In a court case wherein no wrongdoing has yet been alleged the judge requires that the attorney “defendant” must reveal the names of all of his clients.
The judge requires that Sean Hannity’s name be revealed as one of those clients even though Hannity says he has never retained Cohen, never been billed by Cohen and has never paid Cohen for legal advice. Hannity’s name is publicly released as a client of Cohen’s. Not even an allegation of wrongdoing is mentioned.
But what people are upset about is that Hannity didn’t publicly disclose that he had a few private conversations with a well-known NY lawyer. Even FReepers are telling me that’s what bugs them most.
If there are FReepers freaking out about it, then they're the limp wrist crew. Why would anyone bother to mention random conversations about real estate, which involved no money changing hands? Especially when Hannity has (I think) even had Cohen on his show and has expressed 100% support for Trump and his people? What would be the point of saying, "I asked Cohen over coffee once or twice about buying a house."
It must be Roy Moore’s revenge!
He probably should have disclosed that Cohen was a friend, when discussing him on his shows, but then, I’m sure he has friendships with several people in the news. It would be nonsense for him to announce that about everyone he knows. And he said he was not an actual client. Why Cohen was induced to call him one, I don’t know. Perhaps that fear that he would go to jail, like Michael Flynn, if he didn’t. Funny, though, he surely spoke with other friends with general advice or legal type questions. I would almost suspect that someone is out to get Hannity, in the bargain.
Misguided worms. Let them eat their bugs!
Hannity had no obligation to disclose the fact of his conversations with Michael Cohen.
But the fact that, having been already outed, he did so indicates there's nothing there for the worms to chew upon.