After nine hours in the witness chair on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Michael Cohen managed to elicit sympathy from a somewhat unlikely source: Tucker Carlson

During his opening monologue on Tucker Carlson Tonight, the Fox News host suggested that he views President Donald Trump‘s former attorney as a patsy of sorts.

“By the end, you start feeling kind of bad for Michael Cohen, honestly,” Carlson said. “He’s not a genius, anyone who knows him will affirm that. He’s in his 50s now and he’s headed to prison. And that’s a long way from where he expected to be. Cohen showed up in Washington two years ago anticipating he’d be the kind of mover and shaker that would welcome any restaurant in town. Part the seas for Michael Cohen! Now he’s going to be eating Sloppy Joe’s off of a metal tray with a thousand other creeps in identical polyester uniforms in the lock up.”

Carlson went on to suggest that the campaign finance violations which Cohen admitted to are not actually campaign finance violations.

“Take the politics out of it for a minute, if you can,” Carlson said. “Let’s be honest. This is a sad story. Michael Cohen is a broken and desperate man. But nobody cares. Democrats cheered for his conviction on ludicrous, absurd campaign finance charges. As if paying off somebody’s girlfriend is a campaign finance violation. That’s laughable. But they don’t care. Now they’re squeezing whatever use they can out of Michael Cohen as he shuffles off to his cell.”

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