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Symone Sanders Michael Cohen MSNBC The Weekend 1-11-25 Michael Cohen is a frequent MSNBC guest because he can be counted on to attack Donald Trump.

But there was what the late, great, Don Imus would have called a “tension convention” when Cohen turned up on Saturday’s episode of The Weekend.

When conversation turned to Cohen having petitioned President Biden for a pardon, Cohen said that he had applied for one because he believes himself to be on a Trump “enemies list.” He continued:

“Yeah, I put in the application for a presidential pardon because I believe that Joe Biden has the same responsibility to me that he had to his own son. And I would expect that the same exact pardon that he gave his son has to go to me.”

That prompted this pointed [see screencap] response from co-host Symone Sanders, a former Kamala Harris spokesperson:

“I am struck by your, your, your, your comparing yourself and Hunter Biden. And I wonder if, well, I’m going to tell you, Michael Cohen, because we’re on national TV, we’re gonna have a conversation. I don’t necessarily think that’s your best way to go get a pardon. I mean, Hunter Biden is the president’s last surviving son.”

Cohen retorted: “I’m also somebody’s son.”

Countered Sanders: “Agreed. You are somebody’s son. But to be very clear, you’re not the president’s son.”

The irony and hypocrisy of Symone’s words were lost on her. She and the other hosts and guests had devoted much of the show to condemning the fact that Trump had been discharged with no punishment in the case brought against him by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

In the previous hour, Sanders had complained that, in light of Trump’s treatment, “there’s not equal justice under the law.”

MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissman, who had been Robert Mueller’s lead prosecutor in his investigation of Trump, replied:

“There is a third system of justice reserved for Donald Trump. The courts have bent over backwards to give him something that no one else could get. He is being treated differently.”

So it’s awful for Trump to be treated differently from others.

But when it came to Hunter Biden being treated differently from Cohen, Sanders had no problem with it. To the contrary, Sanders scolded Cohen for daring to compare himself to Hunter—because he’s “the president’s son.”

We’re no fans of Cohen. But MSNBC has a pecking order. The uncouth Cohen will be tolerated so long as he aims his barbs at Trump. But the minute Cohen criticizes Biden, he’s told off in no uncertain terms. Keep it up, Cohen, and you could become persona non grata on the network!