Today, George Stephanopoulos revealed on Good Morning America that Trump fixer Michael Cohen has hinted he’s ready to flip on his former boss. Just a few hours later, Fox started training its guns on Cohen.
The Daily Beast caught Fox host (and Trump adorer) Harris Faulkner going after Cohen on Outnumbered:
“If he [Cohen] knows something that is so important and yet he’s 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 don’t know what he knows, just based on the way he’s acting.”
Later, she added, “The one thing we know about Michael Cohen is that he’ll 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.”
On Outnumbered Overtime, Fox’s senior judicial analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano, told Faulkner that Cohen’s interview should cause Trump “sleepless nights.” If he’s telling the truth about flipping, Napolitano said, “He obviously knows something that the feds are interested in hearing.”
Predictably, Faulkner saw it as her job to help Dear Leader sleep better. “We’ve seen a lot of bloviators,” she said disdainfully. “Is Michael Cohen another one of those bloviators?”
Napolitano did not go along. “I don’t think so,” he said. “The government has more than a million pieces of evidence.” He said the evidence is probably of bank fraud, that Cohen borrowed money “to pay off Stormy Daniels obligations of then-Mr. Donald Trump without telling the bank exactly where the money’s going to go.”
Watch Faulkner repeatedly try to discredit Cohen below, from the July 2, 2018 Outnumbered and the July 2, 2018 Outnumbered. Also below is Stephanopoulos discussing his off-camera interview with Cohen, from the July 2, 2018 Good Morning America.
Today on Fux News: Mickey “the rat” Cohen. Non-credible bloviator.
Crazy eyes Harris can turn a meme around in a nanosecond. You have to be nimble at Fux when you are not young and blonde.
You don’t survive on Trump TV by being subtle in your support for The Donald. Carlson, Hannity, and Pirro have proved you can’t go too far in shilling Trump.
Putting all that together it’s always seemed to me Harris works harder than many of her peers to keep the milk flowing from the Fox News tit. Flipping on a dime to kick Cohen under the bus is a job requirement. An enemy of The Donald is an enemy of Fox News.
I don’t know the depth of The Donald’s corruption. But I do know he’s extremely corrupt and Cohen’s home getting raided by the FBI made Trump very nervous. Cohen’s the ultimate insider. Just watch the tape of Trump wetting his pants at a cabinet meeting when he got the news of the raid. And if The Donald is nervous you know Trump TV is nervous. You don’t have to be a psychologist to realize Trump’s Mueller investigation hysteria is telegraphing a guilty conscious.
In our political environment I don’t know if Mueller can take down Trump. With Pence in the wings chomping at the bit to take over I’m not sure that it much matters. They both are a cancer sucking the life out of America. But I do know witnessing Fox News struggling to administer CPR to the Trump administration is tough. I’m ever so grateful for Ellen watching Fox News so I don’t have to!