Sean Hannity’s allies scramble to do damage control after he commits on-air felony
After being spooked by back-to-back bombshells about Donald Trump’s criminal scandals, one of them directly naming him, Fox News host Sean Hannity probably shouldn’t have gone on the air last night at all. But he did, and he ended up using his show to call for Trump-Russia witnesses to destroy evidence in highly specific fashion before Special Counsel Robert Mueller can get to them. Now his allies are scrambling to do damage control.
The first bombshell yesterday came as a result of a new lawsuit filed by Stormy Daniels. It directly tied Sean Hannity to an alleged plot between Daniels’ former attorney and Donald Trump’s fixer Michael Cohen. The second bombshell came by way of the media, revealing that various unnamed Trump-Russia witnesses have agreed to surrender their phones to Robert Mueller in the wake of Paul Manafort’s witness tampering bust. These two things combined to send Hannity over the edge.
At one point on the air last night, Sean Hannity was describing the specific steps that Trump-Russia witnesses should take for destroying the data on their phones, while farcically blaming it all on Hillary Clinton. Because Hannity is caught up in Donald Trump’s criminal scandals, he was instructing witnesses to destroy evidence that could incriminate him. It was a clear cut attempt at obstruction of justice on Hannity’s part.
If you want a sense of just how much legal damage Sean Hannity did to himself, various pro-Trump propaganda news sites began instantly trying to do damage control on his behalf. They insisted that Hannity was merely joking or being sarcastic. That defense might apply if Hannity were an outsider to this investigation. But because he’s facing potential criminal jeopardy himself, there’s no mistaking what he was trying to do last night. He committed felony obstruction of justice in front of a live national television audience – and you’d better believe Mueller noticed.
