{"id":276370,"date":"2018-06-13T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=276370"},"modified":"2018-06-14T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T20:14:42","slug":"fake-news-obsesses-on-speculative-cohen-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/06\/13\/fake-news-obsesses-on-speculative-cohen-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News Obsesses on Speculative Cohen Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: So the president\u2019s back in Washington assuring everybody we\u2019re safer today than we were the day he took office. We no longer have to worry about Nork nuke weapons. The Drive-By Media is beside itself. This is getting &#8212; you know, I know. It\u2019s frustrating on the one hand. But if you can get past that, this is getting funny now to watch, because it\u2019s so predictable. There isn\u2019t a thing they can do to shock us or surprise us anymore. It is so predictable, the reaction they\u2019re gonna have.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021618-Fake-News.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021618-Fake-News.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APP-021618-Fake-News-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They are focused right now, they think the biggest news of the day is that Trump\u2019s lawyer, Michael Cohen, has lost his lawyers. I have the story right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. And it is from the denizens of the Clinton war room now <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-cooperate-attorneys-leave-case\/story?id=55861988\">masquerading as journalists at ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-270549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-10-at-2.50.05-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-10-at-2.50.05-PM.png 413w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-10-at-2.50.05-PM-278x300.png 278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>&#8220;Former Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Likely to Cooperate as His Attorneys Leave Case, Sources Say.&#8221; Okay. Former Trump lawyer Cohen likely &#8212; meaning we\u2019re guessing &#8212; to cooperate with who? That would be the U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York &#8212; as his attorneys leave case, sources say.<\/p>\n<p>As attorneys for Michael Cohen rushed to meet Judge Kimba Wood\u2019s Friday deadline to complete a privilege review of over 3.7 million documents seized in the April raid of Cohen\u2019s offices and home, an anonymous source representing this matter has disclosed to ABC News, slash, the Clinton war room, that the law firm handling the case for Cohen is not expected to represent him going forward.<\/p>\n<p>(gasping) It must mean he\u2019s gonna flip! It must mean he\u2019s gonna turn on Trump! It must mean Trump\u2019s done! That\u2019s the rest of the story. &#8220;To date, Cohen has been represented by Stephen Ryan and Todd Harrison of the Washington and New York firm, McDermott, Will &amp; Emery LLP. No replacement counsel has been identified as of this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cohen, now with no lawyers, is likely to cooperate with federal prosecutors in New York, comma, sources said. This development, which is believed to be imminent &#8212; there\u2019s not a single fact in this story! Everything about it is speculation. This development, which is believed to be imminent, will likely hit the White House, family members, staffers and other lawyers hard. &#8220;Will likely,&#8221; &#8220;is believed to be.&#8221; This entire article simply piles one presumption upon another, and all of it\u2019s based on a single, anonymous, possibly made-up source.<\/p>\n<p>You know it could be something like this. It could be &#8212; and since they speculate, allow me. And I can probably do better speculation than they can because I\u2019m more open-minded than they are at ABC News, slash, the Clinton war room. Suppose that Cohen &#8212; remember, his first contretemps led him to perhaps face testimony before a congressional committee. So perhaps his first set of lawyers were hired for a specific reason that they no longer make sense for, and so he\u2019s in the process of switching lawyers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-275600 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-042018-Combat-Rush-ADJUSTED-002-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-042018-Combat-Rush-ADJUSTED-002-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/APP-042018-Combat-Rush-ADJUSTED-002-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This story makes it look like he\u2019s not gonna have any, that this bunch is leaving him. They want this story to make readers believe that his case is so hopeless that his lawyers have abandoned him, that he has no lawyers now, and probably won\u2019t. And what does that mean? Well, it means he\u2019s gonna flip on Trump, and that means that no lawyer is needed! And that\u2019s the whole crux of this story, but it\u2019s all speculation. But it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: There&#039;s not a single fact in this story! Everything about it is speculation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":275599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fake News Obsesses on Speculative Cohen Story - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/06\/13\/fake-news-obsesses-on-speculative-cohen-story\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Fake News Obsesses on Speculative Cohen Story - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: There&#039;s not a single fact in this story! 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