Donald Trump just sold out Sean Hannity
Fox News host Sean Hannity is in a whole heap of professional trouble, and perhaps legal trouble, thanks to today’s assertion by attorney Michael Cohen that he represented both Hannity and Donald Trump. As the cascading scandal plays out in real time and we wait to see just how bad it ends up getting for each of the three of them, it needs to be pointed out that it was Trump who sold out Hannity on this.
Donald Trump had his ragtag legal team essentially take over Michael Cohen’s legal proceedings, in order to make the weak argument that all of the seized communications between the two of them should be thrown out due to attorney-client privilege. That privilege doesn’t apply to criminal conspiracies between attorney and client, but the Feds took things a predictable step further by arguing that Cohen isn’t really Trump’s attorney. Trump and his team should have stopped right then and there, or at least did a minute of homework first.
Any competent legal team should have known that there was a good chance the judge would demand to know the identities of Cohen’s other supposed clients in response to this kind of battle. After all, the only way to legally determine whether Cohen counts as an attorney is to analyze his legal portfolio. But either Trump and his team were too stupid to see this coming, or too lazy to bother asking Cohen who his other clients were.
As a result, Sean Hannity got dragged right into the center of this solely because Donald Trump and his legal team pressed the issue in court. Whether intentional or not, Trump just sold out Hannity. Every bad thing that happens to Hannity now, whether it be professional jeopardy or legal jeopardy, is a direct result of what Trump tried to do in court today.
