Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said his colleague Sean Hannity can’t “have it both ways” in relation to this week’s revelation about Hannity’s ties to President Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen.
Following an FBI raid on Cohen’s home and office last week, Cohen’s lawyers acknowledged Monday Hannity was a previously undisclosed client of his.
Hannity pushed back, saying he was not a client of Cohen’s, but did acknowledge he “may have” given Cohen $10 because he wanted “privilege to cover me” about conversations he had with the attorney.
“I love him,” Napolitano said of Hannity on Fox News’ “Outnumbered Overtime” Tuesday afternoon. “I worked with him for 20 years. He can’t have it both ways. If he was a client, then his confidential communications to Mr. Cohen are privileged. If Mr. Cohen was never his lawyer, then nothing that he said to Mr. Cohen is privileged.”
Napolitano told Fox News host Harris Faulkner that giving Cohen the $10 would not provide Hannity with attorney-client privilege because attorney-client privilege “requires formal relationship reduced to writing for a specific legal purpose.”
“So anything that is there regarding Sean Hannity can be revealed?” Faulkner asked.
“In my view, yes,” Napolitano said.
