{"id":40021,"date":"2018-12-18T14:43:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T22:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40021"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:58:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T22:58:32","slug":"shepard-smith-slaps-the-defenders-of-flynn-on-fox-news-while-trump-is-witness-tampering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40021","title":{"rendered":"Shepard Smith Slaps the ‘Defenders’ of Flynn on Fox News, While Trump is Witness Tampering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday morning saw a particularly voluminous tweetstorm from Donald Trump for a weekday. And naturally, it was mainly lying about about how innocent he is<\/a><\/strong>. But it was also a morning for finding out what penalty former Trump advisor, and confessed felon, Michael Flynn, would pay for his crimes. For some time now the Trump-fluffers on Fox News were belittling the charges and maligning law enforcement for what they alleged was persecution and entrapment. But on Tuesday Flynn’s sentencing was postponed<\/a><\/strong> after the judge told him that he might face prison time for “selling out his country.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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The amen chorus on Fox News has been relentlessly attacking special counsel Robert Mueller and the prosecutors in New York as corrupt, conflicted, and biased against the President. They had nothing to prove any of these claims, but when has that ever mattered to Fox News? Everyone from Sean Hannity to Laura Ingraham to the “Curvy Couch”<\/em> potatoes of Fox and Friends have belted out in unison that Flynn was a victim of overzealous prosecution and was entrapped by unscrupulous defilers of the law. Flynn hinted at the same complaints briefly, which may be what angered the judge, who regarded that as a potential withdrawal of his guilty plea.<\/p>\n

However, in court on Tuesday Flynn backtracked and fully accepted responsibility for his criminal activities. That unambiguous affirmation of his guilt contradicts everything that Fox News has been saying for weeks. And at least one person at Fox noticed:<\/p>\n

Shepard Smith:<\/strong> “You heard the theory floated by the White House and its defenders here and elsewhere. That all blew up today.<\/p>\n

“Michael Flynn himself said that he is not challenging the circumstances of the interview. That he knew lying to the feds was a crime when he lied to the feds. That he was not entrapped. That he was guilty.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Whoa<\/p>\n

Shep is calling out Fox News personalities who have pushed the Flynn entrapment claim (cc:@seanhannity<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Shep on entrapment claims: "You heard the theory floated by the White House and its defenders here and elsewhere. That all blew up today." pic.twitter.com\/Z712siZb4v<\/a><\/p>\n

— Lis Power (@LisPower1) December 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n