Sean Hannity goes berserk after Donald Trump blamed for Annapolis newspaper shooting
Even as we continue to wait for the details of today’s mass shooting at a newspaper office in Annapolis, mainstream Americans have had no difficulty connecting the shooting to Donald Trump’s violent rhetoric and demonization of reporters. Thus far Trump has only responded with a boilerplate “thoughts and prayers” tweet about the shooting. But his closest friend in the media, Sean Hannity of Fox News, is promptly going berserk with a ridiculous premise.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters recently encouraged Americans to continue staging peaceful protests against Donald Trump’s senior advisers, in an effort at fighting back against Trump’s immigrant child cages and other criminal policies. Since that time, Trump has been making the repeated false claim that Waters called for violence against his advisers. This brings us to today’s shooting and Sean Hannity.
Hannity was doing his daytime radio show when the newspaper shooting happened. He stated “I’ve been saying now for days that something horrible was going to happen because of the rhetoric” and then he went on to blame Maxine Waters and President Obama for the shooting. This is utterly berserk even by Hannity’s standards, and he’s probably going to wish he hadn’t said it – because it strains credulity even among his audience.
What stands out here is that Sean Hannity felt compelled to go ludicrously over the top in an attempt at pushing back against the obvious conclusion, which is that if any public figure is fully or partly to blame for today’s mass murder of reporters, it’s obviously his pal Donald Trump. At this point Trump’s own people don’t appear to have any idea what to say about this shooting.
