Tag: Sean Hannity

Trump accuses Obama of rigging Russia investigation

The following article by Frank Dale was posted on the ThinkProgress website July 16, 2018:

The president also praised Putin and told Hannity that the Mueller probe is hurting U.S.-Russia relations.

Pres. Trump during a Sean Hannity interview. Credit: Fox News screengrab

President Trump accused his predecessor, President Obama, of rigging the ongoing Russia investigation against him and instructing an FBI agent to carry out the task, during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity Monday night.

FBI agent Peter Strzok, a former member of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation team, has long been a target of conservatives, who claim his previous anti-Trump texts to a colleague with whom he was having an affair prove the Russia investigation is nothing more than a political witch-hunt. Trump has repeatedly echoed those claims, suggesting Strzok wanted to prevent him from winning the presidency and that the investigation is baseless, despite the numerous indictments Mueller’s team has handed down over the past year.

On Monday night, following his diplomatic summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, Trump took things a step further by implying his predecessor had directly ordered Strzok to rig the investigation against him.

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Ex-Fox News Analyst Ralph Peters Unloads on Sean Hannity

The following article by Matt Wilstein was posted on the Daily Beast website Jun3 6, 2018:

The former Fox commentator said Sean Hannity might actually believe his own conspiracy theories, but ‘the others are smarter, they know what they’re doing.’

Ret. Lt. Col. Ralph Peters isn’t done taking his former employer to task. A few months after he quit his position as military analyst at Fox News in dramatic fashion—calling the network a “propaganda machine”—he appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night and went even further in his condemnation.

While President Donald Trump has claimed that special counsel Robert Mueller is leading a “witch hunt” against him, Peters argued on CNN that it is Fox News that is promoting a witch hunt against Mueller. Continue reading “Ex-Fox News Analyst Ralph Peters Unloads on Sean Hannity”

Sean Hannity’s effort to tie Robert Mueller to Whitey Bulger was bullsh*t

The following article by Matt Gertz was posted on the Media Matters for America website April 19, 2018:

Sean Hannity, the Fox News host and adviser to President Donald Trump who has turned his broadcast into a nightly attack on special counsel Robert Mueller, smeared the head of the Russia probe by referencing one of the darkest chapters in the FBI’s history on four consecutive broadcasts last week. “During Mueller’s time as a federal prosecutor in Boston, four — four men wrongfully imprisoned for decades framed by an F.B.I. informant and notorious gangster, Whitey Bulger, all while Mueller’s office looked the other way,” Hannity said in one such report last Wednesday.

That’s nonsense, according to Nancy Gertner, the retired federal judge who presided over the wrongful imprisonment trial of the four men and ordered the government to pay them and their families $101.7 million. As Gertner explains in a Wednesday op-ed in The New York Times, there is “no evidence” linking Mueller to the case — and in fact, the case didn’t even involve Bulger, the infamous head of Boston’s Winter Hill Gang. Continue reading “Sean Hannity’s effort to tie Robert Mueller to Whitey Bulger was bullsh*t”

Hannity’s rising role in Trump’s world: ‘He basically has a desk in the place’

The following article by Robert Costa, Sarah Ellison and Josh Dawsey was posted on the Washington Post website April 17, 2018:

Sean Hannity was revealed to be one of Michael Cohen’s clients, a relationship Hannity never disclosed. Cohen is President Trump’s personal attorney. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)

The phone calls between President Trump and Sean Hannity come early in the morning or late at night, after the Fox News host goes off the air. They discuss ideas for Hannity’s show, Trump’s frustration with the ongoing special counsel probe and even, at times, what the president should tweet, according to people familiar with the conversations. When he’s off the phone, Trump is known to cite Hannity when he talks with White House advisers.

The revelation this week that the two men share an attorney is just the latest sign of how Hannity is intertwined with Trump’s world — an increasingly powerful confidant who offers the ­media-driven president a sympathetic ear and shared grievances. The conservative commentator is so close to Trump that some White House aides have dubbed him the unofficial chief of staff. Continue reading “Hannity’s rising role in Trump’s world: ‘He basically has a desk in the place’”

Michael Cohen’s mystery third client was Fox News host Sean Hannity

The following article by Emily C. Singer was posted on the Mic.com website April 16, 2018:

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Fox News host Sean Hannity is caught up in the brouhaha surrounding the FBI’s raid of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, it was revealed on Monday afternoon. Cohen went to court Monday to try to convince a judge that he should be able to review documents federal agents had seizedbefore federal investigators, in order to determine whether or not the documents were privileged.

