“So it has gone from Russia collusion, to a St. Petersburg troll farm, to Stormy Daniels, to Michael Cohen, and now, Sean Hannity?” Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft asked rhetorically, reeling from a whirlwind day that began with Cohen, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, walking into federal court, and ended with the revelation that Cohen claimed Hannity as a client. “Where does it stop and what the hell does this have to do with the Russia collusion?”

Indeed, anger and stupefaction were the primary emotions on the far right Monday as the media raced to keep apace with a cascade of twists and turns in the Stormy-gate circus. Last week, it was reported that Cohen is being investigated by the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York for, among other things, bank fraud and campaign-finance violations related to his payment to a porn actress who alleges an affair with Trump. Robert Mueller had referred the case to the S.D.N.Y., we learned, and an F.B.I. raid of Cohen’s home, office, and hotel room was authorized by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Trump himself had flown into a panic upon news of the search warrant, which he claimed included privileged communications. Cohen, too, argued in court Friday that his documents should be kept from prying eyes. The prosecution argued, in effect, that Cohen was hardly a lawyer at all. Challenged by the presiding judge, Kimba Wood, to prove that he is, in fact, a lawyer, Cohen revealed that he has three clients: Trump; former R.N.C. chair Elliott Broidy, who resigned Friday after it was revealed that he had agreed to pay $1.6 million, arranged by Cohen, to a former Playboy model who became pregnant during an affair; and Hannity. “Oh my god, Sean Hannity didn’t declare or disclose that he was a client,” Mike Cernovich, pro-Trump pundit, exclaimed sarcastically when I reached him for comment.

The news had prompted a near-instantaneous meltdown on Twitter as media pundits and commentators speculated about what sinister deal Cohen might have negotiated on Hannity’s behalf. (Hannity said later Monday that he had engaged in only passing legal conversations with Cohen, “which dealt almost exclusively about real estate.”) Still, Cernovich was circumspect regarding the ultimate impact of this latest twist. “Nobody who likes Sean Hannity is going to care about that.”

Indeed, while CNN and MSNBC seized on the news with rapturous zeal, the right-wing mediaverse was spectacularly silent on the Cohen-Hannity question. The front pages of pro-Trump websites like Breitbart and Townhall contained no stories on the subject, several hours after the news broke. The Drudge Report contained only a single, small link to the Hannity affair. Cernovich, for one, waved away the scandal as small potatoes next to the more egregious historical transgressions of Democrats. “Not to play this card, because it does get old, but I still find it fascinating that Trump’s relationship with this woman is getting more attention than Bill Clinton’s rape allegation against him,” Cernovich added, before arguing that the case represented a violation of attorney-client privilege. “I think the judge just did it to fuck with Hannity. Why does it need to be public?”

Fellow MAGA pundit and troll Jack Posobiec called Hannity a casualty of the Mueller probe and Cohen’s incompetence. In fact, he added, people in his circles believe that Cohen is a greater danger to his other clients than to Trump. “Most [think] Cohen’s clients are going to kill him when their files all get leaked to the media,” he said, just minutes before the Hannity revelation went public. (“See what I mean?” he texted later.)