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(Once Cohen stated that he taped his other "clients" it was only a matter of time that Hannity said something, he and Broidy were Cohen's only clients.)
During an interview with President Trump that aired on his show Thursday evening, Fox News host Sean Hannity made a surprising admission: He spoke with Michael Cohen personally about the hush money payments at the center of Cohens legal troubles.
I was kinda dragged in a little bit to the Michael Cohen, Hannity said, after Trump droned on about the hoax and witch hunt. As you know, I interviewed him many times on TV. He was never my attorney. He had to apologize to me for his attorney saying that in court, but I can tell you personally, he said to me at least a dozen times that he made the decision on the payments and he didnt tell you. He told me, personally.
Shortly after the segment aired on Fox News, Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) responded to the admission, saying he looked forward to Hannitys testimony.
Hannitys admission in the clip that aired Thursday just further entangles the Fox News host in the case against Cohen. During a shocking hearing in the Southern District of New Yorks investigation into Cohens financial wrongdoings, one of Cohens attorneys revealed that Hannity was also a client of Cohens.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/hannity-admits-trump-interview-spoke-cohen-hush-payments
dubyadiprecession
(5,620 posts)dem4decades
(11,242 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Sheesh, he comes across as an idiot there.
See you in Congress, Flim-Flammity!
thesquanderer
(11,954 posts)...and Cohen has a long history of saying whatever would protect Trump.
So even if Hannity isn't lying, what difference does it make?
Is Hannity a dumbass?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)A big, fat dumbass.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)So is someone now claiming that Elliot Broidy was NOT Cohen's client?
zaj
(3,433 posts)FM123
(10,050 posts)(posting before coffee gets me every time)
Because when Cohen suggested "another client" was under investigation, IMHO Broidy is a more interesting target than Hannity.
Hannity runs a clown show.
But Broidy was part of the financial apparatus of the GOP.
Would be a much more interesting target - if I remember correctly there was also talk of him and money laundering and Malaysia too, not just the Playboy payoff...
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Well, aside from Individual #1.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Is Hannity also a money launderer for the Russians like #Traitor, with real estate as the laundromat? Did his Russian mob masters use Hannity to help steal the 2016 election?
If I had to guess, both Broidy and Hannity are under investigation by the SDNY. Rumors are that Hannity is already indicted
Trump just signs $35,000 checks with no explanation regularly?
volstork
(5,394 posts)to go to jail, but first, to shit himself on national TV during televised sessions before Congress.
chwaliszewski
(1,514 posts)FM123
(10,050 posts)chwaliszewski
(1,514 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Takket
(21,424 posts)These people want to torture anyone who is a threat to the USA. Well Hannity and drumpf are a threat. You want it? You got it. Waterboard them!!!
HootieMcBoob
(3,823 posts)Im following you now too 😜
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,207 posts)discussing the payments before the payments were made. Hannity had better be sweating SDNY.
Marcuse
(7,397 posts)BostonBlue
(53 posts)Hannity lies all day for a living. Put him in a setting where his words have legal consequences.
JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)There he can tell the truth to Congress, then return to his show and pick up where he left off, lying to the buffoons in his audience. It's called entertainment.
Nitram
(22,671 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of
the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his
own child. Well, old man, I will tell you news of
your son: give me your blessing: truth will come
to light; murder cannot be hid long; a man's son
may, but at the length truth will out. (2.2.69-74)
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Unless it hurries, it will come out too late!
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that realityjudiciously, as you willwe'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
-- Suskind, Ron (2004-10-17). Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush. The New York Times Magazine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-and-the-presidency-of-george-w-bush.html
Botany
(70,291 posts)Doing so breaks all kinds rules of ethics and I think the law too.
Sean is really stupid.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,485 posts)And there is a key witness to that statement too...Trump himself.
Oops, Sean. You are dumb, motherfucker!
ooky
(8,885 posts)Time for Cummings to send Hannity an invitation to the party.
Baltimike
(4,126 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)Hannity says, Cohen had to apologize to me for his attorney saying that in court," trying to deny that he is already identified as one of Cohen's clients.
Would any attorney risk his license to lie to the court about Hannity? Especially since his relationship with Cohen is a matter of public rrecord, and the news has already reported that Hannity has previously admitted that "he went to Michael Cohen for minor real estate advice".
Sorry, Sean, but that makes you Cohen's legal client.
Ponietz
(2,904 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,772 posts)"...said to me at least a dozen times that he made the decision on the payments and he didnt tell you."
But Trump says Cohen's a liar. Which is it?