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spanone

(135,846 posts)
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 11:38 PM Apr 2018

CNN's Anderson Cooper Calls Out Sean Hannitys Massive Conflict of Interest

CNN’s Anderson Cooper Calls Out Sean Hannity’s Massive Conflict of Interest With Michael Cohen

The CNN anchor went after the Fox News host for making ‘no disclosure, no disclaimer, not even a casual mention’ that he received legal counsel from Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.

Fox News anchors have been hesitant to criticize their colleague Sean Hannity in light of today’s news that he was represented in some fashion by President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

But CNN’s Anderson Cooper did not hold back in condemning Hannity’s blatant conflict of interest at the top of his prime-time show Monday night. Cooper noted to viewers that the “most stunning moment” of Cohen’s court hearing came when his lawyer was forced to reveal the identity of his “mystery client” and reluctantly named Hannity. “So it would seem the president and Sean Hannity share more than dinners and frequent phone calls and a mutual love of Fox News programming,” the anchor said. “They also share an attorney.”

He went on to air the clip of Hannity insisting on his radio show this afternoon that Cohen “has never represented me in any matter” even if he did occasionally have “brief discussions with him about legal questions about which I wanted his input and perspective.” Hannity also said he assumed their conversations were “confidential.”

“So he seems to be saying, ‘I wasn’t really a client of attorney Michael Cohen’s but our conversations were confidential because he is an attorney and I am his client,” Cooper remarked. In either event, Cooper pointed out that Hannity had reported on the FBI raid on Cohen’s office last week “as if he had absolutely no connection to the story.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnns-anderson-cooper-calls-out-sean-hannitys-massive-conflict-of-interest-with-michael-cohen?ref=home?ref=home
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blake2012

(1,294 posts)
1. Needs to be repeated again and again. And relitigate Hannitys
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 11:43 PM
Apr 2018

Many other ethical breaches.

Fire Hannity and finish taking out the garbage at Foxnews

Jarqui

(10,126 posts)
3. Hannity claimed it was legal advice for real estate deals
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 12:11 AM
Apr 2018

If Trump found some rosy real estate or investment deals and cut Hannity in, they would be kind of buying his media support as a money-buddy. Hannity gives them $x and they return to Hannity $x plus $y quid pro quo. Legal effort is tossed in. Do the transactions in cash if possible because cash is hard to trace. Hannity says nice things about them on the air.

I'm wildly speculating but something roughly like that seems plausible.

BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)
4. Oh that Anderson....what a Fake News host he is.
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 12:12 AM
Apr 2018

It must be another one of that network's conspiracy theories.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
5. Unnnnn, Hannity should be made to state that he's has been a client of Cohen on record. He's lying
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 12:14 AM
Apr 2018

... about being a client to keep Cohen's attorney client privilege for certain records.

Hannity lies he goes to jail

CaptainTruth

(6,594 posts)
8. I'm sorry, I can't forget about how Cooper replaced Aaron Brown ...
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 01:03 AM
Apr 2018

Aaron Brown was my favorite news personality at the time. Cooper was a clueless newbie who embarassed himself over & over. Yes ... I may be an old fart ... but I still can't get beyond that.

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