Sean Hannity: I Asked Michael Cohen For Legal Advice But He Has "Never Represented Me In Any Matter"

Michael Cohen has never represented me in any matter. I never retained him, received an invoice, or paid legal fees. I have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which I wanted his input and perspective.
I assumed those conversations were confidential, but to be absolutely clear they never involved any matter between me and a third-party.

In response to some wild speculation, let me make clear that I did not ask Michael Cohen to bring this proceeding on my behalf, I have no personal interest in this proceeding, and, in fact, asked that my de minimis discussions with Michael Cohen, which dealt almost exclusively about real estate, not be made a part of this proceeding.

I'm not sure if that should have had any legal distinction regarding the current hearing. (Though it probably did-- Kimba Wood rejected Cohen's request to review the seized documents before the FBI did.)

I assume Cohen brought up his "third client" because judge Kimba Wood (remember her? Google "Nannygate") was questioning whether Michael Cohen was a bona fide lawyer or just Trump's business partner with legal expertise.

Giving someone legal advice is something a lawyer does, routinely; not all lawyer interactions involve "representing" someone in a court case or business deal involving a third party.

And I think Hannity is wrong to say that "representing" must involve a third party; I think any lawyer who gave you advice, as a lawyer, would say he's "representing" you, as he's representing you as far as your legal interests, researching the question, analyzing the precedents, etc.

I'm not sure if payment matters, either.

This looks like Hannity is throwing Michael Cohen under the bus, and so also Trump then, because I think it hurts Michael Cohen's position the fewer clients he actually has. (At least in Kimba Wood's mind it seems to hurt his position.)

Not sure why Hannity is making this distinction.

I guess he's making this distinction because reporter Gail Sherman is claiming that Hannity hired Michael Cohen to advise him regarding the Media-Matters-led boycott of Fox, which Hannity himself denies:

What part of Michael and I never discussed anything that involved any third party is so hard to understand? https://t.co/uha1z13RJf
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) April 16, 2018

From Mediaite:

Noting that Hannity had come under pressure from left-wing groups -- Media Matters, for one, targeted Hannity's advertisers over the Seth Rich story --Sherman said he was told that Hannity "got paranoid" and hired Cohen to look into those groups.
"This could be interesting because oftentimes private investigators are hired by law firms because it allows attorney/client privilege to be maintained," Sherman added. "So there is a scenario in which if they seized Michael Cohen's documents inadvertently we might be able to learn to what degree did Sean Hannity try to go after his enemies with shady tactics like private investigators."

You mean like the way both Obama and Hillary Clinton hired Fusion GPS through a DNC lawyer? Something you in the media haven't found to be a compelling or "interesting" storyline at all.

In any event, Hannity called up MSNBC (of course this was on MSNBC) to deny it.

Let's check in to see how the sober-minded, country-first, anti-tribalist NeverTrump heroes are reacting:

If this Hannity thing is as bad as it looks, who gets his Fox time slot?
— David French (@DavidAFrench) April 16, 2018

I don't see how Hannity did anything wrong here. I'm not sure how this DOOMS Hannity.

Does French mean that Hannity's in trouble because he didn't disclose that he asked Michael Cohen some questions while reporting on him?

Seems so:

I’m incredibly surprised that the man who pushed the Seth Rich conspiracy theory would conceal material facts from his audience /sarc.
— David French (@DavidAFrench) April 16, 2018

Has David French's cuck-buddies all disclosed how close they are to FusionGPS, which was paid to stop, and then to prematurely end, the Trump presidency?

Is French going to call for all his pals to note how often they have drinks with Glenn Simpson, and how close their ties are with him?

Nah.

French himself considered running as Bill Kristol's catspaw spoiler candidate.

If French is now a bear on full disclosure -- Can I ask, did David French, perhaps, take a meeting with Bill Kristol's donors? Maybe a get-to-know-you coffee?

Are any of those donors active in funding FusionGPS? Were they active in first funding FusionGPS to dig dirt on Trump (and Ted Cruz)?

I don't know if that happened. But since no one's asked yet: I'm asking now.

In case it wasn't obvious before, it's very obvious now: The government/media class is extraordinarily incestuous with lots of little connections here and there.

Doesn't seem fair that the rule of Full Maximum Disclosure of every single contact that might compromise one's objectivity only being inflicted on the Garbage People the Establishment's Minions Don't Like. Seems the same rule should be applied to them.

In the meanwhile, former Clinton appointee to be AG Kimba Wood (she was never confirmed) ruled that Cohen has no right to review the seized documents before the FBI does.

Sort of related: Page 6 claims that Michael Cohen helped kill an US Weekly story about an affair between Don Trump, Jr., and former attention-seeker Aubrey O'Day.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 06:52 PM

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1 First.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 16, 2018 06:46 PM (/qEW2)

2 Clinton attorneys representing nobodies that could never afford them? Nothing to see here, move along.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - SJWs Destroyed My Garden Because I Grew Heritage Tomatoes at April 16, 2018 06:46 PM (LTC8j)

3 Close to the first!

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at April 16, 2018 06:47 PM (g32Cf)

4 David French looks like a used dish rag.

Hey let's put up a poll asking who'll be fucking David French's wife this weekend.

Pro Tip: It won't be David French.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 16, 2018 06:48 PM (4ErVI)

5 Hannity steps in it again!

Posted by: Bill O'Reilly at April 16, 2018 06:50 PM (JHwDP)

6 Aaaand... the sublime becomes the ridiculous.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 16, 2018 06:50 PM (AzW6q)

7 How do you make a David French cordial?

Posted by: wooga at April 16, 2018 06:50 PM (x3b34)

8 Attorney - Client is typically written out in a contract.

This shit was not. YMMV

Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at April 16, 2018 06:50 PM (iiixZ)

9 "If this Hannity thing is as bad as it looks, who gets his Fox time slot?"

Why don't they have a "Who cares" option? Hannity isn't going anywhere.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 16, 2018 06:50 PM (+Dllb)

10 The Animatronic Cashew will be breathlessly reporting tonight that this is the end of Trump. They got him this time, for sure.

Posted by: fly gal at April 16, 2018 06:51 PM (8TdcF)

11 Hannity May Have Hired A Lawyer!!

Who Wasn't Really A Lawyer!!

But Actually Was A Lawyer!!!

Or An Advisor!!!

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Remember Trump Taxes????

Posted by: msnbc's semi-animatronic cashew at April 16, 2018 06:51 PM (2wOtx)

12 Wood was a Reagan appointee

Posted by: mainly spoons at April 16, 2018 06:51 PM (v6UKb)

13 The Paolo, he is accused of molte cose, but the loving of Mrs French he never has experienced.

The queue, it is always too long.

Posted by: Paolo at April 16, 2018 06:51 PM (6FqZa)

14 In Ye Olde days smiting the occasional Jester right out of existence kept the pertinence of the others up to some standards.

Posted by: DaveA at April 16, 2018 06:51 PM (FhXTo)

15 Semi-related: Truth is the media's watchword.

WaPo and NYT earn a Pulitzer for fake news.

The New York Times
@nytimes
The New York Times shares the Pulitzer in National Reporting with The @WashingtonPost for coverage that unearthed possible ties between Russia and President Trump's inner circle

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 16, 2018 06:51 PM (+y/Ru)

16 Lawfare and culture war.

Fight back, damn it.

Hurt them.

That's all bullies understand, pain.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 16, 2018 06:52 PM (xJa6I)

17 The fact that the FBI can raid an attorney is bad enough. THen, we start to hear about other clients of the attorney ... this is just insane stuff. Every single person involved in this - agents, judges lawyers, cops - everyone who had anything to do with this raid and the subsequent dissemination of this illegally obtained information really needs to serve long sentences at hard labor. Every single person.

This is just crazy third-world, Barky type shit.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 16, 2018 06:52 PM (8gDQu)

18 So what's the low-down substantive skinny on the whole Cohen thing? I mean the SDNY raid, the whole thing.

There is either a jaw-dropping shredding of basic legal principles (attorney-client privilege), or there isn't. I see much excited verbiage by those concerned, but never more than throw-away references to specifics and how the Cohen situation fits in. Or doesn't.

Sadly, based on the last decade or so, I'm gonna have to give the benefit of the doubt to the idea that this is an outrage. But it would be nice to have the substance on it. And if it *is* an outrage, WTF are SDNY or Wood thinking, about where this goes on challenges and appeals?

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 06:52 PM (QDnY+)

19 I quit watching Hannity a long time ago but I don't see what this has to do with anything. Hannity talked to Cohen means Trump colluded with Russia?

Posted by: Bill R. at April 16, 2018 06:53 PM (IuYIh)

20 Also, Hannity looks unprepared and sounds mealy-mouthed.

20 minutes of dead-air at the start of his program?

Well, I was never much of a fan. Would rather see/hear Bongino.

Posted by: mainly spoons at April 16, 2018 06:53 PM (v6UKb)

21 Please answer this: What does this have to do with RUSSIAN COLLUSION?

Posted by: Minuteman at April 16, 2018 06:53 PM (dd9Kh)

22 Why should the number of clients matter? Lockheed has their own legal department. Are none of their lawyers "lawyers" because they only have one client?

The real question is how does Cohen have files on Hannity if he's not a client and why fight to keep it a secret?

Seems like Cohen is an imbecile.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at April 16, 2018 06:53 PM (63oy9)

23 'as bad as it looks', French? Guilty of talking to a lawyer?

Is French short for French Revolution?

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 16, 2018 06:53 PM (Ndje9)

24 Stormy Stretchmark looks quite comfortable with ten phallic-microphones pointed at her mouth.

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 16, 2018 06:54 PM (2wOtx)

25 No one bothering to ask how any of this makes a flying fuck?

Or, do we just go with the inevitable "Hannity is guilty of obstructing justice because he criticized he called for shutting down Mueller"?

Posted by: Browndog at April 16, 2018 06:54 PM (hOxXP)

26
The cucks think they'll ever be taken as anything other than cucks in the future?

I don't think so. You sat in that chair. And watched.

Posted by: Forgot My Nic at April 16, 2018 06:54 PM (LOgQ4)

27 'I don't see what this has to do with anything.'

It doesn't, it's just an opportunity for the rabid left to take down one of their largest targets and Trump defenders.

Posted by: mainly spoons at April 16, 2018 06:54 PM (v6UKb)

28 You can get a pullitzer for saying that you think something happened?

Alex Jones is well on his way to being just as respectable as WaPo and the NYT.

Yay.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - SJWs Destroyed My Garden Because I Grew Heritage Tomatoes at April 16, 2018 06:54 PM (LTC8j)

29 Since raiding law offices and disclosing the information these places have, is now a legal course of action, let's have the Feds raid Perkins Coie so as to make public all of the advice they've given to the Democrats.

Posted by: Sasquatch the Original trans-Wookie at April 16, 2018 06:55 PM (xxG/v)

30 The New York Times

@nytimes

The New York Times shares the Pulitzer in National Reporting with
The @WashingtonPost for coverage that unearthed possible ties between
Russia and President Trump's inner circle

That's great! They can put it in the lobby right next to mine!

Posted by: Zombie Walter Duranty at April 16, 2018 06:55 PM (O5Q3r)

31 Hiding material facts from his audience? Is that some legal standard? Sounds like bullshit!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 16, 2018 06:56 PM (rdl6o)

32
Is Kimba Wood going to also decide who first gets to leak everything of Cohen's hoovered up by the raid, and to which journos? Or is leaking all this to the MSM nice and legal now? (Not referring to the "third client" thing )

Posted by: Hands at April 16, 2018 06:56 PM (EzdLW)

33 They want this: Trump is Cohen's client. Trump has Cohen pay off his whores. Hannity is also Cohen's client. Therefore Hannity must also be using him to pay off affairs.

Posted by: Buzzion at April 16, 2018 06:56 PM (lKs2v)

34 "Animatronic Cashew" - I like it ..... even though I have no idea who it refers to.

Yeah, the Pulitzer thing really has beclowned and self-parodied itself beyond words now.

An award for reporting that turned up nothing that actually happened. But which "nothing" was, through systematic corruption and criminalization of the country's highest intel and law enforcement institutions, used to mount a ridiculous attack on a new preisdent. WTFF?

