Judge Napolitano Patiently Explains Michael Cohen

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Judge Napolitano Patiently Explains Michael Cohen’s Plea to Dismissive Fox News Hosts

'Patiently', as though he was speaking with children. Oh, wait.

After the hosts of ‘Outnumbered’ spent several segments dismissing the Cohen bombshell, the network’s senior judicial analyst stepped in to patiently explain its significance.

Matt Wilstein

11.29.18 1:41 PM ET


The four hosts of Fox News’ Outnumbered spent the first half of their show dismissing ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to Congress about his role in his former boss’ Moscow dealings, as a proven “liar” who is not to be trusted about anything he says.

And then Judge Andrew Napolitano showed up.

As he has done numerous times before, the senior judicial analyst patiently explained to Fox hosts why the Cohen news is not something to dismiss and could be potentially devastating for President Trump.

If the president is right when he says he “could do whatever he wanted in terms of his business dealings, just like any other business person,” Harris Faulkner asked, then why would Cohen have lied to Congress about what he was up to during his 2016 trip to Moscow?

“Who knows why he would lie?” Napolitano replied. “He told a federal judge this morning the reason why he lied was to stay on political message, whatever that means. I guess he is saying today, at the time he lied, he thought he would help the president by lying. Obviously, that is not the case.”

In other words, the judge explained, the fact that Cohen felt he had to lie on Trump’s behalf is what makes his guilty plea today damaging to the president.

BACK TO SCHOOL

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As for Trump’s defense that he never moved forward with the plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, Napolitano explained: “The easiest charge for the government to prove is conspiracy, because conspiracy is an agreement to do something wrong even if the ‘something wrong’ never happened.”

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