Lanny Davis Slams Fox News…While on Fox News: ‘Rhetoric Without Facts’ is ‘Too Common on Fox’
Michael Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis slammed Fox News during an interview on the cable news network, telling hosts “rhetoric without facts is unfortunately too common on Fox shows.”
Davis, who has been on an all-out media crusade after his client accepted a plea deal yesterday, appeared on America’s Newsroom this morning with anchors Sandra Smith and Eric Shawn, as the three hashed out what exact information longtime Trump lawyer Cohen has on the president to tell the special counsel. While no specifics came out, Davis did adamently state that based on what Cohen has said, “There is no question that [Trump] has committed a federal crime.”
“Whether he can be indicted has never been decided,” Davis said. “I think there is a traditional view that you don’t indict sitting presidents but that’s an unsettled question.”
He continued:
“[What] Michael Cohen agreed with and restated under oath is that at the direction and the coordination of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, named candidate, that the donations given to keep quiet two women, which Mr. Trump wasn’t willing to sign those checks himself. He directed Mr. Cohen to make those hush money payments, is a federal crime. And if Michael Cohen, with the prosecutors in New York agreeing, admitted to that, then certainly Donald Trump is guilty of the same crime.”
When asked by Shawn what his thoughts are on creating a new special counsel to investigate “the Clintons, the DNC, the dossier, Christopher Steele, and the way this was handled by the Department of Justice and FBI officials,” Davis replied by knocking Fox News’ biased coverage.
“You didn’t state a single fact involving the Clintons, and although I have a lot of friends at Fox and have been a Fox guest on almost every show on Fox, that kind of rhetoric without facts is unfortunately too common on Fox shows,” Davis said. “So, state me facts of what Bill or Hillary Clinton actually have done that would suggest anything illegal suggesting a special counsel.”
He went on to answer Shawn’s question, saying that anyone claiming the Clintons should be hit with an investigation are basing it on “pure political speculation, rhetoric, but no facts.”
Watch above, via Fox News.
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