Sean Hannity goes berserk after everything goes wrong for Donald Trump
Unless you’ve been off the grid for the past twenty-four hours, you’re well aware that Donald Trump just had the worst day of his illegitimate presidency, and probably the worst day of his life so far. Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen became convicted felons within minutes of each other, and then Cohen told a judge that Trump had instructed him to commit crimes for the purpose of altering the outcome of the election. It turns out someone in Trump’s circle took the news particularly hard: Sean Hannity.
The Fox News host has a lot to lose here. By all accounts he’s personal friends with Donald Trump, and he’s leveraged that for ratings over the past year and a half. So if Trump goes down, Hannity’s career takes a blow. The bigger problem of course is that Michael Cohen previously told a judge that Hannity was one of his legal clients. Now that Cohen is telling all about his former client Trump, he’ll surely do the same about Hannity.
Naturally, when Sean Hannity took to the airwaves on Fox News last night, he decided to blame Donald Trump’s latest troubles on Hillary Clinton. In Hannity’s imaginary world, Democrats and Clinton associates are running around committing these same crimes left and right, and they’re going unprosecuted. Hannity went so far as to histrionically declare that justice is “dead.”
You can read into this however you want. Was Sean Hannity’s berserk meltdown simply a matter of him having to keep up appearances, after having spent years feeding his audience fictional outrage that just got shattered in two separate courtrooms? Is this a sign that Hannity is disappointed that Donald Trump’s demise might make his TV show less relevant? Or is this a guy who’s afraid of what Michael Cohen might be telling prosecutors about him? Take your pick.
