{"id":37340,"date":"2018-03-19T12:49:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T19:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37340"},"modified":"2018-03-19T12:53:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T19:53:51","slug":"fox-news-senior-judicial-analyst-judge-napolitano-calls-mccabe-firing-obstruction-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37340","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst, Judge Napolitano, Calls McCabe Firing ‘Obstruction of Justice’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The President of the United States is trying his best to help his accusers make a case against him. Donald Trump’s relentless tweeting demonstrates what lawyers call “consciousness of guilt.”<\/em> On Monday morning he posted a message<\/a><\/strong> that said nothing more than “A total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest!”<\/em> These hollow cries for absolution do nothing to exonerate him, but rather they portray him as pathetic and desperate.<\/p>\n

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Now Trump is even losing some his most reliable defenders. While most of Fox News continues to place themselves as human shields to deflect any criticisms, a couple of stragglers have wondered off the track. One of those is Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst for Fox News. He appeared on two Fox broadcasts Monday making remarks that will surely infuriate Trump, if his daycare nurses allow him to see it. The most damning commentary came during an interview with perplexed host Bill Hemmer. They were discussing the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe when Napolitano said this (video below):<\/p>\n

“Andrew McCabe is more likely than not to be a witness against the Attorney General\u2019s boss, the President of the United States. I think that firing him in that environment could very well be interpreted as an effort to diminish his effectiveness as a witness. What\u2019s that called? Obstruction of justice.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed. And obstruction is one of the key facets of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Elsewhere on State TV (aka Fox News) Trump’s sycophants have been fiercely insisting that Trump is innocent of every allegation against him, and that Mueller is a corrupt partisan who is part of the conspiracy to drive Trump from office. So this assessment by Fox’s top legal contributor is a significant departure from their propaganda doctrine.<\/p>\n

Also, on the Fox Business Network, Maria Bartiromo assembled a panel of Trump fluffers<\/a><\/strong> to defend the firing of McCabe, whom they slandered as a liar. Bartiromo’s introduction falsely stated that McCabe was found to have lied by the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). In fact, since the report has not been made public yet, all that is known is that Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that McCabe “lacked candor.”<\/em> There is a reason that Sessions used those weasel words rather than asserting as fact that McCabe had lied. Most likely the OPR’s report didn’t find McCabe to be untruthful. And When Napolitano got a chance to speak he pulled the rug out from under Bartiromo and her pro-Trump panel:<\/p>\n

“I have to tell you though, terminating someone a day before their pension kicks in – after twenty-on years of service, the number two person in the FBI – strikes me as spiteful and politically reckless. And it’s reckless because this person, McCabe is about to testify against Jeff Sessions’ boss, the President of the United States. Why would you fire him in this environment?”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To which Bartiromo replied:<\/p>\n

“Don’t you think that people started getting upset when they heard that he was set to get a million dollars in his pension … because of some of the broad outcry from the public saying ‘Why is he, after what he just did…'”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Broad outcry?”<\/em> What “public”<\/em> is she referring to? I doubt most Americans – even Fox News viewers – were aware of or upset about anything relating to McCabe’s pension. She is desperately grasping at imaginary straws. And neither Bartiromo nor her panel had any response to Napolitano’s characterization of McCabe’s firing as spiteful and reckless.<\/p>\n

The fact that Napolitano is making the rounds at Fox to reinforce the absurdity and vindictiveness of Sessions and Trump should cause the President’s tiny heart to tremor. But he will likely only pay attention to his loyal supporters at Fox and Friends and his pal Sean Hannity. He did, in fact, tweet a promo for Hannity’s guest spot on Fox and Friends Monday morning calling it “great”<\/em> before it even aired. Somehow he knew what to expect. And his obviously guilty behavior suggests that he also knows what to expect from Mueller, McCabe, James Comey, Michael Flynn, etc., when the special counsel investigation is complete.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n