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Mon Apr 16, 2018, 11:38 PM Apr 2018

CNN's Anderson Cooper Calls Out Sean Hannitys Massive Conflict of Interest [View all]

CNN’s Anderson Cooper Calls Out Sean Hannity’s Massive Conflict of Interest With Michael Cohen

The CNN anchor went after the Fox News host for making ‘no disclosure, no disclaimer, not even a casual mention’ that he received legal counsel from Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.

Fox News anchors have been hesitant to criticize their colleague Sean Hannity in light of today’s news that he was represented in some fashion by President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

But CNN’s Anderson Cooper did not hold back in condemning Hannity’s blatant conflict of interest at the top of his prime-time show Monday night. Cooper noted to viewers that the “most stunning moment” of Cohen’s court hearing came when his lawyer was forced to reveal the identity of his “mystery client” and reluctantly named Hannity. “So it would seem the president and Sean Hannity share more than dinners and frequent phone calls and a mutual love of Fox News programming,” the anchor said. “They also share an attorney.”

He went on to air the clip of Hannity insisting on his radio show this afternoon that Cohen “has never represented me in any matter” even if he did occasionally have “brief discussions with him about legal questions about which I wanted his input and perspective.” Hannity also said he assumed their conversations were “confidential.”

“So he seems to be saying, ‘I wasn’t really a client of attorney Michael Cohen’s but our conversations were confidential because he is an attorney and I am his client,” Cooper remarked. In either event, Cooper pointed out that Hannity had reported on the FBI raid on Cohen’s office last week “as if he had absolutely no connection to the story.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnns-anderson-cooper-calls-out-sean-hannitys-massive-conflict-of-interest-with-michael-cohen?ref=home?ref=home
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