't for life on FOX! He's way over weight these days (has ballooned up considerably of late!) and is now under a huge amount of stress.
DeletePerhaps, he's another one of those male, white Republicans that will keel over from a major stroke or heart attack?
Having never watched him, I most certainly won't be one that will miss him.
It's being reported that Glenn Beck is in big financial trouble. It was reported today that he is selling his personal jet.
DeleteLove seeing these jerks shed their positions in our social media! Waiting for the time Hannity does too, which I think will occur. He's a lying sack of caca!
10:36: you are correct. Since I do not watch Faux Noise, I only had seen a picture of him many years ago. I almost did not recognize him when I saw his denial in a video.
DeleteHe has grown into a fatso, just like his idol, Candidate Bone Spurs!
Maybe he needs to just pray harder. Force the mind into a contorted fictional decapitation just a little bit harder Sean.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Christians...
DeleteIs there any way this blog can refer to Fox News as Fixed News?
ReplyDeleteFaux News.
DeleteFaux Spew.
DeleteTraveling recently, made sure to ask them to change channel if Faux Spew was on in every hotel breakfast and lounge area I found it on. Nary a complaint.
Wouldn't it be loverly if the person and amount paid on behalf of Sean Hannity were exposed in all this? Would love to see Hannity go the way of O'Reilly and no longer be a Fox employee. If anyone deserved it, Hannity does.
ReplyDeleteLying piece of shit.
Tha is more likely than not to come out, if Cohen handled Hannity's women issue...
DeleteReal estate? Yeah Hannity was looking for a cage for his little bird.One where his comings and goings wouldn't be noticed.
DeletePerhaps it was one where noises comign from ... wouldn't be reported. Is Hannity the human trafficker in sex slaves? Just asking, of course.
It already came out,sexual harassment case.
DeleteIt appears Hannity has other attorney,names everyone will recognize because of ties to trump.
Real estate deals,more money laundering?
I've never watched FOX News and never will. Easy as can be - just don't turn the dial to reflect their channel.
ReplyDeleteYou can read enough on line about what they are doing and saying. No needs to increase their ratings, that only come from the extreme right when you think about it.
Well, Hannity is able to deflect pretty easily. "He never represented me"-- (left unsaid: never represented me in court). "I never paid any invoice or legal fees"-- I'm sure that was done by an LLC or some other check that doesn't have Hannity's name on the cover. "Almost exclusively about real estate"-- but not exclusively, ALMOST exclusively. So what else did they talk about?
ReplyDeleteAnd that's how the right (and Donald trump) lie without "really" lying.
Fox Lawyers paid for the 'Hennity house'.
DeleteThe Catholic Church NEEDS people like Hannity for its' very survival - people who promote fairy tales as fact.
ReplyDeleteHuh? much of the RCC rejects Hannity outright.
DeleteNot just Catholic. All Christian churches benefit from the perpetuation of myth as fact.
DeleteOT:
ReplyDeleteYet another mysterious fall from a balcony.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-reporter-maxim-borodin-dies-000422289.html
Wonder when Trump is going to start having U.S. reporters (and late night comedians) mysteriously fall from balconies.
:( :( :( #>><<!%!#£!!!
DeleteI know brain dead Rwingers who think Hannity is an oracle of truth. Therein lies an enormous part of the problem.
ReplyDeleteThey are literal.
DeleteIf anything happens like that, 10:45 AM, you know Trump will be blamed and will rue the day he ordered any killings (mob and dictatorship styles).
ReplyDeleteI truly don't think he'd survive that type action in the USA! (impeachment) There would be mobs in the streets throughout the county.
10:56. Donnie boy is getting away with a lot of shit and the people who are supposed to reign him in just stand by with smug happy smiles.
DeleteI see American people being in kind of a denial that Donnie could go that far. And his enablers are getting their way so they could careless is what he does or has done. They are getting what they want to pave the way for them having a stranglehold on our government for years to come. They are in hog heaven and Donald could shove Melania off the balcony and they'd all find a way to give him a big fat mulligan.
I wonder how long it's going to take Americans to stand up and fight Republicans once they start altering Social Security and Medicare?
DeleteWake up, majority America!!!
dONE Already. ~IT~ was the DARE into the
DeleteRu$$iaN Mob DONtcha know a long time ago...OK?
ProjectoR! HE said ~IT~ 1/23/16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTACH1eVIaA
I'm sure some of the folks on the left have hired security for when they are out in the public arena. I worry for them on a daily basis. Especially journalists and TV folks with their own shows.