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 06:56 PM (QDnY+)

35 Why is this a story?

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at April 16, 2018 06:56 PM (g32Cf)

36 This shit is getting out of hand.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 16, 2018 06:57 PM (gC2IV)

37 I wouldn't say Hannity is throwing Cohen under the bus. He's been put in a position where he has to clarify else the world will draw negative inferences

Judge Wood fucked up here, maybe purposefully

Lawyers who work for a corporation have only one client and there is attorney client privilege, "owned" by the company

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 16, 2018 06:57 PM (JaU6v)

38 You can get a pullitzer for saying that you think something happened?

Alex Jones is well on his way to being just as respectable as WaPo and the NYT.

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Well, it wasn't a Pulitzer Prize. It was a Pulitzer Participation Trophy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 16, 2018 06:57 PM (+y/Ru)

39 If Cohen worked exclusively for Trump, so what? Trump can afford his own personal lawyer who works exclusively for him. How does that mean Cohen and Trump don't deserve attorney client privilege.

Where the hell is Sessions on this? He didn't recuse himself from shit like this. Does he care that HIS DoJ is riding roughshod over the Constitution?

Posted by: MAGA at April 16, 2018 06:57 PM (LnOh3)

40 I don't see how Hannity did anything wrong here. I'm not sure how this DOOMS Hannity."

1. all conservatives are evil
2. evil people are always doing bad things
3. the connections between a conservative currently being observed in a bad thing event automatically tarnishes other connected conservatives because of points 1 and 2.

It's like we are in a bizarre area of physics where normal rules don't apply. What are the "right moves" when a rogue judge and prosecutor raid a lawyer's office to smear the clients?

twitter lawyers are all like "I don't see how this help hannity..." What? What do you expect them to do?

Posted by: Kuhyt at April 16, 2018 06:57 PM (Kuhyt)

41 Kimba Wood officiated George Soros' wedding in 2013.

https://is.gd/HDYhrv

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 16, 2018 06:57 PM (4e+hS)

42 "...because judge Kimba Wood (remember her? Google "Nannygate") was questioning whether Michael Cohen was a bona fide lawyer or just Trump's business partner with legal expertise."

Does the guy have a shingle? Has he passed a non-alcoholic Bar? Guess what? Lawyer. He may or may not have given advice or have a single client. Still a lawyer. There isn't a distinction between "lawyer" and "bona fide lawyer".

I think we should be insisting to know if Judge Kimba Wood is a bona fide judge at this point. Did she get an appointment to court via a Cracker Jack Box prize?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 16, 2018 06:58 PM (H8S+R)

43 They want this: Trump is Cohen's client. Trump has Cohen pay off his whores. Hannity is also Cohen's client. Therefore Hannity must also be using him to pay off affairs.

Okay. So what.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at April 16, 2018 06:58 PM (rdl6o)

44 >>>>Attorney - Client is typically written out in a contract.

This shit was not. YMMV

Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at April 16, 2018 06:50 PM
.
.
.Not always. If you ask a lawyer for any advice with him acting as a lawyer, that establishes an Attorney-Client relationship even if no money exchanges hands.

From the LSBA website definition of Attorney-Client definition:

"The establishment of the attorney-client relationship involves two elements: a person seeks advice or assistance from an attorney and the attorney appears to give or agrees to give the advice or assistance."

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at April 16, 2018 06:58 PM (+Dllb)

45 Why should the number of clients matter? Lockheed has their own legal
department. Are none of their lawyers "lawyers" because they only have
one client?

I only had one client and the FBI never bothered me.

Posted by: Tom Hagen, Esq, at April 16, 2018 06:58 PM (O5Q3r)

46 It's like applying euclidean rules to quantum light speed or subatomic particles. It doesn't matter.

Posted by: Kuhyt at April 16, 2018 06:58 PM (Kuhyt)

47 I don't remember voting for Herr Mueller in November 2016.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 16, 2018 06:58 PM (EoRCO)

48 Kimba Wood officiated George Soros' wedding in 2013.

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Well, isn't that special?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 16, 2018 06:59 PM (+y/Ru)

49 If this gang of leftists had not just collaborated to fix an election for such a crooked Democrat, and ignored (or soft shoed away) so many seditious crimes ... MAYBE they'd have a peg leg to stand on.

But not really ... they tossed Trump's lawyer's files for an unknown reason, and now the files are tossed into the MFM wind, and given the full propaganda supposition treatment.

The good thing about just going ahead and admitting to banana republic status is the military could just come in and push these illegal beagles into the Gitmo pound. But we keep up the charade and pretend this is the justice system at work.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 16, 2018 06:59 PM (bT8Z4)

50 HANNITY SAID DOODY

Posted by: wth at April 16, 2018 06:59 PM (HgMAr)

51 @18

At various times during the Hillary non-investigation, Hillary claimed Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin were counsel, though they were subject of the same investigation, the FBI and DOJ were hunky dory with that arrangement.

Also during the height of the investigation, Hillary turned over all of the communications that were under subpoena, the lawyer, who did not have the necessary security clearences to even look at the communications was allowed to decide on his own what communications were responsive and which were not and was allowed to destroy the rest.

So this whole fucking line of reasoning that Cohen doesnt meet some nebulous fucking standard to be considered a lawyer is absolute bullshit.

We have sunk below banana republic standards with this bullshit.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 16, 2018 06:59 PM (UfMVm)

52 I'm actually meeting with an attorney in a couple of weeks for a free consultation. The fact that I'm not paying anything (yet) and that there's no court case or anything does not change the fact I am approaching an attorney for legal advice. Geeze.

Posted by: sunny-dee at April 16, 2018 06:59 PM (QAOZh)

53 WaPo and NYT earn a Pulitzer for fake news.

The New York Times

@nytimes

The New York Times shares the Pulitzer in National Reporting with
The @WashingtonPost for coverage that unearthed possible ties between
Russia and President Trump's inner circle

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 16, 2018 06:51 PM (+y/Ru)

Wow. alleged ties are.top.news. SCIENCE!

Posted by: muckrack at April 16, 2018 06:59 PM (0aFY9)

54 also, since all conservatives are reactionary, we spend all day responding to the cuck-o-sphere about how dumb they are instead of pushing our own agendas...

the IG report, Uranium One, the economy, whatever the fuck is going on in syria. How about that wall? Why are we letting in 3 million people a year? Why are our "allies" in the formerly free portions of Europe?

Posted by: Kuhyt at April 16, 2018 07:00 PM (Kuhyt)

55 Since raiding law offices and disclosing the information these places have, is now a legal course of action, let's have the Feds raid Perkins Coie so as to make public all of the advice they've given to the Democrats.

Posted by: Sasquatch the Original trans-Wookie at April 16, 2018 06:55 PM (xxG/v)

The difference is that Perkins-Coitus certainly should have been raided before this. There was more than enough evidence of serious criminal action by the firm - as the actual operation of the firm, itself - to have warranted shutting that place down and examining their books, first, for the known crimes and then, after that, extending the investigation to the entire operation of the firm.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 16, 2018 07:00 PM (8gDQu)

56 This is almost as bad as whispering promises to the Soviet Ambassador. Nah, who am I kidding. This is much worse.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:00 PM (ZpfqO)

57 What dumbshit at FBI HQ decided to run the very high risk/low reward raid on Cohen's apartment?

What dumbshit judge signed off on this POS warrant?

What probable cause was established for the raid on Cohen's apartment?

What crime has been committed by ANYONE?

What dumbfuck media outlets will run with this like there is anything to it at all?

When they mentioned Media Matters, it all became clear.

Soros.

The Nazi collaborator who never stopped collaborating.

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 16, 2018 07:00 PM (2wOtx)

58 'if Judge Kimba Wood is a bona fide judge at this point.'

Yes--obviously a Trump hater. Like nearly all of the elite class.

Posted by: mainly spoons at April 16, 2018 07:00 PM (v6UKb)

59 was questioning whether Michael Cohen was a bona fide lawyer or just Trump's business partner with legal expertise."

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Is that how things work now?

Heck, I've seen lawyers trip all over themselves to make it clear they're not providing legal advice on an internet forum. I'm guessing giving someone legal advice means you're acting as their attorney.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - SJWs Destroyed My Garden Because I Grew Heritage Tomatoes at April 16, 2018 07:00 PM (LTC8j)

60 Sort of related: Page 6 claims that Michael Cohen helped kill an US Weekly story about an affair between Don Trump, Jr., and former attention-seeker Aubrey O'Day."

ah HA! collusion.

or just some PR shit.

Aubrey Oday was hot enough. But she's pro-cuck

Posted by: Kuhyt at April 16, 2018 07:01 PM (Kuhyt)

61
I don't know if that happened. But since no one's asked yet: I'm asking now.

There's a scenario where that could happen. Which appears to be enough for Progda to set itself on fire about.

Which is something I heartily endorse, FTR.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at April 16, 2018 07:01 PM (GdWl+)

62 How do you make a David French cordial?
Posted by: wooga at April 16, 2018 06:50 PM (x3b34)
Tell him that blue shirt is just super!!!

Posted by: andycanuck at April 16, 2018 07:01 PM (VBKy9)

63 Ignoramus, glad to see you here.

Do you have any view on the substance of the whole SDNY thing against Cohen? I mean the raid, the "taint team", etc.?

Yeah, not following this closely but seems like Hannity's clarification was nothing against Cohen, just outlining what the relationship was. And what would be the slightest bit interesting, much less slimy, about a private person hiring a private investigator to look into another private entity? Isn't that what happens all day long, 7/24/365?

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:01 PM (QDnY+)

64
A dozen or so smelly sjw twitter activists will soon be firing up their twitter bots to astroturf Hannity's advertisers into dropping him.

Will the My Pillow guy cave in?

Posted by: Hands at April 16, 2018 07:01 PM (EzdLW)

65 Many folks ... my Old Man for one ... love to discuss how, no matter the news, its just no big deal. Because it'll never apply to HIM - or HE knows some trick to easily side-step the issue - or some reason or another where, to paraphrase an expression I often read at a certain smart military blog, its best to just avoid any kind of hair on fire moment.

I guess its my Old Mans way of rationalizing it'll never happen to him.

And I guess the FBI raids, the John Doe raids, the IRS audits, etc etc going all the way back to Ruby Ridge have taught us that, yes, you can avoid all this.

Just do exactly as you're told, citizen. Hands at Ten and Two. Yes Sir, No Sir. Eyes straight ahead.

Quite a few folks enjoy obeying. I suspect my dogs do as well. Just keep in mind - as history has taught over and over again ...

... when your number is finally drawn, you'll never be able to obey enough.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 16, 2018 07:01 PM (L8JfA)

66 Check out this hypocrisy:

"Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) said Monday Fox News should fire Sean Hannity in the wake of the revelation that he is a client of President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen"

https://tinyurl.com/yaqjpfu6

If MSM was made to follow the "conflict of interest" rule, every single newsreader would have to be fired.

Posted by: Blake at April 16, 2018 07:02 PM (qC1Sy)

67 I'm so glad we've moved beyond the whole constraining legal concept of mere unpersons thinking they might be entitled to be "secure in their persons and papers"!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 16, 2018 07:02 PM (n9EOP)

68 @57

Actually the cherry on top of this shit cake is the fact that the FIB have redacted the the charges on the warrant and Michael Cohen doesn't actually know what he's being investigated for.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 16, 2018 07:02 PM (UfMVm)

69
Kimba Wood officiated George Soros' wedding in 2013.

Who was the third groom?

Posted by: Hands at April 16, 2018 07:02 PM (EzdLW)

70 EM PEACH HAMMEDY! EM PEACH EM PEACH EM PEACH!

Posted by: Maxine Waters at April 16, 2018 07:03 PM (e9G8E)

71 So, if I go golfing with a lawyer friend and I ask her how she sees the break on the 5th hole, which is really a real estate question at it's heart, am I going to be scooped up along with all of her felonious clients? I guess the only safe thing to do, in this second-age of the witch hunt, is just shut up and putt!

Posted by: goon at April 16, 2018 07:03 PM (PEcU2)

72 Where the hell is Sessions on this? He didn't recuse
himself from shit like this. Does he care that HIS DoJ is riding
roughshod over the Constitution?

