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UNDER THE BUS
Fox News Suddenly Questions Michael Cohens Credibility
Once a welcome and trusted Trump surrogate for Fox News, the networks hosts are now seemingly starting to turn on Michael Cohen after his ABC interview.
Matt Wilstein
07.02.18 2:10 PM ET
Apparently all Michael Cohen had to do to lose Fox News was sit down with ABCs George Stephanopoulos.
Following an off-camera interview in which Cohen pledged his loyalty not to President Trump but to his family and his country, the hosts of Foxs Outnumbered came down hard on the full-time fixer and sometime lawyer, openly questioning his credibility ahead of his potential cooperation with two separate investigations into the president.
Delivering a major understatement, Harris Faulkner noted that Cohen seems to be creating some daylight between himself and Trump, for whom he once suggested he would take a bullet. Going against the president, Cohen told Stephanopoulos that he doesnt think Robert Muellers Russia investigation is a witch hunt and said that he trust the intelligence communitys unanimous conclusions about Russias meddling in the 2016 election.
If he knows something that is so important and yet hes willing to sort of taunt the president by seeming to go against him, what does that say about this person as a witness? Faulkner wondered aloud. It gets difficult to kind of even see him as credible at this point. I dont know what he knows, just based on the way hes acting.
Later, she added, The one thing we know about Michael Cohen is that hell throw anybody under the bus. Faulkner pointed to the moment in court when Cohen gave up Fox News own Sean Hannity as his mystery third client.
Beyond simply giving Fox News biggest star legal advice, Cohen was a frequent guest on the network for years. Before he hinted that he might flip on the president, he was a welcome and trusted Trump surrogate on Fox.
And if youre willing to give an interview, if youre willing to speak out publicly like hes now done and go against the president, co-host Abby Huntsman concurred, I think we should all take that as a signal that he is in a dire situation, grasping for air, wanting any help he can get.
When Juan Williams noted that the one area Cohen refused to discuss was the hush payments to Stormy Daniels, Faulkner added, Thats why I question his credibility, because what are his motives?
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Fox News Suddenly Questions Michael Cohen's 'Credibility' (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jul 2018
OP
Did they forget he was deputy finance chair of the RNC Finance Committee till a couple weeks ago?
greyl
Jul 2018
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spanone
(135,636 posts)1. they need to change their name to 'trump news'
greyl
(22,990 posts)2. Did they forget he was deputy finance chair of the RNC Finance Committee till a couple weeks ago?
From April 3, 2017:
WASHINGTON Today Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna [Romney] McDaniel and RNC Finance Chairman Steve Wynn announced additional members of the RNCs Finance leadership team:
I am delighted to announce the addition of these longtime friends of the Party and supporters of this administration to our Finance leadership team, said Chairwoman McDaniel. Elliott Broidy, Michael Cohen, and Louis DeJoy will serve as National Deputy Finance Chairmen, and Brian Ballard, Bob Grand, Gordon Sondland, Geoff Verhoff, and Ron Weiser will serve as Regional Vice-Chairmen. Together this team will employ their extraordinary talent and understanding of Americans across the country to maintain and build upon our unprecedented fundraising success.
I am delighted to announce the addition of these longtime friends of the Party and supporters of this administration to our Finance leadership team, said Chairwoman McDaniel. Elliott Broidy, Michael Cohen, and Louis DeJoy will serve as National Deputy Finance Chairmen, and Brian Ballard, Bob Grand, Gordon Sondland, Geoff Verhoff, and Ron Weiser will serve as Regional Vice-Chairmen. Together this team will employ their extraordinary talent and understanding of Americans across the country to maintain and build upon our unprecedented fundraising success.
JDC
(10,084 posts)5. They didn't forget, and they bank on their viewers to have no clue or give no shits
it is usually both with the trumpanzees.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)3. "He's willing to sort of taunt the president"
Yeah, the biggest fights come when someone's working your side of the street.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,111 posts)4. Of course they do
Got to do the prune faced Aussie ex-pat's bidding
Mc Mike
(9,107 posts)6. He IS kind of shady. He seemed to just associate, and do business, with criminals, exclusively.
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dalton99a
(81,070 posts)9. Looks like Fox & Friends will not be recommending a presidential pardon