{"id":36868,"date":"2018-01-26T11:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T19:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36868"},"modified":"2018-01-26T11:03:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T19:03:15","slug":"hannity-repeatedly-called-for-mueller-to-be-fired-in-june-2017-when-trump-tried-to-fire-him-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36868","title":{"rendered":"Hannity Repeatedly Called for Mueller to Be Fired in June 2017 When Trump Tried to Fire Him (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night the New York Times <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/25\/us\/politics\/trump-mueller-special-counsel-russia.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released a disturbing story<\/a><\/strong> about Donald Trump&#8217;s ongoing malfeasance in office. The news that Trump ordered his White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller was another confirmation of the President&#8217;s attempt to obstruct justice and punish anyone he perceived to be a threat. The fact that the firing was only averted because McGahn refused to comply and threatened to quit doesn&#8217;t lessen the breach of law and ethics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-hannity-mini.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Sean Hannity\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36212\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2017370421611076\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Fox News was contemporaneously backing Trump at the time without disclosing their collusion with the White House. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/26\/hannity-repeatedly-called-special-counsels-removal-june-2017-when-trump-attempted-fire-mueller\/219178\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters looked back<\/a><\/strong> and found video of the biggest Trump-fluffer on Fox News, Sean Hannity, advocating for the resignation, recusal, or termination of the special counsel.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hOhcLBa-z8M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Was it a coincidence that Hannity was speed-ranting about firing Mueller at exactly the same time that Trump was trying to do that? The tally per Media Matters was that Hannity pressed these attacks at least 111 times last June.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was asked about the New York Times report while in Davos for the World Economic Forum. He casually sneered at the camera with his customary and tedious complaint that it&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Fake news, folks. Fake news. Typical New York Times fake stories.&#8221;<\/em> However Trump is ignoring that the story was confirmed by NBC, Politico, the Washington Post, CNN, and even Fox News. So is Fox now fake news to Trump as well? He didn&#8217;t say.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t expect Fox News to bring it up. They barely covered the story when it broke on Thursday, or the following morning. And when they did cover it they dismissed it as the media being anti-Trump and using unreliable anonymous sources. However, the best presentation of Fox&#8217;s determination to defend Trump at all costs came with Hannity (of course), who was in the middle of his program when the news broke. At first Hannity predictably rejected the story as the media attacking his perfect president. But shortly thereafter Fox&#8217;s Ed Henry <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/5719771260001\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a><\/strong> that his own source confirmed what the Times reported. Hannity&#8217;s reaction was priceless. He quickly went from <em>&#8220;Fake news,&#8221;<\/em> to <em>&#8220;OK, it&#8217;s real news,&#8221;<\/em> to <em>&#8220;Oh look, a car crash.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sean Hannity: The New York Times is trying to distract you. They say Trump tried to fire Mueller, but our sources aren\u2019t confirming that!<\/p>\n<p>Sean Hannity, minutes later: Alright, yeah, maybe our sources confirm Trump wanted to fire Mueller. But so what? That\u2019s his right. Anywho&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yUIt7Un56d\">pic.twitter.com\/yUIt7Un56d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MEPFuller\/status\/956729170700259329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The fact that Hannity was so adamant about Mueller&#8217;s termination last June cannot be disregarded as an accident. Mueller had only been appointed in May, so there was hardly time for Hannity to get worked up about his investigation. There had to have been some incentive for him to go ballistic in so short a period of time. And since we know that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-na-pol-trump-kelly-20171010-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump and Hannity talk often<\/a><\/strong>, it is likely that Trump encouraged Hannity to go after Mueller to justify him getting axed by Trump. In fact, Hannity&#8217;s smear campaign of Mueller last June is just further affirmation of the New York Times&#8217; reporting that Trump was (and is) after Mueller&#8217;s scalp.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night the New York Times released a disturbing story about Donald Trump&#8217;s ongoing malfeasance in office. The news that Trump ordered his White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller was another confirmation of the President&#8217;s attempt to obstruct justice and punish anyone he perceived to be a threat. The fact that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[554,33,509,79,1247,129],"class_list":["post-36868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-media-matters","tag-new-york-times","tag-robert-mueller","tag-sean-hannity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9AE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41803,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41803","url_meta":{"origin":36868,"position":0},"title":"Trump&#8217;s Bizarre Reasons for Accusing His White House Counsel McGahn of Lying Under Oath","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/14\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the unique characteristics of Donald Trump's criminal behavior is that, unlike most other criminals, he actually ends up admitting his wrongdoing in public and insisting that there's nothing wrong with it. 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