President Donald Trump’s favorite cable news personality and “shadow” chief of staff went off the rails Tuesday evening in response to news of Michael Cohen’s guilty plea.
Sean Hannity, who has sought out Cohen’s advice in the past on legal matters related to real estate, suggested that based off “knowing (Cohen) all the years I have known him, he was probably forced by prosecutors” to change his story. He also lamented that being “friends” with Trump was the new “witch hunt.”
Hannity: Being friends with Trump is the the new "witch hunt" pic.twitter.com/DsUfSdabFL
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) August 22, 2018
gee, Sean, you sound a bit skeered.
I suppose someone should mention to Hannishit that the Feds have recordings. Which is very likely the reason Cohen folded like one of Manafort’s cheap expensive suits. But truth doesn’t really matter when all you have to do, night after night, is fellate an audience of one.
Haha. He was your lawyer, too, Hannity.
Actually, the first lesson is ‘not to be friends with Trump’.
Everything else is pretty much common sense.
Hannity is probably actually right in this case. Cohen’s first story was a steaming pile of bullshit. The prosecutors then played the recordings that Cohen himself made and asked him if he wanted to change his story. Facing eternity in prison… he changed his story to something a little closer to the truth. That’s not going to make anyone in Trumpland feel very comfortable.