But Federal investigators say Cohen’s claim would set a “dangerous precedent” that would allow “every person who has communicated with a lawyer” to “turn every search warrant into a subpoena and to demand the return of lawfully-seized evidence in order to undertake their own review of the evidence.”

In the course of Monday’s hearing, Cohen had to prove that he really is a practicing lawyer, which required him to reveal the number of clients he’s done work for, according to reports from inside the courtroom. Continue reading “Michael Cohen’s mystery third client was Fox News host Sean Hannity”

Trump promotes totally unhinged episode of Hannity

The following article by Aaron Rupar was posted on the ThinkProgress website April 12, 2018:

Trump and Hannity want you to believe that Mueller is part of a “DEEP STATE CRIME FAMILY.”

At 8:48 p.m. on Wednesday, President Trump asked his 51 million Twitter followers to tune in to Sean Hannity’s Fox News broadcast, promising it’d be a “big show.”

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Big show tonight on @seanhannity! 9:00 P.M. on @FoxNews

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Trump dined with Hannity at Mar-a-Lago: report

The following article by John Bowden was posted on the Hill website March 31, 2018:

 

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President Trump reportedly dined with Fox News personality Sean Hannity at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida this weekend.

CNN reporter Oliver Darcy tweeted that sources had said the president had dined with Hannity Friday evening. Continue reading “Trump dined with Hannity at Mar-a-Lago: report”

Nunes Tells Hannity: Clinton Collaborated With Russia to Frame Trump

The following article by Maxwell Tani was posted on the Daily Beast website February 5, 2018:

The House intelligence panel chair said “it’s scary” what people can see if they just stare deeply enough into his memo.

In a remarkable interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes on Monday night claimed it was the Hillary Clinton campaign that had been the real Russian collaborator, and had effectively weaponized the FBI against Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

“It’s what happens in banana republics. It’s scary,” said the California Republican, who claimed that the controversial memo released by the House intel panel last week on a party-line vote showed a “clear link” between the Clinton campaign and Russia. Continue reading “Nunes Tells Hannity: Clinton Collaborated With Russia to Frame Trump”

The Trump-Fox News Feedback Loop is Now Complete

The following article by Tina Nguyen was posted on the Vanity Fair website February 2, 2018:

Sean Hannity’s first act as “senior counselor to the president” may have been a grave error.

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The feedback loop between Fox News and Donald Trump is no secret: the president regularly starts his mornings with several hours of tweets responding to Fox & Friends, and ends his days with online musings about the latest talking points in primetime. In the span of a year, Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, Tucker Carlson, and Sean Hannity have become, unexpectedly, some of the most powerful people on the planet. Behind the scenes, however, the relationship is even more symbiotic. As my colleague Gabriel Sherman reported last month, Trump has lately evolved into a sort of de facto head of programming at Fox, calling hosts to praise their analysis or to suggest new messaging. “What he usually does is he’ll call after a show and say, ‘I really enjoyed that,’” one former Fox anchor said. “The highest compliment is, ‘I really learned something.’ Then you know he got a new policy idea.” Continue reading “The Trump-Fox News Feedback Loop is Now Complete”

Sean Hannity Has Been Advising Donald Trump on the Nunes Memo, Because of Course He Has

The following article by Lachlan Markay and Asawin Seubsaeng was posted on the Daily Beast website February 1, 2018:

Donald Trump continues to get his policy advice from the people on ‘the shows.’

Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast

President Donald Trump is at odds with his own chief law-enforcement officers over a controversial memo fueling Republican allegations of a conspiracy against the Trump presidency. But by all indications, the president is less amenable to the concerns of his own FBI than those shared by a less formal, more bombastic adviser.

That adviser is Sean Hannity, who has been hyping the so-called Nunes memo all week, and with whom the president continues to speak regularly. Continue reading “Sean Hannity Has Been Advising Donald Trump on the Nunes Memo, Because of Course He Has”