BREAKING: Sean Hannity Named As Michael Cohen’s ‘Mysterious’ Third Client
Sean Hannity has been named as Michael Cohen’s “mysterious” third client.
Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen also represents Fox News host Sean Hannity, Cohen’s attorneys said Monday afternoon.
Cohen had told the court earlier he had at least 10 clients between 2017 and 2018, including the President, and the former GOP fundraiser Elliot Broidy who acknowledged paying $1.6 million to a Playboy model with whom he had an affair.
Judge Kimba Wood ordered Cohen to attend and provide information about his clients as she weighs an emergency action by Cohen’s attorneys to stop prosecutors from reviewing more than a dozen electronic devices and documents seized during a FBI raid of Cohen’s office, home and hotel room last week.
Cohen’s lawyers had publicly identified Trump and Broidy as clients, but only revealed Hannity’s name after the judge ordered them to.
Huhhhhhhh. Before you get too carried away, don’t. A lot of people are making the mistake of assuming this means he did something morally reprehensible. There’s absolutely no facts to back that up at this point.
While assumptions can and obviously will be made, Sean Hannity's seeking unspecified legal advice from Michael Cohen is hardly evidence of moral misconduct or criminal activity.
— Brittany Hughes (@RealBrittHughes) April 16, 2018
However, this still raises many questions.
Sean Hannity continued to cover the Cohen raid without disclosing that he was also one of Cohen’s clients. https://t.co/xT0VVSyzeE
— Axios (@axios) April 16, 2018
From now on I will only refer to Sean Hannity as "Client Number Three"
— Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) April 16, 2018
So Fox News has allowed Sean Hannity to report on the unfolding Michael Cohen story for weeks without ever disclosing that he is a legal client of Michael Cohen.
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) April 16, 2018
Cool Sean Hannity hired a Republican lawyer
Now do Cheryl Mills
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) April 16, 2018
Sean Hannity just now on the radio "I'm going to have to decide if I'm going to put out a statement here."
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 16, 2018
Michael Cohen is also Sean Hannity lawyer
Kind of like how Marc Elias was Hillary's lawyer and the DNC's lawyer and Fusion GPS's lawyer and John Podesta's lawyer and Al Franken's lawyer and John Kerry's lawyer and David Brock's lawyer and works for George Soros PACs
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) April 16, 2018
Sean Hannity being a client of Michael Cohen’s while also doing a bunch of segments on the raid, etc. without disclosing he’s been a client of Cohen’s is honestly not even cracking the top-3 most professionally/journalistically problematic things Hannity has been doing since 2016
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) April 16, 2018
If you need me, I’ll be over here. Waiting for Hannity’s statement. There’s obviously more to this than we currently know…
UPDATE: I’m listening to Sean Hannity’s show, and he just addressed this. He said he’s known Cohen for years, and he never represented him in an official manner. He’s had “occasional discussions” with him, but that’s it. There’s nothing nefarious. He also says his questions never involved a third party. Ever. Cohen was someone he could run questions by. That’s it.
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