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Anybody Else Amused that Trump's Lawyer Cohen Named Hannity?

HankD

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I don't have to ask Cohen. Michael Cohen has already said it was paid as hush money. He says he did it for his client Donald Trump without Trump's knowledge.
But you still don't know for sure whether Trump was actually guilty.
He says no.
 

Reynolds

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Hmmm...?[/QUOTE]
Some background.

About 10 days before the 2016 election, Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress was paid $130,000 by Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to stay mum about the fact that she and Trump had an affair in 2006. Last week the FBI raided Cohen's office and seized records and tape recordings, in part on the recommendation of Robert Mueller, so the raid was tangentially related to Mueller's Russian election tampering investigation.

As part of his defense, Cohen argued that the raid violates attorney-client privilege. The government says that Trump was Cohen's only client so the raid is a part of the Mueller investigation. There is no attorney-client privilege if there are only two parties and they are part of the investigation. Cohen counter-argued that he has other clients and proceeded to say he had two other clients. He named one of the other ones--a Playboy model that claimed to have been impregnated by a Republican National Committee official, Elliott Broidy. The model was paid $1.5 million dollars in a deal worked out by Cohen to keep her quiet.

So you see what sort of a lawyer Cohen is--a fixer that pays people money to make problems go away.

Back to today's news...
What about the third client? Cohen didn't want to disclose who this person was. Given the sort of work he does, I can understand it. (LOL) The judge wasn't going to let him stay quiet and ordered him to divulge the name. Who was it?

Sean Hannity. Fox News show host. Number one rating champ of Fox News. Trump apologist extraordinaire. The Donald's chief sycophant.

So what kind of a problem did Cohen make disappear for Hannity?

Hannity says of Cohen: "I never retained him, received an invoice, or paid legal fees. I have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions." (While I'm no lawyer, I'm pretty sure the fact that you never got an invoice from Cohen doesn't mean you weren't his client.)

Hannity said that Cohen and he discussed mostly real estate issues and certainly Cohen never represented Hannity in any dealings with "third parties" (a veiled reference to payoffs to make problems disappear.) At one point Hannity bragged, "I've got eight attorneys."

Which makes me wonder--if you've got eight lawyers why would you need to consult with Michael Cohen about anything?

Also--While Hannity goes on and on defending Cohen on his TV show, shouldn't he disclose that he's consulted with him for legal issues? Alan Dershowitz thinks so:

Dershowitz confronts Hannity: 'You should have disclosed your relationship with Cohen'

I mean, c'mon...

If you disagree that he needn't disclose this information--imagine how Sean Hannity would respond if it were news that Obama’s personal lawyer, while being the subject of a criminal investigation, was also secretly the lawyer for Rachel Maddow—and she had been using her show to defend the lawyer without disclosing that relationship?

Hmmm...?
No, but I am amused by your new Avatar.
 

777

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Looks like Light has been playing around with photoshop again. I kind of like it.

Forgot to add, she officiated Soro’s wedding, so we know she will be unbiased in this political case, right.

Yes, and Soros selected and paid her for her appearance at his last wedding. Really strange how all of this just happened to land in her lap. What the feds did to Mike Cohen should worry every attorney, including the left-wingers in DC. They all know this could happen to them, and Dershowitz has said just that but only when he criticizes Sean Hannity do some people take notice.

I don't really think it's that big of a deal, Hannity is a commentator and a talk show host and everybody knows he's on the Trump train. I don't get what this judge means by saying Cohen doesn't have attorney-client privilege if he has only one client - every DA has "one client", the people. And then she got all upset that there were no emails, most attorneys shun them because they're so easily hacked.

Mueller was just acting like a jackboot again, I think they may be trying to get Trump to fire him and bring out their Watergate playbook and so far he hasn't taken the bait.
 

InTheLight

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Looks like Light has been playing around with photoshop again. I kind of like it.

Yes, I have. It's my image superimposed on the Sun Baby from Teletubbies.

The Teletubbies Sun Baby is all grown up 20 years after finding fame on kid's TV show

I don't get what this judge means by saying Cohen doesn't have attorney-client privilege if he has only one client

Cohen is Trump's personal lawyer. I think that means that he doesn't work for anyone else. Since the Trump campaign is a part of Mueller's investigation, and by extension Trump, the judge is saying there is no attorney-client privilege in this instance because both the attorney and the attorney's client are under the same investigation. Ergo, any thing discovered in the raid on Cohen's office is fair game. That's why Cohen was desperately trying to show that he worked for more than just Trump.

It's kind of funny though--the judge asks Cohen if he has other clients besides Trump and he answers with such precision--"I have three clients." Three.
 
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