Posted by: MAGA at April 16, 2018 06:57 PM (LnOh3)
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apparently, no, he doesn't, which means he at least tacitly approves.

make of that what you will.

Posted by: redc1c4 at April 16, 2018 07:03 PM (q3X5U)

73 Quite a few folks enjoy obeying. I suspect my dogs do as well. Just keep in mind - as history has taught over and over again ...

... when your number is finally drawn, you'll never be able to obey enough.
Posted by: ScoggDog at April 16, 2018 07:01 PM (L8JfA)

I want to bookmark this comment.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 16, 2018 07:04 PM (xJa6I)

74
Heck, I've seen lawyers trip all over themselves to make it clear they're not providing legal advice on an internet forum. I'm guessing giving someone legal advice means you're acting as their attorney.

I always thought you had to sign something like an agreement and a check before a lawyer represented you.

Silly me. Now you just have to talk to one?

Someone inform The Empress.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at April 16, 2018 07:04 PM (GdWl+)

75 So is Manuela still Judge Woods maid? Has anyone asked? No,no. Senora Woods is no here. And we all out of lemon Pledge.

Posted by: Regular joe at April 16, 2018 07:04 PM (7PllL)

76 Since raiding law offices and disclosing the information these places have, is now a legal course of action, let's have the Feds raid Perkins Coie so as to make public all of the advice they've given to the Democrats.
Posted by: Sasquatch the Original trans-Wookie at April 16, 2018 06:55 PM (xxG/v)

No information here...

anymore, boss!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 16, 2018 07:04 PM (n9EOP)

77 fuck that, SWAT raid every partner of perkin coie.

Posted by: Kuhyt at April 16, 2018 07:05 PM (Kuhyt)

78 rhomboid: "Yeah, the Pulitzer thing really has beclowned and self-parodied itself beyond words now.

An award for reporting that turned up nothing that actually happened..."

That award was to buttress the dilapidated construct that has been disintegrating for months. Give the story a "prestigious" award. Maybe that'll convince everyone who's not a rabid idiot that there's some there there.

Good Lord are we living in stupid times.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 16, 2018 07:06 PM (H8S+R)

79 Michael Cohen is a stooge.

Posted by: Dewey, Cheatum & Howe at April 16, 2018 07:06 PM (JHwDP)

80 Remember, every, and I mean every, attack on Trump circles back and hits the attacker.

I think most are taking the wrong view on this-- by revealing Hannity, trying to smear as something nefarious, and it's all ordinary-- they have, once again, done far more damage to themselves.

You see, there is no darned reason whatsoever to reveal his name. And they are so blinded they can't even see that.

Is beautiful how perfectly they are completely discrediting themselves.

Posted by: RoyalOil at April 16, 2018 07:06 PM (wvg2W)

81 Hannity is about to convince Dershowitz to come over to the Dark Side.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 16, 2018 07:07 PM (BfOXk)

82 when your number is finally drawn, you'll never be able to obey enough.
Posted by: ScoggDog at April 16, 2018 07:01 PM (L8JfA)

And, don't be the first one to stop clapping!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 16, 2018 07:07 PM (n9EOP)

83 I always thought you had to sign something like an agreement and a check before a lawyer represented you.

Silly me. Now you just have to talk to one?

-

I'm sure a contract helps at some point, but giving legal advice is apparently taken pretty seriously by those types.

We've got some attorneys around here who I'm sure will put us some knowledge.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - SJWs Destroyed My Garden Because I Grew Heritage Tomatoes at April 16, 2018 07:07 PM (LTC8j)

84 Kreplach thanks for reminding us of just one aspect of how insanely, obviously lawless and improper almost every aspect of the Clinton Crime Wave "investigation" was.

Even though I think *some* of those misdeeds will be exposed, documented, and punished, the fact they can happen at all - much less everything else going on - is a main pillar of my pessimism.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:08 PM (QDnY+)

85 Kimba Wood officiated George Soros' wedding in 2013.

https://is.gd/HDYhrv

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 16, 2018 06:57 PM (4e+hS)
............

Good grief what a yawner that party must have been. But wait... Bono was there as well as Gavin Newsome! What fun!
He was 83 then, making him 88 now. Could kick the pot of gold any day now.

Posted by: wth at April 16, 2018 07:08 PM (HgMAr)

86 And, don't be the first one to stop clapping!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 16, 2018 07:07 PM (n9EOP)

Or the last.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 16, 2018 07:08 PM (8gDQu)

87 All I can say is poor Sean will be scooped up into Mueller 's stir pot.

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2018 07:08 PM (aC6Sd)

88 "Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) said Monday Fox News should fire Sean
Hannity in the wake of the revelation that he is a client of President
Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen"
...

But he's "not an attorney".

*crunches popcorn*

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 16, 2018 07:08 PM (2wOtx)

89 Just went to take the dog out, annnnnd, it's snowing outside. In western NC. Must be that pesky Polar Osculator acting up again.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:08 PM (7ThJ3)

90 Everyone knows that Michael Cohen is probably a russian agent hired by Putin to get incriminating evidence on Trump and Hannity. That's why Hannity is such a traitor and clearly needs to be fired and probably jailed. Anyway it doesn't really matter that much because Trump is going to be impeached in November.

Posted by: progressive pat at April 16, 2018 07:08 PM (jxw6R)

91 4 David French looks like a used dish rag.

Hey let's put up a poll asking who'll be fucking David French's wife this weekend.

Pro Tip: It won't be David French.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis

Ah, but he will be there. Sitting in a recliner, drinking a cognac, smoking a pipe, listening to Mozart, thinking about what Trump has done to his beloved Party, while watching his wife get gang banged by 5 undocumented El Salvadoran young men. For the Greater Good!

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 16, 2018 07:08 PM (kHB7w)

92 3 I always thought you had to sign something like an agreement and a check before a lawyer represented you. "

nah, you see in the former world of Free America, lawyer-client was so sacred...it was sort of anything told in confidence was AC protected. there aren't that many hoops.

Posted by: Kuhyt at April 16, 2018 07:09 PM (Kuhyt)

93 77 fuck that, SWAT raid every partner of perkin coie.
Posted by: Kuhyt at April 16, 2018 07:05 PM (Kuhyt)

SWAT Judge Wood and George Soros.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 16, 2018 07:09 PM (xJa6I)

94 Posted by: ScoggDog at April 16, 2018 07:01 PM (L8JfA)

I want to bookmark this comment.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 16, 2018 07:04 PM (xJa6I)

I'd like to etch it on a commemorative platter. Sell it at craft fairs.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 16, 2018 07:09 PM (L8JfA)

95 Heck, I've seen lawyers trip all over themselves to make it clear they're not providing legal advice on an internet forum. I'm guessing giving someone legal advice means you're acting as their attorney.

-
There was a case, seems like yesterday so it was probably twenty years ago, in which an attorney was just bullshitting in an internet chat room with a pixel person about a potential cause of action. She later sued him because he didn't mention limitation of actions, she delayed filing for whatever reason, and when she did file, she was time barred. She won Big Bucks and scared the hell out of a lot of people.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 16, 2018 07:10 PM (+y/Ru)

96 Didn't Kimba Woods play Frodo Baggins in LoTR? I hope when he delivered the ruling he was at least wearing shoes.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at April 16, 2018 07:10 PM (/qEW2)

97 For what it's worth, THIS lawyer can't imagine disclosing information of a client that the client doesn't want disclosed, to Federal Judge Kimba Wood or anybody else. Hold me in contempt and throw me in jail, my response to such a demand will always be a politely worded "Fuck you."

Posted by: Law of Self Defense at April 16, 2018 07:10 PM (zHiRB)

98 You do not have to sign something for the attorney client privilege to apply. Nor do you need x number of clients to be a lawyer. The MFM understands the a/c privilege and lawyers about as well as they understand guns.

Posted by: LASue at April 16, 2018 07:10 PM (Z48ZB)

99 Everyone knows that Michael Cohen is probably a russian agent hired by Putin to get incriminating evidence on Trump and Hannity. That's why Hannity is such a traitor and clearly needs to be fired and probably jailed. Anyway it doesn't really matter that much because Trump is going to be impeached in November."

that sounds about right for lib think. maybe mention jesus too. You rubes love jesus.

Posted by: Kuhyt at April 16, 2018 07:10 PM (Kuhyt)

100 Also, David French is a loon of tremendous dimensions. There's pretty much nothing of him left BUT loon.

Posted by: Law of Self Defense at April 16, 2018 07:10 PM (zHiRB)

101 All I can say is poor Sean will be scooped up into Mueller 's stir pot.
Posted by: Skip
------------

Full-on assault. No-knock warrant, doors blown it, strip searches, virtually all possessions seized.

Mueller wants Trump to fire him. No act is too outrageous.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:11 PM (7ThJ3)

102 Great, Hannity, first you lose an Alabama senate seat, and now this?

Posted by: Eromero at April 16, 2018 07:11 PM (zLDYs)

103 I've gotten to the point where I'd feel safer if a hacker had my information than the DOJ or FBI.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 16, 2018 07:11 PM (8gDQu)

104 apparently, no, he doesn't, which means he at least tacitly approves.

Or the Judge and the SDNY are in the wrong and the system will stop them soon enough without earning more DRAMA points before the meanwhiles strike home.

Posted by: DaveA at April 16, 2018 07:11 PM (FhXTo)

105 Yeah.

Dersh just eviscerComeyand mocked Comey.

Nice.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 16, 2018 07:11 PM (BfOXk)

106 The Left would just love to take Hannity out. He is a huge threat to their agenda of corruption and
we can thank him for fighting, Sara Carter and getting Trump elected.
Soros probably has people going through his trash at the landfill.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2018 07:11 PM (PvFoN)

107 Me too Mike, kinda weird?

Posted by: MAGA at April 16, 2018 07:12 PM (KbvgJ)

108 Let me see:
1)Cohen supposedly had a client who had requested not to be named.
2) Under judges order he says "it was Sean Hannity"
3) Sean Hannity of Fox says "I was never a paying client"

Qs of mine:
4) How many Sean Hannitys are there in NY? I don't think that is a very rare name.
5) Even with Sean Hannity of FOX admitting asking advice I don't really see how the MFM can be so sure he is the real client. For all we know lawyer Cohen had a client who used a nom de plume with Cohen as well as requesting their atty/client relationship be kept private.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at April 16, 2018 07:12 PM (eASYU)

109 Rich Zeoli ( Philly talk station) has a theory and mentioned it today, attacks just make those backing the attacked just gets stronger. And when those joining or on the attackers side see the newest attack sink or become ineffective start to lose faith.

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2018 07:12 PM (aC6Sd)

110 Why would you even NEED a lawyer if you're innocent of colluding with Russians and sleeping with porn stars and peeing on hotel beds? You wouldn't. So he's guilty.

Posted by: progressive pat at April 16, 2018 07:12 PM (jxw6R)

111 How could the court compel this information in open court? Client identity is privileged.

Posted by: gm at April 16, 2018 07:12 PM (/LIOp)

112 I'm confused. Hannity talked to a lawyer about real estate dealings and now he must be fired? *scratches head*

Posted by: IC at April 16, 2018 07:12 PM (a0IVu)

113 So an opinion journalist/radio TV/host is supposed to lose his gig because he asked a guy some questions? Huh?

Obviously this is too idiotic to last more than one day, but the depths of Stoopid that are being plumbed discredit those who think we reached Peak Stoopid some time ago.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:13 PM (QDnY+)

114 Is this really more important than the singer who doesn't have any scars from a fall? Sean should be saying things like, "I asked him once, hypothetically, that If I knew that Hillary had Nuclear Launch Codes, should I alert someone?" Or, "If I knew that Hillary had someone killed, in a park, should I go to the police?" I'm thinking that real estate advise is fairly speculative advise in the first place, and doesn't rise to the level of treason, or murder, or falling down drunk stupid.

Posted by: goon at April 16, 2018 07:13 PM (PEcU2)

115 Just call Hannity to the witness stand. Once he began talking, he wouldn't stop talking long enough for Judge Woods or federal lawyers to ask him any questions.

