On Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 11:55:55 PM UTC-4, Carbon wrote:
> On 04/16/2018 11:59 PM, Carbon wrote:
> > On 04/16/2018 10:56 PM, Carbon wrote:
> >
> >> Sean Hannity reminds you: Michael Cohen wasn't his lawyer But he still
> >> expects attorney-client privilege. And he has nothing to hide But he
> >> ordered MC not to reveal him. And He defended MC all week But now MC's
> >> a liar. And that's why Hillary Clinton must be stopped.
> >>
> >>
https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/986061951859118081
> >
> > The only possible reason Hannity was named as a client by Cohen's
> > lawyers is because there are communications between Hannity and Cohen
> > that they really, really don't want to get out. But Hannity himself is
> > on the record claiming that he has never hired Cohen or paid him for
> > legal advice. I'll just go out on a limb here and guess that whatever it
> > is they're trying to hide will be made public shortly.
This "he said, she said" is going to make things quite intreating for the
DOJ's Taint Team: whenever they find Hannity-Cohen communications,
they're going to be obligated to decide if they're believing Cohen's claim
or Hannity's claim.
Now if this circle jerk was deliberately done, it would be a clever strategy
to sow confusion - - but I'm not so sure that it was quite that deliberate.
To this end, if I were a Judge on the case, I'd pull them both into a court room
right now and get them sworn in and make them commit to a declarative
statement on this representation yes/no matter - - and then issue a Court
'Gag Order' that forbids them from making any contrary statement to the
public, so as to forbid them from spreading false information. FWIW, I'm
of the personal opinion that a lot of higher visibility cases should do this,
not merely just this one.
> > Also. Hannity's unrelenting support of Cohen and Trump in recent weeks
> > is a massive conflict of interest. For any normal network this would be
> > cause for immediate dismissal. But this is Fox News, so...
>
> None of our far right apologists have any thoughts about that exemplar of
> Fox News journalistic integrity, Sean Hannity? I am shocked, shocked I
> tell you... ;-)
From a Journalistic Integrity & Ethics standpoint, this COI is huge.
> The story has been all over the fact-based media, but I guess it's
> possible the news hasn't penetrated the far right echo chamber. You see,
> Hannity has been ranting non-stop about the Cohen raid while failing to
> disclose that he is also one of Cohen's three (3) clients. You'd never
> know it from Hannity's show, but this is the biggest facepalm of his
> entire sad life.
>
> Aside from the established facts there is quite a bit of speculation going
> on in the legitimate media, because Cohen's work on behalf of Trump and
> Broidy was to set up confidentiality agreements to hide extramarital
> affairs. Of course Hannity says it was for real estate advice, and he is
> such an obvious pillar of integrity that we should take him at his word.
>
> Right?
Sarcasm noted.
FWIW, I've noticed that Hannity's statements have actually been quite deliberately
narrow and not broad, which signals pedantic hair splitting as the defense strategy.
For example, the one that said that he's received no Invoices for Legal Services.
But if there was an invoice, but it included stuff other than legal services -- say that
Cohen picked up Hannity's Dry Cleaning and got reimbursed -- then a claim could
be made which admits to transactions, but that they weren't for "legal fees" but
were instead for a collection of "miscellaneous services", even if 99% of it was in
actuality for legal services conducted by Cohen.
Similarly, if Cohen's practices had clients pay in advance, then Hannity would have
never received a document known as an "Invoice": he would have received a "Receipt".
> Seriously though, I don't know if Hannity used Cohen to cover up an
> affair, but Cohen's lawyers must have had a very good reason to try to
> extend attorney-client privilege to him. I personally think this was a
> mistake, since Cohen will inevitably flip and testify against everyone he
> ever did business with. Hannity would have been better off hiding in the
> big dumpster of evidence seized in the raid and keeping his mouth shut.
And since the investigation isn't Mueller, these guys can't really be fired.
And a Presidential Pardon would be nakedly a deliberate Obstruction of Justice.
Thus, the deafening silence from RSG's Pro-Peanut Gallery.
-hh