Things for Donald Trump and his supporters are getting very tricky now that Trump’s former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen has thrown loyalty out the window and is exposing the president more than ever.
Cohen was recently sentenced to three years in prison for multiple violations while he was working for Trump, including breaking campaign finance laws to hide Trump’s extramarital affairs. And while Cohen seems optimistic about doing his time and freeing himself from Trump’s mess, it’s clear the he wants to take Trump down with him and expose every wrongdoing.
Fox News is in a sticky position now. The network has slowly become more critical of Trump now that his failures and crimes are too big to ignore, and yet the network still has to pacify its crazed Trump-loving viewers who are looking to the network for comfort. That’s why we’re going to see far more meltdowns on the network as its own hosts disagree with each other.
On yesterday’s broadcast, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano caused a huge stir on “Fox & Friends” when he repeatedly warned that Cohen’s sentencing was going to cause major trouble for Trump. Napolitano said:
A very, very telling statement came out of the judge’s mouth yesterday … and that was about the president. The judge finding that the president ordered and paid for Michael Cohen to commit a crime. That is very telling.”
Right away, the other hosts tried to defend Trump. Host Steve Doocy said that Trump denied telling Cohen to make the payment but Napolitano stood firm and said it was irrelevant. Napolitano said:
I understand the president’s argument. Unfortunately, the court and the prosecutors who work for the president disagree with him. If you do this as part of a scheme, to try to hide it, then it’s not a civil wrong, then it’s a crime. That’s what the judge found yesterday.”
We can only expect that these disagreements are going to become more heated in the future. Already, Napolitano is speaking out against the opinions of his fellow hosts and the network’s viewers. Earlier that day, the former judge had published an op-ed piece on Fox News’ website stating that Trump was “directly in the legal crosshairs of federal prosecutors.” He said:
The president may want the public to think that none of this troubles him. Yet the evidence of the falsity of his publicly denied proximity to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin during the campaign and the possession of evidence by the Department of Justice of his pre-presidential criminal behavior are gravely serious, and he cannot reasonably pretend that they are not.”
You can watch Napolitano ruin every Trump-loving Fox fan’s day below:
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