LOL Hannity

In a legal filing before the proceeding on Monday, Mr. Cohen revealed that he had worked as a lawyer since 2017 for 10 clients, seven of whom he served by providing “strategic advice and business consulting.” Of the other three, two were President Trump and the Republican fund-raiser Elliott Broidy, the filing said. The third person remained unnamed — at least until Judge Wood forced Mr. Cohen’s lawyers to identify him as Mr. Hannity before a packed courtroom.

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Before Mr. Hannity’s name was revealed in the courtroom, Mr. Ryan had argued that the mysterious client was a “prominent person” who wanted to keep his identity a secret because he would be “embarrassed” to be identified as a client of Mr. Cohen’s.

Robert D. Balin, a lawyer for various media outlets, including The New York Times, CNN and others, interrupted the proceedings to argue that embarrassment was not a sufficient legal argument to keep a client’s name secret, and Judge Wood agreed.

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On the Fox News Channel, the anchor Shepard Smith reported that his colleague’s name had been mentioned as a third client of Mr. Cohen’s in open court. He did so after other news outlets had broken the story, saying that it was time for him to address “the elephant in the room.”

“Hannity’s producers are working to contact him,” Mr. Smith said. “Since it’s now a part of the story, we’ll report on it when we know the rest of it. A lot of people here know his number, so we’ll get on that in just a second.”

At roughly the same time, Mr. Hannity was hosting his nationally syndicated radio show. He said it was strange to see his name appearing on the Fox News Channel

  NYT

A little taste of what James Comey felt when he saw himself being fired on TV.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.