Posted by: Hands at April 16, 2018 07:13 PM (EzdLW)

116 The Left would just love to take Hannity out.
...

ZOMG!!!!11!!!

You , You moony-eyed HANNITOLOGIST!!!11!1!

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 16, 2018 07:13 PM (2wOtx)

117 I liked Michael Cohen when he sang "Walking in Memphis".

He hasn't aged a bit.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 16, 2018 07:13 PM (EoRCO)

118 I hope Hannity has libel lawyers combing through the reporting on this Kimba Wood mandated disclosure. Who knows, maybe an over-eager CNN mischaracterized the Hannity/Cohen relationship with enough evident venom that he might have a claim.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, not yet a Cohen client at April 16, 2018 07:14 PM (rBnYq)

119 Knowing that Kimba Woods married the anti-Christ George Soros, wouldn't she have to recuse herself (she's a she, isn't she?) from any issue concerning Media Matters since Soros funds them?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at April 16, 2018 07:14 PM (GdWl+)

120 If you want to know what Libs are guilty of just look at what they are trying to accuse you of...

Which means there is evidence out there that a major Lib MSM Tool(s) has been taking direction from Hillary/DNC/Deep State.

Posted by: Ceasar at April 16, 2018 07:14 PM (x8dHd)

121 Somebody post this for YankeeFifth later:

https://www.youtube.co/watch?v=X8adICRFF2A&t=0s

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 16, 2018 07:14 PM (Ckg4U)

122 This lawyer grab should make all lawyers in the left and on the right extremely uncomfortable. Extremely.

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2018 07:15 PM (bUjCl)

123 On the

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2018 07:15 PM (bUjCl)

124 Kimba? Is this the Lion King?

Posted by: josephistan at April 16, 2018 07:16 PM (ANIFC)

125 This is all so incredibly effed up that it feels like we are in the Old Soviet Union.
Which is no doubt where the unelected bureaucracy ("nomenklatura") are trying to take us posthaste.

I cannot contemplate this with any semblance of calm.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 16, 2018 07:16 PM (Mbmmf)

126 Mueller wants Trump to fire him. No act is too outrageous.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:11 PM (7ThJ3)

For the 50th time, that was Mueller's ENTIRE reason for existing in all of this. Theyre shocked that it didn't happen in the first week.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at April 16, 2018 07:16 PM (63oy9)

127 Why in God's name would anyone put Karl Rove on TV?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, not yet a Cohen client at April 16, 2018 07:16 PM (rBnYq)

128 The difference is that Perkins-Coitus certainly should have been raided before this. There was more than enough evidence of serious criminal action by the firm - as the actual operation of the firm, itself - to have warranted shutting that place down and examining their books, first, for the known crimes and then, after that, extending the investigation to the entire operation of the firm.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 16, 2018 07:00 PM (8gDQu)

***************

It just boggles my mind as to how effed up the justice system is today. 180 degrees out of synch.

But fat chance that Perkins Coie will be held accountable, even though everything you wrote is correct about their wrong-doing. The crooks in this country, if they have sufficiently connected, can do as they please.

The innocent? They're screwed over if they get in the way.

Posted by: Sasquatch the Original trans-Wookie at April 16, 2018 07:16 PM (xxG/v)

129 121 Somebody post this for YankeeFifth later:

https://www.youtube.co/watch?v=X8adICRFF2A&t=0s
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 16, 2018 07:14 PM (Ckg4U)

How are you feeling, Slap?

Hope you're healing up.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 16, 2018 07:16 PM (xJa6I)

130 111 How could the court compel this information in open court? Client identity is privileged.
Posted by: gm

None of this is going to court. Its a political hit job. Remember, this is a coup. No shots have been fired yet, but it is a coup.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 16, 2018 07:16 PM (kHB7w)

131 >>Where the hell is Sessions on this? He didn't recuse himself from shit like this. Does he care that HIS DoJ is riding roughshod over the Constitution?

Jerkin' it on a picture of Efrem Zimbalist Jr?

Posted by: Under Fire at April 16, 2018 07:17 PM (r9UYA)

132 How could the court compel this information in open court? Client identity is privileged.

Posted by: gm at April 16, 2018 07:12 PM (/LIOp)

Reminds me of how the Chicago judge forced the unsealing of the divorce papers in the Ryan case (even though both sides of the divorce protested this) in order to help Barky slime into the Senate seat.

This whole mess is even worse, but same basic tactic by a leftist judge abusing his power. Impeachments of these judges need to start, finally. There is really nothing left of our judicial system.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 16, 2018 07:17 PM (8gDQu)

133
Client #4: Putin.

See, it all makes sense.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 16, 2018 07:17 PM (V008L)

134 So, if a judge can theoretically destroy Hannity, does that mean that Hannity has the right to investigate the judge air his results?

Just wondering.

Posted by: shibumi at April 16, 2018 07:17 PM (0s3bJ)

135 This is such bullshit. The FBI is as trustworthy as a termite in a toothpick factory.

Posted by: no good deed at April 16, 2018 07:17 PM (eIQHF)

136 I haven't read a thing by French since the first thing, which was incredibly stupid, way back. Life is short.

Mike H., in my dream scenario, this s**t just keeps ramping up - the abuses and stretching of envelopes in the service of attacking Trump and his friends and associates. While the general insane Trump-hate hysteria continues, and gun-grabbing is pimped, and the tax cuts continue to be denounced.

A 2002 mid-term is not out of the question (basically punishment of the out-of-power party for their outlandish misbehavior). Which leaves only the key and daunting challenge of getting anything useful out of a victorious GOP.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:17 PM (QDnY+)

137 Looks to me like Cohen missed an opportunity to get some billable hours.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 16, 2018 07:17 PM (0tfLf)

138 DaveA

Doubtful.

To trust the system knowing everything that is known is ludicrous.

Posted by: MAGA at April 16, 2018 07:18 PM (KbvgJ)

139 we are going to need a bigger helicopter.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 16, 2018 07:18 PM (KP5rU)

140 So a lawyer with one client isn't a lawyer?

Interesting concept.

And a completely pulled-from-your-butt one.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 16, 2018 07:18 PM (oVJmc)

141
I'd like to etch it on a commemorative platter. Sell it at craft fairs.

Two words: Needle Point.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at April 16, 2018 07:18 PM (GdWl+)

142 Been on the road all day. Did anyone note that (with apologies to Moron Weasels), Comey is truly a weasel?

Posted by: RI Red - Banned in Boston and the Pentagon at April 16, 2018 07:18 PM (8MuA6)

143 It just boggles my mind as to how effed up the justice system is today. 180 degrees out of synch.
--

Yep. Peons get punished.

Deep State walks.

/so, this is what it's like to live in a third world nation.

Posted by: shibumi at April 16, 2018 07:18 PM (0s3bJ)

144 A couple of quick points:

1. Payment or lack thereof has no bearing on whether the attorney/client privilege attaches;

2. All litigation inevitably involves third parties as defendants or plaintiffs, as do perhaps most civil matters;

3. This is the most grotesque attack on the Sixth Amendment in our lifetimes;

4. Kimba's failure to do an in camera review of the documents in question indicate she is unfit to serve as a judge;

5. And 4 doesn't matter because we basically are a police state now with no moral authority to lecture Syria or anyone else.

If Jeff Sessions lets this bullshit continue, and I've been reluctant to go here, he's compromised somehow or another. This doesn't have a precedent but has set one that has gutted our constitutional rights.

Posted by: Michael Wolff at April 16, 2018 07:19 PM (Ha5/f)

145 Over at Breitbart:

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s former speechwriter has claimed he used to declare, “domination!” and “companies over countries” during company meetings.

He's a globalist all the way. And creepy. Creepy vibe since day one.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 16, 2018 07:19 PM (7E3mr)

146 113
Obviously this is too idiotic to last more than one day, but the depths of Stoopid that are being plumbed discredit those who think we reached Peak Stoopid some time ago.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:13 PM (QDnY+)

I would never, ever, ever claim that we have reached Peak Stoopid.

That's like giving the finger to God. It's like saying, "What else can go wrong?"

Posted by: rickl at April 16, 2018 07:19 PM (sdi6R)

147 @84

There are actually banana republics around the world looking on and going, damn that's some fucked up shit right there.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 16, 2018 07:20 PM (UfMVm)

148 Rhomboid, my quick take is that they're running out of shit to the throw against the wall. Collusion is gone. Obstruction is gone. Mueller's entire basis for jurisdiction has been exposed as a sham.

So what does he do? Road trip to the SDNY where the Trump appointee is forced to recuse, and a Rosenstein mini-me and Bharra crony now runs things

My sense is that some act with hubris that they know better that Trump shouldn't be President, and others increasingly out of fear

I also sense that Trump is Zhukov at Moscow, holding until the last to unleash 3,000 T-34s

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 16, 2018 07:20 PM (zaUat)

149 These fucking parasites just can't get enough blood to quench their lust. It is a madness, - a sickness.

Posted by: Fritz at April 16, 2018 07:20 PM (bJ0w+)

150 So a pro-bono lawyer is not a lawyer, either.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 16, 2018 07:20 PM (oVJmc)

151 apparently, no, he doesn't, which means he at least tacitly approves

.Or
the Judge and the SDNY are in the wrong and the system will stop them
soon enough without earning more DRAMA points before the meanwhiles
strike home.

Posted by: DaveA at April 16, 2018 07:11 PM (FhXTo)
---
what did the Easter Bunny bring you the other day?

Posted by: redc1c4 at April 16, 2018 07:20 PM (q3X5U)

152
If Jeff Sessions lets this bullshit continue, and I've been
reluctant to go here, he's compromised somehow or another. This doesn't
have a precedent but has set one that has gutted our constitutional
rights.
--

Yeah, I hate to say it, but Sessions has to be compromised.

Or completely incompetent.

Maybe both.

Posted by: shibumi at April 16, 2018 07:20 PM (0s3bJ)

153 If Sessions underlings are essentially are engaged in open unconstitutional activity then he is personally culpable.

Posted by: MAGA at April 16, 2018 07:20 PM (KbvgJ)

154 Someone on twitter suggested that Jim Comey, the Leaning Tower Of Putz, signed an employment agreement with a prohibition against publication of anything without review by National Security agencies.

What do you bet he totally ignored this legal duty? I wonder if the government could require the publisher withdraw the book from circulation until the review is complete, if one is needed....

Posted by: Huck Follywood, not yet a Cohen client at April 16, 2018 07:20 PM (rBnYq)

155 142; comey has a long way to go to reach weasel status. he's a dickbag.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 16, 2018 07:20 PM (KP5rU)

156 /so, this is what it's like to live in a third world nation.

My family left Algeria. Algeria, it seems, has followed us.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 16, 2018 07:20 PM (6FqZa)

157 All one needs to see are all the Democrat and #Nevers swearing if President Trump fires Mueller there will be impeachment charges, then Mueller does something more outrageous.

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2018 07:21 PM (aC6Sd)

158
If Jeff Sessions lets this bullshit continue, and I've been
reluctant to go here, he's compromised somehow or another. This doesn't
have a precedent but has set one that has gutted our constitutional
rights.

Yes, isn't this the kind of situation where DoJ is supposed to step in?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 16, 2018 07:21 PM (oVJmc)

159 Posted by: RI Red - Banned in Boston and the Pentagon at April 16, 2018 07:18 PM (8MuA6)
-------
*brohug*

Posted by: Weasel at April 16, 2018 07:22 PM (MVjcR)

160 I think the answer to all of Ace's questions here is:

Because.

That's it.

All of it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 16, 2018 07:22 PM (7UW64)

161 The one thing that LIV watch are cop/lawyer shows. Do ya think that just maybe even they can realize how out of the norm this is?

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 16, 2018 07:22 PM (5HBd1)

162 It's War folks, and our side is taking to many prisoners.

TAKE NOT PRISONERS. WAR

Once we start acting like out enemy, maybe we can think about WINNING!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2018 07:22 PM (5y11N)

163
That's like giving the finger to God. It's like saying, "What else can go wrong?"

"Life's never so bad that it can't get worse."

- Calvin

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at April 16, 2018 07:22 PM (GdWl+)

164 Also, in addition to the above, the American Bar Association continues to be a worthless pile of dog shit. Even though it's a left-wing communist front group for all intents and purposes, any attorney to the Right of Mao who continues to be a member is a cuck of a different sort.

