Sean Hannity tries to walk back his Trump-Russia obstruction of justice
Hey Sean Hannity, here’s an idea. Go into a bank and inform the teller that you’re armed and you’re there to rob the place. After everyone in the bank calls the police on you, try telling the bank that it wasn’t really a robbery, and you merely meant the whole thing in a “sarcastic” manner. Then let us know how loudly the police laugh as they’re hauling you away.
This is more or less the same approach that Fox News host Sean Hannity is taking in the wake of his stunning on-air meltdown, in which he encouraged Trump-Russia witnesses to destroy their phones, and gave them precise instructions on how to do it, before Special Counsel Robert Mueller could obtain the evidence on those phones. Hannity is deeply caught up in the Trump-Russia scandal himself, meaning that he was encouraging witnesses to destroy evidence that could have been about himself. Thus he was clearly committing obstruction of justice in the hope of getting himself off the hook.
Of course that didn’t go over too well, and various news outlets including Palmer Report quickly pointed out that Sean Hannity had just committed an indictable felony. Within hours, Hannity’s allies on pro-Trump propaganda sites were already trying to do damage control arguing that Hannity couldn’t have really meant it. When Hannity returned to the air twenty-four hours later, he delivered what sounded like lawyer-speak.
Sean Hannity asserted that “I made what are obviously sarcastic remarks highlighting a clear double standard as it relates to our justice system.” Uh, nope, nice try. He naturally went on to accuse the news outlets who reported on his felony obstruction of justice as being “fake news.” We’ll see what Robert Mueller and the Trump-Russia grand jury have to say about it.
