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Deleted member 19218

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To a non-American, why is this important?

From what I understand, this guy is a Fox News presenter but why does being Michael's client matter?

I just want to understand the situation better.
 
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If Avenatti ends up successfully taking down Sean Hannity I will build a statue of Avenatti that I will call "The Smiter" and every Sabbath I will pray that to this statue for the downfall of Fox News.
 

MrRob

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Yeah this newest revalation is it. This is where the Fonz has jumped the shark. I can't do it anymore.The show is too unrealistic. Time for cancellation.
 

JORMBO

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To a non-American, why is this important?

From what I understand, this guy is a Fox News presenter but why does being Michael's client matter?

I just want to understand the situation better.

Most people here hate Hannity and hope there is some really bad dirt on him under all of this.

So like isn't the next step here to demand that advertisers abandon BOTH Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity?

Why not just not watch their shows or continue not to watch them if you already don't?
 

B-Dubs

That's some catch, that catch-22
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Oct 25, 2017
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To a non-American, why is this important?

From what I understand, this guy is a Fox News presenter but why does being Michael's client matter?

I just want to understand the situation better.
It's a huge conflict of interest given he's been covering Cohen for months now without disclosing it. Any other place would have likely fired him on the spot. The fact he still has a job is a miracle.

He's also very wealthy, so there's the question as to why he was employing Trump's fixer instead of a more competent lawyer from a legitimate law firm. The implication being that he was up to something and given that both of Cohen's other clients had NDAs about affairs...
 
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Most people here hate Hannity and hope there is some really bad dirt on him under all of this.
I mean yah sure, but there is also the fact that it is a massive conflict of interest. He has railed against this investigation since it started, he has called the Cohen raid X, Y, Z. All the while completely forgetting the fact that he isn't impartial that he has or rather should have an ethical interest to disclose the truth.
 

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It's a huge conflict of interest given he's been covering Cohen for months now without disclosing it. Any other place would have likely fired him on the spot. The fact he still has a job is a miracle.

He's also very wealthy, so there's the question as to why he was employing Trump's fixer instead of a more competent lawyer from a legitimate law firm. The implication being that he was up to something and given that both of Cohen's other clients had NDAs about affairs...


Oooh right! Yeah it makes sense now. Thanks for the quick response!
 

Steel

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Most people here hate Hannity and hope there is some really bad dirt on him under all of this.

Disliking Hannity is a requirement of a minimal level of sanity. You may ignore the conflict of interest his "reporting" on this case presents. Not to mention being only one of three clients to the presidents lawyer is strange when the average solo practice has hundreds of clients.
 

GuessMyUserName

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To a non-American, why is this important?

From what I understand, this guy is a Fox News presenter but why does being Michael's client matter?

I just want to understand the situation better.
Michael Cohen isn't really a lawyer, not even getting to his position as a criminal. It's largely suspect for the Trump propagandist in chief to be linked in so close with Trump's shadier crew. I mean part of the reason we even have Hannity's name here is that Cohen doesn't advise many people at all, yet Sean happens to be one of the 2 non-Trump people?

Above all else, it's completely ridiculous for his "reporting" not to mention this fact of their relationship any the many times he has discussed Cohen-related matters or even had Cohen on as a guest.
 

Greg NYC3

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It's a huge conflict of interest given he's been covering Cohen for months now without disclosing it. Any other place would have likely fired him on the spot. The fact he still has a job is a miracle.

He's also very wealthy, so there's the question as to why he was employing Trump's fixer instead of a more competent lawyer from a legitimate law firm. The implication being that he was up to something and given that both of Cohen's other clients had NDAs about affairs...
Well Fox not actually being a journalistic organization works out hugely in Hannity's favor here.
 

Ether_Snake

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Now, let's say only those three are Cohen's "legal clients", which is odd on its own, who are the non-legal clients, what kind of service does he offer them if not legal ones, and how is he remunerated for said services?
 

B-Dubs

That's some catch, that catch-22
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Oct 25, 2017
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Now, let's say only those three are Cohen's "legal clients", which is odd on its own, who are the non-legal clients, what kind of service does he offer them if not legal ones, and how is he remunerated for said services?
Well, we're sure as shit going to find out in the coming weeks.
 

plagiarize

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Oct 25, 2017
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Now, let's say only those three are Cohen's "legal clients", which is odd on its own, who are the non-legal clients, what kind of service does he offer them if not legal ones, and how is he remunerated for said services?
Well he has to get money from somewhere.

Because apparently it isn't from hannity and he pays out of pocket hundreds of thousands defending his buddy Trump.
 

dabig2

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It's going to be hilarious watching the Repubs still attempt to cling to their "Cohen was just a legit lawyer" once the dirt of this conman and fixer start coming out. This guy was no lawyer. He's a criminal in a suit who mediocre'd his way through his education but with the right connections and lack of any moral, was able to join together with other sociopaths and "fix" their problems over the last couple decades.

So over the coming weeks and months, once the dirt starts piling up on how Cohen has been more involved with the crimes than he was involved with his paltry amount of clients in a lawyer capacity, it's going to be funny if the GOP still clings to this narrative that Cohen was just a legit lawyer offering legit services above the board and that the FBI overreached. It's why they're all so scared of everything pulled from the raid. Trump and co. are going to try ever trick in the book, and out of, to get a stay on that evidence - or at least limit it down from the decades of material The FBI now has.

Unfortunately for them, Mueller isn't the only lawman in the USA nor is his investigation the only one that can ever happen. Once it's ascertained that the months of investigation and paperwork - that was needed for this raid to even happen - was done above board, documented, and can be shown in court as being legitimate and lawful, then it's only a matter of time till we hear truly what kind of shit Cohen has been up to his adult life, receipts included (much of them provided by Cohen himself). And then we get to learn Cohen's circles and intimate friends, and that's important because it's not like Cohen just swam in the mud himself. And also we can find out where the money was flowing. Why it was flowing. Paying off pornstars or aiding abortions is one arm of it. How many other arms has he utilized, at least once, in the past 25+ years? We already have a pretty good picture of what kind of man Cohen is and what kind of work he does, so I'm guessing we're only peeking at the tippest top of the iceberg.
 

Imperfected

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Now, let's say only those three are Cohen's "legal clients", which is odd on its own, who are the non-legal clients, what kind of service does he offer them if not legal ones, and how is he remunerated for said services?

He does nails and hair.

He's not technically a cosmetologist, mind, so it's a bit under-the-table. Don't be a narc.
 

Lebron

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To think, if these idiots didn't run their mouths and try to always be the center of attention, they could have gone all committing crimes without all this heat. The loudest person in the room is the weakest person in the room, as they said in American Gangster.