Posted by: Michael Wolff at April 16, 2018 07:22 PM (Ha5/f)

165 155 142; comey has a long way to go to reach weasel status. he's a dickbag.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 16, 2018 07:20 PM (KP5rU)

Even a weasel has a purpose. I'm pretty sure Comey does not. So, not even the bag that carries the dicks. Maybe just a pubic hair.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 16, 2018 07:22 PM (7UW64)

166
I think this falls under the We're Going To Dox All You Damned Reactionary Trump-Supporting Cousin-Humping Unpeople From Jesusland Act of 2018.

So, totes legal. Totes.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 16, 2018 07:23 PM (ikoCs)

167 comey is an example of how shit rises to the top in civil serivce

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 16, 2018 07:23 PM (5y11N)

168 David French and the rest of the Vapors Club can stick their heads in blenders and hit "puree."

What a stupid time to be alive.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at April 16, 2018 07:24 PM (cke+b)

169 "161 The one thing that LIV watch are cop/lawyer shows. Do ya think that just maybe even they can realize how out of the norm this is?"

Polls indicate it, but let's not kid ourselves: this is a coup against a democratic nation, which includes mostly LIV. The junta doesn't care.

Posted by: Michael Wolff at April 16, 2018 07:24 PM (Ha5/f)

170
"He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 16, 2018 07:24 PM (xis67)

171 Tom Fitton is a great man, but his expectation the Senate is going to exercise any oversight of the Mueller Star Chamber is ridiculous. No chance.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, not yet a Cohen client at April 16, 2018 07:24 PM (rBnYq)

172 So, if Mueller has broken laws by raiding the lawyer's office, somebody should arrest him and put him in the pokey.

How many more laws do we get to break before there is a bit of smiting from someone higher up the food chain?

And how many fractured phrases can I squeeze into one comment?

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 16, 2018 07:25 PM (7UW64)

173 Art Bell,
Gunny Hartman,
Harry Anderson

damn

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 16, 2018 07:25 PM (2wOtx)

174 Get me everything in David French's lawyer's office.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 16, 2018 07:25 PM (oVJmc)

175 Ignoramus, thanks. Certainly seems to be the case, WRT Mueller desperately seeking avenues for vandalism.

But are you talking Battle of Moscow, starting Dec. '41? Didn't know Zhukov had 3K T-34s, or unleashed them late in the battle. Then again, I've fried my mind trudging through a massive account of Soviet recovery in '41-'43, which barely touched on actual battles. But I sort of remember how many times the Stavka established/disbanded rifle corps as a unit in the Red Army, so there's that.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:26 PM (QDnY+)

176 the neverTrumps need to take a slow boat to china.

Ahoy

Posted by: concrete girl at April 16, 2018 07:26 PM (zr8oO)

177 In my life time I've had a need to hire several attorneys in different areas of law. I get that most people never really do this at all...or rarely...so let me give you my perspective...

When you have something in your life that possibly needs an attorney, the first thing you do is call attorneys in the area of law you need. You ask questions. Maybe you spill your guts a little...especially if it's a divorce or child custody issue. Then, once you get a feel for the attorneys, you pick one.

At no time would I consider an attorney who gave me advice or input over the phone as an attorney who I 'retained.' Neither do these attorneys consider me a 'client.'

I even had one experience where I gave out a lot of personal information and got feedback on my case, only to have that particular attorney call me back and say they could not represent me due to a conflict of interest. I am certain he also would not have considered me a 'client.'

So, I think there is something really weird here. If Hannity asked for some advice from Cohen, but never paid him anything and never asked him to represent him, I cannot see how he is a 'client.' Something about this stinks, in my opinion.

But not sure what.

If there is an attorney out there who can explain to me how Hannity can be a 'client' without any retainer paid or hiring done on his part, I'd love to know.

Posted by: K-E at April 16, 2018 07:26 PM (xGAJ0)

178 A tell is that they bring back the canard that Cohen went to Prague in 2016 to collude with the Russians. Cohen said he'd never been out of the country and volunteered his passport. This canard is risible in many respects, especially that a savvy lawyer would lie about an easily established fact

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 16, 2018 07:26 PM (zaUat)

179 Odd what looks bad to French, who ostensibly is an attorney. What looks bad to me is a blatant violation of the Sixth Amendment and a government that more and more doesn't look all that different from Putin's Russia.

Buy guns and learn how to use them, folks.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 16, 2018 07:26 PM (Ha5/f)

180 Here's a pic of Judge Kimba Wood:

https://pbs.tw___.com/media/Da72Q3XXkAMy93f.jpg

Posted by: IrishEi at April 16, 2018 07:27 PM (HiDrR)

181 My theory: Sessions is the victim of a tragic opioid addiction.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 16, 2018 07:27 PM (+y/Ru)

182 What is the country coming to where a celebrity consults with an attorney and both are then considered suspects.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse the unwoke at April 16, 2018 07:27 PM (roQNm)

183 Next SOB Mueller's goons decide to raid needs to meet them with just more than folders and file cabinets.

"When they kick in your front door, how you gonna go?"

The Clash- "Guns of Brixton"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiQoq-wqZxg

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 16, 2018 07:28 PM (EoRCO)

184 Harry Anderson passed away?

RIP

Losing some good ones lately.

Posted by: Hands at April 16, 2018 07:28 PM (EzdLW)

185 Judge Wood will probably blame this on her illegal Guatemalan law clerk.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 16, 2018 07:28 PM (oVJmc)

