Trump Promotes Conspiratorial Hannity Episode Calling Mueller Part of 'Deep State Crime Families'

[highplainsdem]

Source: Daily Beast

Minutes before Sean Hannity went live Wednesday evening on Fox News, President Trump tweeted that there would be a “big show tonight,” imploring followers to tune in. As it turns out, that show featured Hannity outlining—with the help of a conspiratorial board—the “criminal” connections of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and former FBI director James Comey. Throughout the lengthy, rambling monologue, Hannity accused Mueller, currently Trump’s main foe, of prosecutorial impropriety—from “looking the other way,” as a federal prosecutor in Boston, at serial killer and gangster James “Whitey” Bulger’s crimes to prosecuting the wrong man for a post-9/11 anthrax attack. Along the way, he made mention of Democratic donors, connections to the Clinton family, and FBI agents who texted anti-Trump messages after the election. Ultimately, Hannity concluded, there are three connected “Deep State crime families” actively “trying to take down the president.” While the Fox News star has accused the special counsel of criminal activity in the past, Hannity’s use of a specific “crime family” analogy on Wednesday evening was a direct response to Comey reportedly telling ABC that President Trump acts like a “mob boss.”

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This is already getting a huge reaction on Twitter. And though most of the tweets seem to be ridiculing Hannity, there are also tweets from deplorables who think this is a great revelation of what they feel is a conspiracy against Trump.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Trump start tweeting about the Mueller crime family and the Comey crime family.


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Editing to add that later in Hannity's show. Newt Gingrich compared the raid on Cohen to Stalin and to Nazi Germany.

And Joe deGenova called Mueller's team "legal terrorists."

This was all a coordinated attack on the Mueller investigation that Trump wanted his supporters to see.

[janx]

1. Dear god, could this situation

get any weirder? What the hell?!

[truthisfreedom]

2. Hand 45 a bigger shovel!

He’s really digging himself a hole now! Look at him go!

[trusty elf]

25. ...........

[DumpDrumpf]

3. The never ending nazi playbook

drumpf’s autobiography...doesn’t get any more demonic than this evil freak. Buckle up y’all.

[Still In Wisconsin]

4. No thanks Trump, I'd rather smash myself in the nuts repeatedly with a tennis racket than

watch two minutes of blockhead Hannity.

[Solly Mack]

5. Deranged liars.

[Botany]

6. Well @ least Hannity didn't mention "uranium 1"

I saw 30 seconds of Laura Ingraham and she was brought up that nugget as per Hillary
Clinton and some other tripe.

BTW what nation is #1 or #2 in the world for uranium production?
Answer: Russia

BTW part 2 some people say that Hannity gets his show prep directly from Russia.

[highplainsdem]

7. Yes, he did, during his comments on the "Clinton crime family."

[Botany]

10. Oh well, NY Times editorial "The Law Is Coming, Mr. Trump"

Mr. Trump has spent his career in the company of developers and celebrities, and also of grifters, cons, sharks, goons and crooks. He cuts corners, he lies, he cheats, he brags about it, and for the most part, he’s gotten away with it, protected by threats of litigation, hush money and his own bravado. Those methods may be proving to have their limits when they are applied from the Oval Office. Though Republican leaders in Congress still keep a cowardly silence, Mr. Trump now has real reason to be afraid. A raid on a lawyer’s office doesn’t happen every day; it means that multiple government officials, and a federal judge, had reason to believe they’d find evidence of a crime there and that they didn’t trust the lawyer not to destroy that evidence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/opinion/trump-michael-cohen-raid.html

[notdarkyet]

8. Mueller

might just have to arrest everyone and have a gag order put on the whole bunch to shut up the craziness.

[highplainsdem]

12. +1,000,000,000,000

[highplainsdem]

9. Hannity claiming on Twitter he didn't give Trump a heads-up about the show. Bullshit.

Link to tweet

[SergeStorms]

13. Sure Sean.

Everyone knows Trump has you on speed dial, and you can get through to the Oval Office anytime you pick up your phone..

Lies are only one of the things Trump and Hannity have in common. They're also both cowards and morons.

[mountain grammy]

17. You're a lying dirtbag, Hannity..

just like the lying dirtbag liar in chief.

[mr_lebowski]

28. RIIIGHT. That's why he tweeted to his cult members 'watch Hannity's important show tonight' ...

Because he wasn't given ANY heads up about what you were going to be 'presenting' on your show.

THAT ... was just a total coincidence.

How fucking dumb do you think we are, you fucking fuck?

Pardon my French

[left-of-center2012]

11. Are we allowed to say the President in nuts?

Without a late night knock on our door?

