EPTOn a more topical note, Hannity seems like he has too much of a following to have the public turn on him. I'm not sure it won't affect his prosecution.
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Howie_Dewitt
United States1416 Posts
On a more topical note, Hannity seems like he has too much of a following to have the public turn on him. I'm not sure it won't affect his prosecution. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
I just work for attorneys, but attorney client privilege isn’t applied to every person the attorney talks to about law. Being retained by someone is a slightly more formal process than slipping the guy a ten spot. What I am saying is Cohen was getting his billed paid by someone, either Hannity or Fox. Edit: @Howie - Why would you do that to yourself? | ||
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Mohdoo
United States15742 Posts
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Nebuchad
Switzerland12421 Posts
On April 17 2018 06:13 Howie_Dewitt wrote: I've decided that I'm going to read from the first post mentioning Donald Trump announcing his candidacy until now because I want to watch how the thread and the views of its posters have evolved. It'll be quite a lot of reading, but I've been reading every day almost since summer 2016 anyway. Wish me luck! On a more topical note, Hannity seems like he has too much of a following to have the public turn on him. I'm not sure it won't affect his prosecution. Make sure you give a shoutout to xDaunt on that one post where he tells us Trump is aiming for 80% popularity | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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IyMoon
United States1249 Posts
On April 17 2018 06:30 Plansix wrote: I also don’t understand how he represents a host for a news network and a presidential candidate at the same time. That would be a conflict of interest at a basic level. The president of the United States is still involved with a business that directly profits form him being president. Does anyone really care about the lawyer also having conflicts? Do conflicts matter anymore? | ||
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Ayaz2810
United States2763 Posts
On April 17 2018 06:35 IyMoon wrote: The president of the United States is still involved with a business that directly profits form him being president. Does anyone really care about the lawyer also having conflicts? Do conflicts matter anymore? Nothing matters anymore. If he were anyone else, he would have been removed from office a half dozen times over. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On April 17 2018 06:35 IyMoon wrote: The president of the United States is still involved with a business that directly profits form him being president. Does anyone really care about the lawyer also having conflicts? Do conflicts matter anymore? It is sort of a rhetorical question. I understand these folks don't care about the rules. It is the fact that Hannity would seek out an attorney with a clear conflict of interest is just staggering. This representation doesn't even pass the smell test without the criminal indictment. | ||
Womwomwom
5930 Posts
On April 17 2018 06:17 Plansix wrote: Maybe Cohen was working pro bono for the millionaire TV man? I just work for attorneys, but attorney client privilege isn’t applied to every person the attorney talks to about law. Being retained by someone is a slightly more formal process than slipping the guy a ten spot. What I am saying is Cohen was getting his billed paid by someone, either Hannity or Fox. Edit: @Howie - Why would you do that to yourself? I doubt it'd be Fox. They got better ways of dealing with whatever issues Hannity has than pay Cohen. | ||
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zlefin
United States7689 Posts
On April 17 2018 06:39 Plansix wrote: It is sort of a rhetorical question. I understand these folks don't care about the rules. It is the fact that Hannity would seek out an attorney with a clear conflict of interest is just staggering. This representation doesn't even pass the smell test without the criminal indictment. as i've only been loosely following the story: do we know how far back hannity first got cohen as counsel? | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On April 17 2018 06:56 zlefin wrote: as i've only been loosely following the story: do we know how far back hannity first got cohen as counsel? I don't believe so. Hannity is basically denying it, which is equally odd. | ||
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Mohdoo
United States15742 Posts
On April 17 2018 07:07 Plansix wrote: I don't believe so. Hannity is basically denying it, which is equally odd. I imagine the flat out denial is to appease fox. They are likely pissed he would do his own legal work unlike what they had with other employees. They handle the dirty work for other people, so Hannity must have wanted this secret from fox, whatever it is. | ||
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PhoenixVoid
Canada32746 Posts
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Ayaz2810
United States2763 Posts
On April 17 2018 07:16 PhoenixVoid wrote: There's something vaguely Deep State-ish about all these major figures conspiring beneath the public's eye to appease and defend each other. And once again, I have to say there's nothing normal about this administration every week. The running joke on TV is "isn't this infrastructure week?". | ||
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Lmui
Canada6223 Posts
On April 17 2018 06:28 Nebuchad wrote: Make sure you give a shoutout to xDaunt on that one post where he tells us Trump is aiming for 80% popularity MVP if he pulls out every post that's turned out to be incredibly wrong, as well as the prophetic posts since then. Holy moly though, that is a lot of garbage to go through. Reading website feedback from then to now would be hard enough, forget 8000 pages of people arguing semantics for 10s of pages at once. One of Hannity and Cohen has to be fucked here. I'm leaning towards Hannity since Cohen was already fucked. | ||
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iamthedave
England2814 Posts
On April 17 2018 07:36 Lmui wrote: MVP if he pulls out every post that's turned out to be incredibly wrong, as well as the prophetic posts since then. Holy moly though, that is a lot of garbage to go through. Reading website feedback from then to now would be hard enough, forget 8000 pages of people arguing semantics for 10s of pages at once. One of Hannity and Cohen has to be fucked here. I'm leaning towards Hannity since Cohen was already fucked. Water off a ducks back for Hannity. He's the popular or second most popular media guy on TV (I read Rachel Maddow's show has apparently beat him in the ratings? Seems unbelievable to me though), he's rabidly supported by a massive chunk of the right wing, he's FOX News' biggest star by far now that Megyn Kelly's gone, and this administration has taught us that all they have to do is keep denying it and eventually the scandal will blow over. Saying that, I always thought Bill O'Reilly was bulletproof and look what happened there. It'll all be the evul librul demoncrats's fault, though, and a lot of people will suck it up. Let's not forget this was discovered by the evul Mueller criminal deep state conspiracy, as well. I think there's a thick enough wall of bullshit to protect the bullshitter-in-chief's favourite muppet. | ||
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Wulfey_LA
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
I appreciate this twitter thread by known lawyer while also being funny on the internet Popehat. They could be completely fucking themselves over at this moment. | ||
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iamthedave
England2814 Posts
On April 17 2018 08:28 Plansix wrote: It is abundantly clear that neither side has thought this through. https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/985975877400850432 I appreciate this twitter thread by known lawyer while also being funny on the internet Popehat. They could be completely fucking themselves over at this moment. Stupid Watergate continues into its latest chapter. Let's look at the brightest option; what could happen if Hannity has done something wrong here? Has he actually done something illegal? | ||
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
On April 17 2018 08:28 Plansix wrote: It is abundantly clear that neither side has thought this through. https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/985975877400850432 I appreciate this twitter thread by known lawyer while also being funny on the internet Popehat. They could be completely fucking themselves over at this moment. Describing their legal strategy as haphazard is being pretty generous. Telling a lawyer they miscited the law is pretty much telling them they're a fuckup, otoh. | ||
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