OK, now it’s time for someone to pay a visit to the writer’s room of this miniseries with a flamethrower.

From CNN:

Judge Kimba Wood ordered Cohen to attend and provide information about his clients as she weighs an emergency action by Cohen's attorneys to stop prosecutors from reviewing more than a dozen electronic devices and documents seized during a FBI raid of Cohen's office, home and hotel room last week. Cohen's lawyers had publicly identified Trump and Broidy as clients, but only revealed [Sean] Hannity's name after the judge ordered them to ... Fox News host Shepard Smith acknowledged Hannity's connection to Cohen on the air Monday.

This is too much to be believed. The lawyers for the president*’s primary bagman are in court fighting to keep from revealing that Sean Hannity also was the bagman’s client. Hannity, of course, is the angry meathead who has spent his hour of time every night on our airwaves slamming everyone who has made uncomfortable the president* with whom he shares a lawyer. Sean, it appears, while decrying the raid on Michael Cohen’s office as the worst constitutional atrocity since the Palmer Raids, neglected to tell his audience of angry meatheads that Cohen was his lawyer, too. If Hannity were an actual journalist, instead of a carny barker, this would cause me some ethical qualms.



Later, Hannity said in a statement: "Michael Cohen has never represented me in any matter. I never retained him, received an invoice, or paid legal fees. I have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which I wanted his input and perspective. I assumed those conversations were confidential, but to be absolutely clear they never involved any matter between me and a third party."

(And, as if to prove that everything awful in our politics comes back to the pursuit of Bill Clinton and his wandering Johnson, recall that Kimba Wood, the judge in this matter who forced Hannity’s name to be revealed, was nominated by WJC to be attorney general after Zoe Baird’s nomination to that post crashed and burned, both women being stuck in what became known as “Nannygate,” perhaps the silliest use of the –gate suffix ever. Wood hadn’t even done anything wrong but, burned on Baird, Clinton tossed her over the side for appearance’s sake.)

So far, there isn’t very much of a story here, except for the fact that Cohen’s lawyers fought all the way back to Blackstone to keep from having to identify Hannity as the “mystery client.” Why they did that is still an open question but my guess is that, at the end of all this tangled mishigas, we’re going to find that it was Kilmeade all along.

Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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