[kellytore]

14. On Hannity's show today he gave a preview of the future right wing talking points.

He said that this President is trying to do what's best for America, and if anything goes wrong it will be the fault of the deep state Obama and Hillary people in the Justice Dept. So if we have a terrorist attcak or if the economy goes south it will now be blamed on this investigation that would not allow the President to do their job.

[Qutzupalotl]

15. sounds like panic

after the Cohen raids.

Maybe he knows what we all know is coming is imminent. He’s desperately trying to keep his numbers up through the tribulation.

[turbinetree]

16. Hey sexual predator..................

there are about four books out about you, your "deep state" has been in your head the first day when you and your father decided all by your lonesome self serving worth to decide to cherry pick apartment clients based on skin color, and then you had the small balls of an asshole to bilk contractors and the state of New York and New Jersey out of taxes, and where ever you landed with your schemes to fuck over mom and pop operations for money owed to them by you, then there was your worthless university, and then on the international scene you have the Panama building, and the best one is in Azerbaijan with your daughter and that building and that fucking scam. But the very best of how much of an asshole you really are, you never released your tax returns.

So in your mind of the "deep state" you really are of criminality intent....................and it's coming to a close, and we can all hope for that when November 2018 gets here we the people will be able to hold you and your "deep state" criminal enterprise accountable.

As for Hannity..............Cliven Bundy


FUCK YOU and them

[C Moon]

18. Typical ultra right flipping the truth. And many bozos will believe him.

[Progressive2020]

19. Conspiracy Nonsense

Hannity is trying to link Mueller to the Clintons? Don't these idiots know that everyone involved in the Cohen raid are ALL Republicans, and several are even Trump appointees?

Maybe Hannity's next accusations are that Hillary and Mueller are working with the Illuminati Lizard People to overthrow Trump. Feeding the Right Wing crazies who are so stupid to believe so much outlandish shit.

The right wing propaganda machine is gearing up because Mueller and the Justice Department are getting closer and closer to nailing these jokers for real crimes. They are starting to sweat and are stepping up the propaganda nonsense.

[Berlin Expat]

26. Exclusive video

of Sean Hannity behind the scenes:

[roscoeroscoe]

35. Well...

Now that you mention it...

[briv1016]

20. Tomorrow'd be a great day to unseal some indictments.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

21. Shit, meet wall.

Hannity (and Nunes, for that matter) is throwing everything including the kitchen sink at Mueller in an effort to end or seriously cripple the investigation, hoping something will stick. I'm surprised he didn't include Mueller's well-known role in the crucifixion of Jesus.

[DallasNE]

22. Grumpier Is A Cult Plain And Simple

And Trump is just wanting to add to the size of the Cult, making it impossible to reverse the trajectory.

How do you de-program 50 million people? We will still dealing with Trumpism 40 years from now just because of the nature of the beast.

With a Cult it is always about the money for the leader, another sign identifying this as a very large cult. Trump is David Koresh on steroids.

[JohnnyRingo]

23. Hannity's pitching for a civil war.

When the shit goes down and Mueller's team releases the facts, Sean Hannity will call bullshit and implore Trump supporters to rise up and circle the president to protect him from the justice department he's been setting up all along.

Republicans in office will have to decide whether to face the wrath of their base for backing impeachment. It's a pretty clever propaganda campaign really, but it may portend the end of democracy.

[Canoe52]

27. Scary thought, Hannity is sure stirring the shit. Cross our fingers it doesnt go that way.

[raven mad]

24. These RWNJ idiots have come totally unglued.

Send in the folks with the butterfly nets and straight jackets.

[vlyons]

29. Well Trump should know

a thing or two about crime families.

My god, Hannity! Makes his living fomenting fear and loathing. How embarrassing. Is there a movement to get his advertisers to withdraw?

[CentralMass]

30. Hannity is a festering boil on the hindend of humanity.

[chelsea0011]

31. The POTUS is busy promoting a RW hack conspiracy show while the nation waits

for a response to the Syrian gas attacks. Makes me confident trump is all there and up to the task.

[maxrandb]

32. Why does insanity still have advertisers?

If ever a fucker needed to be boycotted the fuck out of business, it's this prick.

[unc70]

33. Trump just trying to help Hannity's ratings

Rachel has been beating him on many nights lately.

[Nitram]

34. We're venturing out into Infowars Extreme territory here.

Plays to the hard core conspiracy theory base, but I suspect that is a rather small demographic. At least there is a place called Benghazi, and some Americans were killed by terrorists there.

[LiberalLovinLug]

36. People are going to get killed because of Fox News and Hannity

Already have. But they are fomenting a new civil war. Setting the Fox nation up to rise up with their AR-15s and whatever else they have if their Fuehrer is indicted.