ReplyDeleteBut, remember - those on the right also have the same issues.
What a terrible state our country is in right now. It's way past time to get Trump and his group out of office. Vote well in 2018 and 2020, America. That is how we rid ourselves of their sorry souls.
Jordan Peele is a genius and is using his superpowers for good.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=cQ54GDm1eL0
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jordan-peele-buzzfeed-create-alarming-fake-news-psa-this-is-a-dangerous-time_us_5ad61cb8e4b0edca2cbe54fb
Delete"Fake news is a problem that “Get Out” writer/director Jordan Peele in collaboration with BuzzFeed hopes to fix ― by literally putting words in the mouth of former President Barack Obama.
In a public service announcement created by Peele and BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti and disseminated on social media on Tuesday, Obama appears to be giving a sincere but stern address.
“We’re entering an era in which our enemies can make it look like anyone is saying anything at any point in time — even if they would never say those things,” says “Obama.”
“So, for instance, they could have me say things like, I don’t know, [Black Panther’s] Killmonger was right! Or, Ben Carson is in the sunken place! Or, how ’bout this: Simply, President Trump is a total and complete dipshit.”"
Hmmm... It is getting better: seems like Hannity has two OTHER lawyers in common with Cadet Bone Spurs:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/558272/
"On May 25, 2017, KFAQ, a radio station based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, received a cease-and-desist letter signed by two lawyers for Hannity: Victoria Toensing and Jay Alan Sekulow. Toensing’s signature sits above her name and that of her husband Joseph E. diGenova, the members of diGenova and Toensing LLP, who are identified as “Counsel for Sean Hannity,” according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Atlantic. Sekulow is also identified in the letter page as a “Counsel for Sean Hannity.”
DeleteSekulow is now the only known personal attorney for President Trump working full-time on the response to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry. "
" an appearance on the Pat Campbell show on KFAQ last April, Schlussel said Hannity had been “creepy” towards her and had invited her to his hotel room.
Hannity responded at the time by calling the allegations “100 percent false and a complete fabrication,” and said that he had hired lawyers to plan a response. “This letter provides notice that Ms. Schlussel’s statements are false and defamatory,” the letter read. “Continued publication will result in further exposure to liability because of continued harm to Mr. Hannity’s impeccable reputation.”"
“However, those conflicts do not prevent them from assisting the President in other legal matters. The President lOOk$ forward to working with them.”
He never paid “legal” fees, but I’m sure he paid “fix it” fees.
ReplyDeleteJust finished watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone notified that last Blockbuster Video store in Alaska to call John Oliver to claim all that cool Russell Crowe swag they bought at auction during the wee hours of the morning? I would hope someone in Alaska was calling and passed on the info. I so want to hear about it or read about it going to that Blockbuster. I want pictures of it on display in the store.
Ooo. Here it is. They did contact Oliver!
Deletehttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/alaska-blockbuster-store-manager-john-olivers-stunt-it-could-be-very-big-business-1103232
Anyone in Anchorage willing to go in and take pics once the stuff is on display? Would you do a post on it, Gryph?
OT? Bitch McCONnell:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.politicususa.com/2018/04/17/mitch-mcconnell-joins-the-gop-treason-parade-by-refusing-to-allow-a-vote-on-bill-to-protect-mueller.html
Here we go again,before we didn't need to know about the russians rigging the election.
DeleteToo bad Obama didn't ignore him.
Fox is eating their own. Hannity is being shredded by...Fox.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-apos-judicial-analyst-033610171.html
"Fox News host Sean Hannity’s legal claim is getting torn to pieces on his own network.
On Monday, Hannity was revealed as the “mystery client” of Michael Cohen, the personal attorney to President Donald Trump who is now embroiled in a federal investigation.
Hannity claimed he never hired Cohen but also insisted he had a right to privacy in his conversations with him under attorney-client privilege.
Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano, a former judge, isn’t buying it."
"“If he was a client, then his confidential communications to Mr. Cohen are privileged. If Mr. Cohen was never his lawyer, then nothing that he said to Mr. Cohen is privileged.”"
(That's what *I* said.)
"“I must tell you that that is a myth,” Napolitano said. “The attorney-client privilege requires a formal relationship reduced to writing for a specific legal purpose,”
“So anything that is there regarding Sean Hannity can be revealed?” Faulkner asked.
“In my view, yes,” Napolitano said."
I hope Stormy's lawyer is correct and Cohen flips within six months. We should really get a betting pool going.