Or maybe ‘Real estate’ is code for ‘Russian payola for pushing the Trump agenda paid through the usual laundering of money through the trump real estate portfolio’.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate…
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So this Cohen guy, he’s like a bus injury lawyer?
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Unbelievable.
No, really.
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“That would’ve been fair to say, that it was minimal,” Dershowitz said.
Not if it wasn’t minimal.
Which it wasn’t.
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I love how Hannity and Cohen think they can somehow talk their way out of this and not get destroyed. Guys, you might as well have been pulled underwater by a giant squid. You’re done, it’s over, go limp and get it over with. All that evidence is in the system now and we know you’ve been naughty boys. This isn’t about real estate. You’re the squid’s lunch now. Idiots.
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If Hannity was looking for his communications with Cohen to be confidential, I think he should have gone for the Catholic Priest-penitent exception. It has more credibility.
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Anybody notice that Hannity looks more like Moe from the Three Stooges every day?
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He’s more like a my-girlfriend-is-pregnant-and-I-don’t-want-my-wife-to-find-out lawyer.
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Think about the context. We are dealing with a warrant, which means we aren’t talking about whether some stray conversation created an attorney client relationship. By the way, that is entirely possible, which is why attorneys try hard not to give advise to casual friends or acquaintances. No, we are talking about documents, records that need to be sifted. We are probably talking about tapes. As the Watergate lady said on the O’Donnell show last night there is something very serious Cohen wants to shield from the public. If it is not criminal, the assertion of attorney client privilege will probably work and we will never know what the Cohen team doesn’t want us to discover. Hannity hurt himself when he denied an attorney client relationship, but I suspect in the coming days he will realize what Cohen wants to hide and will come around.
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Because 20 minutes of her time was spent on the question of identifying “the client” BECAUSE the client supposed claimed privilege. And now with Hannity’s denial, she is going to have to waste MORE time determining whether any privilege has been asserted by Hannity at all.
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His arrogance will just allow that hole to get a whole lot deeper.
He will be on Faux Noise until the advertisers start to abandon the support of the show. That should be coming fairly quickly.
I may have missed it, but I know Media Matters has made the call, but how many have left their support of the program?
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I had the Dersh the first year he taught. He’s always liked attention. That being said, I think “Trump ally” is over the top. I think Dershowitz is a man of principle, and sometimes the logic of his principles lead him to take positions that those of us who may not be as strongly devoted to an idea find surprising.
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The idea of transparency is lost on these guys, while they ever demand total and obsessive transparency from the opposition.
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SNL really needs to get Bob Oldenkirk on to do a sketch about Michael Cohen (assuming this has not already happened).
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Think about this bit of theater. The lawyer was given an opportunity to provide the name to the judge and the prosecution on a piece of paper, which might have kept Hannity’s name out of the press for a day or two, but instead he blurted it out. That came after he argued Hannity had told him to take an immediate appeal, and with the full knowledge that blurting out the name was probably a violation of the canons of ethics. Make no mistake Team Cohen wanted the name to come out and make the fullest impact possible. There is some sort of misdirection play going on that needs a complete investigation.
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About real estate: the condo he gave to his former mistress to shut her up.
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It will be interesting to see if his real estate deals involved Russians.
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Shauns head is stuck up Donald Trump’s but so far then I’m sure the snug fit is due to his hairstyle.
Shall we call the movers Sean? Remember you did Promise to move out of New York. And you never did. How about now Sean?
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Feels like “dealt almost exclusively about real estate” is this week’s “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children”.
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I stopped reading at “Hannity lamented”
And the smile just won’t go away.
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