186 A tell is that they bring back the canard that Cohen went to Prague in 2016 to collude with the Russians. Cohen said he'd never been out of the country and volunteered his passport. This canard is risible in many respects, especially that a savvy lawyer would lie about an easily established fact
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 16, 2018 07:26 PM
~~~~~

They are now claiming that he flew to Germany and from there went to Prague. EU, so no more border checks anymore.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 16, 2018 07:28 PM (HiDrR)

187 If Fox ditched Hannity, there wouldn't be much left. Without him, they would be a regular leftwing media source competing with all the other leftwing medias.

Posted by: Make Katy Perry Stop Murdering Nuns! at April 16, 2018 07:29 PM (MQjX1)

188 the neverTrumps need to take a slow boat to china.
Ahoy

Without the sodomy and the rum

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 16, 2018 07:29 PM (6FqZa)

189 Posted by: K-E at April 16, 2018 07:26 PM (xGAJ0)

Does anyone know what Cohen's specialty actually is?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at April 16, 2018 07:29 PM (63oy9)

190 Well if these actions by SDNY and Wood are actually actionable, why isn't there "action"? Not supervisory action by DOJ (not saying that shouldn't be happening), but appeals to higher courts, injunctions, whatever is appropriate in this case?

And I think the raid on Cohen's office required the OK of the head of Criminal Division at DOJ, minimum - who, I assume, is an acting asst. AG? (still)

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:29 PM (QDnY+)

191 177:

"If there is an attorney out there who can explain to me how Hannity can be a 'client' without any retainer paid or hiring done on his part, I'd love to know."

Payment isn't determinative. The attorney/client privilege attached when you phoned an attorney and he cannot divulge even that uncompensated few minutes except under extraordinary circumstances.

Be afraid, people, be very afraid. And get ready for the worse.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 16, 2018 07:29 PM (Ha5/f)

192 Please answer this: What does this have to do with RUSSIAN COLLUSION?

Posted by: Minuteman at April 16, 2018 06:53 PM (dd9Kh)
...............

Well, Hannity is married and Russia sells mail-order brides, so Hannity obviously married a Russian secret agent named Jill AKA Natasha.

Posted by: wth at April 16, 2018 07:29 PM (HgMAr)

193 Sadly, Woods was a Reagan appointee, she obvious was a BAD appointment.

Posted by: Sam at April 16, 2018 07:29 PM (6mzcH)

194 Yeah, I hate to say it, but Sessions has to be compromised.

Or completely incompetent.

Maybe both.

Posted by: shibumi at April 16, 2018 07:20 PM (0s3bJ)
---
simplest explanation: he's part of the coup.

Occam's Razor, and all that.

Posted by: redc1c4 at April 16, 2018 07:30 PM (q3X5U)

195 what did the Easter Bunny bring you the other day?

A trip to SCOTUS where SDNY gets egged would be my guess for next year.

Posted by: DaveA at April 16, 2018 07:30 PM (FhXTo)

196 Art Bell,
Gunny Hartman,
Harry Anderson

damn

-
Night Court judge saw what they were doing to the law and gave up.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 16, 2018 07:30 PM (+y/Ru)

197 MAGA: "If Sessions underlings are essentially are engaged in open unconstitutional activity then he is personally culpable."

Yes, Sessions is appearing, if not actually, derelict of duty. He has recused himself so far as to have abandoned his post of management. Apparently, any thread at all is of significant enough size to tie Sessions' hands. This isn't just BS. This is perverse.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at April 16, 2018 07:30 PM (H8S+R)

198 This is all so incredibly effed up that it feels like we are in the Old Soviet Union.
Which is no doubt where the unelected bureaucracy ("nomenklatura") are trying to take us posthaste.

I cannot contemplate this with any semblance of calm.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
--------------

Paraphrased from Dr. Zhivago:

Political Officer: "Understand this: as the military struggle draws to a close, the political struggle intensifies. In the hour of victory, the military will have served its purpose - and all men will be judged
POLITICALLY - regardless of their military record!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:30 PM (w1zJX)

199 We have this problem sometimes with our friends, where they seem to believe that we somehow deserved getting into this mess with DNR. The thing was, my husband thought he deserved a chance to go before a judge and claim that the dock was actually on our property. (It's a pre-statehood donation land claim, so it should have been under different rules). The problem is that he believed in fairness and thought the judge would at least listen to him. Not only did the judge tell him to shut up, he would hardly allow our attorney to speak.

Do not count on the courts do to anything other than what the state tells them to do. And we'd better get busy taking back state attorney generals from Soros.

Posted by: notsothoreau at April 16, 2018 07:30 PM (5HBd1)

200 Fox would only drop Hannity using this as an excuse. Since there is no allegation about any behavior of his, he'd have a tremendous lawsuit against them if they tried to fire him.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 16, 2018 07:30 PM (oVJmc)

201 @174

Why not.

The new standard is that we don't even need to be investigating a named crime, the Feds can just go free styling and grab all your shit.

And if the subject claims lawyer-client privilege, well your lawyers not even a lawyer really, sucks to be you.

Posted by: Kreplach at April 16, 2018 07:30 PM (UfMVm)

202 the neverTrumps need to take a slow boat to china.
Ahoy

Without the sodomy and the rum

-
But plenty of lash.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 16, 2018 07:31 PM (+y/Ru)

203 184 Harry Anderson passed away?

RIP

what the fucking fuck?

We're losing our National Supply of Night Court!!!!

Posted by: Kuhyt at April 16, 2018 07:31 PM (Kuhyt)

204 Be afraid, people, be very afraid. And get ready for the worse.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 16, 2018 07:29 PM (Ha5/f)

True dat. Thank Trump for killing your cat and giving you your manhood back.

Posted by: Sam at April 16, 2018 07:32 PM (6mzcH)

205 You , You moony-eyed HANNITOLOGIST!!!11!1!

Posted by: Tanner Boyle at April 16, 2018 07:13 PM (2wOtx)
*********************
Yep... I'm a great American... beats being a great Communist.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2018 07:32 PM (PvFoN)

206 remember, the ACLU wanted the USA to prosecute Hannity for jumping back and forth across the US/Mexico border 10 years ago as part of his TV show info-bit.

Posted by: Kuhyt at April 16, 2018 07:32 PM (Kuhyt)

207 This speechwriter of Mark Zuckerpucker is worth reading. Breitbart has an article, put the full article is at Vox. Here's a great excerpt:

"But Cambridge Analytica is a scandal that isn’t a scandal: Everyone who has ever worked on or with the Facebook platform knew that for several years, the platform made data available to third-party developers by design. The scandal is that the world finally understands the ramifications of that state of affairs."

She also talks about the lack of integrity at the company.

Anyway, I usually post the links, but ever since my iOS update last night, I can't. But it is at Vox.com.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 16, 2018 07:32 PM (7E3mr)

208 The snow is now sticking.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:32 PM (w1zJX)

209 Thanks for explaining.

Would Hannity know this? I wouldn't. What if Hannity were asked under oath if he was ever a client of Cohen's and he said, 'no,' based on what a non-lawperson's view is of this situation?

I would never think that I am a lawyer's client if I never hired him for anything or paid him a dime or hired someone else and then went up against the attorney I DIDN'T hire in the courtroom.

How does that work? Wouldn't that be a conflict of interest if they represent my opponent in court for the same thing I wanted to hire them for, spilled my guts and then didn't hire them?

Posted by: K-E at April 16, 2018 07:32 PM (xGAJ0)

210 David French just knocks 'em dead on open mike night on the NRO cruise. It's a riot.

Posted by: Hands at April 16, 2018 07:32 PM (EzdLW)

211 Raymond Reddington should alert the taskforce: We have a new Blacklister, the Tower Of Putz, Little Jimmy Comey.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, not yet a Cohen client at April 16, 2018 07:33 PM (rBnYq)

212 Here is what I think. Feds accuse Cohen of not being a lawyer. (this means that there is no attorney client privilege and they can rifle through all of his stuff.

Cohen says I am too a lawyer I have a lot of clients. Three in fact!

Court says who?

Cohen says Trump, Broidy, and one other person.

Court says oh yeah who?

Cohen says you wouldn't know he's in Canada.

Court says can I see a picture?

Cohen says I don't have a picture.

Court says you really don't have a third client, do you?

Cohen says, uh-huh, his name is Sean Hannity!

So the world is now going okay so Sean Hannity is banging Playboy bunnies, too.

And Hannity is like whoa no he's not like my lawyer or anything. I said I liked him, not like liked him.

Posted by: blaster at April 16, 2018 07:33 PM (jHrzU)

213 I just wish Trump would declare the entire DC area a Superfund site and bulldoze the ruins.

Or maybe have the entire place declared an illegal wetlands destruction by the EPA, so it can be returned to swampland.

There ain't no fixing that shithole.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 16, 2018 07:33 PM (0ogQG)

214 193 Sadly, Woods was a Reagan appointee, she obvious was a BAD appointment.

*************

She was seated on the bench in 1988 after the Dems had taken back control of the Senate. In all likelihood, she was a compromise candidate (the least worst of the bunch in that district) that was part of a deal that got Reagan and the GOP some of their people confirmed by the Senate.

Posted by: Sasquatch the Original trans-Wookie at April 16, 2018 07:33 PM (xxG/v)

215 Does anyone know what Cohen's specialty actually is?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at April 16, 2018 07:29 PM (63oy9)

Fixer

Posted by: Sam at April 16, 2018 07:33 PM (6mzcH)

216 Today: FBI raids attorney office.

Tomorrow: Darkness At Noon

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 16, 2018 07:34 PM (+y/Ru)

217 208. * consults code book. Tosses all code books into safe, touches off thermite grenade inside, closes door. *

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 16, 2018 07:34 PM (fA1SL)

218 Payment isn't determinative. The attorney/client privilege attached when you phoned an attorney and he cannot divulge even that uncompensated few minutes except under extraordinary circumstances.

Be afraid, people, be very afraid. And get ready for the worse.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 16, 2018 07:29 PM (Ha5/f)

If this was just random unpaid legal advice how many records would Cohen have kept? I'm thinking Cohen taped everything and the Feds have the tapes.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at April 16, 2018 07:34 PM (63oy9)

219
' Something about this stinks, in my opinion.

But not sure what.

That odor you detect is the rotten stench produced by Progressivism. It has no other purpose than the destruction of anything that is good about this country.

It never speaks of anything our Constitution mentions. It doesn't support personal responsibility. It doesn't support freedom. It doesn't support individual potential.

And it certainly doesn't support Truth.

For these and so many more reasons, we have to begin to purge Progressivism and its Marxist cousin Postmodernism from our shores. Their faults are many and self-evident.

They have no place among free people. Go and leave us in peace.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at April 16, 2018 07:34 PM (GdWl+)

220 Yeah, dredging up the Prague thing again, weird. Though that was just the McClatchy report, anonymous sources.

Which reminds me, WTF with all the claims of leaks on info related to the raid? There was at least one (the RNC guy's bimbo payoff) - unless that too was in open court, but I don't think so. And it sounds like it was accurate.

WTFF? Are "leaks" normal, or legal, from federal investigations? Any, of any kind?

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:34 PM (QDnY+)

221 If there is an attorney out there who can explain to me how Hannity can be a 'client' without any retainer paid or hiring done on his part, I'd love to know.

-

I'm not an attorney, but I'd be shocked if some didn't barter for services or even work for free. I bet there's a cool law phrase for it, too. Pico de gallo or something 6.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - SJWs Destroyed My Garden Because I Grew Heritage Tomatoes at April 16, 2018 07:34 PM (LTC8j)

222 EVERYBODY IS DYING!!!!

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 16, 2018 07:34 PM (xPl2J)

223 203 184 Harry Anderson passed away?

RIP

what the fucking fuck?

We're losing our National Supply of Night Court!!!!
Posted by: Kuhyt at April 16, 2018 07:31 PM (Kuhyt)

And he was even younger than Art Bell and Lee Ermey. Damn...well that answers my question about who is 3rd.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 16, 2018 07:34 PM (ujg0T)

224 I just wish Trump would declare the entire DC area a Superfund site and bulldoze the ruins.

-
Can't do that. It's wetlands.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 16, 2018 07:35 PM (+y/Ru)

225 She also talks about the lack of integrity at the company.
-------------

This has been true, in spades, about googul for years. People don't care, even people here. They are addicted to the convenience. Can't give it up.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:35 PM (y3sT9)

226 There ain't no fixing that shithole.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 16, 2018 07:33 PM (0ogQG)

There is, but SMOD is apparently otherwise occupied.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 16, 2018 07:35 PM (7UW64)

227 208
The snow is now sticking.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:32 PM (w1zJX)

In Asheville? Shit will winter never end. Did Al Gore visit lately?

Posted by: Sam at April 16, 2018 07:36 PM (6mzcH)

228 218:

"
If this was just random unpaid legal advice how many records would Cohen have kept? I'm thinking Cohen taped everything and the Feds have the tapes."

No idea how it was memorialized even if it were. Regardless, the privilege attached at the time Hannity spoke to Cohen. This isn't even a question.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 16, 2018 07:36 PM (Ha5/f)

229 "...because judge Kimba Wood (remember her? Google "Nannygate") was questioning whether Michael Cohen was a bona fide lawyer or just Trump's business partner with legal expertise."

If Cheryl Mills is a lawyer, so is Michael Cohen.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at April 16, 2018 07:36 PM (2NqXo)

230 Life's never so bad that it can't get worse."

- Calvin
Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at April 16, 2018 07:22 PM (GdWl+)

At first I thought you were speaking of Calvin from "Calvin and Hobbes". Upon reflection it hit me you were talking about the serious man Calvin. Well, no matter who said it, it is true, and why I never say it....bcz it feels like tempting fate.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 16, 2018 07:36 PM (7E3mr)

231 I'm not an attorney, but I'd be shocked if some didn't barter for services or even work for free. I bet there's a cool law phrase for it, too.

-
An attorney I knew worked for hookers and blow.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 16, 2018 07:36 PM (+y/Ru)

232
Didn't this all start with Palin, post 2008? Operatives kept filing bogus "ethics" complaints. Or was it Tom DeLay? Or Ted Stevens? Dear me, so many sleazy "investigations."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 16, 2018 07:36 PM (hjJLK)

233 These fucking parasites just can't get enough blood to quench their lust. It is a madness, - a sickness.

Posted by: Fritz at April 16, 2018 07:20 PM (bJ0w+)
*************

THIS x 1,000,000,

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2018 07:37 PM (PvFoN)

234 I'm mostly going with Sessions being incompetent

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2018 07:37 PM (aC6Sd)

235 234
I'm mostly going with Sessions being incompetent

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2018 07:37 PM (aC6Sd)

BINGO.

Posted by: Sam at April 16, 2018 07:38 PM (6mzcH)

236 Guess what folks, it's even better than we thought:
Kimba officiated Soros' wedding
https://tinyurl.com/yc8mghox

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 16, 2018 07:39 PM (9Hjhc)

237 If Sessions had a nickel's worth of sense, he's stand up, lift his recusal, fire Rosenstein and Mueller, and resign.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 16, 2018 07:39 PM (oVJmc)

238 232
Didn't this all start with Palin, post 2008? Operatives kept filing bogus "ethics" complaints. Or was it Tom DeLay? Or Ted Stevens? Dear me, so many sleazy "investigations."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 16, 2018 07:36 PM (hjJLK)

Sarah Palin. She left office here because she was personally liable for defending these obnoxious complaints (that weren't even valid) and it was bankrupting her.

Leftists never play clean, and always find a way to be odious to everyone and everything.

Then, of course, they called her a quitter.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 16, 2018 07:39 PM (7UW64)

239 I'm mostly going with Sessions being incompetent

----

I'm mostly going with Sessions being a double agent working for the GOP establishment trying to keep a leash on Trump.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse the unwoke at April 16, 2018 07:39 PM (roQNm)

240 She also talks about the lack of integrity at the company.
-------------

This has been true, in spades, about googul for years. People don't care, even people here. They are addicted to the convenience. Can't give it up.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:35 PM (y3sT9)

She's talking about Facebook. It was just published today.

It is one thing to suspect it, another to have whistleblowers and confirmation. Especially for people who use them.

Esp. Her coming out specifically about the Analytics thing.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 16, 2018 07:39 PM (7E3mr)

241 Sessions is just suffering from Andy McCarthy disease. The one that makes you think the DOJ and FBI are all straight arrow stand up guys.

Posted by: Hands at April 16, 2018 07:39 PM (EzdLW)

242 236 Guess what folks, it's even better than we thought:
Kimba officiated Soros' wedding
https://tinyurl.com/yc8mghox

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 16, 2018 07:39 PM (9Hjhc)

And how everyone there was not struck dead by the Hand of All Righteousness is beyond me.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 16, 2018 07:40 PM (7UW64)

243 Without the sodomy and the rum

-
But plenty of lash.

OH NOW I GET IT.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 16, 2018 07:40 PM (6FqZa)

244 No idea how it was memorialized even if it were. Regardless, the privilege attached at the time Hannity spoke to Cohen. This isn't even a question.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 16, 2018 07:36 PM (Ha5/f)

Apparently it is a question or we wouldn't be talking about it. That horse done left the barn. If there are tapes then that's one more box on the Nixon checklist invented for this coup marked off and it's only a matter of time before they are made public.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at April 16, 2018 07:40 PM (63oy9)

245 BTW, Anderson was only 65.

Posted by: andycanuck at April 16, 2018 07:40 PM (VBKy9)

246 I haven't read all the comments yet, so I don't know if it's been discussed but my first thought is that Seth Rich's name is being bandied about again and I think that's a good thing.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at April 16, 2018 07:41 PM (99Nt9)

247 Guess what folks, it's even better than we thought:
Kimba officiated Soros' wedding
https://tinyurl.com/yc8mghox
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 16, 2018 07:39 PM (9Hjhc)

*vomits*

The idea that he is even married is bad enough. Like sleeping with Satan. Then Kimba Wood has to go and ruin herself by association.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 16, 2018 07:41 PM (7E3mr)

248 >>The snow is now sticking.

John has a long mustache.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2018 07:41 PM (/tuJf)

249 >>>the neverTrumps need to take a slow boat to china.
Ahoy
>>>>Without the sodomy and the rum
>>>>>But plenty of lash.

don't forget the gangplanks!

Posted by: concrete girl at April 16, 2018 07:41 PM (zr8oO)

250 I am convinced when I listen very carefully to Sean Hannity, that I can detect a distinct Muscovite accent!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 16, 2018 07:42 PM (n9EOP)

251 There is a chair in the corner.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 16, 2018 07:42 PM (KP5rU)

252 JackStraw, first thing I thought of, but I refrained. But now I'll add:

Blissent mon couer d'languor monotone

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:42 PM (QDnY+)

253 Kimba Wood officiated George Soros' wedding in 2013.

https://is.gd/HDYhrv
Posted by: Dr Spank at April 16, 2018 06:57 PM (4e+hS)

As non-biased as a Hawaiian judge

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 16, 2018 07:42 PM (SiINZ)

254 40 more minutes at the office.

Damn, I need a nap.

Or an interesting job. But no chance of that.

So, a nap.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 16, 2018 07:43 PM (7UW64)

255 I bet there's a cool law phrase for it, too. Pico de gallo or something.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - SJWs Destroyed My Garden Because I Grew Heritage Tomatoes

~~~~~

This made me LOL! And I want to thank you for that. It was no easy task because I am in such a foul mood. Just so very sick and tired of all this corrupt BS.

