Fox News Hosts Dismiss Cohen Bombshell: Why Should We Believe Someone With History of Lying?
The hosts of Fox News’s Outnumbered dismissed Thursday’s bombshell news about Michael Cohen — arguing he lost his credibility the first time he was caught lying.
Cohen is the center of a new political firestorm after it was revealed that he is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Trump’s longtime former lawyer and fixer also pleaded guilty Thursday morning to lying to Congress in his testimony about President Trump‘s real estate dealings with Moscow.
Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright was Thursday’s #OneLuckyGuy, and he stressed that the new development highlights Trump’s dishonesty about his connections to Russia.
Fox News host Harris Faulkner interjected to defend the president from Cohen — who she said has a “history of lying.”
“You believe Michael Cohen, who has lied about other things, talking about the president and being a witness?” Faulkner asked Seawright incredulously. “So there are different points that you believe from somebody who has a history of lying?”
Harris did not question whether the president — who has lied more than 6,000 times in his 600 days in office, per the Washington Post fact checker — has a history of lying himself.
As Seawright argued that Cohen has no reason to lie now that he’s already facing the possibility of jail time, Melissa Francis asked him how Cohen’s plea deal establishes a lie on Trump’s part. Seawright invoked Trump’s past denials of having any business interests with Russia, but Lisa Boothe responded that Cohen is not a credible witness and “has every reason to lie” out of self preservation.
Watch above, via Fox News.
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