{"id":38481,"date":"2018-07-16T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T03:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38481"},"modified":"2018-07-16T20:19:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T03:19:22","slug":"sean-hannity-defends-trumps-treason-summit-even-while-his-fox-news-colleagues-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38481","title":{"rendered":"Sean Hannity Defends Trump&#8217;s Treason Summit Even While His Fox News Colleagues Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning Donald Trump held hands with his bestie, Vladimir Putin,  for the duration of a surreal press conference wherein he repeatedly took Russia&#8217;s side on every issue (here are <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38473\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some must see excerpts<\/a><\/strong>). It was a festival of betrayal the likes of which have never been seen.<\/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\/2234426889905427\" 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>The reaction to this internationally televised farce was nearly unanimous disgust and, for most Americans, anger and embarrassment. Trump refused to condemn Russia for interfering with our election. He dismissed his own intelligence agencies in favor of Putin&#8217;s promises. He kept bringing up debunked conspiracy theories about Democratic computer servers and Hillary Clinton&#8217;s emails.<\/p>\n<p>It was a pitiful sight that marked Trump as the deceitful dotard that he has become known to the world as. And he received the reception that he deserved from most rational observers. Which, of course, leaves out Sean Hannity. On his radio show Monday morning he unleashed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/hannity-trashes-weak-pathetic-visionless-feckless-spineless-republicans-for-criticizing-trump\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an extended rant<\/a><\/strong> defending Trump and denigrating his critics. That included some of Hannity&#8217;s Fox News colleagues. Hannity said in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;These Republicans have been so pathetically weak. They have been so feckless. They have been so visionless.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it only got worse from there. Let&#8217;s review just who Hannity is referring to, and what they said that rattled Hannity so:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Abby Huntsman:<\/strong> No negotiation is worth throwing your own people and country under the bus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stuart Varney:<\/strong> It was not a very forceful presentation from President Trump with Putin standing right next to him. Not forceful at all.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Neil Cavuto:<\/strong> Trump&#8217;s performance was disgusting. I&#8217;m sorry. This is the only way I feel. It&#8217;s not a right or left thing to me. This is wrong. A U.S. president on foreign soil talking to our biggest enemy&#8230;is essentially letting the guy get away with this.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trish Regan:<\/strong> This was clearly not his best performance\u2026 He should have defended us! He should have defended his own intelligence community.<\/li>\n<li><strong>General Jack Keane:<\/strong> What happened today is stunning and disappointing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brit Hume:<\/strong> Because Trump is unable to see past himself, he sees the Russia meddling investigation as only about him and the collusion claim, and thus calls it a witch hunt.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shepard Smith:<\/strong> Shameful, disgraceful, treasonous. Three of the descriptions of what Trump did today in Helsinki.<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Roberts:<\/strong> There is a growing consensus tonight across this land that the President threw the United States under the bus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And those are just the folks from Fox News. Republican politicians like John McCain, Jeff Flake, and Lindsey Graham weighed in as well. Even the Worm of &#8211; I mean the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan,  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterAlexander\/status\/1018911219707768832\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">distanced himself<\/a><\/strong> from the Trump train wreck. It&#8217;s no wonder that Trump chose Hannity for his post-summit interview, which was so lame it doesn&#8217;t even warrant a review. But it was probably just the sort of tongue bath that would restore Trump&#8217;s orange glow.<\/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>Monday morning Donald Trump held hands with his bestie, Vladimir Putin, for the duration of a surreal press conference wherein he repeatedly took Russia&#8217;s side on every issue (here are some must see excerpts). It was a festival of betrayal the likes of which have never been seen. The reaction to this internationally televised farce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[127,554,31,84,135,129,600,1072],"class_list":["post-38481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-brit-hume","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-john-roberts","tag-neil-cavuto","tag-sean-hannity","tag-stuart-varney","tag-vladimir-putin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-hannity-mini-e1549743865260.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-a0F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52260,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52260","url_meta":{"origin":38481,"position":0},"title":"Watch Sean Hannity Desperately Struggle &#8211; and Fail &#8211; to Get Trump to Say Putin is Evil","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/11\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump is so beholden to Vladimir Putin that for years he has been utterly incapable of expressing even the most moderate criticism of the Russian tyrant. 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