So thanks!

Posted by: IrishEi at April 16, 2018 07:43 PM (HiDrR)

256 I used to be proud of being a lawyer. I described as knowing the fabric that held us all together and how to use it properly to protect your client's interest.
That seems to have warped and woofed out of existence.
And I know I have to send a check to the IRS tomorrow; otherwise I get the full weight of the State coming down on me.

Posted by: RI Red - Banned in Boston and the Pentagon at April 16, 2018 07:43 PM (8MuA6)

257 Kimba officiated Soros' wedding

So she's linked to a Nazi and international felon?

That kind of thing could get you thrown off Facebook.

If you were Republican.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 16, 2018 07:43 PM (oVJmc)

258
In Asheville? Shit will winter never end. Did Al Gore visit lately?
Posted by: Sam
-----------

No...but a local favorite BBQ joint went out of business after Obama used it during a visit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:44 PM (FJXGr)

259
At first I thought you were speaking of Calvin from "Calvin and Hobbes". Upon reflection it hit me you were talking about the serious man Calvin. Well, no matter who said it, it is true, and why I never say it....bcz it feels like tempting fate.

Oh no, I saw that in a Calvin and Hobbes comic. He was holding onto a bunch of balloons that had hoisted him above his house, wondering how he was going to get back down.

But it works both ways. Truth is truth.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at April 16, 2018 07:44 PM (GdWl+)

260 "How are you feeling, Slap?
Hope you're healing up."
-Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 16, 2018 07:16 PM (xJa6I)

I'll be okay, amigo.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 16, 2018 07:44 PM (Ckg4U)

261 208 The snow is now sticking.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:32 PM (w1zJX)

You're to the south of me, correct?

It rained like a mf'er here in PA last night and this morning, but no snow. I swear the grass is an inch taller than it was on Saturday, though.

Posted by: rickl at April 16, 2018 07:44 PM (sdi6R)

262 I'm mostly going with Sessions being incompetent

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2018 07:37 PM (aC6Sd)

JackStraw to the contrary, I'm finding this to be the most elegant analysis of Sessions tenure as AG.

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 16, 2018 07:44 PM (n9EOP)

263 Listening to SiriusXM on the interwebs.

They put a picture up of the artist currently singing.

They put a picture up of Jimmie Rogers, The Singing Brakeman, for Jimmie Rogers, the 1950's ballad singer for "Are You Really Mine".

The end can't come fast enough.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 16, 2018 07:44 PM (EoRCO)

264 248
>>The snow is now sticking.

John has a long mustache.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2018 07:41 PM (/tuJf)

LOL, good!

Posted by: Sam at April 16, 2018 07:45 PM (6mzcH)

265 That seems to have warped and woofed out of existence.
----------

You left out 'slashed'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:45 PM (FJXGr)

266 Blissent mon couer d'languor monotone
Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:42 PM (QDnY+)

Daggone sanglots longs des violons, tell you whut.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 16, 2018 07:45 PM (y87Qq)

267 No...but a local favorite BBQ joint went out of business after Obama used it during a visit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:44 PM (FJXGr)

Used it.....for what? A toilet?

He is the shit midas.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 16, 2018 07:45 PM (7UW64)

268 ABC reports seized info from Cohen will be put into searchable database, for process wherein judge and attorneys for Trump and Cohen will determine what's privileged.

And I give you my personal assurance, bonded by my Caribbean real estate holdings, that non-privileged yet saucy info from this process will NEVER enter the public square. In Democrat-funded ads. Or WaPo "exposes".

Just so we're clear on that.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:45 PM (QDnY+)

269 Mueller, I feel your pain I tried like hell to get fired also... Didn't work for me either....

Posted by: Castanza at April 16, 2018 07:45 PM (nzKWW)

270 If Mufasa knew what Kimba was up to, he'd be very disappointed.
It's the Circle of LIIIIIIIEEES!

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 16, 2018 07:46 PM (9Hjhc)

271 Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 16, 2018 07:44 PM (Ckg4U)

Hang in there hoss, lotsa people here have you in their thoughts and prayers!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 16, 2018 07:46 PM (n9EOP)

272 No...but a local favorite BBQ joint went out of business after Obama used it during a visit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:44 PM (FJXGr)

That sucks, I heard that place was good. They are probably screwing suppliers and will reopen somewhere else.
The restaurant MO.

Posted by: Sam at April 16, 2018 07:46 PM (6mzcH)

273
You're to the south of me, correct?

It rained like a mf'er here in PA last night and this morning, but no snow. I swear the grass is an inch taller than it was on Saturday, though.
Posted by: rickl
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*Poured* cold rain all day yesterday. Local flooding. Now comes the snow.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:46 PM (QxXRY)

274 Mike Hammer. 12 Bones?

Posted by: never enough caffeine at April 16, 2018 07:46 PM (N3JsI)

275 Wait, twelve bones is closed? Arden, too?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - SJWs Destroyed My Garden Because I Grew Heritage Tomatoes at April 16, 2018 07:47 PM (LTC8j)

276 Just so we're clear on that.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:45 PM (QDnY+)

So long as we observe the nuances of "due process", we're all good here!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 16, 2018 07:47 PM (n9EOP)

277 That sucks, I heard that place was good. They are probably screwing suppliers and will reopen somewhere else.
The restaurant MO.
Posted by: Sam
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Sold, and reopened with the name elsewhere.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 07:47 PM (QxXRY)

278 273; Hammer, 22" of snow here Sat-Sun.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 16, 2018 07:48 PM (KP5rU)

279 Thank you, Hrothgar. I'm humbled.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at April 16, 2018 07:48 PM (Ckg4U)

280 278 273; Hammer, 22" of snow here Sat-Sun.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 16, 2018 07:48 PM (KP5rU)

*laughs and points*

I wouldn't live in that cold country.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 16, 2018 07:49 PM (7UW64)

281 The end can't come fast enough.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 16, 2018 07:44 PM (EoRCO)

Sacrilege, pure and simple!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 16, 2018 07:49 PM (n9EOP)

282 Stop talkin' about Carolina BBQ. Making me hungry.

Boss claims the fried chicken at Parker's, in Wilson, was best she's had.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:49 PM (QDnY+)

283 My fishing club, Yadkin River, south of Blowing Rock had a increase in river flow form 200 CFS to 1200 in 12 hours. We got out early Sunday.

Got much of nothing in CLT.

Posted by: Sam at April 16, 2018 07:49 PM (6mzcH)

284 ABC reports seized info from Cohen will be put into searchable database,

Which will be easily copied.

We're talking about agencies that are accused of perpetrating a fraud on the FISA court with fake documents and abusing the intelligence process to spy on their political enemies.

These people have no honor to trust. They're less honorable than the Mafia.

Not use this information? Like not using the NSA? The FISA court?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 16, 2018 07:49 PM (oVJmc)

285 Guess what folks, it's even better than we thought:
Kimba officiated Soros' wedding
https://tinyurl.com/yc8mghox

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at April 16, 2018 07:39 PM (9Hjhc)
***********************

Soros the puppet master pulling all the strings.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2018 07:50 PM (PvFoN)

286 Boss claims the fried chicken at Parker's, in Wilson, was best she's had.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:49 PM (QDnY+)

It's good, who eats chicken at a BBQ joint?

Posted by: Sam at April 16, 2018 07:50 PM (6mzcH)

287 264 248
>>The snow is now sticking.

John has a long mustache.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2018 07:41 PM (/

Spock has pointy elf ears.

Posted by: prof disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at April 16, 2018 07:51 PM (7E3mr)

288 "248 >>The snow is now sticking.

John has a long mustache.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2018 07:41 PM (/tuJf) "

Those are turnips on the floor.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 16, 2018 07:51 PM (Mbmmf)

289
JackStraw to the contrary, I'm finding this to be the most elegant analysis of Sessions tenure as AG.

I'm going with "compromised." Especially after whichever congresscritter threatened that "the FBI can get you seven ways to Sunday."

That's the only thing that 'splains Dondi, my congresscretin that couldn't even stand up to a 17-year-old CNN Prog-prop. This guy isn't the same one I watch on the campaign trail for a year before I voted for him.

This current Dondi is a pod person: the same thing, only different.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at April 16, 2018 07:51 PM (GdWl+)

290 And I know I have to send a check to the IRS tomorrow; otherwise I get the full weight of the State coming down on me.

Posted by: RI Red - Banned in Boston and the Pentagon at April 16, 2018 07:43 PM (8MuA6)

Be honest with yourself, if you voted for Trump, the full weight of the State SHOULD come down on you!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 16, 2018 07:51 PM (n9EOP)

291 OK, Tucker time, bye

Posted by: Sam at April 16, 2018 07:52 PM (6mzcH)

292
Cucks like David French like to write little articles about liberalism and socialism, but when it comes to actually fighting them they're lap dogs to the bastards who would impose it upon us. Gutless wonders like !Yeb! aren't going to do shit. We need a street fighter to take on the leftist scum

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 16, 2018 07:52 PM (SiINZ)

293 Peebles, I was obviously being sarcastic about the info not "leaking".

Hell, Joe the Plumber had his privacy abused by a state employee, after an idiotic presidential candidate walked into *his* yard and beclowned himself with an answer to a simple question.

Interpret it how you will, but that fairly obscure incident - and the way it was received - was one of the set that changed my view of the US, probably permanently.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:53 PM (QDnY+)

294 Tucker talking about Comey.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2018 07:53 PM (PvFoN)

295 >>I'm going with "compromised." Especially after whichever congresscritter threatened that "the FBI can get you seven ways to Sunday."

Do you thin McCabe compromised him? How about Comey? I don't think some of you know who Sessions really is.

And that congresscritter was Chuck Schumer.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2018 07:53 PM (/tuJf)

296 Python with tracking device led FL officials to record-breaking snake sex party...

No word if Bubba Clinton was there.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 16, 2018 07:53 PM (+y/Ru)

297 So this "comfort care" for Barbara Bush, is the same as Hospice?

Posted by: Infidel at April 16, 2018 07:53 PM (a3OL0)

298 Jonah Goldberg has lost his mind.
He has a new book coming out.

National Review and Hotair both have excerpts.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse the unwoke at April 16, 2018 07:53 PM (roQNm)

299 I got it - we are no longer a republic, nor a banana republic.
We are a Bandana Republic.

Posted by: RI Red - Banned in Boston and the Pentagon at April 16, 2018 07:53 PM (8MuA6)

300 ABC reports seized info from Cohen will be put into searchable database, for process wherein judge and attorneys for Trump and Cohen will determine what's privileged.

And I give you my personal assurance, bonded by my Caribbean real estate holdings, that non-privileged yet saucy info from this process will NEVER enter the public square. In Democrat-funded ads. Or WaPo "exposes".

It's helicopter rides time

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 16, 2018 07:54 PM (SiINZ)

301
The Eskimos mustache is full of semen.

Posted by: Bob at NSA at April 16, 2018 07:54 PM (knKQ1)

302 Peebles, I was obviously being sarcastic about the info not "leaking".

Oh, I know, I'm just pointing out the absurdity of trusting confidential information to the people actively waging a criminal coup.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 16, 2018 07:54 PM (oVJmc)

303 Yay VIDEO TDR FAILURE

Meanwhile, they got nothing, they'll get nothing, Trump will still be President, and Cohen will still have a grateful rich client.

Posted by: DaveA at April 16, 2018 07:54 PM (FhXTo)

304 So this "comfort care" for Barbara Bush, is the same as Hospice?

Posted by: Infidel at April 16, 2018 07:53 PM (a3OL0)

Basically, except gold-plated and 24/7!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 16, 2018 07:55 PM (n9EOP)

305 "It's good, who eats chicken at a BBQ joint?"

What I said. But she was looking for variety, perhaps - when traveling down there on short golf trips we had a pretty steady diet of BBQ pork, BBQ pork, interspersed with BBQ pork.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:55 PM (QDnY+)

306 288 "248 >>The snow is now sticking.

John has a long mustache.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2018 07:41 PM (/tuJf) "

Those are turnips on the floor.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 16, 2018 07:51 PM (Mbmmf)
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The beets are pickled.

Posted by: Weasel at April 16, 2018 07:56 PM (MVjcR)

307
ABC reports seized info from Cohen will be put into searchable database

Google?

Posted by: Hands at April 16, 2018 07:56 PM (EzdLW)

308 Is that a rule? Lawyers must have more than one client?

How can that work, surely someone has to be first, and if you are a lawyer's first client, he is not really a lawyer.

I wonder if a lawyer can be sued for practicing law illegally if he is new and only has a first client.

Is this in the constitution, or hiding under the eminent umbrella?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at April 16, 2018 07:56 PM (LWu6U)

309 Fire Sessions.

Recess appoint Cohen to AG.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 16, 2018 07:56 PM (oVJmc)

310 The Eskimos mustache is full of semen.

Posted by: Bob at NSA at April 16, 2018 07:54 PM (knKQ1)

I'd report you for a slur against indigenous people except the gay aspect seems to counter the transgression against the esqimaux. What to do?

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 16, 2018 07:57 PM (n9EOP)

311 Interpret it how you will, but that fairly obscure incident - and the way it was received - was one of the set that changed my view of the US, probably permanently.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 07:53 PM (QDnY+)

What did the Wisconsin John Doe raids do for your outlook ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 16, 2018 07:58 PM (fiGNd)

312 Amendment to my Never Talk to Cops Rule.

Never talk to cops or your lawyer.

Posted by: Weasel at April 16, 2018 07:58 PM (MVjcR)

313 nood ig report

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 16, 2018 07:59 PM (Mbmmf)

314 And they were singing
Bye bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry
And all those good old boys were saying, "Comey my my!"
This'll be the day justice dies
This'll be the day justice dies

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 16, 2018 07:59 PM (+y/Ru)

315 Recess appoint Cohen to AG.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 16, 2018 07:56 PM (oVJmc)

IIRC, Sleazy McConnell (whose wife has family PRC financial connections) is making sure the Senate is open for 30 seconds per day to ensure no recess is formally recognized!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at April 16, 2018 07:59 PM (n9EOP)

316 Is this in the constitution, or hiding under the eminent umbrella?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest

It's a part of the Missus Clause.

Posted by: Ruth Bader Ginsberg's degenerative brain dissorder at April 16, 2018 07:59 PM (9Hjhc)

317 Amendment to my Never Talk to Cops Rule.

Posted by: Weasel at April 16, 2018 07:58 PM (MVjcR)

Ten and Two. Eyes straight ahead. Yes Sir, No Sir.

You'll be fine.*

*shit I learned here

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 16, 2018 07:59 PM (fiGNd)

318 "Hungarian-born Soros, who established one of the first hedge funds in 1969 and is probably best known for famously betting against the British pound in 1992, met Ms. Bolton at a dinner party in 2008."

Even better known for helping the Nazis chase disarmed Jews around Budapest.

Kimba made the baker fix a gay wedding cake--not for the couple, just for the tyranny.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 16, 2018 07:59 PM (Ndje9)

319 Never talk to cops or your lawyer.
Posted by: Weasel at April 16, 2018 07:58 PM (MVjcR)

If you retain an attorney, you implicitly have done everything that all of their previous clients have done too. It's like eating the hearts of your enemies.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 16, 2018 08:00 PM (y87Qq)

320 Nood mccabe

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 16, 2018 08:00 PM (fA1SL)

321 "What did the Wisconsin John Doe raids do for your outlook ?"

Take a guess.

I still view things as more mixed than some. And it relates to the whole civic culture. A lot more fundamental than a "govt. out of control". It's about the citizenry as much as the eevilll govt.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 08:00 PM (QDnY+)

322 BTW, had to do a round trip to upstate NY today, ice, sleet, wind.
Can someone round up the Weather Joos and tell them to knock it off?

Posted by: RI Red - Bandana Republican at April 16, 2018 08:01 PM (8MuA6)

323 Nood mccabe
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine at April 16, 2018 08:00 PM (fA1SL)

You guys sure have some funny Hanukkah traditions.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 16, 2018 08:01 PM (y87Qq)

324 278
Hammer, 22" of snow here Sat-Sun.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at April 16, 2018 07:48 PM (KP5rU)

Good grief. Where are you?

Posted by: rickl at April 16, 2018 08:03 PM (sdi6R)

325 "244 No idea how it was memorialized even if it were. Regardless, the privilege attached at the time Hannity spoke to Cohen. This isn't even a question.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 16, 2018 07:36 PM (Ha5/f)

Apparently it is a question or we wouldn't be talking about it. That horse done left the barn. If there are tapes then that's one more box on the Nixon checklist invented for this coup marked off and it's only a matter of time before they are made public."

Whether we are talking about it or not doesn't impact whether the communications are privileged. The only issue is whether the privilege can be set ovecome due to a limited set of circumstances, none of which would appear to apply based on what we know. They just simply violated the privilege and based on what was said in court, from what I've read, no rationale has been provided that passes the smell test.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 16, 2018 08:03 PM (Fz0LP)

326 So far as I know, 12 Bones was sold, and is being operated at other locations. Nonetheless, I find the bulldozed remains of the building which Obama favored with his patronage symbolic.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 16, 2018 08:03 PM (nBBdT)

327 A lot more fundamental than a "govt. out of control". It's about the citizenry as much as the eevilll govt.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 16, 2018 08:00 PM (QDnY+)

Which is why I wonder ... whenever ANYBODY starts that fucking reverance about their particular favorite body of the State ...

... where are all these Noble and Just Angels coming from ? Because they sure as Hell don't live around here.

Posted by: ScoggDog at April 16, 2018 08:05 PM (fiGNd)

328 K-E: "How does that work? Wouldn't that be a conflict of interest if they represent my opponent in court for the same thing I wanted to hire them for, spilled my guts and then didn't hire them?"

Yes, of course. But reading your totally uninformed posts on what might constitute actual attorney-client privilege simply tells us that you like to post a lot about subjects on which you're apparently entirely ignorant.

Posted by: Law of Self Defense at April 16, 2018 08:08 PM (zHiRB)

329 Whether we are talking about it or not doesn't impact whether the communications are privileged. The only issue is whether the privilege can be set ovecome due to a limited set of circumstances, none of which would appear to apply based on what we know. They just simply violated the privilege and based on what was said in court, from what I've read, no rationale has been provided that passes the smell test.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 16, 2018 08:03 PM (Fz0LP)

Yes, you are right. But that horse done left the barn. The tapes are inadmissible in a court. Impeachment proceedings aren't really a court. If they exist we will hear them. Mark it down.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at April 16, 2018 08:10 PM (63oy9)

330 I'm a little confused, is Mueller now saying Hannity is a suspect in the Anthrax letter case?

Posted by: An Observation at April 16, 2018 08:13 PM (3+pOx)

331 329:

"Yes, you are right. But that horse done left the barn. The tapes are inadmissible in a court. Impeachment proceedings aren't really a court. If they exist we will hear them. Mark it down."

Missed the "horse" part earlier. Yes, no doubt. And no doubt attorney/client privilege has become meaningless since the State can breach it if the politics makes it desirable to do so.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 16, 2018 08:14 PM (Fz0LP)

332 331 - the only explanation I can think of is Cohen taped all of his phone calls, the Feds found out and that's what they were after. If they exist we will hear them.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at April 16, 2018 08:19 PM (63oy9)

333 And it won't be good.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at April 16, 2018 08:20 PM (63oy9)

334 12 Bones at the River Arts district was bulldozed for the river development project. I believe they have opened up the replacement restaurant.

12 Bones in Arden is open but will relocate to an old warehouse on Hendersonville Rd next to the train tracks because the road they are currently on will be widened next year. The new location will feature a brewery.

Posted by: MAGA at April 16, 2018 08:24 PM (KbvgJ)

335 So, what make and model of helicopter should Air Pinochet purchase in quantity for their fleet?

I'd propose the Boeing Chinook, merely because of it's capacity in both lift and volume. More drops per hop, so to speak.

But a secondary purchase of Sikorsky Sky Cranes might also fit into the plans. Sure, single passenger hoist and all that... but it's ideal to maximize the Entertainment of the Spectators!

Just think, the cargo to be dropped, flailing futilely in full view, visible from multiple camera angles, from takeoff to....well... "landing".

And yes, all cargo will be equipped with faceward and outward aimed GoPros, just because.

Bet we could recoup expenses...

1. Raffle off tickets for those who want to serve as "groundcrew" to help load cargo.

2. Appropriate all assets of said cargo, and apply against operating expenses.

Myself, I'll volunteer to work the check in counter. "Any checked baggage? No? Fuck you, get in the helicopter!"

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 16, 2018 08:35 PM (QzJWU)

336 OT- I'm going to DC for a meeting in May and will fly into BWI landing way late at night. Where to stay for one night before I move to the Grand Hyatt in DC the next day. Anything to see for a day?

Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at April 16, 2018 08:36 PM (CL76w)

337 Had tickets for Russian Collusion. No show.

Posted by: PhilDirt at April 16, 2018 09:23 PM (dwTZO)

338 This whole thing actually makes me grind my teeth.

There is no doubt: they are trying to take Hannity down. I don't watch his show but I can't see that he's committed a fireable offense.

And if "in bed" gets you in trouble, let's run down the list if MSNBC/CNN hosts.

Tucker: Watch your back.

Posted by: Shopgirl at April 16, 2018 10:05 PM (DefRK)

339 and will fly into BWI landing way late at night

Stay at the airport - BWI. And wait until after rush hour to drive anywhere toward DC.. You will thank me later.

Posted by: Kathy Carroll at April 16, 2018 11:42 PM (rxNhv)

340 Visit the Phillips Museum, which is a collection of mostly impressionist art, in a rehabbed Victorian manse off DuPont Circle.

I don't even like that type of art, but I love that space.

Go to Ben's Chili Bowl for burgers, and Wagshal's for gourmet Hostess-looking cupcakes.

Posted by: Shopgirl at April 17, 2018 12:25 AM (DefRK)

341 Google "David French Louise Mensch" to see all the times the former used the latter as source.

Posted by: Bd at April 17, 2018 12:54 AM (J9pAv)

342 Might have been pointed out already - it's not "Gail Sherman", it's Gabriel Sherman, long time national political news feature idunno reporter but for sure writer for Vanity Fair magazine. Gabe Sherman some time ago reached that in betweener celeb status where journamalism types become something like as famous as the celebs they write about.

For example, Sean Hannity - who, I'm thinking, probably more people know who he is than know who Sherman is by some factor of between 10 times and a 100 times.

The way the whole thing has unfolded before now and in Monday's court hearing, I gotta say, I'm not fan of Hannity but this is too little to go on to start suggesting Hannity's in with the same mobbed-up company as Cohen and Trump. I even think it's possible this is some big freaking smokescreen going on here.

If some mobbed up type like Cohen is being squeezed in court, being chased down like by a bus driven by a methed out manic because let's face it he's now gonna be picking raw indictment slivers out of his wazzoo for years, AND thinks for sure he's got some understanding with the president of the freaking United States of America not to do stupid self-serving things that ultimately screw over said president, that dude's gonna wanna grab the first person he can think of to throw under said bus, REGARDLESS the damage to that person.

Is that what's really going on here? Some mobbed up fixer using Hannity as a squirrel to point at in some desperately ill-conceived ploy to distract from his own imminent demise?

I think we gotta seriously consider that.

Posted by: Donald J. Trump's Boner Spurs at April 17, 2018 02:52 AM (x+yK4)

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